"Ev'n in our ashes live their wonted fires,"

that I should certainly have considered the latter as an imitation, if Mr Gray himself had not referred us to the 169 (170) sonnet of Petrarch, as his original 'Ch'i veggio nel pensier,' &c.

[152] Surely.—T.

[153] Very ill.—T.

[154] Uncertain.—T.

[155] Unspotted.—T.

[156] Wantonness.—T.

[157] Jargon, chattering.—T.

[158] Spotted.—T.

[159] Call, name.—T.