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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2«d s, n« 69., apbh. 25. '57. 



more likely to be true. Mr. Collier, in his Annals of the 

 Stage, attributes it to Lyly ; and D'Israeli, in his Cah.' 

 mities of Authors, to Nash. It was republished in 1844 

 by Mr, Petheram, from whose introduction this biblio- 

 graphical account is extracted.] 



Matfelon. — In old documents, and even in 

 some of modern date, this parish is styled " Saint 

 Mary Matfelon, otherwise Whitechapel : " can any 

 of your readers tell me the origin of the word 

 Matfelon ? T. D. A. 



LThe origin of this name baffled Stow and other anti- 

 quaries ; but Strype has offered the following conjecture : 

 "A more probable account of the name Matfelon, ascribed 

 to St. Marj% the patroness of this church, which I once 

 heard from the Eev. Mr. Wells, sometime vicar of Horn- 

 church in Essex, is, that the word was of Hebrew or 

 Sj'riac extraction, Matfel or Matfelon signifying as much 

 as QiicB nuper enixa est, i.e. ' She that hath lately brought 

 forth a son ; ' and so the word is fitly applied to St. Mary ; 

 and it is as much as ' St. Mary lately delivered of her 

 holy Child.' And it is probable her image anciently stood 

 in that church with a babe in her arms. In short, it is 

 not unlikely but that some knight, that had dwelt in the 

 Holy Land, was the founder of this church of White- 

 chapel, and dedicated it to St. Mary with the Babe in her 

 arms, which in those eastern countries was called Mat- 

 felon." — Strype's Stow, book iv. p. 45. See also Gent. 

 Mag. for July, 1790, p. 613.] 



Max and Thehla. — In the Memorials of John 

 Mackintosh I find the simile, " as the first dawn of 

 love in the soul of Max and Thekla." What is 

 the story of these notorieties ? Notsa. 



[The romantic story of the love of Max Piccolomini, 

 Colonel of a Cuirassier regiment, and of Thekla, Princess 

 of Friedland, is narrated in Schiller's dramatic poem of 

 Wallen^tein.'} 



^tpliti* 



"the pebes, a satibb." 



(2°i S. ii. 11.) 



The lines imitated are from the Latin version 

 of Musa3U3 describing the death of Leander : 



AtBlSo^^ oO Boperjv a.fi.vrin.ova KaXAnre vviiiprii' 

 AKKa 01 ouTts apriyev, 'Epioj S'ovk ^pKetre fioCpai, 

 UlavToOi S' a.ypoiJ.evot.0 SvcravTiC Ku/naros op/jL^ 

 TuTTTOixevoi 7re<^dpr)T0. jrofioii' Si oi u>itKaa-ev opfxi), 

 Kat oreVoi TJp afiovijTOi' aKoi/ii^Tinv ToXafidaiv. 

 JHoAA^ 8* avTOfiaTOi y^cru i'Saros eppee Kainu." 



Hero et Leander, 1. 322., ed. Halae, 1721. 



In The New Whig Guide, p. 165., London, 1819, 

 are 



" Xfines to the Rt. Hon. Lord G. Cavendish, on his givity 

 Notice of a Motion, 

 " Goosey, Goosey Gander, 

 Whither will you wander ? 

 Example take 

 (Or down you'll break) 

 From the other chamber : 

 Poor Johnny Bedford could not say his speech ; 

 But he moved his right leg. 

 Then he moved his left leg. 

 Then he said, ' I pardon beg ' — 

 And sat upon bis breech." 



J 



The editor says in a note, 



" It seems from the parliamentary debates, that about 

 this [ ? ] time the Duke of Bedford stopped suddenly be- 

 fore he had finished his speech." 



This and " his garden nymphs," the Duke being 

 the owner of Covent Garden, leave no doubt that 

 he is the person described. I offer the following 

 conjectural filling up of the blanks : 



" Elate to soar above a silent vote, 

 Upsprings the Duke to speak what Holland wrote, 

 But horrors unexpected stop his speed. 

 He fumbles at his hat, but cannot read : 

 On Eldon's* brows hang violence and fear. 

 In Grey's f cold eye he reads a polished sneer. 

 His garden's nymphs in silence mourn his state, 

 And caperous Lansdowne J dares not strive with fate ; 

 A panic terror o'er his senses comes. 

 Loosens his knees and sets his twitching thumbs ; 

 He sinks into his place, then quits the Peers, 

 And swells the gutter with spontaneous tears." 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



* " I see thy damned ink in Eldon's brows." 



Moore, Two-penny Post-hag. 



" Thej'^ believe that their race formerly occupied some 

 pleasant seats on the other side of a large table or moun- 

 tain, which is in sight of their present abodes; that they 

 were driven out of them for some misdeeds, by the Great 

 Breath, at the instigation of their evil genius Mumbo- 

 Gumbo, whom they represent as an elderly figure, with 

 flowing white curls, and dark bushy eyebrows, clothed all 

 in black, and seated upon a fiery red throne, in shape 

 somewhat resembling a great woolpack." 

 " The Friendless Islands." 



Mw Whig Guide, p. 152. 



t " ' You starved me once,' quoth good Lord Grey, 

 ' You shall not starve me twice ; 

 But I had the pleasure to look on Brougham 

 With eye as cold as ice.' " 



" The Eating of Edinbro'." Fraser's 

 Mag., May, 1834, p. 487. 



X " Petty, the nimble, frolicsome, and gaj'. 

 Renowned for figuring at balls away ; 

 Whether 'twas leading down a country danse. 

 Or bringing up a bill upon finance." 



A Kick from Yarmouth to Wales, by 

 Peter Pindar, jun. 



I quote the above four lines from memory, but believe 

 they are exact. I have a difficulty about " Humphrey 

 Hedgehog, jun." The author of The Modem Dunciad 

 (p. 6. Srded. 1815) says: 



" Mr. Thomas Agg was formerly a bookseller at Bristol, 

 where he became a bankrupt ; since which he has Avritten 

 a variety of matter for a publication, now defunct, called 

 Toum Talk, and continues writing under the assumed 

 names of Humphrey Hedgehog and Jeremiah Juvenal. 

 He has lately taken up the title of Peter Pindar, and 

 thus confounds his spurious trash with the productions of 

 Dr. Wolcott. It is fit that the public should be made ac- 

 quainted with this deception : the original Peter is often 

 profane, but never dull." 



I have read some of the sham Peter's poems, and think 

 the lines from The Peers far above an}' thing he could 

 have done. I doubt whether he had scholarship enough 

 to read the Latin quotation, or taste to appreciate, as the 



