NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<i S. X. July 7. '60. 



" This is the day when right or wrong, 

 I CoLLEY Bays, Esquire, 

 Must for my sack indite a song, 

 And thrum my venal lyre. 



« Xot he who ruled great Judah's realm, 

 Y-clyped Solomon, 

 Was wiser than Our's at the helm. 

 Or had a wiser Son. 



" He raked up wealth to glut his till, 



In drinking, w s, and houses ; 



Which wiser G[eorg]e can save to fill 

 His pocket, and his spouse's. 



" His head with wisdom deep is fraught. 

 His breast with courage glows ; 

 Alas, how mournful is the thought 

 He ever should want foes ! 



" For, in his heart he loves a drum," 

 As children love a rattle ; 

 If not in field, in drawing-room. 

 He daily sounds to battle. 



" The Q[uee]n, I also pra}', God save! 

 His consort plump and dear ; 

 Who, just a3 he is wise and brave. 

 Is pious and sincere, 



" She's courteous, good, and charms all folks. 

 Loves one as well as t'other; 

 Of Arian and of Orthodox 

 Alike the nursing-mother. 



" Oh ! may she always meet success 

 In every scheme and job ; 

 And still continue to caress 

 That honest statesman, Bob.* 



" God send the P[rince] f, that babe of grace, 



A little w and horse ; 



A little meaning in his face. 

 And money in his purse. 



(or string), which he wore as one of the Knights of the 

 iiewl3'-revived Order of the Bath, was adopted by the 

 satirists of the day to symbolise his great political in- 

 fluence. 



* The Queen had such unbounded confidence in the 

 political integrity of Walpole, that she not only prevailed 

 upon the King to make him his prime minister, but at 

 her death formally consigned his majesty to his care. 

 Gay attributed, most unjustly, his ill-success at court to 

 the opposition of Walpole. 



f Prince Frederick of Wales (father of George III.), 

 •who died, after a very brief illness, on the 20th March, 

 1751, had other enemies besides those in his father's 

 house; and amongst them none so bitter, perhaps, as the 

 Jacobites. One of the last-mentioned penned the follow- 

 ing epitaph upon him : — 



" Here lies Prince Fred, 

 Gone down among the dead : 

 Had it been his father, 

 We had much rather ; 

 Had it been his mother, 

 Better than any other ; 

 • Had it been his sister. 



Few would have miss'd her ; 

 Had it been the whole generation, 

 Ten times better for the nation ; 

 But since 'tis only Fred, 

 There's no more to be said ! " 



" Ileav'n spread o'er all his family 

 That broad illustrious glare ; 

 Which shines so flat in ev'rj' e^-e, 

 And makes them all so stare* 



" All marry gratis, boy and miss. 

 And still increase their store; 

 'As in beginning was, now is. 

 And shall be ever more.' 



" But oh ! e'vn Kings must die, of course. 

 And to their heirs be civil ; 

 We poets, too, on winged-horse. 

 Must soon post to the devil : 



" Then, since I have a son, like you, 

 Maj' he Parnassus rule ; 

 So shall the Crown and Laurel, too. 

 Descend from F[oo]ll to F[oo]U " • 



CAMDEN — CLARENCEUX. 



The following notices of tbis eminent man are 

 from the Histo7-y of the Officers of Arms, by Gar- 

 ter Anstis*, who, to avoid repetition of particulars 

 in his life, refers to the accounts of Anthony 

 Wood, Dr. Smith, and the Life prefixed to the 

 English edition of the Britannia, by Gibson, in 

 1695. Since Anstis wrote, upwards of a centmy 

 has passed ; and the only further account of Cam- 

 den which has been given to the public is that of 

 Noble, in his Histoi'ij of the Coll. of Arms ; that in 

 the Britannia, extended and prefixed to the last 

 edition of that work by Mr. Gough in 1789 (4 

 vols, folio) ; and some notice by Sir Henry Ellis, 

 in his Preface to the Huntingdon Visitation, printed 

 by the Camden Society, No. 43. 



Gough's edition of the Britannia, from its size 

 and expense, is accessible to the few, and not very 

 frequently to be found in private libraries, — a 

 circumstance to be regretted, since a Life of 

 Camden is often inquired for. 



The Society which has done honour to his 

 name, and which has in some degree been a pass- 

 port for their numerous and valuable publications, 

 could perhaps be induced so far to deviate from 

 their general rule of printing inedited manu- 

 scripts only, as in this instance to devote one of 

 their annual publications to a reprint of the Life 

 of the great "Nourice of Antiquitie" from Gough's 

 last edition of the Britannia. It would form a 

 singular and very acceptable exception to the rule, 



* George 11. was distinguished for the prominency of 

 his eyes and nose, as well as for the smallness of his per- 

 son. . Coxe, in his Life of Walpole, has preserved a stanza 

 of a ballad, entitled " The Seven Wise Men," in which the 

 diminutive stature of the King is thus ridiculed : — 



" When Edgecumb spoke, the prince in sport 



Laugh'd at the merry elf; 

 Rejoic'd to see within his court 



One shorter than himself. 

 ' I'm glad (cry'd out the quibbling squire) 



My lowness makes your highness higher.' " 



t MS. in College of Arms. 



