“Hunc jocus, hunc tenera mensem cum matre Cupido Vendicat: hunc risus, et sine felle sales: Hunc hilaris genius, genii et germana voluptas, Et pellucentes gratia picta sinus." — Eleg., lib. i. Wakefield has some very appropriate remarks and parallels in support of Gray's conformity to ancient mythology in employing Venus, the source of creation and beauty, at the commencement of the spring. I need only refer to his volume, and also to a noble fragment attributed to Sophocles, which is quite too long to transcribe in full, but may be found in the editions of his collected works. Cowley also has many of the same thoughts in his grand exordium to the second book of the Davideis. The expression "Attick warbler" has been traced to its source by Mr. Mitford, for so is "Attica aedon" exactly translated. Milton similarly calls the nightingale "chauntress ;" and Nonnus "Attēls andwv."-- Dionysiacks, lib. xlvii. ad init. "Pours her throat" belongs to Pope's "Essay on Man." As Disraeli and Mr. Mitford observe, the word "throat," for the song of a bird, is quite Par. Lost, iv. 156., &c. the Death of Bishop Andrewes," line 40, and to a I must particularly refer to Milton's "Elegy on famous collection of illustrations given in Warton's Notes. We must also remember the old fable of the "Loves of Zephyrus and Flora or Chloris," to which Milton so often alludes. And Cowley : "Nupsit odorato Chloris formosa marito, Nupsit, et ex illo tempore facta Dea est. Nulla erat in toto nubes circumvaga cœlo, Plantarum, lib. iii. pp. 137-8. The passage with which I conclude rather reminds me of the first and third verses of this delightful "Ode to Spring:" "So have I seen the sun kiss the frozen earth, which was bound up with the images of death, and the colder breath of the north; and then the waters break from their inclosures, and melt with joy, and run in useful channels; and the flies do rise again from their little graves in walls, and dance awhile in the air, to tell that there is joy within, and that the great mother of creatures will open the stock of her new refreshment, become useful to mankind, and sing praises to her Redeemer." - Bp. J. Taylor, Sermon xxv., The Duties of the Tongue. Warmington. QUAINT LINES BY ALAIN CHARTIER. RT. In reading, a few weeks ago, the works of Alain but does not point out that Milton was indebted Chartier, I found out the same curious jeu d'esprit with two or three minor differences. Here you have it: "Quant ung cordant Fait descorder la corde," The reader who would refer to Alain Chartier's compositions, will find the above lines in the edition of Galliot du Tré, 1529, small 8vo., fo. 340. versò. GUSTAVE MASSON. PARALLEL PASSAGES. I. "And many an ante-natal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come." Shelley's Sensitive Plant. «The sense of flying in our sleep might, he thought, probably be the anticipation or forefeeling of an unevolved power, like an Aurelia's dream of butterfly motion."-Southey, The Doctor, vi. 158. "E'en from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are formid" made Byron (to the Ocean), Childe Harold. "Yet monsters from thy large increase we find, Engender'd in the slime thou leav'st behind." Dryden, The Medal, III. "Her lips are like roses, and her mouth much the same, Like a dish of fresh strawberries smother'd in cream.' "The Boys of Kilkenny," Songs of Ireland. Duffy, 1846. Sylla's a mulberry covered with meal." Hertfordshire Folk Lore.-Hertfordshire, notwithstanding its proximity to the metropolis, still contains some localities where as yet the schoolmaster is known by tradition only. Consequently, whilst there may be much ignorance to deplore, there is also in those sequestered nooks as trusting a belief in many harmless scientific heresies as Primate Cullen himself could well desire. For instance; from as true an example of unwith in this prosaic age, a good-natured, garrulous sophisticated humanity as one might hope to meet old Benedick, I gathered a fact not perhaps known to every gardener. I was admiring what seemed to me to be a very fine specimen of a herb, with which I was cockney enough not to be very familiar. "That be rosemary, sir," said the worthy cottager; "and they do say that it only grows where the missis is master, and it do grow here like wildfire." Strolling in the garden of another villager, I saw a mouse, not one of the little devouring animals so abhorred by clean and careful housewives, but a pretty taper-snouted