14 JUNE 1924, Page 15

AUTHOR WANTED.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Can any of your readers enable me to assign the following quatrain :- "When Ariel and Puck had flown, And sober-sided mortals pac'd

Their grassy rings, and quite defac'd

The bow'rs Titania deem'd her own"?

They are written on the flyleaf of a collection of minor eighteenth-century- poets. As you will doubtless observe, they are reminiscent of the famous "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies " : and, indeed, I am under the impression that they were first quoted to me by an old friend as being also from the works of that charming and dissolute clergyman.—I am,