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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 22. 1855. 



3. His exit from the world ; and 



4. Practical reflections from what may be said. 

 First, then : 



1. Man came into the world naked and bare, 



2. His progress through it is trouble and care, 



3. His exit from it, none can tell where, 



4. But if he does well here, he'll be well there. 

 Now I can say no more, raj' brethren dear. 

 Should I preach on this subject from this time to 



next j'ear. Amen.'" 



O si sic — plurima ! A not incurious chapter, 

 or even volume, might be composed of selected 

 specimens of pulpit eccentricity; such, for instance, 

 as one entitled The Virgin 3fari/ ; preached in 

 St. Marys College, Oxford, on Lady Day, 1641, 

 by the learned Thomas Master, B.D., of which an 

 analysis is given in Collet's Relics of Literature, 

 p. 391. Such, again, as the persuasive reminder, 

 preached by a curate named Joseph, at Dublin 

 Cathedral, by the permission of Swift, before an 

 oblivious great man, Butler, Duke of Ormond, 

 from the significant text, " Yet did not the chief 

 Butler remember Joseph, but forgot him." Then 

 there was the curious specimen of electioneering 

 zeal, preached by a clergyman of the established 

 church, at Bradford, from the text, " Are not two 

 sparrows sold for one farthing? " when Mr. Whit- 

 bread and Howard the philanthropist were can- 

 didates for the representation of that town, in 

 opposition to Sir W. Wake, and a Mr. Sparrow ; 

 the comforting encouragement to the former pair 

 being deduced : " Fear ye not, therefore, ye are 

 of more value than many sparrows." In another 

 sermon which I have seen noticed (I think by a 

 German divine), something like the following 

 enigmatical questions are proposed : AVho is it 

 that was not born, but died ? Who was born, but 

 did not die ? Who went through both birth and 

 death, but knew no corruption ? The respective 

 answers being Adam, Enoch, and Lofs wife. 

 Lastly, a curious list might be formed of those 

 eccentric titles, which it became the fashion in the 

 seventeenth century to bestow upon printed ser- 

 mons, such as The White Wolfe ; Two Sticks made 

 one ; Spiritual Salt ; The Divine Lanthorn ; The 

 Spiritual Nursery Deciphered ; and a host of such 

 like, " quae nunc perscribere longum est." 



William Bates, 



Birmingham. 



l^epliei ta Minor <lhntriti. 



•' Oh! go from the window " (Vol. vi., pp. 75. 

 112. 153. 227.). — My old father has frequently 

 sung a portion of this ballad in my presence, yet 

 I confess that but little of it is impressed upon my 

 memory. Howevei', that little may, perhaps, 

 serve to supply the hiatus which exists in all the 

 versions sent you. A collier's wife had made an 

 assignation with her paramour for an evening 

 when her husband would be in the pit ; but it 



No. 321.] 



happened, through some cause or other, that he did 

 not go to the pit as expected. The signal was a 

 rap at the window, which being given, the wife, 

 who had the child on her knee, began, — 



" The wind is in the west, 

 And the cuckoo's in his nest. 

 And the coal-pit is to-morroio. 



[ Wife nursing~\ Uz, uz, uz, uz. 



[Rapping contintced.'j 

 " The wind and the rain, 

 Have driv'n him back again, 

 And the coal-pit is to-morrow. 

 Uz, uz, uz, uz. 



[Rapping contimied.'] \ 

 " And is the foo' so fond, 

 That he cannot uiiderstond 

 That the coal-pit is to-morrow ? 

 Uz, uz, uz, uz." 



The last verse being given with emphasis, the 

 paramour departed, and further my information 

 goeth not. J. C. G. 



Liverpool. 



Are the " Souvenirs de la Marquise de Crequy " 

 genuine or spurious (Vol. xii., p. 471.)? — Not 

 only spurious, but one of the most ridiculously 

 impudent forgeries that ever was attempted. The 

 fabricator has formed his Marquise de Crequi out 

 of two different ladies — Anne Lefevre d'Auxy, 

 born in 1700, and married in 1720, to James, 

 Marquis de Crequi, and Renee Charlotte de Frou- 

 hiy, born in 1715, married in 1737, to Charles, 

 Marquis d'Heymont, who succeeded, later in life, 

 on the death of his great uncle, to the title of 

 Crequi. By running the lives of these two ladies 

 into one, the fabricator invented a Madame de 

 Crequi, of above one hundred years old, who had 

 been at the courts of Louis XIV. and of Buona- 

 parte. X. O. B. will find the whole affair un- 

 ravelled in the Quarterly Revieio for June, 1834. 



C. 



De Laune (Vol. xii., p. 166.). — Gideon De 

 Laune, the eccentric but munificent apothecary to 

 King James I., had, with two sisters, Mrs. Van- 

 court and Mrs. Chamberlan, three brothers, viz. 

 Peter De Laune, D. D., Paul De Laune, M. D., and 

 Nathaniel De Laune. The latter had, by his wife 

 Catharine, three sons, Nathaniel, John, and Gideon. 

 John may possibly be the " Jean " inquired for 

 by A. H., of Stoke Newington. If so, Jean's re- 

 lationship to a William, of Sharsted, would be 

 that of first cousin once removed, deduced as fol- 

 lows : — 



The apothecary, Gideon De Laune (who died 

 in 1659, at the age of ninety-one, possessed of ex- 

 tensive property at Sharsted in Kent, at Roxton 

 in Bedfordshire, and also in Virginia and the Ber- 

 mudas), had, as far as it appears, an only son, 

 Abraham, who married Anne, daughter of Sir 

 Richard Sandys, of Northbourne Court, co. Kent, 

 Knt., and a daughter, Anne, married to Sir 



