2'>d S. N" 107., Jan. 16. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Moli^re's plays), under the name of the Libertine, 

 but it was considered so impious that it was an 

 act of profanation to represent it on the stage, 

 and it was discountenanced for many years. 



Delta. 



Illuminated Clock (2°'* S. iv. 387.)- — Over the 

 shop of Mr. Bennett, clockmaker, &5, Cheapside, 

 is a clock similar to the one at Havre, and de- 

 scribed by Meletes. Meecatoe, A. B- 



Triforium (2"^ S. iv.269. 820. 481. 522.) —The 

 probable use of this gallery has been discussed. 

 Your correspondent, P. C.'s opinion, is thus sup- 

 ported by Mr. Charles Dickens. (The passage 

 occurs in The Old Curiosity Shop, where the 

 Bachelor is showing little Nell over the old 

 church. He has been taking her into the vaults :) 



" Thence he took her above ground again, and showed 

 her, high up in the old walls, small galleries ; where the 

 nuns had been wont to glide along — dimly seen in their 

 dark dresses so far off — or to pause, like gloomy shadows, 

 listening to the prayers." — 3faster Humphrey's Clock, 1st 

 edit. vol. ii. 98. 



CUTHBEET BeBE. 



Courthose or Shorthose (2"'^ S. iv.453.) —Your 

 correspondent A. C. M. is mistaken in the date 

 which he assigns to the.mock epitaph on one who 

 bore the name of Shorthose. It is found in Cam- 

 den's Remaines concerning JBritaine (4th edit. 4to. 

 Lond. 1629, p. 326.), where it runs thus : 



" Hie jacet Tom Shorthose, 

 Sine tomb, sine sheets, sine riches, 

 Qui vixit sine gowne, 

 Sine cloak, sine shirt, sine breeches." 



W. D. Macray. 



Quotation Wanted (2"'* S. iv. 410.) — A corre- 

 spondent, A. B. C, inquired three numbers back 

 for these lines : — 



" Admire, weep, laugh, exult, despise. 

 For here is room for all such feeling." 



I thought everyone knew, and numbers would 

 answer, so I refrained from pointing out the place 

 and author ; but as, to my great surprise, no one 

 has come forward, A. B. C. is informed that the 

 lines are given by him incorrectly, and that he 

 will find them in Byron's Ckilde Harold's Pil- 

 grimage, Canto IV. stanza cix., thus : — 



"Admire, exult — despise — laugh, weep, — for here 

 There is such matter for all feeling," 



F. C. H. 

 _ Lilraries (2"'^ S. iv. 396.) — There is a fine old 

 library over the eastern cloister of Wells cathe- 

 dral, consisting of several thousand volumes, which 

 deserves the description you have given of a library 

 in another place. Until within the last four or 

 five months, it has been sadly neglected : the books 

 were in many instances suifered to lie about the 

 benches, some open, some shut, but all covered 

 with dust and cobwebs. The apartment itself 

 (the gift of a former prelate) was iu a sadly dirty 



condition ; the fine old staiqed-glass iq the win- 

 dows ready to fall out, with other dilapidations in 

 different parts of the building. Recently, the at- 

 tention of the Dean and Chapter has been called 

 to the subject, and they have had the books 

 cleansed from dust, &c., and restored to their old 

 resting-places, and the apartment whitewashed, 

 &c. Fires will be occasionally lighted, so as to 

 preserve the books fr6m damp. A librarian has 

 also been appointed; but I regret to add, that 

 orders have been given, the effect of which 

 amounts to an almost total denial of admission to 

 every person, whether they wish for a sight of the 

 books for a useful purpose or not. It is to be re- 

 gretted that some compulsory provision for a paid 

 librarian is not made, who should permit access to 

 the library under proper restrictions, and be an- 

 swerable for the safety of the books. 



I may also mention that the vicars choral of the 

 cathedral possess the remains of what was once an 

 extensive and valuable library. The apartment, 

 built for the reception of the books by a former 

 benefactor of the body, was over the private chapel 

 in the " Close." The books were removed *ome 

 years ago into the Muniment Room adjoining the 

 Common Hall, and there they lie (such as remain) 

 in the greatest possible state of confusion, and co- 

 vered with dust and dirt. Among the books are 

 several old MSS. of great interest and value. 



Ina. 



Wells, Somersetshire. 



Thomas de Quincey (2°* S. iv. 472.) — " The 

 Confessions of an English Opium Eater" first ap- 

 peared as a contribution to the London Magazine, 

 vol. iv., 1821. 



The *^ preliminary confessions," which precede 

 the visions (p. 295.), relate chiefly to the writer's 

 assumed personal history, which led to the habit 

 of opium- eating. This, with its consequent ter- 

 rible dreams, he narrates in a most graphical 

 manner in a subsequent paper. 



In the introductory part, the writer makes an 

 interesting mention of his acquaintance with Anne, 

 " a beautiful girl," with whom he says he^ fre- 

 quently walked the streets of London at night ; 

 and, probably, this is the story for which Mb. 

 Inglebt inquires. 



But Me- Ingleby speaks of it as being in^ " a 

 paper detailing one of Mr. De Quincey's opium 

 visions ;" and yet " not comprehended in the Con- 

 fessions, nor in the Appendix" 



Now in neither of the visions, as they are pub- 

 lished in the Magazine, is there any mention qf 

 " a beautiful girl." And, as I have not now any 

 other copy of the Confessions at hand to refer to, 

 I can only conjecture this. These " preliminary 

 confessions," or a part of them, were omitted in 

 the republication ; and the story of the " beautiful 

 girl " subsequently engrafted into some additional 

 vision ; or that Me. Ingleby really saw it in the 



