These lines are from Pope's Homer, the Odyssey, Book xv., lines 83 and 84.
E.H.]
"A Chrysostom to smoothe his Band in" (Vol. ii., p. 126.).—This Query by Rev. ALFRED GATTY is answered by referring him to the Happy Life of a Country Parson, by Swift, beginning with—
"Parson, these things in thy possessing,
Are worthy of a bishop's blessing."
And enumerating amongst them
"A large Concordance bound long since,
Sermons to Charles the First when prince,
A chronicle of ancient standing,
A chrysostom to smoothe thy band in;