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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 99., Nov. 21. '57. 



" The same Relick was afterwards acknowledged by my 

 Lord Paul Baudot, Bishop of Arras, the fourth of Sq)- 

 tember, 1G27. 



•' Lastly, oil the fourth of March, 1645, Our Holy Fa- 

 ther, Pope Innocent the tenth, in the first j'ear of his Pon- 

 tificate, gave plenary indulgence to all the faithfull, who 

 having first confess'd, and communicated, would pray 

 before this llelick, in the Chapel of the Scotch College of 

 Doway, for the ordinary ends prescribed by the Church, 

 on the tenth of June, which is the festival of this holy 

 and illustrious Princess." — The Idea of a perfect Prin- 

 cesse, Paris, 16G1, pp. 47, 48. 



John Walker. 



Quotation (2°'^ S. iv. 289.) — Your correspondent 

 D. A. seems to me to have forgotten, and there- 

 fore to misquote, the lines about which he in- 

 quires. In a little poem of five stanzas, by Thos. 

 Campbell (the poet), printed in the Universal 

 Magazine for January, 1801, and entitled "The 

 Dirge of Wallace," will be found, as I imagine, 

 the idea which has struck him. The passage is as 

 follows : 



" Oh ! it was not thus when his oaken spear 

 Was true to that knight forlorn. 

 And hosts of a thousand were scatter'd, like deer, 

 At the blast of the hunter's horn ; 

 When he stood on the wreck of each well-fought field, 



Witli the yellow-hair'd chiefs of his native land ; 

 For his lance was not shiver'd on helmet or shield. 

 And the sword that seem'd fit for Archangel to wield 

 Was light in his terrible hand." 



I am at a loss for the poet's authority for an 

 oaken spear, as they have, from Homer's time 

 downwards, always been made of ash. Outjs. 



" Too fair to worship,'' 8fc. (2"^ S. iv. 367.) — 

 The motto on Lord Ward's famous Correggio will 

 be found in Dean Milman's prize poem on the 

 Belvidere Apollo : — 



" Beauteous as vision seen in dreamy sleep 

 By holy maid on Delphi's haunted steep, 

 'Jlid the dim twilight of the laurel grove, 

 Too fair to worship, too divine to love." 



Poetical Works, ii. 298. 

 M. A. 



Verses on "Nothing" (S""* vS. iv. 283.) —These 

 Verses were not written by either Mr. Belsham 

 the minister (if your correspondent means the late 

 Rev. T. Belsham of Essex Street Chapel), or by 

 Mr. Belsham the historian, but by their father, 

 the Rev. James Belsham of Bedford. I am in- 

 formed by his great-grandson, the Venerable Arch- 

 deacon of Glendalough, that they were printed 

 many years ago by Miss Hill in a collection of 

 poems published by her,- and with his name an- 

 nexed. They profess to be an imitation of a 

 Latin poem by Passerat, Professor of Eloquence at 

 Paris in the sixteenth century, of which the fol- 

 lowing lines are a specimen : — 



" Ecce autem, partes dum sese veraat in omnes 



Invcnit mea Musa nihil; ne despice munus; 



Nam nihil est gemmis, nihil est pretiosius auro," &c. 



Mr. Belsham, the author of this imitation, was 



an accomplished classical scholar. He published, 

 in 1744, an Alcaic ode with the title " Mors Tri- 

 umphans;" and in 1762 "Canadia," on the death 

 of General Wolfe, two stanzas of which are quoted 

 by his son in his History of George II. (p. 276.). 

 I have never seen "Canadia;" and should any 

 reader of " N. & Q." be in possession of a copy, 1 

 should be glad to obtain a sight of it. 



John Kenrick. 

 York. 



" Doolie" (2"^ S. iv. 367.)— I used to hear the 

 story, when a boy, differently told by the old 

 Indians of that day. The dispatches mentioned, 

 as a matter of course, that after some engagement 

 the doolies carried off the wounded. An English 

 newspaper, ignorant of the term, stated that 

 " after the battle, horrible to relate, the ferocious 

 Doolies came and carried' off all the wounded ! " 

 Burke was not likely to make such a mistake : he 

 was far more likely to turn tables upon an op- 

 ponent by knowledge of a word. This he actually 

 did on the trial of Hastings, in the following way. 

 He wanted to have a letter of Hastings read, 

 that he might then go into certain evidence of the 

 animus of the writer. The House decided that he 

 should first prove the intention, and that then the 

 letter should be read. "Be it so," said Burke, 

 "but it is perfectly preposterous." The Lord 

 Chancellor called him to order for using such a 

 word. " My Lords," said Burke, " the word only 

 means putting one thing before another : it is as 

 though I had said your Lordships put the cart 

 before the horse." No more was said. M. 



Sherry (2"* S. iv. 330.) — In my Query under 

 the above heading I referred to a note of Steevens 

 (Malone's Shakspeare, vol. xvi. p. 272,), where he 

 says: "Rhenish is drank with sugar, but never 

 sherry." I have since met with the following 

 passage, which shows that Rhenish with sugar was 

 formerly drank as a liquor : — 



" Mrs. Jewkes came officiously to ask my master just 

 then if she should bring a glass of Rhenish and sngar 

 before dinner for the gentlemen and ladies? And he 

 said, 'That's well thought of; bring it, Mrs. Jewkes."' — 

 Pamela (edit. 1742), vol. ii, p. 228. 



Charles Wylib. 



Epigram quoted by Gibbon (2"'' S. iv. 367.) — 

 I have repeatedly heard this epigram quoted in 

 French society by literary persons, and always 

 attributed to Voltaire. And as quoted to me it 

 ran thus : — 



" Un jour dans un vallon, 

 Un Serpent mordit Piron ; 

 Stjavez-vous ce qui en fat? 

 Le Serpent en mourut." 



I do not know that it is in print. A. B. 



Hon.Wm. Fitzgerald (2"" S. iv. 331. 357.)— The 

 Right Hon. Wm. Vesey Fitzgerald was the eldest 



