"Well, sir," said he, "how many translations have these few last years produced of my Aeneid ?" I told him I believed several, but I could not possibly remember; for that I had never read any but Dr.Trapp's.

"Ay," said he, "that is a curious piece indeed!" I then acquainted him with the discovery made by Mr.Warburton of the Elusinian mysteries couched in his sixth book.

"What mysteries ?" said Mr.Addison.

"The Elusinian," answered Virgil, "which I have disclosed in my sixth book." "How!" replied Addison.

"You never mentioned a word of any such mysteries to me in all our acquaintance." "I thought it was unnecessary," cried the other, "to a man of your infinite learning: besides, you always told me you perfectly understood my meaning." Upon this I thought the critic looked a little out of countenance, and turned aside to a very merry spirit, one Dick Steele, who embraced him, and told him he had been the greatest man upon earth; that he readily resigned up all the merit of his own works to him.