These attachments to a particular person, when marked and continued, used to be reckoned ominous; but the superstition is passing away.
219.

*_Sonnet_ XIII.

'While Anna's peers,' &c.
This is taken from the account given by Miss Jewsbury of the pleasure she derived, when long confined to her bed by sickness, from the inanimate object on which this Sonnet turns.
220.

*_Sonnet_ XV.

'Wait, prithee wait,' &c.
The fate of this poor dove, as described, was told to me at Brinsop Court by the young lady to whom I have given the name of Lesbia.
221.