The Curate To His Slippers.

"The following "Prothalamion" was recently discovered among some other rubbish in Pope's Villa at Twickenham.    It was written on the backs of old env"

"The linnet had flown from its cage away,     And flitted and sang in the light of day--     Had flown from the lady who loved it well,     In L"

"I.     Oh for a field, my friend; oh for a field!          I ask no more          Than one plain field, shut in by hedgerows four,     Conten"

"(AFTER HEINE.)     Thou little village curate,          Come quick, and do not wait;     We'll sit and talk together,          So sweetly tet"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"