113) the following on Sonnet XL.

(Pt.

II.): 'With what entire affection did they prize Their _new-born_ Church!' The invidious inferences that would be drawn from this epithet by the enemies of the English Church and Reformation are too obvious to be dilated on.

The author was aware of this, and in reply to a friend who called his attention to the misconstruction and perversion to which the passage was liable, he replied as follows: 'Nov.

12.