2«'i S. N» 28., July 12. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1856. 



i^atz^. 



Colley Cibher turned out of the House of Lords. 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." throw light upon the 

 incidents referred to in the following lines." They are 

 printed as a broadside on a single leaf, with the half- 

 penny stamp impressed upon it. 



" Upon the Poet Lmu-eafs being expelled the House 

 of Lords. 



" C r (the wonder of a brazen Age), 



Always a Hero, off or on the stage, 

 The other day, in courtesy, affords 

 His lovely Phyz to jirace the House of Lords; 

 Quite free from pride, he humbly condescends 

 To treat the very smallest Peers, as Friends : 

 With sneer or grin approves each grave debate, 

 And smiles when Brother Dukes support the 

 State : 



* On tlie learn'd Bishops Bench, looks kind 



enough. 

 And offers good Lord King a Pinch of Snuff, 

 Whilst thus he rains his Favours on the Crowd, 

 An old rough Earl his swift destruction vow'd ; 

 Regardless of th' Imperial Crown he wore, 

 Rejrardless of the Bays and Brains he bore, 

 A Voice as hoarse as Sutherland's gave Law, 

 And made the King, the Fop, The Bard with- 

 draw. 



O C r, in revenge your wrath forbear, 



This once your stupid, stingless satire spare, 

 And with dull panegyrick daub each Peer 

 Like rhyming Bellman's Ghost haunt their 



abodes, 

 And frighten them with Birth or New Year 



Odes. 

 If banished thence, you still may shine at 



C 1; 



There P rs and Scoundrels equally resort ; 



Unmatched in all. Superiors never fear ; 



But since you'r Peerless scorn the name of Peer. 



" London : Printed for J. Jenkins, near Ludgate. 

 Price (on stamped paper) 2d." 



Is the incident on wliich this satire turns recorded by 

 any contemporary writer ? or is there any mention of it 

 in the Journals of the House of Lords ? C. L. S. 



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Portrait of Swift. — Faulkener printed an 

 edition of Dean Swift's Works in 1734. To the 

 volume which completes the set is prefixed a full- 

 length portrait of the Dean seated in a chair, 

 about to be crowned with laurels ; at his feet, in 

 supplicating attitudes, the daughters and children 

 of Ireland, and a table spread with coin, which 

 may be understood to be " Wood's Halfpence." 

 At the bottom there is the motto, — 



"Exegi Monumentum ^re perennius." — Hor. 



The plate seems to be a good likeness of the 

 Dean, and altogether a well executed subject. 

 No engravei-'s name appears on it. Query, Can 

 any of your correspondents inform me who he 

 was ? 



It has often struck me that the following, ex- 

 tracted from a Collection of Jests, printed at 

 Edinburgh by R. Fleming, 1753, may have some 

 relation to the plate, but I have never been able 

 to connect the two. 



" On George Faulkener's promising to have the Dean of 

 St. Patrick's Effigies prefixed to the New Edition of his 

 Works, from a Copperplate done by Mr, Veriue. 



" In a little dark room, at the back of his shop, 

 Where poets and eriticks have din'd on a chop, 

 Poor Faulkner sat musing alone thus of late, — 

 ' Two volumes are done — it is time for the plate ; 

 Yes, time to be sure. But on whom shall I call 

 To express the great Swift in a compass so small? 

 Faith, Vertue shall do it — I'm pleas'd at the thought,- 

 Be the cost what it will, the copper is bought.' 

 Apollo o'erheard, who, as some people guess. 

 Had a hand in the work, and corrected the press. 

 And pleas'd he replied, ' Honest George, j-ou are right. 

 This thought was my own, howsoe'er you came by't; 

 For tho' both the wit and the style is my gift, 

 'Tis Vertue alone can design us a Swift.' " 



G.N. 



Curll and the Westmin.ster Scholars. — The fol- 

 lowing additional illustration of the satirical print 

 which forms the subject of a Query by Griffin 

 (!'* S. V. 585.), and which is rightly described by 

 S. Wmson (P' S. vi. 348.) as referring to an affair 

 between Curll and the boys of Westminster School, 

 seems worth making a note of. It is from The 

 Grub Street Journal, vol. i. p. 128. : — 



" The following Copy of verses is taken from the Carmina 

 Quadragesimalia ( vol. i. p. 118.), to which a transla- 

 tion is subjoined : — 



" An causae sint sibi invicem Causae ? Aff"". 



" Authore invito, tenues mandare libellos, 



Furtivis solitus Bibliopola typis, 

 TJltores pueros deceptus fraude maligna 



Sensit ab excesso missus in Astra sago : 

 Nee satis hoc; mensa late porrectus acerna 



Supplicium rigidae fert puerile scholaj : 

 Jam virgae impatiens pueris convitia fundit; 



Vicinique crepat jurgia nota fori. 

 Flagra minas misero extorquent repetita ; rainasque 



Quo magis ingeminat, vapulat ille magis. 



" Whether Causes can be mutual ? Aflf. 

 " Much had piratic Mun by pamphlets got, 

 For print he would, if authors would or not. 

 By vengeful boys decoyed, he takes ten flights 

 From blanket, loftier than from Grub Street Rights. 

 Nay more : stretch'd out at length on maple board, 

 Feels boyish pains in rigid schools abhorred, 

 Impatient of the rod, ' Ye dogs uncivil,' 



He cries, 'by I'll sue you to the devil.' 



Lashes loud'threats extort : in greater store. 

 The threats flie out, the wretch is lashed the more. 

 " Mr. Bavius objected against the impropriety of trans- 



