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Vol. v.— No. 123.] Saturday, March 6. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 

 NoTBs : — Page 



South Sea Playing Cards, by John Sudlow - - 217 



Birthplace of the Empress Josephine, by Henry H. Breen 220 

 Notes on Homer, No. HI., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 221 

 Folk Lore : — Ancient Custom on Interment — Pure 



Rain Water — Cure for Hooping Cough - - 223 



Sainted Kings Incorruptible . _ _ . 223 



Minor Notes : — Rev. A. Butler — Birthplace of Bishop 

 Hoadley — Humboldt's "Cosmos," and Nares' " At- 

 tempt"— Gough, the Irish Portion of his Camden: 

 Ledwich — Chronogram — Junius and the Quarterly 

 Review again -----. 224 



Queries : — 



Seven Queries .-..._ 225 



Plague Stones -_-._. 226 



Minor Queries : — The Cross on Counsels' Briefs — Sir 

 James Hayes, of Bedgebury, Kent — Authorship of 



the Song "Oh Nanny," &c Hexameter Poem on 



English Counties— Wild Oats, Origin of the Phrase— 

 The Dr. Richard Mortons — General Lambert — 

 Cross-legged Effigies and Collars of SS. — The Crooked 

 Billet — Collins the Poet, and his Ode on the Music of 

 the Grecian Theatre — Bishop Kidder's Autobiography 

 — Shrine of Edward the Confessor—" Wise above that 

 which is written "_" Hoffman," a Tragedy by Chet- 

 tle — Inverted Commas — Quotations Wanted — Dea- 

 cons, a Phrase used by Foxe — The Count de Vordac 226 

 Minor Queries Answered: — Hoare's Charity — Dr. 

 Sacheverell's " Sermon at Derby " — Lucas Lossius — 

 The " Athenian Oracle " - - « - 229 



Replies : — 



French Revolutions foretold - - - - 231 



Grimesdyke - . - - . - -231 



Poet referred to by Bacon, by S. W. Singer - . 232 



Johnson's House, Bolt Court - , - - - 232 



Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell, by Miyor-General 



Fox - - . . - _ -234 

 The Queen of the Isle of Man - . _ . 234 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — Old Scots March —Eliza- 

 beth, Equestrian Figure of— Meaning of Stickle 



Latin Names of Towns — Llandudno, on the Great 

 Orme's Head — Brozier— Passage in Troilus and 

 Cressida — Nelson Family— Maps of Africa— Mug- 

 gleton — Passage in Hamlet— Theoloneum — Donkey 

 —Sir Samuel Garth _ Princes of Wales and Earlsof 

 Chester, &c. : Mr. Bush's Collection — Litera scripta 

 manet - - . . . _ - 235 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. • . . . . 237 



Books a,nd Odd Volumes wanted - . , . 238 



Notices to Correspondents - - . - 238 



Advertisements ----.. 239 



Vol. v. — No. 123. 



SOUTH SEA PLAYING CARDS. 



It is pretty generally known that, during the 

 South Sea mania, a pack of playing cards was 

 published in illustration of the prevailing folly. 

 Each card contained a caricature of one of the 

 numerous bubble companies, with a pertinent 

 verse, underneath. These cards are now extremely 

 rare, I never saw a complete set, nor do I know 

 where one is to be found. Some time ago a friend 

 kindly furnished me with a copy of all the verses 

 (except one), and as I am not aware that they 

 have been printed separately, I beg to forward a 

 transcript for preservation in "N. &Q. ;" not 

 because I think they have any excellence to re- 

 commend them, but because it is desirable that so 

 curious a record of a very extraordinary time 

 should not be entirely lost. 



Perhaps some of your correspondents can supply 

 the missing verse : — 



Spades. 

 Ace. River Douglas. 

 " Since bubbles came in vogue, new arts are found 

 To cut thro' rocks, and level rising ground ; 

 That murmuring waters may be made more deep, 

 To drown the knaves and lull the fools asleep." 



Two. Grand Fisher]/, 

 " Well might this bubble claim the style of grand, 

 Whilst they that raised the same could fish by land ; 

 But now the town does at the project pish. 

 They've nothing else to cry but stinking fish. 



Three. Cleaning the Streets. 

 " A cleanly project, well approved no doubt. 

 By strolling dames, and all that walk on foot. 

 Tliis bubble well deserves the name of best. 

 Because the cleanest bite of all the rest." 



Four. Fish Pool. 

 " How famous is the man that could contrive. 

 To serve this gluttonous town with fish alive. 

 But now we're bubbled by his fisliing pools, 

 And as the men catch fish, the fish catch fools." 



Five. York Buildings Water Company. 

 " You that are blest with wealth by your Creator, 

 And want to drown your money in Thames water, 

 Buy but York buildings, and the cistern there 

 Will sink more pence than any fool can spare." 



