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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Unpublished Song by Thomas Otway, by Dr. Rirabault 337 



Shakspeare's " We three," by the Kev. Arthur Hussey 338 



Cowley's Prose Works 339 



Note on Coleridge's Christabcl - - . . 339 



Convertibilityof the Words " Grin" and " Gin " - 340 



Folk Lore : — Game Feathers — Isle of Man Folk Lore 341 

 Minor Notes : — Epitaph at King Stanley — Monuments 

 of De la lieche Family — Cousinship — Borrowing 

 Days — Monumental Plate at Lewes Castle — Junius 



and the Quarterly Review — Handwriting - - 341 



Queries : — 



Dutch Manufactories of Porcelain ... 343 



Salmon Fisheries .--.-. 343 

 Thomas Crawfurd . - - - - - 344 



Minor Queries : — The Chronologic Institute — Mother 

 Carey's Chickens — Suwich Priory — Anthony Babing- 

 ton — Sir Isaac Newton, Cicero, and Gravitation — 

 Diotrophes — Grisly — Birthplace of St. Patrick — 

 Motto on Cliimney-piece — Curious Bequest — 

 Wilkie's Blind Fiddler — Lode — Ballad quoted by 

 Sir Walter Scott — Ann Stewart, Wife of Cnristopher 

 Hall — Moveable Organs and Pulpits — Nobleman 

 alluded to by Bishop Berkeley — Chelwoldesbury — . 

 Swallows' Nests — Quotation from Arthur Hopton — 

 Group at Prague — Cards prohibited to Apprentices — 

 Cursiior Barons — Phelps's Gloucestershire Collec- 

 tions — Huant Le Puisne — Arms of Koberson - 344 

 Minor QuEnms Answered: — Winterton — Emblems of 

 a Saint — Quack — Dr. Hieron Mercurialis — The 

 Book of Sports - - - - - .346 



Replies : — 



Meaning of Groom .---._ 347 

 Ballad of Lord Delaware, by Dr. Rirabault . . 348 



Family Likenesses --.-.- 349 

 Earl of Erroll - - - . - - 350 



The Bowyer Bible ...... 350 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Exeter Controversy 



Coleridge's " Friend " — Praying to the Devil The 



Word -'shunt" — St. Paul's Quotation of Heathen 

 Writers — Rex Lucifer — Sir Edward Seaward's Nar- 

 rative — Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England 



Templars — Story of the Greek referred to by Jeremy 

 Taylor — Emaciated Monumental Effigies — Deaths 

 from Fasting — London Genealogical Society — Mar- 

 tinique — "The Delicate Investigation" — Miserri- 

 mus — Cynthia's Dragon-yoke — Cromwell's Skull — 

 Almas-ClifTe — .Artificial Memory — Punishment of Boil- 

 ing to Death — Barnard's Cliurch Music — Portrait of 

 Baskerville— Autograph Music by Handel— Dr. Fell— 

 Fern-seed — Longevity and Rejuvenescency— Indig- 

 nities on the Bodies of Suicides — Large Families: 

 Twenty-seven Children— The last of the Paleeologi - 351 



Miscellaneous : —. 



Notes on Books, &c. - . ■ - . 357 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 358 



Notices to Correspondents . . - , 358 



Advertisements --.... 353 



Vol. v.— No. 128. 



UNPUBLISHED SONG BY THOMAS OTWAY. 



In turning over a quantity of miscellaneous papers 

 in MS. (some originals and some copies) of the latter 

 half of the seventeenth century (which chance 

 lately threw in my way), I stumbled upon the 

 following song by the unfortunate author of Venice 

 Preserved. It may, possibly, have been printed 

 in one, or more, of the numerous volumes of 

 " miscellany poems" which teemed from the press 

 at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning 

 of the following century ; but in looking over a 

 tolerable assemblage which time has accumulated 

 on my shelves, I have not been able to discover 

 it. The MS. does not appear to be an original, 

 although the handwriting is of the author's period. 

 The punctuation is as I found it : — 



" Health breeds care ; love, hope and fear ; 

 What does love or bus'ness here ? 

 While Bacchus merry does appear, 



Fight on and fear no sinking : 

 Charge it briskly to the brim, 

 Till the flying topsails swim : 

 We owe the great discovery to him 



Of this new world of drinking. 



" Grave cabals that states refine, 

 IMingle their debates with wine; 

 Ceres and the god o' th' vine 



Makes ev'ry great commander. 

 Let sober sots small-beer subdue, 

 The wise and valiant wine does woe ; 

 The Stapyrite had the honour to 

 Be dnink with Alexander. 



" Stand to your arms, and now advance, 

 A health to the English King of France ; 

 On to the next, a hon speranze, 



By Bacchus and Apollo. 

 Thus in state I lead the van. 

 Fall in your place by your right-hand man ; 

 Beat drum ! now march ! dub a dub, ran dan ; 

 He's a Whigg that will not follow, 



" T. Otway." 



That poor Otway was a lover of the "juice of 

 the grape," is too well known ; and it seems from 

 his biography in Gibber's Lives of the Poets, that 

 he was for some time a soldier, and served in 

 Flanders. The half-bacchanalian, half-military 



