Astolpho.
The Honorable Miss E. St. Leger (Vol. vii., p. 598.).—Perhaps your correspondent Mr. Breen may like to be informed that the late General the Honorable Arthur St. Leger related to me the account of his relative having been made a master mason, and that she had secreted herself in an old clock-case in Doneraile House, on purpose to learn the secrets of the lodge, but was discovered from having coughed. The Rev. Richard Arthur St. Leger, of Starcross, Devon, has an engraving of the lady, who is represented arrayed in all the costume of a master mason, with the apron, ring, and jewel of the order.
W. Collyns.
Harbow.
Queries from the Navorscher (Vol. vii., p. 595.)—"The Choice of Hercules," in the Tatler, was written by Addison; Swift did not contribute more than one article to that publication, a treatise on "Improprieties of Language." The allegory of "Religion being the Foundation of Contentment" in the Adventurer, was the work of Hawkesworth, to whose pen most of those papers are attributable.
"Amentium haud amantium."—The alliteration of this passage in the Andria of Terence is somewhat difficult to preserve in English; perhaps to render it
"An act of frenzy rather than friendship,"
would keep up the pun, though a weak translation, bringing to mind the words of the song:
"O call it by some other name,
For friendship is too cold."