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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Quotation. — Where are the following lines to 

 be found ? 



" Sleep, thou hast oft been called the friend of woe, 

 But 'tis the happy who have called thee so." 



Erica. 

 The Gipsies. — Can you, or any of your readers, 

 furnish me with any authorities on gipsy manners 

 and customs besides Grellman, throuj^h Raper's 

 translation, Marsden (for the language), and 

 Iloyland ? I am pretty well off for historical 

 accounts of these people, but what I desire is in- 

 formation concerning their rites and ceremonies. 



Wm. a. Burkett. 



Tale wanted. — Can any of your correspondents 

 tell me in what tale a character is introduced who 

 had been branded for some crime ? He moves in 

 respectable society, and is noted only for a like- 

 ness to the criminal. When suspicions are at 

 length aroused, he affects to consider it beneath 

 him to do anything to remove them. The scene 

 is, I think, laid in Germany. a. /3. 



Lord Charles Paulett. — Sir John Huband, 

 Bart., of Ipsley, married Jane, dau. of Lord 

 Charles Paulett, of Dowlas, Hants, and died in 

 IZIO. Can you tell me, 1. Who was the father 

 of this Lord Charles Paulett ? 2. ^Vho was the 

 wife by whom he had this daughter Jane ? 



Sir John Huband was the first baronet of that 



family, and the record of his marriage may be 



found in Burke's Landed Gentry, under the head 



of " Huband of Ipsley." G. W. 



New York. 



Edinburgh Plays. — Is anything known re- 

 garding the authors of the following plays, per- 

 formed at Edinburgh ? 1. Lawyers and their 

 Clients, or Love's Suitors, a comic sketch in three 

 acts. This comedy (which was said to be the first 

 dramatic attempt of a gentleman of Edinburgh) 

 was performed several times in the early part of 

 1815. 2. The Stepmother, or Frate?-nal Love, a 

 new tragedy, written by a gentleman of Edin- 

 burgh ; acted at Edinburgh in January, 1815. 

 S. The Wild Lndian Girl, a comedy, acted at 

 Edinburgh, 1815. The part of Zelie In this co- 

 medy was performed by Mrs. H. Siddons. 



4. Scotch Marriage Laws, or the Deacon and Her 

 Deputy, a new farce, for the benefit of Mr. Jones, 

 announced for performance on April 26, 1823: 

 said to be written by an inhabitant of Edinburgh. 



5. Love's Machinations, a new melodrama, by a 

 gentleman of Edinburgh, acted at the Caledonian 

 Theatre, Feb. 14, 1825. 6. The Phrenologist, a 

 comic drama, written by a literary character of 

 Edinburgh, acted in 1825. 7. The Mason's 

 Daughter, a masonic interlude, by a Brother of fhe 

 Craft, announced for performance at the Cale- 

 donian Theatre, May, 1825, 8. The Recluse, or 



Elshie of the Moor, a melodrama in two acts, by 

 a gentleman of Edinburgh, to be performed for 

 the benefit of Mr. Denham, 1825. 9. The Or- 

 phan Boy, or the Bridge of the Alps, announced 

 for performance in December, 1825 : said to be 

 written by a gentleman of Edinburgh. R. J. 



" Present for an Apprentice.'^ — Is there any 

 evidence as to the author of A Present for an 

 Apprentice, or a sure Guide to gain both Esteem 

 and an Estate, by a late Lord Mayor of London. 



The copy before me is called the Second Edi- 

 tion, with a great variety of improvements. Taken 

 from a " correct copy found among the author's 

 papers since the publication of the first." London, 

 1740, 8vo. J. M. (2.) 



" The Peers, a Satire." — I have a poem of no 

 great value entitled The Peers, a Satire, by Hum- 

 phrey Hedghog, Junior, London, no date, but I 

 think from the matter about 1816. The names 

 are never fully printed, and the notes are rather 

 copious than explanatory. Perhaps some of your 

 readers may assist me to the meaning of the blanks 

 in the following passage, and say whence is taken 

 the strange Latin of which it is an imitation : 



" Elate to soar above a silent vote 

 Upsprings the D — e to speak what H — wrote, 

 But horrors unexpected check his speed. 

 He fumbles at his hat, but cannot read. 

 On E — 's brows hang violence and fear. 

 In G — y's cold ej-e he reads a polished sneer; 

 His garden nymphs in silence mourn his state. 

 And caperous [sic] L — dares not strive with fate. 

 A panic terror o'er his senses comes. 

 Loosens his knees and sets his twitching thumbs, 

 He sinks into his place, then quits the peers, 

 And swells the gutter with spontaneous tears." 



A note refers to the following quotation, but 

 does not say whence It is taken : 



" Non Boream immemorem reliquit Nymphse, 

 Sed ipsi nullus auxiliatus est. Amor autem non 



coercuit. fata. 

 Undique autem adcumulati male obvio fluctus im- 



petu 

 Impulsus ferebatur, pedum autem ei defecit vigor, 

 Et vis fuit immobilis inquietarum manuum, . 

 Multa autem spontanea effusio aquas fluebat in 



guttur." 



I shall be obliged by reference to the original 

 of this strange Latin, which cannot be verse, 

 though printed like it. R. H. Seed. 



Lrish Church, anno 1695. — A gentleman high 

 in office in Ireland, writing from Dublin in April 

 of the above year, to Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, 

 makes use of the following language, which the 

 context no way throws light on : 



" Since of mj' knowlege a resident clergy is not to be 

 brought about in this place, for y" next 3 yeares to com", 

 I thought I might according to y" custom of y« country 

 take (but w* y'^ leave) a temporary curatt for my one 

 Son, till yee had persuaded those for y'' many Sons, to 