out-door resident, quite as destructive in his habits, lying dead upon one of the paths. No marks of violence were visible upon it, and I was earnestly assured that these mice, whenever they attempt to cross a foot Quoted (as far as the quoter could recollect) path, always die in the effort. Putting a credu from Mrs. H. Gray's Etruria. lous face upon this piece of information, I was met by the reply, "Ah! you Lunnuners dont know everything; why I've found 'em dead upon the paths scores o' times, and I know they can't get across alive." During a short visit on Easter Sunday in last year at the house of an aged relative, a widow farmer, close upon her eightieth year, the rain fell copiously for some hours; remarking upon which, the old dame exclaimed, "They do say in these parts "A good deal of rain on Easter-day Gives a crop of good grass, but little good hay;' and I'm much afear'd it'll be so to-year." recollection of some of your correspondents in Parallels to the above may have a place in the other parts of England. Reform Club. HENRY CAMPKIN. Minar Nates. Curious Epitaph.-Of the many absurd epitaphs that a person curious in such matters may meet with, the following is not among the least: "To the Memory of JAMES Barker, "O, cruel Death, how cou'd you be so unkind, St. Philip's churchyard, Birmingham, is the happy place that boasts the possession of this gem of an inscription. T. H. KERSLEY, B.A. Verses written on the first Leaf of Lady Meath's Bible by Sir Compton Domville: 66 'My Lady's too wise to study this Libel, Dublin. "Blue Bells of Scotland." It is not generally known that this beautiful melody was composed by Mrs. Jordan. I have now before me an original printed copy with the following title: "The Blue Bell of Scotland, a Favorite Ballad as composed and sung by Mrs. Jordan, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lanc. Printed for Rd. Birchall, at his Musical Circulating Library, 140. New Bond Street." It has no date, but from other sources I find that it may be correctly assigned to the year 1801. The words, which are very nonsensical, relate to the Marquis of Huntly's departure for Holland with the British forces under the command of the gallant Sir Ralph Abercrombie in 1799. In The New Whim of the Night, or the Town and Country Songster for 1801, London, C. Sheppard, occurs, p. 74., "Blue Bell of Scotland, sung by Mrs. Jordan," and p. 75., a parody upon it called "Blue Bell of Tothill Fields," whose hero is a convict 66 gone to Botany Bay." Ritson, in his North-Country Chorister, 1803, p. 12., prints a version entitled "The New Highland Lad," with this note: Sept. 19, 1851, may not inappropriately be transferred to the "N. & Q.": "In a toll case, tried at Bedford, Mr. Devon, who was brought from the Record Office to produce some translations from Domesday Book, stated in his evidence the singular fact, that in many old manuscripts, when particular emphasis was given to a word, it was customary, instead of underlining it as at the present day, to run the pen completely across the word, in the same manner as we now erase them." X.P.M. A Suggestion to Publishers. I beg to suggest to those who publish reprints of books, that it would add very much to their use if the pagination of the standard editions were retained in the margins of the reprints. If a reader meets with a reference to the volume and page of a work originally published in several volumes, it costs sometimes much time and trouble to hunt out the same in a one-volumed edition. E. STEANE JACKSON. Queries. DR. COSIN AND FULLER. A letter was originally published in the Appendix of Dr. Peter Heylin's Examen Historicum, wherein Dr. Cosin defends himself from certain charges brought against him by Fuller in his Church History. In this letter (dated "Paris, April 6, 1658") Cosin thanks his friends in England for their intention to "vindicate him from the injury done," by Mr. Fuller, "no less to truth than to himself," by the passage in his History: Which," Cosin adds, "I believe he inserted there, as he doth many things besides, upon the false reports and informations of other men; . . whereof he is so sensible already himself, that by his own letter directed to me (more than a year since) he offered to make me amends in the next book he writes; but he hath not done it yet. Having never been acquainted petulant, light, and indiscreet passages in them, I know with him more than by his books, which have many not how to trust