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"Orpheus and Eurydice" (2"*^ S. iii. 250.)— I 

 often heard an old gentleman, more than forty 

 years ago, sing this ditty ; but with sundry varia- 

 tions from the words given by A. De Mosgak. 

 He always sung it as follows : — 



" Old Orpheus tickled his harp so well, 

 That he played his Eurydice put of hell, 



With a crinlium, cranlium, cree ! 

 But if she was honest as she was fair, 

 Why how the dickens came she to be there? 



With a crinlsum, craultum, cree ! 



" O she, it is said, was a terrible scold, 

 And therefore the devil he took her iu hold. 



With a crinkum, crankum, cree ! 

 But lest she should poison all hell with her tongue, 

 He was glad to get rid of her for an old song ; 

 With a crinkum, crankum, cree ! " 



The gentleman, when I heard him sing this 

 song, above forty years ago, was about seventy, 

 and must have learnt it in his childhood in his 

 native county of Cheshire ; for he had been from 

 his youth out of England, and could not have 

 picked it up after his return to it. F. C. H. 



Bfajor Andre and Saint-Andre, the Surgeon 

 (2°'' S. iii. 11.) — A Querist (I need not mention 

 the name) asks whether Mnjor Andre was a de- 

 scendant or a member of the family of the Swiss 

 surgeon, Saint-Andre, so notorious for his share in 

 the rabbit imposture in 1726. May I venture in 

 return to ask the Querist whether Sir John Paul 

 is of the same family as Sir Horace St. Paul? 

 Whether Sir Hudson Lowe is a descendant of 

 Miss Saintlowe, the celebrated dancer ? and whe- 

 ther Mr. John, the respectable baker in Lambeth, 

 is "a member of the family" of the Lord St. 

 Johns ? which latter is the more probable, as we 

 know that the St. Johns were Lords of the Manor 

 of Battersea, which is the next parish to Lambeth ! 

 But, seriously, does not such an instance as this 

 justify the expression of a wish that correspon- 

 dents would be a little more chary of the space, 

 and a little more attentive to the real object and 

 utility of " N. & Q.," than to encumber it with 

 such thoughtless questions. C. 



" De mortuis nil nisi bonum" (2^^ S. ii. 210.) — 

 This was a law made by Solon. See Plutarch's 

 Life of Solon. I quote from Langhorne's trans- 

 lation : — 



" That law of Solon is also justly commended which 

 forbids men to speak ill of the dead. For piety requires 

 us to consider the deceased as sacred ; justice also calls 

 upon us to spare those who are not in being : and good 

 policy to prevent the perpetuating of hatred." 



I have heard it suggested, that this adage would 

 run better " De mortuis nil nisi verum." 



William Fbaseb, B.C.L. 

 Alton Vicarage, Staffordshire. 



Arminestull Countenance (2°'* S. iii. 70.) — May 

 not this be a misprint ? My edition of La Mori 



d' Arthur (a modern one) reads thus : " For by 

 my arm, in stern countenance" &c. This at least 

 makes sense. W. J. Bebnhard SMiia. 



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