COLVIL'S WHIGG'S SUPPLICATION

Heber possessed a curious MS. volume entitled *A Poetical Miscellany, selected from the Works of the Men of Genius of the XVIIth Century*. In Part XI. of the *Bibliotheca Heberiana* it is thus described:— "The first part of this volume was obviously collected by a Scotchman, and it includes pieces by Ben Jonson, Wither, Dr. Donne, &c. It must have been made in the latter part of the reign of Charles I. The second portion of the volume is a later production; a humourous poem, called a *Whig's Supplication*, by S. C., in which there is a remarkable notice of Cleveland, Donne, and 'Bass Divine.'…