Oct. 21. 1854.] 



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men, every one of whom came to a sad and fatal end. 

 Two of them quarrelled, of whom one was slain, and the 

 other hanged for it ; the third drowned himself in a well ; 

 the fom-th, though rich, came at length to beg his bread ; 

 and the fifth was miserably stabbed to death in Dublin." * 



Who were these five men ? 



3. "ITiat person that (being provoked by excessive 

 pain) thrust his dagger into his body, and thereby, in- 

 stead of reaching his vitals, opened an imposthume, the 

 unknown cause of all his pain, and so stabbed himself 

 into perfect health and ease," &c. 



To whom does the preacher here refer ? 



4. " We find it once said of an eminent cardinal, by 

 reason of his great and apparent likelihood to step into 

 St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope, 

 and came out again cardinal." 



What cardinal was this ? J^T. L. T. 



Minav ^xitxitS. 



*' RattlivL Roaring Willie.^'' — What, and where 

 to be found, is the oldest version of this song ? 

 In Thomson's Scottish Melodies, five vols. 8vo., 

 1838, there is a set of words by Burns; and in 

 <;!unningham's edition of the Works of the latter 

 author (vol. iv. p. 108.) one version is partially 

 given. But there surely is some older one to be 

 iound in early collections, MS. or printed, although 

 such is unknown to me.f W. 



Hawick. 



Shakspeare Club Works. — Some sets of these 

 publications have been exposed for sale, with in- 

 dices and title-pages. One of these I have seen; 

 but two of the volumes, viz. John a Kent and 

 John a Cumber, 1851, and Lodge's Defence, 1853, 

 have no general title. In this set also there is no 

 copy of Collier's Emendations of Shakspeare from 

 the MS. corrections in the old folio, although it 

 has been understood that this also forms one of 

 the series. Perhaps you can explain this, and why 

 gentlemen who subscribed until a year or two 

 before the breaking up of the Society, have not 

 been fui-nished with titles and indices for the 

 period during which they subscribed, and why 

 some opportunity was not afforded to them of 

 completing their sets ? Anon. 



The Stanleys in Man. — Some few years ago I 

 was conversing with a lady in the Isle of Man on 



r* South appears to have quoted this account from 

 Tuller's Church History, book vi. sect. 3. The fifth indi- 

 vidual was Dr. Allen, afterwards Archbishop of Dublin.] 



[t Another version is given in Cromek's Select Scottish 

 Songs, vol. ii. p. 4., edit. 1810 ; who states, that " the last 

 stanza of this Song is mine : it was composed out of com- 

 pliment to one of the worthiest fellows in the world, 

 William Dunbar, Esq., Writer to the Signet, Pldinburgh, 

 and Colonel of the Crochallan Corps, a club of wits who 

 took that title at the time of raising the fencible regi- 

 ments."] 



various matters connected with the history of the 

 island, and she told me she had been informed 

 that ever since the execution of the Earl of Derby 

 at Bolton, in 1651, every member of the family 

 who had occasion to visit or pass through that 

 town, always avoided the market-place where 

 their ancestor suffered. Has this statement any 

 foundation in fact ? G. Tatloe. 



Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Hood. — Has the 

 subjoined use of a like idea by these celebrated 

 authors been noted before ? 



" And div ye think that my man and my sons are to 

 gae to the sea in weather like yestreen and the day — 

 sic a sea as its yet outby — and get naething for their 

 fish, and be misca'd into the bargain, Monkbarns ? It's 

 no fish ye're buying — it's men's lives." — Antiquary, 

 chap. xi. 



And in Hood's world-famed Song of the Shirt 

 occurs, — 



" Work, work, work, 

 Till the brain begins to swim ; 



Work, work, work, 

 Till the eyes are heavy and dim ! 

 Seam, and gusset, and band, 



Band, and gusset, and seam. 



Till over the buttons I fall asleep, 



And sew them on in a dream. 



Omen! with sisters dear! 



O men ! with mothers and wives ! 

 It is not linen you're wearing out, 



But human creatures' lives ! " 



Robert S. Salmok. 



Xewcastle-on-Tyne. 



The Green Lady. — Where is the portrait of 

 the "Green Lady" (so called from the colour of 

 the dress) to be found ? It is the portrait of the 

 " Spanish Lady," whose story is related in Percy's 

 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, and of which 

 a copy is given by Lady Dalmeny in Spanish 

 Ballads. The portrait was once in Thorpe Hall, 

 Lincolnshire. T. L. A. 



Parallel Passages. — Is the idea, common to the 

 two following quotations, traceable to an earlier 

 source than George Herbert ? In the thirteenth 

 stanza of The Church Porch we have — 



" Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie : 

 A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby." 



Dr. Watts, in his Moral Songs for Childreny 

 has written : 



" But liars we can never trust. 



Though they should speak the word that's true : 

 And he that does one, fault at first. 

 And lies to hide it, makes it two." 



R. Pbice. 

 St. Ives. 



The Rowe Family. • — Perhaps some of your 

 correspondents could give me some information 

 respecting the family of Rowe of Sussex. The 



