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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Music of the Spheres •■ - • - - 1G5 



Origin of various Books - - - - - 1G7 



Jlonumental Brasses abroad, by W. Sparrow Simpson • 1G7 



Notes on Old London ..... 1G3 



Proverbs from Fuller . . . - . 1G9 



Misprint in Prayer-books, by W. Sparrow Simpson . 170 

 Minor Notes : — Remarkable Epitaph — Deferred Exe- 

 cution in Spain — More Gold : Meaning of " Nugget " 



— Acrostic on the Napoleon Family — Literati— Names 



of Places - - - - - - - 170 



Ql'CRlES : — 



Heraldic Queries, by Reginald de Melmerby • - 171 



Passages in Bingham, by Richard Bingham, Jr. - 172 



Two Full Moons in July - - - - - 172 



Another Dodo Query, by W. Pinkerton . - - 172 



Minor Queries : — Etymology of " Quarrel " — Relics of 



Cliarles I Lady Gerrard's second Marriage — " To 



be in the wrong Box " — Sir Kenelm Digby — Was 

 Sir Kenelm Digby a Painter ?— St.Mary of the Lowes, 

 or I)e Lacubus Pel eg in Germany — Public Whip- 

 ping of Women in England — Henry Mortimer — 

 Passage in Jeremy Taylor — Locke on Romanism — 

 Lancashire Sayings — Passage in the Somnium Sci- 

 pionis— Walter Parsons, Porter to James I.— Furye 

 Family - . - - - - -173 



Minor Queries Answered: — Barefooted Friar — Lord 

 Delamer — Britisli Critic or Theological Review — 

 Psalm-singing at Paul's Cross — George Thomason — 

 Thomas Goffe — Beefeaters - - - - 173 



Replies : — 



A Passcge in the " Merchant of Venice," Act IIL Sc. 2., 



byS.W. Singer 176 



Lunar Occultations - - - - - - 176 



Serpent Eating - . - - - - 177 



Cowper or Cooper - . - - - -177 



Royal Arms in Churches, by Wm. Sydney Gibson, &c. 178 

 Tiie Gregorian Tones, by Matthew Cooke and William 



Sparrow Simpson, B.A. ----- 178 

 The True Maiden-hair Fern - - - - 180 



'• The Good Old Cause " 180 



Memoires d'une Contemporaine - - - - 181 



Fisliing by Electricity, by W. Eraser - - - 181 



Maturin Laurent, by James Cornish ... 181 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — The Man in the Moon — 



Collar of SS. — Reverence to the Altar — Spanish 



Vessels wrecked on Irisli Coast — Dress of the Clergy 



— Virgilian Lots — General Lambert — "Sic transit 

 gloria raundi " — Lines on the Succession of the Kings 

 of England — Agliindio or Aghendole — Sinking Fund 



— Punch and Judy — Rhymes on Places — Sleep like 

 a Top — More recent Corruptions — Knightsbridge — 

 Wedgwood Family — " Vox populi, vox Dei" — " Dieu 



et mon Droit " — Coral Charms, &c. - - - 182 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 186 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - 186 



Advertisements - - - - - - 187 



Vol. VI. — No. 147. 



MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, 



" IIow sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank ! 

 Here will we sit, and let tlie sounds of music 

 Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, 

 Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

 Sit, Jessica : Look how the floor of heaven 

 Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold ; 

 There's not the smallest orb, which thou hehokVst, 

 But in his motion like an angel sings, 

 Still quiring to the yotmg-eyed cherubins : 

 Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 

 But whilst this muddy vesture of decay 

 Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it." 



Merchant of Venice, Act V. Sc. I. 

 For anything I know to the contrary, Pytlia- 

 goras was the first who advanced this doctrine of 

 the music of the spheres ; and Fen ton, in his ob- 

 servations appended to Tonson's edition of WiiUer's 

 Poems (page xcii. Lond. 1730), supposes him to 

 have grounded his belief on tlie words of Job 

 literally understood : " When the morning stars 

 sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for 

 joy," chap, xxxviii. 7. I shall have to refer to 

 Milton more than once ; but his " Christmas 

 Hymn " is here quite to my purpose : 



XII. 



" Such music (as 'tis said) 

 Before was never made. 

 But when of old the sons of morning sung. 

 While the Creator great 

 His constellations set, 

 And the well-balanc'd world on hinges hung, 

 And cast the dark foundations deep. 

 And bid the welt'ring waves their oozy channel keep. 



XIII. 



" Ring out ye crystal spheres, 

 Once bless our human ears, 

 (If ye have pow'r to touch our senses so ;) 

 And let your silver chime 

 Move in melodious time. 

 And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow ; 

 And with your ninefold harmony 

 Make up full consort to th' angelic symphony." 



Milton speaks also of the " mystical dance " of 

 the spheres, and further adds : 

 " And in their motions harmony divine 

 So smooths her charming tones, that God's owr. ear 

 Listens delighted." — Par. Lost, lib. v. 620. 



