See Birch's "Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth."

[Footnote 7: Birch's life of Raleigh.]

[Footnote 2: Birch's Lives of Illustrious Men.]

From the Nuncio's Memoirs in Birch's Inquiry, p. 22.

No sooner had the birch's bow touched lightly upon the shore than we seized our respective weapons,Iglesias his peaceful and creative sketch-book, I my warlike and destructive gun,and dashed up the hill-side.

I was disappointed, and in consternation; and if I had not known how entirely it was Birch's fault that everybody was ducked and everybody now had a wet blanket, I should have felt personally foolish.

He would much rather partake of Ma'am Birch's fried eels and coffee, especially if Laura Birch should, peradventure, be the Hebe of such an ambrosial entertainment.

Withering, Esq. of the Larches; William Bedford, Esq. of Birch's Green; William Hamper, Esq.

This account seems to imply, that the Ode was a work of some time; which is countenanced by Dr. Birch's expression, that Dryden himself "observes, in an original letter of his, that he was employed for almost a fortnight in composing and correcting it."

Mr. Birch's spirited illustrations add much to the attraction of the book.

If he be a bachelor, he had better give his dinner at a good hotel, or have it sent in from Birch's or Kühn's.