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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[Aug. 18. 1855. 



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Who is the author of No. 2. ? It has a strong 



resemblance in style and manner to many of the 



productions of Swift. As it is not very long, and 



IS probably not often to be met with, I may be 



' excused, perhaps, for giving it at length : 



" NymphUngs three, and three, and three, 



Daughters of Mnemosynee, 



Thrice, and thrice, and thrice again, 



I invoke j'our virgin train ; 



As ye make up nine in all, 



Just so often do I call. 



Haste and help me, fly with speed, 



Namby never had more need. 



Ev'ry bardling now throws dirt 



On my numbers quaint and curt. 



O my little Teian numbers, 



Dreams of my poetick slumbers. 



What avail j'our Short, and Sweet, 

 Tripling on your little feet ! 

 , If you're kickt about the street, 

 ,0 my heart is broken, hey ho ! 



Bring me crums of comfort, Clio, 



Terpe, Terpsi, 'Hymnie, Cnli, 



Melpi, 'Rato, 'Ranie, Thali, 



Join your forces all to ease me ; 



See how many scriblers teize me ! 



Scriblers Irish, scriblers English,' 



Kh3'ming rough, and chyming jinglish, 



Lev'Iing all at me their but. 



Cut, and cut, and cut, and cut, 



All because my verses are 



Witty, pretty, dehonaire. 



All because that I can sing 



Like the Unlet in the Spring, 



Chuckling, chirpling on the spray. 



Wood-note, wild-note roundelay. 



Bardlings tasteless, void of salt. 



Cry me down and find much fault ; 



At my tuneful lines they're fluster'd, 



Soft as pap and sweet as custard. 



Now, the more to raise their spleen, 



Let me write on fairy Queen. 



Little subjects I will chuse. 



Fairy words and fairy muse ; 



Ands, and ofs, and thats, and its, 



Forming verse in little bits. 



Minced poems 1 will make, 



Criticks then their hearts will break ; 



That they may the more be vext, 



Flies and _^eas shall be my next." 



No. 3. is much inferior to either of the others. 

 It is written under the presumption that Dean 

 .Swift is the author of No. 1. 'hXieis. 



Dublin. 



HAROIiD, HIS WIFE AND FAMII/T. 



I shall feel thankful to any of your readers who 

 can answer the following Queries relating to the 

 last Saxon king of England. 



Who was Harold's first wife, the mother of his 

 two sons, Edmund and Godwin ? We may con- 

 jecture from the fact of Harold's flying to Ireland 

 in 1048, when his family was proscribed by Ed- 

 ward the Confessor, and from his sons subse- 

 quently residing and raising an army there, that 



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she was an Irish lady ; but what was her name ? 

 Whoever she was, Harold must have married her 

 about that time, for his two sons appear upon the 

 scene as young men twenty-one years later 

 (1069). ^ 



In 1065 Harold was unmarried, for William 

 made him swear that he would marry his daugh- 

 ter Adeliza. When Harold broke his constrained 

 oath, he is said to have married a Saxon wife, the 

 sister of Edwin and Morcar. What was her 

 name ? Can she have been the Edith (generally 

 designated as Harold's mistress) whose name is 

 connected with an affecting scene on the battle- 

 field of Hastings ? Or was she the same as Lucy 

 (a sister of Edwin and Morcar), who was, after 

 the Conquest, given in marriage to Ivo Tailboys 

 with the great estates of her family ? Did Ha- 

 rold have any children by her ? 



Three years after the battle of Hastings, Ha- 

 rold's son Edmund came to England with sixty- 

 six vessels, and probably 5000 men, mostly Irish- 

 men. This was the beginning of an insurrection 

 in which the courage and energy of Harold's two 

 sons was conspicuously displayed, but which, like 

 all the other efforts of the Saxons, was eventually 

 crushed by the Normans. Harold's sons after 

 their defeat are said by Thierry (Norman Con- 

 quest, vol. i. p. 207.) to have regained their vessels 

 and set sail, deprived of all hope. What became 

 of them after this ? Did they return to Ireland, 

 or did they follow the example of many of their 

 exiled countrymen, and enter the service of the 

 Byzantine emperor ? That two young men of 

 such high birth, courage, and energy should so 

 suddenly disappear from the page of history is, to 

 say the least, a singular circumstance. E. West. 



Executors of Wills. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me when these were first instituted ? They 

 were, it appears, quite unknown to the Roman 

 Law. Leguleius. 



Picture hy Wilso7i. — I have in my possession a 

 small painting (234 X 19i inches), in regard to 

 which I desire some information. 



Its subject may be the neighbourhood of Tivoli, 

 but I am inclined to think it is a composition. 



On the bank of a stream in the foreground is a 

 group of three anglers. To the right stands a 

 circular temple in ruins. Rising behind, to the 

 right, are two high bluffs ; separated by a falling 

 rivulet, and surmounted by ruined buildings ; and 

 in the distance may be seen the shadowing out- 

 lines of the dome of St. Peter's. On the back of 

 the canvass is an impression in wax of the crest, 

 arms, and motto of the Lysaght family, as borne 

 by the Viscount Lisle. 



