Milton, in the person of Satan, has started speculations hardier than any which the feeble armory of the atheist ever furnished; and the precise, strait-laced Richardson has strengthened Vice, from the mouth of Lovelace, with entangling sophistries and abstruse pleas against her adversary Virtue, which Sedley, Villiers, and Rochester wanted depth of libertinism enough to have invented.
[Footnote 1: Error, entering into the world with Sin among us poor Adamites, may be said to spring from the tree of knowledge itself, and from the rotten kernels of that fatal apple .-- _Howell's Letters_.] * * * * * THOMAS DECKER.
_Old Fortunatus_ .-- The humor of a frantic lover in the scene where Orleans to his friend Galloway defends the passion with which himself, being a prisoner in the English king's court, is enamored to frenzy of the king's daughter Agripyna, is done to the life.

Orleans is as passionate an inamorato as any which Shakspeare ever drew.

He is just such another adept in Love's reasons.

The sober people of the world are with him, "A swarm of fools Crowding together to be counted wise." He talks "pure Biron and Romeo;" he is almost as poetical as they, quite as philosophical, only a little madder.

After all, Love's sectaries are a reason unto themselves.