Dec. 1. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



441 



is a public house, a low, small, ancient building, 

 with the title of the " Four Alls." It still retains 

 its ancient sign-board, a board about two feet 

 wide, and six to eight feet long, in the form of a 

 parallelogram, divided into four compartments : 



1. The king, crowned, sceptred, and robed, on 

 the summit of a stage, with some figures of at- 

 tendants on the steps, with an inscription on a roll 

 above, " I rule all." 



2. The priest, surpliced and scarfed, with figures 

 kneeling before him, with an inscription on a roll 

 above, " I pray for all." 



3. A soldier, red coated, wigged, and pigtailed, 

 with the roll above, " I fight for all." 



4. The yeoman, a portly John Bull visaged, 

 topbooted individual, with blue coat and buff 

 smallclothes, and large stomach, having his hands 

 in his breeches' pocket, with the inscription on a 

 roll above, " I pay for all." Alfred Gatty. 



Retributive Justice (Vol. xil., p. 317.). — The 

 very interesting paper by Mr. Bates, on Retribu- 

 tive Justice, induces me to send you a few more 

 Notes of passages where the same idea occurs : 



" For 'tis sport to have the engineer 

 Hoist with his own petar." 



Hamltt, Act III. Sc. 4. 



« 'Twas he 

 Gave heat unto the injury, which returned, 

 Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom 

 Of him gave fire to it." 



Beaumont, Fair Maid of the Inn, Act II. 



" Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking 

 Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer." 



Herbert, The Church Porch. 



Each of these probably was suggested by " Auc- 

 torem ut feriant tela retorta suum." Ausonius, 

 Epigr. Ixxii. 



Somewhat akin to these, though not involving 

 the notion o? Retribution, are the following : ; 

 " England, like Lucian's eagle, with an arrow 



Of her o^vn plumes, piercing her heart quite thorow." 

 James Howell upon Fletcher's Dram. Works. 



" Kal ovr&>s tois oiiceiois aXtairg n-Tepois'" 



Scholiast. Luciani, t. i. p. 794. 



" How many darts made furrows in his side 

 When she that out of his own side was made 

 Gave feather to their flight." 



Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victory, 



" Religion, which true policy befriends, 

 Design'd bj' God to serve man's noblest ends, 

 Is b}' that old deceiver's subtle play 

 Made the chief party in its OAvn decaj', 

 And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast 

 Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest." 

 K. Phillips, On Controversies in Religion. 



" That eagle's fate and mine are one, 

 Who on the shaft that made him die 

 Espied a feather of his own 



Wherewith he wont to soar so high." 

 Waller, To a Lady singing one of his own Songs. 

 No. 318.] 



" So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain. 

 No more through rolling clouds to soar again. 

 Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, 

 And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 

 Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, 

 He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; 

 While the same plumage that had warmed his nest^ 

 Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast." 



B3'ron, On H. Kirke White, in English Bards. 

 H. Gardiner. 

 Shalford. 



Scotch Song (Vol. xii., p. 287.). — Mr. Hack- 

 wood is informed that the extravaganza after 

 which he inquires (" Rob Royson's Bonnet "), was 

 written by the amiable and unfortunate poet, 

 Tannahill, and will be found in any collection of 

 his works. His version contains only five stanzas ; 

 but, like the Editor of " N. & Q.," I have seen a 

 much more extended " broadside ballad " version, 

 much superior in humour to the original sketch. 



J. A. Pehthensis. 



Francis's Horace (Vol. xii., pp. 218. 311.). — The 

 following is a copy of the title of the first edition 

 of Francis's Horace : 



" The Odes, Episodes, and Carmen seculare of Horace, 

 in Latin and English, with Critical Notes, collected from 

 the best Latin and French Commentators (motto from 

 the Ars Poetiea). By the Rev. Mr. Philip Francis. In 

 Two Volumes. London: printed for A. Millar, at 'Bu- 

 chanan's Head,' opposite to Katharine Street, in the 

 Strand, mdccxlui. 8vo." 



There is a preface (with title) of sixteen pages, 

 and the first volume contains besides 311 pages. 



J. M. 



MiittXiKxxtawi. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Few can have pored over the admirable Survey of 

 London, penned by that worthj' "merry old man," John 

 Stow, without wishing that it had been accompanied by 

 a map worthy of his careful and pains-taking history. 

 At what must have been a considerable expenditure of 

 time, labour, and research, Mr. Newton has prepared such 

 a map under the title of London, Westminster, and South- 

 wark as in the Olden Times, showing tlie City and the 

 Suburbs, with the Churches, Monasteries, and all the Im- 

 portant Buildings as they stood in the Reign of Henry VIII. 

 before the Reformation ; accompanied by an Historical and 

 Topographical Memoir, compiled from Ancient Documents, 

 Records, and other Authentic Sources. The scale of this 

 valuable illustration of the then condition of this great 

 metropolis, is such (its size is about 5 feet by 4), as to 

 admit, not only of the positions of the different public 

 buildings being shown, but of their form and structtire 

 being pictorially represented. Of the use made by him 

 of the various authorities, on which this bird's-eye, or 

 pictorial map of London, has been constructed — from the 

 old maps of Aggas, Hofnagel, Ogilvy, Roque, &c., the 

 views by Hollar, and the treasuries in the print-room of 

 the British Museum — Mr. Newton gives us full informa- 

 tion in his Introduction. And, as in the letter-press 

 Memoir which accompanies the map, and which is based 

 for the most part on the graphic and trustworthy descrip- 

 tion of old Stow, Mr. Newton has endeavoured to bring 



