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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d S. No 98., Nov. 14. '57. 



Nicol Bume (2°'* S. iv. 350.) — Nicol Burne's 

 violent and foul attack or rhyming tirade against 

 the reformers, J. O. will find on folios 103. and 

 104. of Burne's Dispvtation, Paris, 1581, 8vo. 

 It purports to be a translation of an epigram by 

 Beza, De sva in Candidam et Atidebertum beneuo- 

 lentiu. It begins with these lines — 



•< Beza quhy bydis thou, quhy doia thou stay ? 

 Sen Candida and Audebert ar baith auay ? 

 Thy loue is in Pareis, in Orleanis thy mirth, 

 Zit tliou vald vezel keip to thy girth, 

 Far from Candida lust of thy cor-s 

 Far from Audebert thy gret plea-sors." 



It goes on to charge Beza with enormous 

 crimes, and that in vulgar and indelicate terms 

 not mentionable to ears decent or polite. After 

 this follows an equally contemptible slander upon 

 Calvin in prose. 



It is a curious libellous work. On folio 172. 

 are two well executed woodcuts ; one of them 

 the Virgin and Child, the babe holding a book, in 

 the fashionable binding of the sixteenth century, 

 with bosses and clasps. On the reverse of fols, 139, 

 140. and 147. are singular attempts to prove that 

 the letters composing the name of Martin Luther 

 make the number of the beast, 666 ; on the reverse 

 of folio 98., Pope Joan, who is pictured with a babe 

 in her arms in the Nuremberg Chronicle, on the 

 reverse of folio 169. is by Burne simply called 

 Joannes VII. As the judge in religious contro- 

 versies, he compares the Bible " to the great 

 bellis of the kirk" (p. 109.) I should be glad to 

 compare my copy of this rare book with that of 

 J. O. if he will afford me an opportunity. 



Geohge Offor. 



Hackney. 



There is a copy of The Dispvtatmi, &c., Paris, 

 1581, 8vo., in the Library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, at the end of which is appended, without 

 pagination, with distinct registers, and a separate 

 title-page, " Ane Admonition to the Antichristian 

 Ministers in the Deformit Kirk of Scotland. 

 Exvrgat Devs et dissipentur inimici eivs. 1851." 

 This piece is in verse, and consists of twelve 

 pages, besides the title-page and its reverse. 



'AMevs. 



Libraries (2°"* S. iv. 279.)— The case of the 

 Norwich Town Library, of which you so justly 

 condemn the removal, has an exact parallel in the 

 library established by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh 

 near the cathedral church of St. Patrick, Dublin. 

 It includes the entire of the library of the cele- 

 brated Bishop Edward Stillingfleet. Like the 

 Norwich library, and those usually connected 

 with cathedrals, it is " interesting to the learned 

 only," and could not possibly be "rendered popu- 

 lar. In your own words, on which I cannot im- 

 prove, it is " venerable for its age, its nature, its 

 condition, and its donors ; consisting chiefly of the 

 works of the Fathers, of Protestant Controversial 



Divinity, atid of Hebrew, Greek, Latin," &c. 

 Yet, special as it is rendered by its contents and 

 objects, it has been proposed to transfer it frota 

 its present most appropriate position next the 

 church, and almost within hearing of its choral 

 services, to the most incongruous and unfit that 

 could by any possibility be selected ; namely, to a 

 newly projected National Gallerfi of Painting, 

 Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, in Merrioti Square, 

 perhaps the most fashionable locality in Dublin, 

 Ijut not on that account to be preferred as the 

 site of an ecclesiastical library. No one would 

 venture to propose that Archbishop Tenison's 

 library, or that of St. Paul's cathedral, should be 

 transferred to the National Gallery in Trafalgar 

 Square, London. Why then should anything so 

 absurd be tolerated in Dublin? Even on economi- 

 cal grounds this hasty and ill-considered, though, 

 perhaps, well-intentioned project, is most objec- 

 tionable. The cost of removing the library and 

 providing new shelves and fittings would more 

 than cover the expense of amply repairing the 

 present venerable edifice ; and in its new place it 

 would injuriously occupy apartments that ought 

 to be devoted to a much needed Architectural Mu- 

 seum. Abterus. 

 Dublin. 



Hymns (2"^ S. iv. 256.) — In reply to H. A.'s 

 Queries respecting the authorship of certain 

 Hymns, I beg to inform him that No. 40. is most 

 probably by Kirke White. There is a hymn, or 

 more correctly a fragment by him, beginning — 



" Much in sorrow, oft in woe." 

 In the original there are only two verses and a 

 half; and not having Elliott's Collection, I know 

 not if any additions have been made to it. It may 

 perhaps interest H. A. to see some lines which 

 have been added, in pencil, in a copy of Kirke 

 White's Poems, now before me, suggested, pro- 

 bably, by his admirable addition to Walker's " Go 

 lovely rose " : — 



" Shrink not, Christians; will ye yield? 

 Will ye quit the painful field? 



Will ye lose your former toil .' 

 Shall the foeman share the spoil ? 



" Onward, Christian, onward go, 

 Linger not for aught below ; 

 Soon your warfare shall be done, — 

 The battle fought — the victory won ! " 



S. S. S. 



Sea Pea (2"'^ S. iv. 288.) — A correspondent in- 

 quires if this plant still grows near Alborough and 

 Orford ? and also wishes to be informed of its 

 botanical name and character. 



I have specimens gathered there a few years 

 since ; and, from the quantity there was of it, no 

 doubt but it is there still. 



The plant is not confined to that locality, but is 