him; and therefore, if the authors of the intended Animadversions, which you mention, will be pleased to do me right, you may assure them there is nothing but truth in this ensuing relation," &c. notice of a rumour, to the effect that the Church Heylin, in his preface to Cosin's letter, takes historian had a review of his work in hand, “in which he was resolved to make some fuir amends to truth, to correct the errors of his pen, and to make reparation to the injured clergy;" but he adds, that these reports were "thought at last to have somewhat in them of design or artifice, to stave off the business" of the Animadversions. It seems not only due to Cosin, but also desirable for Fuller's credit, that it should be better known than I suppose it to be, that in a subsequent book (though not, as Heylin had been led to expect, in a revised edition of the Church History), Fuller did actually retract what he had so injuriously said of Dr. Cosin. In his Worthies of England (ed. Lond. 1652, 265.) Fuller writes of Cosin, then Bishop of Durham, as follows: "I must not pass over his constancy in his religion, which rendereth him amiable in the eyes, not of good men only, but with that God with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of changing. It must be confessed that a sort of fond people surmised as if he had once been declining to the Popish persuasion. Thus the dim-sighted complain of the darkness of the room, when, alas! the fault is in their own eyes; and the lame of the unevenness of the floor, when indeed it lieth in their unsound legs. Such were the silly folk (their understandings, the eyes of their mind, being darkened, and their affections, the feet of their soul, made lame by prejudice), who have thus falsely conceited of this worthy Doctor. However, if anything that I delivered in my Church History (relating therein a charge drawn up against him for urging of some ceremonies, without inserting his purgation, which he effectually made, clearing himself from the least imputation of any fault), hath any way augmented this opinion, I humbly crave pardon of him for the same. Sure I am, were his enemies now his judges (had they the least spark of ingenuity), they must acquit him, if proceeding according to the evidence of his writing, living, disputing." Fuller then goes on to say how Cosin, while he remained in France, was the "Atlas" of the Church of England, "supporting her doctrines" with his piety and learning, confirming the wavering therein, yea, daily adding proselytes (not of the meanest rank) thereunto, &c. Has this retractation of Fuller's been noticed in any recent edition of the Church History? J. SANSOM. [This retractation has been noticed in an edition of Fuller's Church History, published in 1837, and edited by Mr. James Nichols, author of Arminianism and Calvinism Compared; who has also subjoined Fuller's retractation to Bishop Cosin's letter in the new edition of The Appeal of Injured Innocence; at the end of which Mr. Nichols adds, "One might have expected a more ample apology than this from such a candid and upright mind as Fuller's: but when it is recollected that bis History of the Worthies of England was a posthumous work, and that his death was somewhat sudden, we shall cease to blame the worthy old historian.". ED.] ENGLISH CATHOLIC VICARS APOSTOLIC, 1625-1689. Any information as to age, family, or education, with dates, if known, of consecration and death; also names of consecrators and place of consecration, with place of death or burial, of the following: Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcis; John Leyburn, V. S. D., Bishop of Adrumetum; Bonaventure Giffard, Bishop of Madaura; James Smith, Bishop of Callipolis; and Fr. Philip Ellis, V.S.B., tricts in England the three latter, Bishops Giffard, Bishop of Aureliopolis. The names of what disSmith, and Ellis, presided over, also solicited. I may mention that my notitia contain the following scanty data:-"R. Smith, appointed Bishop of Chalcis, and V. A. of England, by brief of Feb. 4, 1625, banished the realm 1629, and died 1658 in France, where he had taken refuge (probably at Douay College). Bishop Leyburn, nominated V.A. for all the kingdom of England, and consecrated 1685, subsequently appointed to London District, year. Bishop Giffard, nominated V. A. 30th Ja1688, and sent to Newgate in December of that nuary, 1688, installed President of Magdalen College, Oxford, on death of Bishop Samuel Parker, also