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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ S. X. Dec. 29. '60. 



The Bulk op Insects. — In Barbut's work on 

 insects, Les Genres des Insectes de Linne, is the 

 following statement, which struck me as very 

 curious. I should wish to see it a little more 

 authenticated and proved. 



He writes, speaking of Insects generally : — 



" In point of duration they are annual (except such 

 as inhabit the waters), and considered as individuals, are 

 the smallest of animals, but taken all together, form the 

 greatest part (with regard to bulk) of the animal king- 

 dom."— P. 7, ed. 1781. 



Feancis Trench. 



Islip. 



Queen Dick. — 



" Will ye now see a mother teaching her daughter a 

 lesson of good government? — 'Child '(says she) 'you 

 know that modesty is the great ornament of your sex ; 

 wherefore be sure when ye come in company, that you 

 don't stand staring the man in the face, as if ye were 

 looking babies in their eyes, but rather look a little down- 

 ward as a fashion of behaviour more suitable to the obli- 

 gations of your sex.' — ' Downward ! ' (says the girl) ' I 

 beseech you, Madam, excuse me. This was well enough 

 in the days of Queen Dick when the poor creatures knew 

 no better. Let the men look downward, towards the clay 

 of which they were made : but man was our Original, 

 and it will become us to keep our eyes upon the matter 

 from whence we came.' " — L'Estrange's Visions of Que- 

 vedo, 11th edit. p. 27. 



Who was Queen Dick, when did she flourish, 

 and where did she reign ? Some of the fast young 

 ladies of the present day would, I think, agree 

 marvellously well with Quevedo's girl. 



A Constant Reader. 



"Happt the man." — An inquiry in a late "N. 

 & Q," concerning Horace's Ode, " Persicos odi," 

 &c., induces me to ask a similar question, as to the 

 author, and a complete copy of a like translation 

 of the 2nd Epode ? I can only give from memory 

 a few of the lines : — 



" Happy the man, who free from busy hum, 

 Ut prisca gens mortalium. 

 Whistles his team afield with glee, 

 Solutus omne foenore. 



" Who shuns the forum and the gay 



Potentiorum limina ; 

 Therefore, to vines of purple dross, 



Altas maritat populos. 

 And pruning of the boughs unfit, 



Feliciores inserit," &c. &c." 



Concluding — 



" Alfius, the usurer babbled thus, 

 Jamjam futunis rusticus ; 

 Call'd in his money at th' Ides, but he 

 Quaerit Calendis ponere." 



B.D. 



Cricket, Peg Fitchet. — Bailey, in the Dic- 

 tionary, describes the former word as a low stool, 

 probably a three-legged stool ; but gives no ety- 

 mology of it, neither does he allude to the game. 

 Richardson derives the latter from A.-S. cpicc, a 

 crutch or staiF, supposing the bat to be alluded to. 



But a bat is not at all like either a crutch or a 

 staff". Common tradition says that the derivation 

 is from the stool, its three legs having an analogy 

 to the three stumps in the game. Which is cor- 

 rect ? What also is the game Peg Fitchet, said to 

 be played in Wilts, Somersetshire, &c. ? Does it 

 resemble cricket ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



Ice Islands in German Ocean. — Cowper has 

 a short poem on this subject; but my edition does 

 not say in what year they occurred, nor at what 

 season of the year. It has been conjectured (see 

 Admiral FitzRoy's article in The Athenmim of 

 November, p. 671.) that the southward movement 

 of the Arctic ice, caused by the hot summer of 

 1859, may have contributed to produce the in- 

 clement weather of 1860. It would therefore be 

 interesting to know when these ice-islands were 

 seen — their dimensions — how near the British 

 coasts they came — and what weather preceded 

 and accompanied them. In another of his poems 

 he speaks of a fog that hung over all Europe and 

 part of Asia in 1783. Was this when the icebergs 

 were seen? E. G. R. 



Sir Richard Pole. — I shall feel obliged to any- 

 one who can supply me with information respect- 

 ing the family of Sir Richard Pole, who married 

 Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, daughter of 

 George, Duke of Clarence. Was Sir Richard a 

 member of the Cheshire family of that name, 

 seated before the Conquest at Over Pool and 

 Nether Pool, in the Hundred of Wirral ? Or was 

 he a Welshman, as usually stated ? If so, to what 

 county in the Principality did he belong ? A. M. 



[In a pedigree of the Pole family, taken out of the 

 Heralds' Office, and printed in The History of the Life of 

 Reginald Pole, ed. 1767, vol. i. p. 1., it is stated that Sir 

 Richard Pole was a descendant of an ancient Welsh 

 family, and nearly related to Henry VII. (See also Col- 

 lect. Topog. et Genealog., i. 295. 310.) The father of Sir 

 Richard was GeoflTrey Pole fob. 4 Jan. 1479), who by his 

 will, dated 12 Oct., 1478, directed his interment in Bi- 

 sham Abbey, designating himself of Wythurn, in Med- 

 menham, Bucks. (Lipscomb's Bucks, iii. 612.^ Sir 

 Richard Pole being a valiant and expert commander, was 

 first retained to serve King Henry VII. in the wars ot 

 Scotland, and being a person highlj' accomplished was 

 made chief gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince Ar- 

 thur, and elected a Knight of the Garter, 23 April, 1499, 

 He married Margaret (the last of the Plantagenets), 

 daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, who was, by King 

 Henry VIII., created Countess of Salisbury (beheaded in 

 1541); by whom he had Henry, Lord Montagu, Sir 

 Geoffrey, Arthur, and Cardinal Reginald Pole, and one 

 daughter, Ursula, married to Henry, Lord Stafford. The 

 coat of Sir Richard Pole, on his plate as Knight of the 

 Garter at Windsor, is Party per pale Argent and Sable, 

 a saltire engrailed Counter-charged. The ancestry of 

 this branch of the Pole family was discussed in our 1" S. 

 V. 105. 163. 567., and requires still farther investigation.] 



