Aug 4. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Metropolitan Police," to have been the residence 

 of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey ? (Oldham's Poetical 

 Works, p. 82.) He lived, according to the rate- 

 books of St. Martin's parish, and a coteinporary 

 narrative, in Green's Lane ; whereas Mr. Bell 

 states his house to be " at the bottom of Harts- 

 horn Lane, or Alley." We question whether the 

 house Mr. Bell refers to (formerly the Museum 

 Club-house) is of Godfrey's period. Scrutator. 



Scotch Ve7-sion of Psalms. — I find a translation 

 of the Tsalms, in Scottish metre, of the fifteenth 

 century referred to, being No. 278. of the MSS. 

 bequeathed by Archbishop Parker to Corpus 

 Christ! College, Cambridge. Can any of your 

 readers on the banks of the Cam give a descrip- 

 tion of this version, with specimen of the versifi- 

 cation — say of the 23rd Psalm; and other par- 

 ticulars of its authorship and history ? 



J. A. Perthensis. 



Tune of Diana. — From the Preface to The New 

 Jerusalem, a republication of an ancient hymn long 

 popular in Scotland, with illustrative notes by the 

 Rev. Dr. Bonar of Kelso (N.B.), we learn that 

 the hymn appears in a MS. volume of the time 

 of Elizabeth or James I., in the British Museum, 

 No. 15,225, entitled " A Song made by F. B. P. 

 to the Tune of Diana." Can any of your musical 

 antiquaries direct me to the " tune of Diana ?" 



J. A. Perthensis. 



" Oderunt peccare" ^c. — 



" Oderunt peccare boni, virtutis amore." 



. Ilorat., Epist. i. xvi. 52, 



To which I have seen added : 



" Oderunt peccare mali, formidine poenae." 



Query, Where is the latter line to be found ? F. 



Mrs. Middleton. — Is there anything to confirm 

 Lysons's statement (Environs of London, vol. iii. 

 fol. 100.), that Mrs. Middleton, the celebrated 

 beauty, resided at one time in Isleworth ? 



G. Steinman Steinman. 



Bells of Cast Steel. — There is a cast steel bell 

 suspended in the works of Messrs. Naylor, Vickers, 

 & Co., at Sheffield ; which was made at the manu- 

 factory of Mayre & Kuhne, at Bochum in West- 

 phalia, in 1853, and was sent over too late for the 

 Dublin Exhibition. Its weight rather exceeds a 

 ton, and its height is about four feet six Inches. I 

 have heard it rung, and it gives out a powerful 

 and good tone, but seems to have less vibration of 

 sound than bell-metal. Messrs. Naylor & Co. are 

 now casting some steel bells, not of a large size. 

 I understand that the price of them is full one 

 third less than if made of ordinary bell-metal. I 

 should be glad if any of your correspondents have 

 information or observations to offer on this sub- 

 ject. Alfred Gattt. 



No. 301.] 



" The Reception.^'' — Can you inform me who is 

 the author of The Reception, a play in three acts, 

 by a chaplain in the navy ? Printed at Plymouth, 

 8vo., 1799. R.J. 



Glasgow. 



Dr.Wollaston on "Drowning." — I shall be glad 

 if you or any of your correspondents can inform 

 me the title of, and where I can obtain a paper oa 

 "Drowning," published by the late Dr. Wollaston. 

 It contains answers to some queries on the subject 

 propounded by the Doctor to a naval ofiicer, who 

 when a midshipman had the misfortune to fall 

 overboard ; and who. In his replies, recounts all 

 the sensations he experienced as "a drowning 

 man.'' R. W. Hackwood. 



Simile of a Woman to the Moon. — Can any 

 correspondent fill up the twofold hiatus In the 

 following lines, said to have been written by Mr. 

 White, T. C. D., to his tutor, on Swift's comparison 

 of a woman to a cloud : 



" You say, Sir, once a wit allow'd 

 A woman to be like a cloud ! 

 Accept a simile as soon 

 Between a woman and the moon ! 

 For, let mankind say what they will, 

 The sex are heav'nly bodies still ! 

 Grant me (to mimic mortal life) 

 The sun and moon are man and wife. 

 Whate'er kind Sol affords to lend her, 

 She squanders upon midnight splendor ; 

 And when to rest he lays him down, 

 She's up, and stared at, thro' the town. 



Say, are not these a modern pair ? 

 For each for other feels no care ; 

 Each day in sep'rate coaches driving, 

 Each night to keep asunder striving ; 

 Both in the dumps in gloomj' weather, 

 And sleeping once a month together. 



He owns at once a wife's ambition. 

 And fully glares in opposition. 

 In one sole point unlike the case is — 

 On her own head the horn she places." 



Engravings in Illustration of Horace. — The 

 title is, — 



"30 Bilder zu Horazens Werken. Gestochen unter 

 derLeitung von C. Frommel, nach Zeichnungen v. Catel» 

 Frommel, &c. Carlsruhe im Kunstverlag." 



This title is surrounded by a panorama of Tlvoli ; 

 and there are thirty engravings In copper belonging 

 to it. What is the history of these engravings ? 

 Were they intended to illustrate any particular 

 edition ? M. 



Absorbent Paper. — I beg leave to propound a 

 question of some Importance to makers of Notes 

 and Queries. It has been for fifty or sixty years 

 (and now more than ever) the custom of the con- 

 tinental printers to use paper which will not admit 



