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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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only saw it last night), I beg to inform Mb. 

 Hknry Grainger that the proper quotation is, — 



" All angel now, and little less than all, 

 While still a pilgrim in this world of ours." 



He will find it at the conclusion of Sir "Walter 

 Scott's " Lord of the Isles." The lady alluded to 

 was Harriett, Duchess of Buccleugh. I. K. 



April 7. 



Fastolf Family (2"'» S. iii. 243. 319.) — My 

 notes tell me that your correspondents may find 

 notices of the Fastolphe family of Castle Rudham 

 in Harl. MS. 1449, fol. 94, b. They are probably 

 mentioned elsewhere in that collection, but I have 

 not Mr. Sims's index at hand. 



In the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian (Suff. 

 23a, No. 1288.), there is also mention made of 

 Dna Eliz" Fastocke* of Playford, who (judging 

 from the marginal note) would appear to have 

 been previously mentioned. J. Sansom. 



Weathercocks (2'"> S. iii. 306.) — Mr. Beckmann, 

 in his notice of the ancient wind-indicators, speaks 

 of a tower built at Athens by Andronicus, of oc- 

 tagonal form, each side of which was faced with a 

 representation of the wind to which it looked. 

 Its spire was surmounted by a copper triton, so 

 constructed as to point with a rod, as it turned 

 with each wind, to that image which represented 

 it. Each side of the tower bore beneath the ar- 

 chitrave a Greek inscription of its corresponding 

 wind, with_ appropriate illustrations of its attri- 

 butes. (This is mentioned by Vitruvius.) A do- 

 cument of earlier date than 1151, described a 

 Syrian tower surmounted by a copper equestrian 

 statue, which turned with every wind ; beneath 

 the vane were emblematic figures, one of which 

 was a scorpion. 



" In the Latin of the middle ages," says Mr. B., " we 

 meet with the words gallus and veritilogium. The latter 

 is used by Eadulphus, who wrote about the year 1270. 

 Mention of weathercocks occurs in the ninth, eleventh, 

 twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. There is no doubt that 

 the cock was intended as an emblem of clerical vigilance. 

 In the ages of ignorance the clergy styled themselves the 

 Cocks of the Almighty, whose duty it was, like the cock 

 which roused Peter, to call the people to repentance, or at 

 any rate to church." 



In the Bayeux Tapestry several of the ships' 

 masts are represented carrying vanes. The fol- 

 lowing inscription, he tells us, was found on a 

 weathercock at Brixen : 



" Dominus Kampertus episc. gallum hunc fieri prjecepit 



F. Phillott. 



Charles Cotton and Smoking (2"'' S. iii. 284.) — 

 I fear that I cannot claim the disciple of old Izaak 

 as an absolute champion of the weed ; yet it 

 appears to me that abundant evidence is to be 



* " Fastolph, vide ante, 411," in marc/. 



found in his works that he not only smoked his 

 pipe, but enjoyed it too. It is true he says, " the 

 vile tobacco choaks me ; " but then he was in the 

 New Prison, where "the right sort" was not very 

 likely to be met with. It is also true that he 

 prays in his " Litany " to be delivered " from vile 

 smoke in a short pipe," and what smoker would 

 not ? As to the " satyr," I am inclined to class it 

 with that of Oldham's upon Virtue, although, un- 

 like him, he has not thought it necessary to put 

 forth an Apology for the same. Surely no man 

 can read either of these pieces of extravagance, 

 and conclude that the authors were in earnest 

 when they composed them. Let us now see what 

 Cotton has to say in favour of the weed : — 

 " Ode. 

 " Let me have Sack, Tobacco store." 

 " A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque. 

 " I fell to my smoaking untill I grew dull." 



In the same poem he tells us that he presents 

 his host, the mayor of Chester, with — 



" A certain fantastical Box and a Stopper." 

 In order to conciliate his ofiended muse : 



_" And thereupon called, to make her amends, 

 For a Pipe and a Bottle, and so we were friends." 

 Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton. 



Again, in an epode to Mr. Alexander Bronie : 



" Fill each a pipe of the rich Indian Fume, 

 To vapour Incense in the Room, 

 That we may in that artificial shade 

 Drink all a Jfight our selves have made." 



These passages occur to me at present ; they 

 are extracted from the edition of Cotton's Poems 

 alluded to by William Bates. 



W. J. Bernhard Smith. 



Temple. 



Composition of Fire Balls for destroying Ships 

 (2°"^ S. iii. 289.) — The terms calefonia and oyle of 

 egeseles, so unintelligible to Mr. Hopper, are, no 

 doubt, what are elsewhere known as colofony 

 (common resin) and oil of eggs. I have seen the 

 latter written oil of egg-shells somewhere, but 

 cannot at this moment refer to it. In a MS. 

 herbal, or book of medical receipts, of the fifteenth 

 century, in my possession, I find both the terms 

 inquired about used ; and as the receipts in which 

 they are named savour somewhat of the curious, 

 I will transcribe them for the benefit of the 

 readers of "N. & Q." First, then, we are in- 

 structed how to make — 



Brown Ointment. 



" Take oil olif a pond and a half, wex iij unc, eolofony 

 a quarter of an unc, serapium, blac pich, of ech iij grote 

 weight, mastik, galbanum, turpentyn, of eche a grote 

 weight. Boil thoil in the fier, than put pto (thereto) 

 the wex, then the colofony, and afterward the pich, and 

 then serapium and turpentyn, mastix, and galbanum. 

 But first pond the gummys, seve the pich, alway storing 

 with a spater (spatula) til it be cold. This is good to 



