While on the subject of Marvell, let me express a hope that we may soon have a new and better edition of his works than the cumbrous but incorrect and incomplete edition published by Thompson. His admirable prose works deserve editing with care, and amongst them should be included the tract omitted in his works, but worthy of him in every respect, Remarks upon a late Disingenuous Discourse writ by one T. D. under the Pretence De Causa Dei, 1678, 8vo.; and which has now become exceedingly rare.
Jas. Crossley.
Line on Franklin (Vol. iv., 443.; Vol. v., p. 17.).—I have read, but do not remember where, that this line was immediately taken from one in the Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal Polignac:
"Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, Phœboque sagittas."
But it is obvious that the Cardinal must have, in turn, borrowed from Manilius.
J. S. Warden.
St. Christopher (Vol. v., p. 295.).—E. A. H. L., who asks "if there are any representations of St. Christopher in painted glass; and if so, where?" is informed that there is a picture of the Saint in a green vestment, painted on glass, in the window of the side chapel of King's Chapel, which is used as a vestry by the Conduct. The picture is on the internal, not the external window of the side chapel, in the western corner, upper compartment, about a foot in height.
F. H. L.
Lines on Woman (Vol. v., p. 490.).—The uxorious lines your correspondent J. T. is in search of, were written by Bird. They are copied from his "Poetical Memoirs" in Carey's Beauties of the Modern Poets, p. 284., London, 1826. From thence I extract them, and, by so doing, entitle myself to the good graces of the lady readers of "N. & Q."