"He was as pale as a pelet,
In the palsy he semed
And clothed in a kaurymaury,
I kouthe it nought diseryve."
W.C.
Jun.
MISCELLANIES
Bishop Burnet as an Historian.—Dr. Joseph Warton told my father that "Old Lord Barthurst," Pope's friend, had cautioned him against relying implicitly on all Burnet's statements; observing that the good bishop was so given to gossiping and anecdote hunting, that the wags about court used often to tell him idle tales, for the mischievous pleasure of seeing him make note on them. Lord Bathurst did not, I believe, charge Burnet with deliberate misrepresentation, but considered some of his presumed facts questionable, for the reason stated.
ELIJAH WARING.