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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 18G0. 



NO, 247.— CONTENTS, 



NOTES ; — Dr. Bliss's Selections from the Old Poets, 221 



— Character of the Germans : Do they possess Wit ? 224 



— England's Future, 225— Etymologies, 226. 



MiNOE Notes:— " Harmonious Blacksmith," Ac— Spon- 

 toons, Halberts, Bayonets— Tavus — Hoppesteres. 227. 



QUERIES : — Bishops — Heron of Chipchace —Exchange 

 at Little Turnstile : Norden's View of London— Plaid and 

 Tartan — Portrait — Stone Coffins — Forenoon Men — Cle- 

 vis : Bidloo — Boydell and Staines, Lord Mayors of Lon- 

 don, their Arms — Sayers the Caricaturist — Paterson the 

 the Auctioneer — Archdeacons of Dublin — Merchants' 

 Mark or Trade-Mark— Duke of Newcastle Family — "As 



Poor as 'Job's Turkey" — Joseph D —"The Angel 



and the Shepherds " — Charnock's " Loyalty " — Ale and 

 Beer : Barm and Yeast — Family of Leighton — Authorised 

 Version — A Market Built without Money— Charles Mar- 

 tel— Deere Family- Scottish Dramatic Authors, 227 



QuEEiES WITH AtsSWEES :— Civil War Tract — Stratford- 

 on-Avon: Miss Ann Clarke — "Old Douro" —Life of 

 James II., 230. 



REPLIES:— Abstracts, Indexes, or Full Extracts of Epis- 

 copal Registers, 231 — Newton's Treatise on Fluxions, 232 



— Date of the Crucifixion, 233 — Maurice Greene, Mus. 

 Doc., his Family,234i — Tory Song, 235 — Robert Keith, 235 



— Separation of Sexes in Churches — Riciiard Woodward, 

 Bishop of Cloyne — Ghost in the Tower — Sir Patrick 

 Spens — Coronation of Edward IV. — Senex's Maps — Slang 

 Names of Coins — Heraldic — Passage in Dante — Man- 

 chester Riots — Pen and Ink Sketches — " Suffolk Mer- 

 cury" — Hatch — Hell Fire Club — Sir John Gayer or 

 Gayre — Hymnology — Vulgar Errors in Law — Fallens — 

 Cardonnel — Waltham Abbey, 239. 



Notes on Books. 



DR. BLISS'S SELECTIONS FROM THE OLD 

 POETS. 



{Concluded from p. 206.) 



William. Herbert^ Earl of Pembroke. He was 

 not only a great favourer of learned and ingenious 

 men, but was himself learned, and endowed to 

 admiration with a poetical geny, as by those amo- 

 rous and not inelegant aires and poems of his com- 

 position doth evidently appear, some of which had 

 musical notes set to them by Henry Lawes and 

 Nicholas Laneare : — 



" Sonnet — From his Poems, 1660. 



" Wrong not, deare empress of my heart. 

 The merits of true passion, 

 With thinking that he feels no smart 

 Who sues for no compassion. 



" Since, if my plaints seem not to prove 

 The conquest of thy beauty ; 

 It comes not from defect of love. 

 But from excess of duty. 



" For knowing that I sue to serve 

 A saint of such perfection 

 As all desire, but none deserve 

 A place in her affection, 



" I rather chuse to want relief 



Than venture the revealing : — 



Where Glory recommends the grief, 



Despair destroyes the healing. 



" Silence, in love, betrays more woe 

 Than words, though nere so witty ; 

 The beggar that is dumb, you know. 

 May challenge double pity. 



" Then wrong not, dear heart of mine heart, 

 My true though secret passion ; 

 He smarteth most that hides his smart, 

 And sues for no compassion," 



George Chapman. Dramatist and poet. 



" Song of Love and Beauty. 



(From a Maske of the Middle Temple and Lincolne's Inn.) 



" Bright FantkcEu borne to Fan, 

 Of the noblest race of man. 



Her white hand to Eros giving. 

 With a kiss joined heaven to earth. 

 And begot so faire a birth 



As yet never grac'd the living ; 

 A twinne that all worlds did adorne. 

 For so were Love and Beauty borne. 



" Both so lov'd they did contend 

 Which the other should transcend. 



Doing either grace and kindness ; 

 Love from Beauty did remove 

 Lightness, call'd her staine in love. 



Beauty tooke from Love his blindnesse. 

 Love sparks made flames in Beauty's skie, 

 And Beauty blew up Love as hie. 



" Virtue then commixt her fire. 

 To which Beauty did aspire, 



Innocence a crown conferring. 

 Mine and thine were then unused, 

 All things common nought abused. 



Freely earth her fruitage bearing. 

 Nought then was cared for that could fade — 

 And thus the Golden World was made." 



Richard Corbett. Mr. Octavius Gilchrist pub- 

 lished an edition of his poems In 1807. The fol- 

 lowing exquisite lines were addressed 



" To his Son Vincent Corbet, on his Birthday, Nov, 16, 

 1630, being then Three Years Old. 

 " What I shall leave thee none can tell. 

 But all shall say I wish thee well : 

 I wish thee (Vin.) before all wealth 

 Both bodily and ghostly health ; 

 Not too much wealth, nor wit, come to thee, 

 So much of either may undo thee. 

 I wish thee learning, not for show ; 

 Enough for to instruct and know ; 

 Not such as gentlemen require 

 To prate at table or at fire. 

 I wish thee all thy mother's graces. 

 Thy father's fortune and his places. 

 I wish thee friends, and one at court. 

 Not to build on, but support: 

 To keep thee, not in doing many 

 Oppressions, but from suffering any. 

 I wish thee peace in all thy ways, 

 Nor lazy nor contentious days ; 

 And when thy soul and body part, 

 As innocent as now thou art." 



Anecdote. Aubrey gives us but a lamentable 

 account of this young man : — 



" He went to school at Westminster, with Ned Bag- 

 shaw, a very handsome youth, but he is run out of all, 

 and goes begging up and down to gentlemen." — Lives, 

 Oxford, vol. ii. p. 294. 



