8 FEBRUARY 1902, Page 16

fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

Srn,—A more correct reading of the lines from Dryden's Don Sebastian, quoted from memory in the Spectator of February 1st, may be acceptable :— " Don Sebastian to Almeycla (Act II., Scene 1). Death may be call'd in vain, and cannot come Tyrants can tie him up from your relief : Nor has a Christian privilege to die. Alas, thou art too young in thy new Faith. Brutus and Cato might discharge their souls, And give them furies for another world :

• But we like sentries are oblig'd to stand In starless nights, and wait th' appointed hour."