2nd s. N« 95., Oct. 24. '57.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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These hungry wormes thinke long for their repast : 

 Come on : I pardon thy offence to me : 

 It was thy lining : be not so aghast : 

 A Foole, and [a] Physition may agree. 

 And for my Brothers neuer vex thyselfe : 

 Thej' are not to disease a buried Elfe." 



G. Harvey's Foure Letters, S^c, p. 71. 



It was probably in the Preface to the Theological 

 Discourse of the Lamb of God, that Gabriel Har- 

 vey attacked Nash's "Epistle" prefixed io Me- 

 naphon. In his Pierce Pennilessej the latter thus 

 replies : — 



I would tell « Put case (since I am not yet out of the 

 Re" u is! theame of Wrath) that some tyred jade be- 

 but I am longing to the presse, whome I neuer wronged 

 would make i" my lif*^> hath named me expressly in print 

 hy« booke (as 1 will not doo him), and accused me of 

 fattcr'daye^ want of learning, vpbraiding me for reuiuing, 

 wiiich he- in an epistle of mine, the reuerend memorie 

 l^n'dead? & of Sir Thomas Moore, Sir John Cheeke, Doc- 

 bin a great tor Watson, Doctor Haddon, Dr. Carre, Mas- 

 printer? ^^^ tei' Ascham, as if they were no meate but for 



his masterships mouth, or none but some 

 such, as the sonne of a ropemaker, were worthie to men- 

 tion them. To shewe how I can rayle, thus would I 

 begin to rayle on him : — Thou that hadst thy hood 

 turned ouer thy eares, when thou wert a bachelor, for 

 abusing of Aristotle, and setting him vpon the schoole 

 gates, painted with asses eares on his head, is it anie dis- 

 credit for me, thou great baboune, thou pigmee braggart, 

 TV tth thou pampheter of nothing but />aans, to bee 

 chandler's * censured by thee, that hast scorned the prince 

 shoi), or at of philosophers : thou, that in thy dialogues 

 wives stafi', soldst hunniefor ahalfepenie, and the choysest 

 if you see -writers extant for cues a peece ; that cam'st 

 sope'°\rai)t to the logiclc schooles when thou wert a 

 vp in the fresh-man, and writst phrases ; off with thy 

 Buch a°pani- gowne, and vntrusse, for I meane to lash thee 

 phiet aa In- fcightily. Thou hast a brother, hast thou 

 risi'ioPtean' ^^ot, student in almanackes? Go too! He 



stand to it, he fathered one of thy bastards (a 

 booke I meane), which, being of thy begetting, was set 



forth vnder his name Poor slaue ! I pitie thee 



that thou hadst no more grace but to come in my way. 

 Why could not you haue sate quyet at home, and writ 

 catechismes, but you must be comparing me to Martin, 

 and exclayme against me for reckning vp the high schol- 

 lers of worthie memorie?" — Nash's Pierce Pennilesse, 

 43-5. Reprint, Shakspeare Society, 1842. 



In Nash's Epistle to the Students of the Two 

 Universities, we look in vain for anything which 

 could give offence to either of the Harveys. What 

 then but his connexion with Lyly and Greene 

 Gould have originated the attack in the Preface to 

 the Lamb of God that called forth the* above 

 rejoinder ? 



Can any one of your correspondents refer me 

 to a copy of the Lamb of God which has this sup- 

 pi-essed Preface ? — from which, and with other 

 evidence in my possession, it will not, I think, be 

 difficult to identify most of the writers of the 

 Mar'Prelate tracts. J. P. 



CHATTEBTON AND SOTJTHET — UNPUBLISHED 

 LETTER OF SODTHET. 



When a monument to Chatterton was first 

 talked of in Bristol, Dr. Southey was solicited to 

 furnish an inscription, himself a citizen, and having 

 granted a similar request in 1834 to the memory 

 of Bishop Butler ; but he declined in the follow- 

 ing terms : 



« Keswick, 23rd Feb. 1838. 

 « Dear Sir, 



" It so happens that many years ago when a monu- 

 ment was projected to the memory of Burns, Mr. Words- 

 worth and I had some conversation upon the subject. 

 We agreed in thinking that such monuments are fitting 

 marks of respect for men whose public services ought to 

 be held in remembrance in honour to themselves and an 

 example to others, — soldiers and sailors, statesmen, dis- 

 coverers in the sciences or useful arts, and persons who in 

 any other way have been eminently useful to their fellow- 

 citizens or their fellow-creatures ; but that of all men they 

 are least required for authors, and of all authors, least 

 for poets, who have raised their own monuments in their 

 works. 



" I have seen Mr. Wordsworth since your second letter 

 reached me, and he has authorized me to say that his 

 views upon this subject, like mine, have undergone no 

 alteration. But tho' a tribute of this kind is by no means 

 necessary for the honour of Chatterton, it would be highly 

 becoming that the wealthier inhabitants of Bristol should 

 erect one for the honour of the city. 



"With regard to an Inscription, there would be so 

 much presumption in composing one for Chatterton's mo- 

 nument, that he must be a bold person who should at- 

 tempt it. All circumstances considered, a plain sentence 

 saying that the monument was erected by some of his 

 townsmen to Thomas Chatterton, would seem to me to 

 be more suitable than the most elaborate epitaph. For 

 these reasons, even if I had leisure, I should think it 

 right to decline the task of furnishing one. But my time 

 is fully occupied, and indeed, my tribute to Chatterton's 

 memory was paid when, with the assistance of my old 

 friend Mr. Cottle, I published the only collection of his 

 works for the benefit of his sister and niece. 

 " I remain, dear Sir, 



" Youra with sincere good will, 



" Robert Southey." 

 Campbell and W. S. Landor (whose letters are 

 also in my possession) likewise declined in terms 

 equally complimentary to the " marvellous boy." 

 But at last a Bristolian, Rev. J. Eagles, the well- 

 known author of The Skeicher, accomplished the 

 task, and kindly favoured the committee with 

 these beautiful lines : 



1. 

 " A poor and friendless Boy was he, — to whom 



Is raised this Monument, without a Tomb. 



There seek his dust, there o'er his genius sigh, 



Where famished outcasts unrecorded lie. 



Here let his name, for here his genius rose 



To might of ancient days, in peace repose ! 

 2. 

 " The wondrous Boy ! to more than want consigned. 



To cold neglect — worse famine of the mind ; 



All uncongenial the bright world within 



To that without of darkness and of sin. 



He lived a mystery — died ! Here, Reader, pause : 



Let God be judge, and Mercy plead the cause I " 



Bbistoliensis. 



