2«<i S. V. 129., June 19. '58.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Byron and jEschylus (2'>« S. v. 454.) — The 

 celebrated passage on the death of Kirke White, 

 extracted by J. R. from Byron's English Bards 

 and Scotch Reviewers, is plagiarised from Waller's 

 verses " To a Lady singing a Song of his Com- 

 posing," and commencing : — 



" Chloris, j'ourself you so excell, 



When you vouchsafe to breathe ray thought, 

 That, like a spirit, with this spell 



Of my own teaching I am caught. 

 That eagle's fate and mine are one. 



Which, on the shaft that made him die, 

 Espy'd a feather of his own, 



Wherewith he wont to soar so high." 



" This," says Fenton, in his excellent edition of Wal- 

 ler's Works (4to., Lond., 1729), " alludes to an yEsopian 

 fable which is to be found in the most ancient collections ; 

 and I remember Gabrias has comprehended it after his 

 dry manner in four Greek iambics ; but it appears with 

 all the grace and purity of Phaedrus in the late ingenious 

 Mr. Alsop's translation : — 



" ' Jejuna prominenti aquila saxo insidens,' " &c. 



I fear there exists a great diversity of opinion 

 respecting the scrupulosity of the noble poet in 

 acknowledging his numerous plagiarisms from the 

 classics and other sources. Many believe that 

 his lordship's admiration, &c., were not limited to 

 the Fragments of ^schylus. j8. 



Hereford Missal (2"'^ S. v. 455.)— The Museum 

 have given the very large sum of 300Z. for this 

 volume, on account of its being the only perfect 

 copy. Besides the two Bodleian copies, there is 

 one in the library of St. John's, Oxford. This is 

 on paper, but a good deal stained, and imperfect. 

 It is impossible to say whether there was more 

 than one edition, it being quite possible that others 

 may still turn up. I have myself at various times 

 come across rare English service-books in most 

 unlikely places : for example, there is an early 

 English missal, different from any I have seen, in 

 the public library at Malta. It has a date, 1309, 

 but is probably earlier. And there is a better 

 chance of finding printed than MS. books, because 

 so many were published abroad. J. C. J. 



" Sir John Wolley, Knt. (2"'^ S. v. 437.)— He was 

 a Privy Councillor, and Latin Secretary to Queen 

 Elizabeth ; admitted Chancellor of the Order of 

 the Garter April 23, 1589 ; died Feb. or March 

 1595-6, and was buried in St. George's Chapel of 

 St. Paul's Cathedral. 



See Ellis's ed. of Sir Wm. Dugdale's History of 

 St. PauVs, at page 71. of which is given a large 

 engraving of his monument, and 4i copy of the 

 inscription containing some biographical inform- 

 ation concerning himself and his family. See also 

 p. 213. of that work. 



" Honest Izaak" Walton informs us, in his 

 Life of Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, that Sir 

 John Wolley's widow (then married to Lord 



EUesmere, Chancellor and Keeper of the Great 

 Seal), was aunt of Donne's wife Anne, daughter 

 of Sir George More, Chancellor of the Order of 

 the Garter, and Lieutenant of the Tower. 



He tells how in right of this relationship Sir 

 John's only son Sir Francis of Pirford, Surrey, 

 befriended his kinsman when in distress, and 

 eventually reconciled the Dean's father-in-law to 

 him. 



The MS. collections of Adam Wolley of Allen 

 Hill, CO. Derby, an eminent genealogist and topo- 

 grapher, which he bequeathed to the British 

 Museum Library, might afford Mr. Robinson 

 some information as to the family history. 



John Ribton Gabstin. 



Dublin. 



Echo Poetry (2"" S. v. 306.) — One of the hap- 

 piest hits of this kind was one attributed, it is be- 

 lieved, to Sir Charles Wetherall, when, thirty 

 years ago, everybody was running after Paganini 

 the violinist : — 



" What are they who pay three guineas 

 To hear a tune of Paganini's? 



Pack o' ninnies." 



The laureate in this art of poesie was perhaps 

 Archdeacon Wrangham, whose echoing rhymes in 

 English, French, Greek, Latin, and Italian may 

 be seen in the third volume of his Works, copied 

 into Jerdan's Portrait Gallery, art. Wkangham. 



Anon. 



Echo Song. — Looking through a volume of 

 songs set to music, in my possession, I found the 

 following ; which I send to the Editor, ho})ing 

 that it may please some of the readers of " N. & 

 Q." The words by Addison, the music by Hook. 



" Echo tell me, while 1 wander 



O'er this fairy plain to prove him. 

 If my shepherd still grows fonder, 

 Ought I in return to love him ? 



Echo. Love him, love hira. 



" If he loves, as is the fashion. 



Should 1 churlishly forsake him ? 

 Or in pity to his passion. 



Fondly to my bosom take him ? 



Echo. Take him, take him. 



" Thy advice, then, I'll adhere to, 



Since in Cupid's chains I've led him ; 

 And with Henry shall not fear to 

 Marry, if you answer * wed him.' 



Echo. Wed him, wed him." 



Phillip Colson. 



Caste (2"'' S. v. 455.) — This word is undoubt- 

 edly Portuguese and Spanish, meaning race, clan, 

 family, stock, sort, &c. " Da mesma casta" (Port.), 

 of the same kindred. "Hacer casta" (Span.), to 

 get a pa?-tictdar breed. It is therefore possible, 

 as Mb. Wabwick suggests, that the word repre- 

 sents the Arabic kaza : but the original terms for 

 what we call caste in India, are Jayatas — which 

 is equivalent to the Latin gentes — and Varani, 



