THE

POLYANTHEA:

OR,

A COLLECTION

OF

INTERESTING FRAGMENTS,

IN

Prose and Uerse:

CONSISTING OF

ORIGINAL ANECDOTES,

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, DIALOGUES, LETTERS,
CHARACTERS, &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. BUDD, AT THE CROWN AND MITRE,

PALL MALL.

CR LENOX

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

ALDROVANDI

Nicholas Wood, the Glutton.

Portrait of Catherine, late Empress of Russia

Walsingham

Erasmus

The Act for Intermarriage with the Irish

Effusion of Gratitude

Criminal Prosecution

Stealing of dead Bodies

Retaliation

Dialogue between Somebody and Nobody

Rev. Mr. Ball

King of Sweden

Dialogue between the English and French Telegraphs

Gaming

Natural Prodigy

Regicides; Major-general Whalley, Major-general

Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell

Letter from Mr. Justice Blackstone to Mr. Justice

Gould

Robert