The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-03 00:00:00

P 0 E T It Y.

PRAISE OF A LADY'S GREY HAIR.
Tho' age has chang'd thee—late so fair,
I love thee ne'er the worse' •
For when he took thy golden hair,
He fill'd with gold thy purse.

ANECDOTES.

A WHITE Bucx.—King Edward the Fourth, whilst hunt-
ing in Arrow Park, belonging to Thomas Burdett, Esq. among
other game killed A WHITE BUCK, which Burdett highly va-
lued ; whereupon Burdett wished the horns in the belly of him
who desired the King to kill it. For which, his words being
interpreted .as though he wished them in the King's belly, he
was condemned, and beheaded at Tyburn.—(Speed.)
THE 111IT.I.Elt AND HIS MAN.—In Cornwall dwelt a
Miller, who had been a busy do;T in the Rebellion, and. know.
ing his danger, ordered his Man to assume his (the master's
name), if any one inquired for him. Sir Anthony Kingston,
the Provost Marshal, having soon after come to the Mill, lie in.
quired for the Master of it, when the Man, in his name, pre-
sented himself, and he was forthwith commanded to the gal..
fazes. The servant, Men, seeing the danger of death, declared
he was not the Master, but the Man ! " Well," said the
Knight, " thou canst never do thy Master better service than
to be hanged for him ;" and thereupon he was executed without
further ceremony.—(Speed.)
HER on's CRUELTY.—When Herod had put to death many
of his children, the EstrEnon hearing of it, said, " lie had
" rather be lierod's 1101,, than his child, for he killed his Chil-
" dren, and spared his Pigs ! !"—(FritetLs Temporum,
part 1,,f. 7.)
CoirtemExer..—ln PRIOR'S Dedication of his Poems to
the Earl of DORSET he says, speaking of his Lordship's
father, " Every one of his Pieces is an ingot of gold, intrinsi-
cally and solidly valuable ; such as wrought or beaten thinner
! would shine through a whole Book of any other author." In
POPE'S Essay on Criticism, written when he was but eighteen
years of age, there is the following passage :
" The sterling bullion of one English line
" Drawn in French wires, would through whole pages shine."
It is difficult to ascertain which Poet borrowed from the other,
hut it is evident that the idea it the same, and it is strange that
the parallel has never been noticed.

EXTRACTS/rola DR. BUSBY'S ANECDOTES of MUSIC and

MUSICIANS.
A FACT LITTLE KNOWN.—It is known to very few of
the innumerable admirers of HANDEL'S Messiah, that the
final air, " If God is for us, who shall be against us?" which
now very property is always sung by a tenor voice, was de-
signed by the composer to be performed by a soprano. This
fact is rendered manifest by a manuscript score of the Ora-
torio, made while the composer was in Ireland, by SMITH,
his amanuensis, fbr the use of Mr. EDMUND BRODERIP,
of Wells.
ECCENTRIC CONCERT.—In the reign of CHARLES IX.
of France, music was much patronized; and MERSENNUS
gives a curiou' description of a viol, sufficiently spacious to
contain young pages, who sung treble to the airs, while he who
played the bass part on the viol, sung the tenor, in order to
form a complete concert in three parts.
HANDEL AND THE SERPENT.—The first time the ser-
pent was used in a concert, at which HANDEL was in the
habit of presiding, he wax so disgusted at the powerful coarse-
ness of its tones, that he called out in a rage, Vat de diffil
lfre dot ?" On being informed that it was an instrument called
a serpent, " 0," he replied, " de serpent !--aye—but it be not
de serpent vat seduced 8.7 e !"
ARNE's Comus AND CERVETTO.—In the year 1738,
AnNE's Concur introduced to the English stage a light, airy,
and original species of melody, which, supported by the style
of that Master's subsequent dramatic pieces, and numerous
detached songs, gave a new turn to the national taste ; while
the arrival of the celebrated CERVETTO brought the generous
and manly tones of the violincello into high favour, raised it
to the rank of a solo instrument, and unfolded to English ears
poweq it had not been suspected to possess.