sent to Newgate at Revolution, but afterwards liberated, and survived till beginning of 1734, when he died, upwards of ninety years of age, at Hammersmith, and his heart was, according to his directions, sent to Douay College, where he had received his education: he was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and consecrated in the banquetinghouse at Whitehall, probably by Bishop Leyburn." "Father Ellis, Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict, and of the English Congregation, was also consecrated, as well as Bishop J. Smith (of whom, however, I have no particulars), in the year 1688, and sent to Newgate with Bishop Leyburn in December, 1688; he was brother to Welbore Ellis, who died Bishop of Meath in Ireland, 1733 (having been previously Bishop of Kildare, 17051731), and also to Sir William Ellis, Knt., who went to Ireland as secretary to Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel, Lord-Lieutenant, in 1686, having been previously a puisne judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1672, afterwards removed, but re-appointed 1679. The family of Ellis had been seated for centuries at Kiddall in Yorkshire." I believe Philip Ellis is mentioned in Wood's Athen. Oxon., but I have not that work to refer to. What vicars apostolic were nominated after the above four mentioned, or till the year 1750? since when a list of them is given in the "General Clerical Obituary," published in the Catholic Annual Register, for the year ended June 30, 1850, of Dolman, London. A. S. A. Wuzzeerabad. to him my hearty congratulations as well on his prize as on the price at which he secured it: "Non equidem invideo, miror magis." It is not my purpose to observe on the important critica supellex furnished by the annotated margins of the copy which MR. H. possesses; but, taking humble ground, to call attention to the book-plate. I my possess an impression of the plate, and have been struck with the great superiority of its execution over similar works of ordinary engravers. Now, I have somewhere seen or heard it stated that Hogarth, in one instance, condescended to engrave a book-plate for a friend; and the impression on my mind has been, ever since I saw that of Dr. Morell, that he might be that favoured friend, and his the single book-plate. Will MR. H. so far oblige your readers in general, and myself in particular, as to examine, or submit to the examintion of those competent judges, with whom his residence in the metropolis must place him in communication, that impression of the plate contained in his Eschylus, in order to ascertain whether it shall be pronounced worthy of the burin of our great national artist? I have no doubt that MR. H. will feel, if it should prove to be the case, that his acquisition, already so precious, has been invested with some additional value, if it shall be determined that it contains an impression - necessarily extremely rare of an engraving by Hogarth. Certain it is that Hogarth did engrave the portrait of Morell prefixed to the first edition of his Thesaurus, and that his armorial bearings are given in the upper corner of the print. BALLIOLENSIS. PAGAN OBSERVANCE ON THE WEST COAST OF IRELAND. About nineteen years ago I spent some time with a connexion by marriage at a lodge which he had built at Lahinch, a small village at the bottom of the Bay of Liscannor, and while there, on two most extraordinary proceeding. I must premise separate occasions, I was witness to the following that the house was situated on the very verge of sea, within reach of the spray at high tides, and that, in accordance with the primitive manners of under the windows, while the men's bathing-place the natives, the bathing-place for all females was was not ten yards distant. And now to my tale:About the time of high water, one fine hot day, I was sitting in the window, when I heard a considerable bustle, and the sound of many voices talking loudly in the vernacular approaching. On looking out I saw a crowd of men and boys coming along towards the sea, not directly from the village, which lay behind my friend's house, but down the road which ran along the bay. At their head walked two middle-aged men, holding each by one of his hands a lad of about nineteen years of age, perfectly naked; while immediately behind him walked an elderly man (either his father or uncle, as I afterwards found out), holding a hatchet and a saw. They walked along, attended by the crowd, |