"Amurath, mighty emperor of the East,
That shall receive the imp of royal race."
See other examples in Todd's Johnson and Dr. Richardson's Dictionaries. Shakspeare uses the word only in jocular and burlesque passages, which, says Nares, is the natural course of a word growing obsolete.]
"Guardian Angels now protect me," &c.—I remember John Wesley, and also his saying the "Devil should not have the best tunes." There was a pretty love-song, a great favourite when I was a boy:
"Guardian angels, now protect me,
Send to me the youth I love."
the music of which Wesley introduced to his congregation as a hymn tune. The music I have, and I shall be glad if any of your correspondents
can oblige me with the first verse of this love-song; I only recollect the above lines.
William Gardiner.
Leicester.