June 19. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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See him return'd triumphant to his king, 

 Wafted on Vict'ry's, and on Glory's wing : 

 Hast thou, great patroness of martial fire, 

 No fav'rite genius, Clio, to inspire ? 

 Shall worth, like his, unnotic'd pass away 

 But with the pageant of a short-liv'd day ? 

 No ; Soul of numbers, tune the votive strings 

 On which thou sing'st of heroes and of kings ; 

 Rouse from ungrateful silence some lov'd name 

 Or from the banks of Isis, or of Cam ; 

 Bid him, tho' grateful to the dead, rehearse 

 The living hero in immortal verse : 

 So shall each warlike Briton strive to raise, 

 Xiike him, a monument of deathless praise ; 

 So shall each patriot heart his merit move 

 By the warm glow of sympathy of love." — T. D. 



P. 71. Jan. 19. 



At p. 120., June 31st, is "A New Song, enti- 

 tled and called, Britain's Remembrancer for the 

 Years 1758 and 1759." The fourth verse runs as 

 follows : 

 " Quebec we have taken, and taken Breton ; 



Tho' the coast was so steep, that a man might as soon, 



As the Frenchmen imagin'd, have taken the moon, 

 Which nobody can deny." 



May 10th, p. 449. : " Capt. Bell, late Aide-de- 

 Camp to the great Gen. Wolfe, is appointed cap- 

 tain in the fifth regiment," &c. Under the date 

 of June 28th is Gen. Murray's despatch. 



Among the advertisements are, " A Discourse 

 delivered at Quebec," &c., by the Rev. Eli Dawson 

 (dedicated to Mrs. Wolfe) ; " Two Discourses by 

 •Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. of Boston;" and "Que- 

 bec, a Poetical Essay, in imitation of the Miltonic 

 Style, composed by a Volunteer in the service ; 

 with Notes entertaining and explanatory." 



A notice of the death of Sir Harry Smith, Bart., 

 aide-de-camp to Wolfe, appears in the Examiner 

 for October 22nd, 1811. 



Among other instances of the name is a notice 

 of Major J. Wolfe in Gentlemai^s Magazine for 

 1836, p. 334. H. G. D. 



*'the miller's melody," an old ballad. 

 (Vol. v., p. 316.) 



The original ballad of "The Miller's Melody" 

 is the production of no less a person than a " Doctor 

 in Divinity," of whom the following are a few brief 

 particulars. 



James Smith was born about 1604, educated at 

 Christ Church and Lincoln Colleges, in Oxford ; 

 afterwards naval and military chaplain to the Earl 

 of Holland, and domestic chaplain to Thomas Earl 

 of Cleveland. On the Restoration of Charles II. 

 he held several Church preferments, and ultimately 

 became canon and " chauntor" in Exeter Cathe- 

 dral. He was created D.D. in 1661, and quitted 

 this life in 1667. Wood informs us he was much 

 in esteem " with the poetical wits of that time, 



particularly with Philip Massinger, who call'd him 

 his son." 



I have an old " broadside " copy of the ballad 

 in question, " Printed for Francis Grove, 1656," 

 which is here transcribed, verbatim et literatim, for 

 the especial benefit of your numerous readers. It 

 may also be found in a rare poetical volume, en- 

 titled Wit Restored, 1658, and in Dryden's Mis- 

 cellany Poems (second edition, which differs mate- 

 rially from the first). 



• *'THK MItLER AND THE KING's DAUGHTER. 



By Mr. Smith. 



" There were two sisters they went playing. 

 With a hie downe, downe, a downe-a. 

 To see their father's ships come sayling in. 

 With a by downe, downe, a downe-a. 



" And when they came unto the sea-brym, , 

 With, &c. 

 The elder did push the younger in ; 

 With, &c. 



" O sister, O sister, take me by the gowne. 

 With, &c. 

 And drawe me up upon the dry ground. 

 With, &c. 



" O sister, O sister, that may not bee, 

 With, &c. 

 Till salt and oatmeale grow both of a tree. 

 With, &c. 



*' Sometymes she sanke, sometymes she swam, 

 With, &c. 

 Until she came unto the mlll-dam ; 

 With, &c. 



" The miller runne hastily downe the cliffe. 

 With, &c. 

 And up he betook her withouten her life. 

 With, &c. 



" What did he doe with her brest bone ? 

 With, &c. 

 He made him a violl to play thereupon. 

 With, &c. 



« What did he doe with her fingers so small ? 

 With, &c. 

 He made him peggs to his violl withall ; 

 With, &c. 



*' Wliat did he doe with her nose-ridge ? 

 With, &c. 

 Unto his violl he made him a bridge. 

 With, &c. 



*< What did he doe with her veynes so blew ? 

 With, &c. 

 He made hira strings to his violl thereto ; \ 

 With, &c. 



" What did he doe with her eyes so bright? 

 With, &c. 

 Upon his violl he played at first sight : 

 With, &c. 



