... given a fprig of myrtle. Hat hopes, what terrors docs thy gift create, Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate ! The Myrtle, (enfign of fupreme command Confign'd by Venus to Melifla's hand), Not lefs capricious than a reigning fair, favours, oft rejects a lover's pray'r: Myrtle fhades oft fings the happy fwain, Myrtle lhides defpairing ghofts complain; Myrtle crowns the happy lovers heads, Th' ...

... and furveyorgeneral of the ordnance. 24. Edinburgh, Mrs Murray of Balmanno. 14. The Rev. Dr John Macfarlane, one the miniflers Canongate, and Almoner his Majefty for Scotland. *4. At Leith, aged iox, Mrs Elconora Aitkinfon, relidt Donald Forbes, late writer in Edinburgh. xj. At Ham Common, in Surrey, Frances Marchionefi Dowager ofTweeddalt. x 6. At his apartment* in college, in his 95 th year, ...