sir

She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs,

And bids her beau demand the precious hairs:

'See, sir, here's the grand approach,

This way is for his Grace's coach:

(vol. 49, pp. 81-96) by, as was generally understood, Sohn Gibson

Lockhart, the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, at that time editor

of The Quarterly ; and in a more earnest and generous vein, by

‘Sir, there be many rumours on this head:

For there be those who hate him in their hearts,

Of Gorlois. Wherefore Merlin took the child,

And gave him to Sir Anton, an old knight

And ancient friend of Uther; and his wife

The poet was married June 18, 1850, to Emily, daughter of

Henry Sellwood, Esq., and niece of Sir John Franklin, of Arctic

Expedition fame. Wordsworth had died April 28 of that year,

was being heard: Swinburne’s “‘Merope” and Morris’

“Sir Galahad” and “The Defence of Guinevere” had ap-

peared the year before. A new generation was being born:

preparation would be quite insignificant where compared with’

the possible calamity he had referred to _Pestratt Jrom: Sir