Oct. 13. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



291 



Therefoi-e if fortune come I must not mocke and play, 

 Nor drive y" bargain on till I be driven away ; 

 Title and landes I like, yet ratlier fancie can, 

 A man that wauteth gold, than gold that wants a man. 



" The Widdow. 



My husband knew how muche his death [would greive 



me, 

 And therefore left me wealth to comfort and releive me. 

 Though I no more will have, I must not love disdain, 

 Penelope herself did sutors entertain ; 

 And yet to draw on suche as are of best esteeme, 

 No younger than I am nor richer will I seeme. 



" The Courtier. 

 Long have I lived at court, yet learned not all this 



while. 

 To sell poore sutors smoke, nor where I hate to smile ; 

 Superiors to adore, inferiors to despise. 

 To flie from suche as fall, to follow suche as rise. 

 To cloake a poore desire under a rich arraye. 

 Nor to aspire by vice, though it were y^ quicker way. 



" The Country Gentleman (with hawk in hand). 



Though strange outlandish spirits the towns and country 



scorne, 

 The country is my home, I dwell where I was borne ; 

 There profitt and command w"> pleasur I pertake. 

 Yet do not hawkes and doggs my sole companions make ; 

 I rule but not ojjpresse, and quarrels not maintaine. 

 See towns but dwell not there, abridge my chardege or 



traine. 



" The Lawyer. 



The law my calling is, my robe, my tongue, my pen. 

 Wealth and opinions gaine, and make me judge of men ; 

 The known dislionest cause I never will defend, 

 Nor spinn out sutes at length, but wisht and sought an 



end; 

 Nor counsell did bewray, nor of both parties take, 

 Nor ever took a fee for w^'' I never spake. 



" The Phisician. 



I study to uphold the slipperie state of man. 



Who dies when we have done the best and all we can. 



From practise and from bookes I draw my learned skill. 



Not from y« known receipe of pothecaries' bill. 



The earth my faultes doth hide, y« world my cares doth 



see. 

 What youth and time efFectes is oft ascrib'd to me. 



" The Divine. 



My calling is divine, and I from God am sent, 

 I will no chopchurch be, nor pay my patron rent, 

 Nor yeild to sacrileidg, but, like the kinde true mother, 

 Eather will loose all y^ child than part it with another ; 

 Muche wealth 1 will not seeke, nor worldly mastei-s serve. 

 So to grow riche and fatte while my poore flock do sterve. 



" The Souldier. 



My occupation is the noble trade of kings. 



The triall y' decides the highest right of thinges; 



Though Mars my master be, I doe not Venus love. 



Nor honour Bacchust host, or often sweare by Jove; 



Of speaking of myself I all occasions sham, 



And rather live to doe, than boast of what I can. 



« The Marchant. 

 ISIy trade dotli every thing to every land supply. 

 Discover unknown coastes, strange countries doth ally, 

 I never did forestall, I never did ingrosse. 

 Nor custome did withdraw, though I returned w* losse. 

 No. 311.] 



I thrive by faire exchange, by selling, and by buying, 

 And not by Jewish use, reprisall, fraud, or lying." 



G. Blencowe. 

 Manningtree. 



CANONICALS WORN IN PUBLIC. 



(Vol. xii., p. 202.) 



The following notice^ are the latest which I 

 have been able to discover of the custom for 

 clergymen to use their robes in the streets. It 

 was even then going out'of fashion. 



The Tatler, No. 270., 1710 : 



" On the 20th of December your petitioner, walking in 

 the Strand, saw a gentleman before us in a gown. . . . 

 A man well bred, and well dressed in that habit, adds to 

 the sacredness of his function an agreeableness not to be 

 met with among the laity. ... I therefore earnestly 

 desire our young missionaries from the universities to 

 consider where thej' are, and not dress, and look, and 

 move as young officers. It is no disadvantage to have a 

 very handsome white band." 



The Spectator, Oct. 20, 1714 : 



"As I was the other daj' walking with an honest 

 country gentleman, he expressed his astonishment to see 

 the town so mightily crowded with doctors of divinity ; 

 upon which I told him . . . that a young divine, 

 after his first degree in the university, usually comes 

 hither only to show himself . . . and is apt to think 

 he is'but half equipped with a gown and cassock for his 

 public appearance, if he hath not the additional orna- 

 ment of a scarf." 



The Connoisseur., No. 105., 1756 : 



" My town readers, who have no other idea of our 

 clergy than what they have collected from the spruce and 

 genteel figures which they have been used to contemplate 

 here in doctors' scarfs, pudding sleeves, starched bands, 

 and feather top grizzles, will find that these reverend 

 ensigns of orthodoxy are not so necessary to be displayed 

 among rustics." 



In No. 77. the country parson is represented in 

 pudding sleeves, and the young town curate in a 

 doctor's scarf and full grizzle. 



In No. 65. he describes, — 



" A beau parson, Mr. Jessamy, who difi'ers so much 

 from the generality of the clergy. . . . Out of his 

 canonicals his constant dress is what they call parson's 

 blue, lined Avith white, a black satin waistcoat, velvet 

 breeches, and silk stockings, and his pumps are of dog- 

 skin, made by TuU. His very grizzle is scarce orthodox 

 . . . it would be open schism to wear a bag. . . . 

 He cannot bear the thoughts of being sea-sick, or else he 

 declares he would certainly go abroad, where he might 

 again resume his laced clothes." 



Southey mentions Dr. Pau visiting in his ca- 

 nonicals. The discontinuance of wearing canoni- 

 cals appears to have been as offensive then, as the 

 resumption of them would infallibly prove now, 



Mackenzie Walcott, M. A. 



The father of the late Doctor Routh resided at 

 Bungay in Suffolk, where he died in the last de- 



