June o. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Line on Franklin (Vol. iv., p. 443. ; Vol. v., 

 p. 17.). — I have read, but do not remember where, 

 that this line was immediately taken from one in 

 the Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal Polignac : 



" Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, Phoeboque sagittas." 

 But it is obvious that the Cardinal must have, in 

 turn, borrowed from Manilius. J. S. Warden. 



St. Christopher (Vol. v., p. 295.).— E. A. H. L., 

 •who asks " if tiiere are any representations of 

 St. Christopher in painted glass; and if so, 

 where?" is informed that there is a picture of 

 the Saint in a green vestment, painted on glass, 

 in the window of the side chapel of King's Chapel, 

 which is used as a vestry by the Conduct. The 

 picture is on the internal, not the external win- 

 dow of the side chapel, in the western corner, 

 upper compartment, about a foot in height. 



F. H. L. 



Lines on Woman (Vol. v., p. 490.). — The uxo- 

 rious lines your correspondent J. T. is in search 

 of, were written by Bird. They are copied from 

 his " Poetical Memoirs " in Carey's Beauties of the 

 Modem Poets, p. 284., London, 1826. From 

 thence I extract them, and, by so doing, entitle 

 myself to the good graces of the lady readers of 

 ♦'N. &Q." 



" Oh, woman, woman ! thou art formed to bless 

 The heart of restless man ; to chase his care, 

 And charm existence by thy loveliness ; 



Bright as the sunbeam, as the morning fair. 

 If but thy foot fall on a wilderness, 



Flowers spring, and shed their roseate blossoms 

 there, 

 Shrouding the thorns that in thy pathway rise. 

 And scattering o'er it hues of paradise. 



" Thy voice of love is music to the ear, 



Soothing, and soft, and gentle as the stream 

 That strays 'mid summer flowers ; thy glittering tear 



Is mutely eloquent ; thy smile a beam 

 Of life ineri'able, so sweet, so dear, 



It wakes the heart from sorrow's darkest dream, 

 Shedding a hallowed lustre o'er our fate, 

 •' And when it beams, we are not desolate. 



" No, no ! when woman smiles, we feel a charm 

 Thrown bright around us, binding us to earth ; 



Her tender accents, breathing forth the balm ; 

 Of pure affection, give to transport birth ; 



; There life's wide sea is billowless and calm. 

 Oh ! lovely woman ! thy consummate worth 



Is far above thy frailty — far above 



All earthly praise — thou art the light of love 1 " 



"Warmington. 



Rt. 



Burial (Vol. v., pp. 320. 404.). — Mr. Gattt 

 says that a clergyman is inhibited from reading 

 the burial service in unconsecrated ground. Is this 

 so ? Irregular as the practice would be, have not 

 other irregularities equally glaring — baptisms, for 

 instance — too often taken place in drawing-rooms? 



It might not be uninteresting to have instances 

 given of spots, not consecrated, which have been 

 chosen for burial ; as the individuals who selected 

 them have possibly been marked by some pecu- 

 liarities of character worthy of observation. 



Baskerville, the celebrated printer, directed that 

 he should be buried under a windmill near his 

 garden ; this direction proceeded, alas ! from dis- 

 belief in Revelation. A few years previously 

 (viz. in 1772) Mr. Hull, a bencher of the Inner 

 Temple, was buried underneath Leith Hill Tower, 

 in Surrey, which he had erected on that beautiful 

 and commanding spot, shortly before his death. 



In the Gentleman's Magazine of last month, we 

 have a curious inscription on a monument, which 

 once existed in a field or garden near Twicken- 

 ham. Mrs. Joan Whitrow, to whom it was raised, 

 though said to be " favoured with uncommon 

 gifts," appears to have been very crazy. 



Was not Mrs. Van Butchell, to whom Mr. 

 Gatty refers, to be seen some years ago in her 

 glass case in the College of Surgeons ? J. H. M. 



Portrait of Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumber' 

 land (Vol. v., p. 490.). — There is a portrait of this 

 nobleman in Petworth House, Sussex, represent- 

 ing him kneeling on a cushion before a low stand, 

 on which is placed a missal, his hands joined as in 

 prayer. Written on the canvas itself is the fol- 

 lowing, in capital letters : 



«' ESPERANCE — EN — DIEU 

 MA COMPHORT." 



Again is written : 



"Thomas, 7th Earl of Northumberland, ^tatls — 

 suas- 38, An° Dom. 1566, et Die Dec° Juni." 



This is copied word for word from the picture. 



^ P. W. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 

 Every attempt, undertaken in a reverential spirit, to 

 facilitate the labours of the inquirer after Scripture 

 truth, deserves especial favour at the hands of those 

 who may have the opportunity of directing public at- 

 tention to such endeavours. The Emphatic New Tes- 

 tament, according to the Authorized Version, compared 

 with the various Readings of the Vatican Manuscripts. 

 The Four Gospels. Edited, with an Introductory Essay on. 

 Greek Emphasis, by John Taylor ; which is an attempt 

 to represent to the English reader certain peculiarities 

 in the Greek text, is a work of this class, and there- 

 fore, without entering into any minute detail of the 

 manner in which Mr. Taylor carries out his endeavour, 

 we will let him speak for himself on the subject of its 

 results. " If any one were known," says Mr. Taylor, 

 " to be in possession of a copy of the Greek Testament 

 so marked by its inspired writers as they would wish 

 to have it read ; and if the system of notation, when 

 applied to the English translation, were found to be 



