Our Coblers shall translate their soules
    From Caves obscure and shady;
  Wee’ make Tom T——­ as good as my Lord,
    And Joan as good as my Lady. 
  Wee’l crush and fling the marriage Ring
    Into the Romane See;
  Wee’l ask no bans, but even clap hands;
  And, hey! then up goe we.

By “Barow,” named in the second stanza, is intended, no doubt, Henry Barrow, the Nonconformist enthusiast who was executed at Tyburn in 1592.  A follower of Robert Browne, founder of the Brownists, whence sprang the sect of Independents, he brought upon himself, by his zeal and imprudence, a vengeance which his wary leader contrived to evade.  Browne himself is alluded to punningly in The Shepheards Oracles, where Philorthus, at sight of Anarchus approaching, asks whether he is “in a Browne study.”  Anarchus replies: 

  “Man, if thou be’st a Babe of Grace,
    And of an holy Seed,
  I will reply incontinent,
    And in my words proceed;
  But, if thou art a child of wrath,
    And lewd in conversation,
  I will not, then, converse with thee,
    Nor hold communication.”

Philorthus rejoins, referring by his “we all three” to Philarchus, with whom he had just been conversing: 

  “I trust, Anarchus, we all three inherit
  The selfe same gifts, and share the selfe same Spirit.”

Then follow the stanzas which I have first quoted.  There is certainly ground to surmise that Lord Macaulay had in mind what I have called “The Lay of the Leveler” when in 1820 he wrote “A Radical War-song.”  In support of this opinion, I subjoin, for comparison, its last stanza but one: 

  Down with your sheriffs and your mayors,
    Your registrars and proctors! 
  We’ll live without the lawyer’s cares,
    And die without the doctor’s. 
  No discontented fair shall pout
    To see her spouse so stupid: 
  We’ll tread the torch of Hymen out,
    And live content with Cupid.

F.H.

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THE PHILOSOPHER STRAUSS AS A POET.

The writer of a sketch in a late number of a Leipsic journal presents the famous author of the Life of Jesus, David Friederich Strauss, in a new character.  He mentions, first, that in the Unterhaltungen am haeuslichen Heerde ("Conversations around the Homehearth"), published by Strauss in 1856, the latter makes, in the introduction, the following graceful reference to the deceased friend of his youth, E.F.  Kauffmann:  “If I were a philosophical emperor and wrote self-confessions, I would thank the gods for giving me, among other blessings, a poet and musician for an early friend.  He is dead now, alas! the noble man whom alone I have to thank that my ear, though still unskillful, has been opened to the world of harmony.  He was not a professional musician, but he had a thoroughly musical nature.  The laws of composition he had