Feb. 7. 1852.] 



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time and expense formerly bestowed upon these ceremo- 

 nials. The word "herse," it may be remarked, was not 

 then applied in its modern sense, but to a frame of timber 

 «' covered with black, and armes upon the black, ready 

 to receive the corpse when it had arrived within the 

 church," which corresponds to what our French neigh- 

 bours designate the Catafalque.l 



Saint Bartholomew. — Can you favour me with 

 a reference to any works in which any further 

 account is given of this saint, than is contained in 

 the four passages of the New Testament in which 

 his name is mentioned ? 



What representations are there of him in pic- 

 ture, tapestry, or window, in England or on the 

 continent ? Regedonum. 



[For further particulars we would refer our corre- 

 spondent to Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Lefjeudari/ Art 

 (1st edit.), vol. i. pp. 222. et seq. ; and Parker's Calen- 

 dar of the Anglican Church illustrated, p. 100.] 



Moravian Hymns — Tabitha's Dream (Vol. iv., 

 p. 502.). — Are the following lines from Walsh's 

 Aristophanes original; and was the translation 

 ever completed ? I quote from memory. 



" Audi masstum, Eliza, questum, 

 Nuntium audi horridum ; 

 It devota domus tota. 



Barathrum orci torrldum. 



Simkin Frater desperatur, 



Ludit, salit, turpiter ; 

 Ridet Jana sacra fana ; 



Tabitha Euiit deperditur. 



Ego, ut ovls, errans quovis 



Scomma nuper omnium, 

 Ter beata, quae vocata 



Mane sum per somnium ; 



Nam procero par Rogero 



Spectrum venit ccelitus : 

 Dicens, Ego amore implebo 



Te divino penitus." 



J. H. L. 



[These lines are by Christopher Anstcy, Esq., and 

 will be found ia his New Bath Guide, letter xiv., where 

 " Miss Prudence B-n-r-d informs Lady Betty that she 

 has been elected to Methodism by a Vision." This 

 metrical epistle consists of five more verses, to which 

 the author has subjoined a Latin translation. See 

 Anstey's Works, p. 82. 4to. 1808. Only Vol. L of 

 Walsh's translation of The Comedlen of Aristophanes has 

 been published.] 



Story of Ginevra. — Mr. Rogers, in his beautiful 

 poem of Italy, has a story which is headed "Gi- 

 nevra," and which he lays the scene of at Modena. 

 It narrates that a young bride on the day of her 

 wedding, to entertain her young friends, proposes 

 that they should amuse themselves at " hide-and- 

 seek;" and thinking to conceal herself where her 

 companions could not discover her, bethouglit her- 

 self of an old oaken chest in the "arret of the house. 



The lid of this chest unfortunately had a clasp 

 lock, which occasioned her to be completely en- 

 shrined ; and not being discovered a-f the time, 

 she must have perished miserably. Many years 

 after, upon pulling the house down the chest was 

 forced open, and the skeleton of the unfortunate 

 lady was, to the consternation of all present, 

 brought to light. 



Mr. Rogers, in a note, says, " I believe this 

 story to be founded on fact, though I cannot tell 

 when and where it happened;? and adds, "many 

 old houses in this country lay claim to it." 



I should be much obliged to any reader of the 

 " N. & Q." to point out any old seat in England 

 where the above is stated to have happened ; if 

 there be any memorial or legend concerning it, or 

 any particulars relating to it. i^° F. 



P. S. I have, some years ago, read the counter- 

 part of this story in French, when the bride pro- 

 poses jouer an cache-cache, with exactly the same 

 melancholy result, but I have not any recollection 

 in what work. 



[Two versions of the dramatic narrative of " Gi- 

 nevra, the Lady buried alive," are given by Collet in 

 his Relics of Literature, p. 1 86., in neither of which is 

 there any notice of the hide-and-seek game, or of the 

 chest with the clasp-lock. The French account is ex- 

 tracted from the Catises Celebres ,- and the Italian, 

 which diflFers in some particulars, from a work by 

 Dominico Maria Manni.] 



Play of ^'■Pompey the Great." — C&n any of 

 your readers inform me where the entire transla- 

 tion of this play, from the French of Corneille into 

 English, is to be found ? — the first act only, which 

 was translated by Waller, being fcmnd in some 

 editions of his works. Also, whether I am right 

 in supposing that this play contains a scene where 

 the dead body of Pompey is discovered on the sea- 

 shore, and a passage discussing what tomb should 

 be erected to his honour, in deprecation of any 

 monument at all, and ending with : " The eternal 

 substance of his greatness ; to that I leave him." 



H. 



[The title of the play is, Pompey the Great; a Tra- 

 gedy, as it was acted by the Servants of his Royal 

 Highness the Duke of York. Translated out of French 

 by certain Persons of Honour, 4to. 1664. It consists 

 of five acts. Waller translated the first; the others 

 were translated by the Earl of Dorset, Sir C. Sedley, 

 and Mr. Godolphin. It will be found in the British 

 Museum and the Bodleian.] 



sacpitci^. 



THE THREE ESTATES OF THE BEA.I.M. 



(Vol. iv., p. 278.) 

 Mr. Eraser's erudite researches ore well wortli 

 the space which they occupy. The conclus'ons to 



