Sept. 16. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Minted verbatim from the original MS. preserved in the 

 Bodleian Library, as far as it goes, the Teraainder being 

 taken from another MS. in the same hbrary, whicli seems 

 to have been transcribed from the original MS. when 

 complete. The London edition of 1720 attributed the 

 origin of the rebellion to the Protestants instead of the 

 Komanists, whereas the Dublin edition reversed the ac- 

 cttaaticm..'\ 



" I saw thy form in yotUhful prime" — I send 

 you BOine lines formerly given in the schools at 

 Oxford, for translation into Latin elegiacs. I am 

 very anxious to discover their author, and should 

 be much obliged to you if you could inform me in 

 your next Number. 



" I saw thj'- form in j-outhful prime, 



Nor thought that pale decay 

 Would steal before the steps of Time, 



And waste its bloom away, Mary ! 

 Yet still thy features wore that light 



Which fleets not with the breath ; 

 And life ne'er look'd more trul}- bright 



Than in thy smile of death, Mary ! 

 " As streams that run o'er golden mines, 



Yet humbly, calnTly glide, " 

 Nor seem to know the wealth that shines 



Within their gentle tide, ]\Lary! 

 So, veil'd beneath the simplest guise. 



Thy radiant genius shone. 

 And that, which charm'd all other eyes, 



Seem'd worthless in thy own, Mary ! 

 '' Jf souls could always dwell above. 



Thou ne'er hadst left that sphere ; 

 Or, could we keep the souls w« love, 



We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! 

 Though many a gifted mind we meet. 



Though fairest forms we see, 

 To live with them is far less sweet 



Than to remember thee, Mary ! " 



A.H. 

 Deptford Inn, near Haytesburj'. 



[The lines are Moore's, and are arranged, in bis 7mA 

 Melodies, to the old tune of " Donald." They were written 

 in memory of his friend Mrs. Tighe, the authoress of 

 Psyche, and are certainly among the tenderest effusions 

 Moore ever wrote.] 



ThelwaWs " Hope of Albion." — I shall feel 

 grateful for any information respecting a work 

 by Thelwall (who was tried for treason in 1794, 

 and acquitted), entitled The Hope of Albion, or 

 Edwin of NoHhumbria ? Edward West. 



[The first rough sketch of this poem was drawn up 

 before Mr. Thelwall commenced his political career, and 

 fortunately escaped the general pillage of his papers when 

 he was arrested on May 12, 1794. During his subsequent 

 residence in the romantic village of Llys-Wen, in Breck- 

 nockshire, five books of the poem were written, and the 

 whole plan developed through all its branches. But an 

 unexpected event stopped its farther progress. In Janu- 

 ary, 1799, Thelwall sent to London for some books to elu- 

 cidate the early periods of British historj', which were 

 duly forwarded to him in a parcel from Lackington's ; 

 but when within seven miles of its destination it was 

 seized by a king's messenger, who posted with it to 

 London for the inspection of the Privy Council, and a 

 month elapsed before it was returned to its owner. His 

 political associations, however, so effectually dissipated 



his poetic meditations that the work was never entirely 

 completed. Some " Specimens " of it, from the first two 

 books, will be found in his Poems, chiefiy written in Retire- 

 ment, 8vo., Hereford, 1802, pp. 175. to 202.] , 



" One evening Good Humour" Sfc. — Where can 

 I find the words of a song commencing, "One 

 evening Good Humour sat down as a guest ?" and 

 by whom were the words written ? M. A. 



[This song is entitled "Time made Prisoner." The 

 only version known to us is contained in Dr. Bumey's 

 Collection of Songs, vol. v. p. 298., in the British Museum.] 



riiOWBRS MENTIONED BY SHAKSFEAEE. 

 (Vol. X., p. 98.) 



As no Shakspearian correspondent of "N. & 

 Q." has answei-ed Mr. MacCulloch's inquiries 

 respecting flowers named by Shakspeare, I have 

 been tempted to send him some short extracts 

 from notes that I have from time to time collected 

 respecting them. 



" Cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,''^ Farmer says, 

 " must be wrong ; I believe cowslip buds the true 

 reading." But why should cowslip buds be the 

 true reading ? when the Ranunculus bulbosus, 

 known to every country child by the name of 

 butter-cup, was styled by our ancestors tiny-cup, 

 golden-cup, leopard's foot, and cuckoo-buds ; and 

 by the latter name I have heard it called in 

 Sussex. Numerous spring flowers have old names 

 significant of their blooming " at the cuckoo's 

 time of coming ; " and the wood sorrel, referred to 

 by Me. MacCulloch, is one of them. Gerard 

 says : 



"Apothecaries and herbalists call it Cuckoo's meat, 

 either because the cuckoo feedeth thereon, or by reason 

 when it springeth forth the cuckoo singeth most." 



Mary-buds. Mary-buds is an old name for the 

 marygold, which was regarded by the monkish 

 botanists as a holy flower, and so named by them 

 in honour of the Virgin Mary, who was tradi- 

 tionally believed to have often carried one in her 

 bosom. Chatterton speaks of this flower " as the 

 marybud that shutteth with the light." 



Long purples. I believe the commentators on 

 Shakspeare who have decided the " long purples " 

 to be intended for the Purple Orchis, to be right 

 in their conjecture, for the name of Dead men's 

 thumbs or fingers is still applied to it. Johnson 

 tells us, on the authority of Collins the poet, that 

 it was so called in his time in Sussex. This sin- 

 gular name was probably given to the plant from 

 the form of its root, which consists of two knob?, 

 shaped like a hand. That the Arum is not the 

 plant alluded to, I gather from a line in the old 

 ballad of " The Deceased Maiden Lover," wbere 



