early part of his life, which he did not think deserved to be published.
In the First "Night," the address to the Poet's supposed son is,
Lorenzo, Fortune makes her court to thee.
In the Fifth "Night"—
And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime
Of life? to hang his airy nest on high?
Is this a picture of the son of the rector of Welwyn!
Eighth "Night"—
In foreign realms (for thou hast travelled far)—
which even now does not apply to his son.
In "Night" Five—
So wept Lorenzo fair Clarissa's fate,
Who gave that angel-boy on whom he dotes,
And died to give him, orphan'd in his birth?
At the beginning of the Fifth "Night" we find—
Lorenzo, to recriminate is just,
I grant the man is vain who writes for praise.
But to cut short all inquiry; if any one of these passages, if any passage in the poems be applicable, my friend shall pass for Lo-
