Oct. 23. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



395 



ANTI-JACOBITB SONG. 



(Vol. vi., p. 314.) 



I have great pleasure in forwarding your corre- 

 spondent B R the following song, which I be- 

 lieve to be the one he is inquiring for. It occurs 

 in a Garland in my own collection, called " The 

 Spinning Garland: composed of Four excellent New 

 Songs. 



Song I. The Old Woman spinning of Thyme. 

 II. Cupid's Revenge. 



III. The Tipling Divines ; or, the True An- 

 swer to the Tipling Philosophers. 

 IV". A New Scotch Song, sung at the Play- 

 house by Mrs. Redding. 

 Printed and sold by J. Tompon." The words 

 are somewhat different from the portion supplied 

 by B B, and are as follows : 



** As I was walking through fair London city, 

 I spy'd an old woman a-spinning of thyme; 

 I thought the invention was wond'rous pretty, 



The threads that she spun were so excellent fine. 

 Her hair was as white as the blossoms in May, 



And her countenance lovely for to behold ; 

 ' And thus she sat spinning and merrily singing, 

 ' Brave news for the Tories I have to unfold, 



*' ' An hundred and three years I've lived in this city, 



And glorious times I've seen, I protest ; 

 But now, like a Turk, I am forc'd for to labour, 



And in my old age I shall never have rest. 

 Until that I have spun all the thyme that lies by me, 



Which cannot be counted, the number's so great. 

 No money there will in Old England be stirring. 



But poverty will be each honest man's fate.' 



■" The Tories, I've seen them to flock in great numbers, 



To fetch home the thyme the old woman had spun. 



The Whiggs iu great number rav'd at her like 



thunder. 



And swore they would hang her as soon as she'd 



done. 



* You spin it so fast, you will surely undo us ; 



And when that our thyme it is finisht and done, 

 Because that no more we can find to employ you. 

 The Tories will make us their game and their fun.' 



" The old woman answered, ' You've set me to work. 

 And have paid me my wages you very well know, 



No more for to serve you, indeed I intend it, 

 To work for the Tories I mean for to go.' 



She made the old spinning-wheel briskly go round, 

 And sung that she made the place for to ring, 



♦ You Tories come all, bless the day and the hour 



That ever the old woman sat down to spin. 



.** ' "When I have spun up the thyme that the Whigs they 

 have gave me, 

 I'm sure Britain's kingdom will flourish amain : 

 A pot of strong bub you will have for a penny ; 



And money, my boys, you'll have plenty again. 

 Then Oliver's lumber will be to be sold ; 



A tub and a cushion for two-pence you'll buy, 

 And a canting parson you'll have for a farthing, 

 And lumps you will buy at this jovial outcry. 



" • Informers, you'll buy them for two-pence a dozen ; 

 The seed of Old Noll will be given away ; 

 My grand-fathers in Cheapside will be burned ; 



So cuckolds take care how you vi'ander that way. 

 There'll be thirteen or fourteen fools hang'd up at 

 Tyburn ; 

 They tell me their crimes will be robbing the poor, 

 The devil, he swears he will come for the hindmost. 

 Great will be the downfall of Babylon's whore, 



" * These glorious times, boys, you surely will see them. 



If that you will stay till my thyme it is spun.' 

 With that the old woman pulled up a good courage. 



And made the old spinning-wheel merrily run. 

 All happiness be to Old Britain for ever, 



Let's wish the old woman her health for to spin ; 

 For when her work's finisht our trade will replenish. 



So here's a good health to great George our King." 



Llewelltnn Jewitt. 

 Plymouth. 



PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED TO AECH^OLOGT, ETC. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 277. 295. 319. 371.) 



Dr. Diamond appears so earnest in his desire 

 to facilitate the practice of this delightful art, that 

 I doubt not he will kindly remove the few stum- 

 bling-blocks pointed out in the following Queries, 

 which I have put in the order in which they occur 

 iu the Doctor's valuable and most welcome com- 

 munication. 



Db. Diamond seems to have in view the pro- 

 duction of positives only, and on more than one 

 occasion alludes to the production of negatives as 

 merely probable. 



1. Query. — Is the whole process, as described, 

 quite as applicable to the production of negatives 

 as of positives, the former merely requiring a 

 longer exposure than the latter ? 



Note. — " Should the collodion then appear 

 very turbid, a small portion of spirits of wine may 

 be added." 



2. Query. — How much to the ounce ? Would 

 not filtration do ? Is there any objection, once 

 for all, to filter the collodion when first made? 

 And if not, should blotting-paper be used, or some 

 more porous body, such as silk ? How are the 

 " small crystals of nitrate of potash " to be got 

 rid of? 



Note. — " As the protonitrate of iron very ra- 

 pidly undergoes a change, it is quite needful to 

 use it fresh made;'''' and a little further on, 

 " When the sulphate of barytes subsides, the clear 

 protonitrate of iron may be poured off into a dry 

 bottle and heptfor use.'" 



3. Query. — How long may it be kept for use, 

 seeing that it must be used fresh made? 



May not a misunderstanding of this seeming 

 contradiction have occasioned the disappointment 

 of the Doctor's " many friends ?" Or, may it not 

 have arisen from not knowing how much, or what 



