JAMES CARKASSE'S LUCIDA INTERVALLA, AN ILLUSTRATION OF PEPYS' DIARY

I met lately with a quarto volume of poems printed at London in 1679, entitled: "*Lucida Intevalla* containing divers miscellaneous Poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem, by the Doctor's Patient Extraordinary." On the title-page was written in an old hand the native of the "patient extraordinary" and author *James Carkasse*, and that of the "doctor" *Thomas Allen*. A little reading convinced me that the writer was a very fit subject for a lunatic asylum; but at page 5, I met with an allusion to the celebrated Mr. Pepys, which I will beg to quote:— "Get thee behind me then, dumb devil, begone,…