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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Ben Jonson's Verses on the Marriage of the Earl of 



Somerset ------- 193 



Junius and the Quarterly Review - - - 194 



Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, by W 



Sparrow Simpson, B.A. - - . 



Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, by Wm. Durrant 



Cooper ------- 



Folk Lore : — Suffolls Legend — Theodoric, Legend of - 

 Names of Places ; Provincial Dialects - - . 



Minor Notes : — The Banking Company in Aberdeen, 



and the Bank of Bngland — Which are the Shadows ? 



— Antiquity of County Boundaries — Zachary Pearce 

 not a Pupil of Busby — The Poet Gay and his Relatives 



Queries : — 



Thomas Bastard, and Song against Sheep-farming 

 Inundations and their Phenomena, by Sydney Smirks - 

 A Bibliographical Query - - - - _ 



New Arrangement of the Old Testament 

 Minor Queries : — Pasquinades — Sir John Fenner's 

 Bequest of Bibles — Friday at Sea — Meaning of 

 " Knarres " — Sir John Cheke — Arms of Yarmouth 



— " Litera Scripta Manet" — Bull the Barrel — Nu- 

 remberg Token — Weber on the Material Media of 

 Musical Art— Clement's Inn — Was Queen Elizabeth 

 dark or fair — The " Black Book of Paisley " — " The 



Trial of the Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen 

 Caroline" — Frith the Martyr, and Dean Comber — 

 Beocherie, alias Parva Hibernia ; Beocera Gent 

 Minor Queries Answered : — Augmentation Office — 

 " Smectymnus " - 



Replies : — 



Liber Conformitatum . » - - - 



Traditions of Remote Periods ; George III. 'g Garter - 

 Many Children at a Birth ; Large Families 

 Pedigree of Richard Earl of Chepstow - - . 



Isabel, Queen of the Isle of Man, by John Gough Nichols 

 Replies to Minor Queries: — Bastides — Brunehaut — 

 Job — Parish Registers — Ornamental Hermits — Col- 

 lars of SS — Herschel Anticipated — Monastic Esta- 

 blishments in Scotland— Kissing under the Mistletoe — 

 The Ring Finger — Sanctus Bell — Slang Dictionaries 



— Modern Greek Names of Places — Baskerville the 

 Printer — Story of Genevra — Gospel Oaks — " Asters 



with Trains of Fire," &c Wiggan, or Utiggan, an 



Oxford Student — Hieroglyphics of Vagabonds — " The 

 bright lamp that shone in Kildare's holy fane " — Hyme 



— Stops, when first introduced — Heratdical MSS. of 

 Sir H. St. George Garter — Kingswei, Kings.way, or 

 Kinsey — Fouche's Memoirs — The Pelican as a Sym- 

 bol of our Saviour — Bow-bell — Cou-bache — White- 

 livered — " Expert© crede Roberto" — "Oh! Leo- 

 line," &c. —The Word " Blaen" — Stoke — A Baron's 

 Hearse — The Bed of Ware — Symbolism ofDeatli — 

 General Wolfe — Proverb 



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Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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VoL.V. — No.122. 



BEN jonson's verses ON THE MARRIAGE OP TH.K 

 EABL OF SOMERSET. 



The British Museum purchased for 14Z. the 

 copy of the 1640 edition of Ben Jonson's Works, 

 which was sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, 

 in the library of the Honorable Archibald Fraser 

 of Lovat. The volume, which had on its exterior 

 covers the arms of Carr, Earl of Somerset, con- 

 tains on one of them the following inscription : — 

 " These verses were made by the author of this 

 booke, and were delivered to the Earl of Somerset 

 upon his Lordship's wedding-day." Then follow 

 the verses in the poet's own handwriting. 

 " To the Blast Noble and above his Titles Robert 



Earle of Somerset. 

 They are not those, are present w"^ theyr face. 



And clothes, and guifts, that only do thee grace 

 At these thy nuptials ; but, whose heart, and 

 thought 

 Do wayte upon thee : and theyr Loue not 

 bought. 

 Such weare true Wedding robes, and are true 

 Freindes, 

 That bid, God giue thee ioy and haue no endes 

 W'h I do, early, vertuous Somerset, 



And pray, thy ioyes as lasting bee, as great. 

 Not only this, but euery day of thine, 



W'th the same looke, or w'th a better, shine. 

 May she, whom thou for spouse, to-day, dost take 

 Out-bee y' Wife, in worth, thy friend did make : 

 And thou to her, that Husband, may exalt 



Hymens amends, to make it worth his fault. 

 So, be there neuer discontent, or sorrow. 



To rise w"* eytlier of you, on the morrow. 

 So, be yo'r Concord, still, as deepe, as mute ; 

 And euery ioy, in mariage, turne a fruite ; 

 So, may those Mariage-Pledges, comforts proue : 



And eu'ry birth encrease the heate of Loue. 

 So, in theyr number, may you neuer see 



Mortality, till you immortall bee. 

 And when your yeares rise more, then would be 

 told 

 Yet ney ther of you seeme to th' other old. 

 That all, y* view you then, and late ; may say, 

 Sure, this glad payre were maried, but this day. 



Ben Jonson.' 



