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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



129 



" Go send it o'er Killarney's Lake, 

 And strip the willow bare : 

 The water elves their sports then take, 

 you'll find a comrade there. 



Then push about, &c 



" The Will o'the Wisp glides o'er the dell, 

 The owl hoots in the tree ; 

 They hold their nightly vigils there, 

 And so the while will we. 



Then push about," &c. 



^Yhat is meant by stripping the willow bare ? 

 A Constant Reader. 



Geelong, 12th May, 1859. 



Minov €ixxtvitS. 



'■'■Molly Mog." — Your correspondent M.M. {ante 

 p. 84.) has touched on a subject which I should 

 like to see discussed in " N. & Q." — who was the 

 writer of " Molly Mog," and when, and where was it 

 first published ? In the announcement of Molly's 

 death, as quoted, 1766, it is said to have been writ- 

 ten by Gay, and I believe it; it overflows with 

 his genial, cordial, good-nature ; but it was not, I 

 think, published among his works in his lifetime. 

 Neither was it published in Faulkner's edition of 

 Swift's Works, 1735, which the Dean, it is be- 

 lieved, superintended ; nor, so far as I know, in 

 any authorised edition of Pope's Works published 

 before 1744. It appeared, indeed, in Pope and 

 Swift's Miscellanies, 1727, but this proves nothing 

 as to authorship ; for that collection contained, 

 not only works written by Swift and Pope, but 

 works written by them " in conjunction " with 

 Gay and Ai'buthnot, and " all of this sort com- 

 posed singly by either of those hands." " Molly 

 Mog " had, however, been published before. It 

 appeared, with a " Burlesque " on it, in the Weekly 

 Journal of 1st Oct. 1726. The newspaper writer 

 speaks of it as " the famous Crambo ballad of 

 ' Molly Mog,' which, as Mr. Mist observes, has set 

 all the polite company in town to the game of 

 crambo." It is obvious from this notice that 

 " polite company," at least, were already familiar 

 with " Molly Mog : " subsequently several paro- 

 dies appeared. Can any of your readers refer to 

 an earlier publication ? and is there any contem- 

 porary mention of the author ? M, M. (2.) 



Putroclus. — 

 " With grimy tears and dust from Sellian urns, 

 Unwashed Patroclus stale Dodona mourns. 

 Who daily sought Ilyssus's flowery brim, 

 Worshipped the crystal stream, but never plunged 

 therein." 



From The Fleet, a poem, London, 1720, pp. 24. 



What is the meaning of this censure on Patro- 

 clus, who, according to Homer, was rather a clean 

 person ? P. B. 



Archery Club Motto, — Some of your ingenious 

 and learned correspondents gave, some time ago. 



mottoes suitable for a library, a common-place 

 book, &c. May I request any of them to suggest, 

 through your columns, a motto for an archery 

 club ? The motto of the Irvine Toxopholite So- 

 ciety is, "Ob posteros jaculamur;" that of the 

 Saltcoats Archery Society is, " Arte et valida 

 manu;" and Mr. Hargrove, in his interesting 

 Anecdotes of Archery, gives several others. 



KOBYN HODE. 



Kilgripagain. 



W. Dimond, author of " Petrarchal Sonnets," 

 dramas, &c. What is the date of this author's 

 death ? Z. A. 



Tower-crowned Arch. — May I ask, tbrough the 

 medium of your valuable periodical, whether there 

 is any other example known throughout England 

 of the " tower-crowned arch," so gloriously dis- 

 played in the steeple of the magnificent church of 

 St. Nicholas in this town (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). 

 I am aware of the existence of the same feature 

 in St. Dunstan's church, London ; but I cannot 

 think Sir Christopher Wren had ours in view 

 when he designed St. Dunstan's steeple — as it is 

 so much inferior in many particulars, especially in 

 the lantern at the crown of the arches, which is 

 here of large dimensions, and possesses an airy 

 lightness altogether wanting in its London rival. 

 Was Sir Christopher Wren ever known to be in 

 this town ? Edward Thompson. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Orthographical Peculiarity. — Did the late C. J. 

 Hare, in any of his publications, give his reasons 

 for deviating from the usual mode of spelling 

 words, e. g. " preacht," " usurpt," &c. ? 



Did Horsley, also, ever say why he adopted the 

 antique form of the preterites of " to lead, to 

 read," &c., viz. "ledde," " redde" ? S. S. S. 



Donnyhrook, near Dublin. — What is the origin 

 and meaning of the name of this far-famed vil- 

 lage ? And where may I find the earliest mention 

 of it ? In Registrum Priorutus Omnium Sancto- 

 rum juxta Dublin, edited by Dean Butler for the 

 Irish Archseological Society, mention is more than 

 once made of Donnybrook. Of the documents 

 in the Registry — No. i. "Confirmacio Gregorii 

 [IX.] spiritualium et temporalium cum certis pri- 

 vilegiis et aliis immunitatibus," a.d. 1234, speaks 

 of " quadraginta acras sitas in territorio de Done- 

 nachbroc [recte Dovenachbroc] versus aquilo- 

 nem"; No. lxxv. " De Donabroke," ante 1234; 

 No. Lxxvi. " De triginta novem acris apud Dona- 

 brok," ante 1234 ; No. lxxvii. "De eadem terra," 

 A.D. 1298 ; and No. Lxxviii. "De aqua de Dodyr 

 [Dodder] ducenda," etc., a.d. 1307. No. 1. in 

 the Appendix, from the archives of the city of 

 Dublin, is " De tenemento de Donenachbrok." 



How very absurd is the derivation given by 

 Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, in their Ireland, its 



