Apeil 30. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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A rich waistcoat they did him bring, 

 Made of the troutfly's golden wing, 

 Dy'd crimson in a maiden's blush. 

 And lin'd in humming-bees' soft plush. 



His hat was all of lady's love, 



So passing light, that it would move 



If any gnat or humming fly 



But beat the air in passing by. 



About it went a wreath of pearl, 

 Dropt from the eyes of some poor girl, 

 Pinch'd because she had forgot 

 To leave clean water in the pot. 



His breeches and his cassock were 

 Made of the tinsel gossamer ; 

 Down by its seam there went a lace 

 Drawn by an urchin snail's slow pace. 



No sooner was their King attir'd 



As never prince had been. 

 But, as in duty was requir'd. 



They next array their Queen. 



Of shining thread shot from the sun 



And twisted into line. 

 In the light wheel of fortune spun. 



Was made her smock so fine. , 

 Her gown was ev'ry colour fair, 



The rainbow gave the dip ; 

 Perfumed from an amber air, 



Breath'd from a virgin's lip. 



Her necklace was of subtle tye 



Of glorious atoms, set 

 In the pure black of beauty's eye 



As they had been in jet. 



The revels ended, she put off. 



Because her Grace was warm ; 

 She fann'd her with a lady's scoff, 



And so she took no harm. 



Mrs. Bai'bauld wrote the following lines on a 

 scroll within a kind of wreath, which hung over 

 the chimney, the whole parlour being decorated 

 •with branches of ivy, which were made to run 

 down the walls and hang down every pannel in 

 festoons, at a country place called Palgrave : 



Surly Winter, come not here, 



Bluster in thy proper sphere ; 



Howl along the naked plain ; 



There exert thy joyless reign. 



Triumph o'er the wither'd flow'r. 



The leafless shrub, the ruin'd bower ; 



But our cottage come not near. 



Other Springs inhabit here, 



Other sunshine decks our board 



Tlian thy niggard skies afford. 



Gloomy Winter, hence away. 



Love and fancy scorn thy sway ; 



Love, and joy, and friendly mirth 



Shall bless this roof, these walls, this hearth. 



The rigor of the year control, 

 [ And thaw the winter in the soul 



Liverpool. 



j^WlLL. HONEXCOMBE. 



BOUND TOWERS OF THE CTCLADES. 



On Friday evening, Nov. 19, 1852, a lecture 

 was delivered before the members of the Literary 

 and Scientific Institute of this island, by Capt. 

 Graves, R.N., from which I have been permitted 

 to take the following extract. The information 

 contained in it, will doubtless be the more inte- 

 resting to many of the readers of " N. & Q.," when 

 informed that the round towers of Greece are fast 

 disappearing ; either from being pulled down for 

 the erection of dwellings, or to be burnt into lime, 

 by the Greeks who dwell in their neighbourhood. 

 What the original dimensions of these towers may 

 have been in ancient times, or for what purposes 

 they were erected, are alike unknown ; but their 

 present proportions are as follow, and drawn by 

 the learned lecturer from personal observation : 



" A. Andros, near the port 



B. 



Zea overlooking 

 Bay 



Perses 



C. Thermla 



D. Serpho 



E. Beach of Port Pharos 



F. Hillock, west 

 Pharos 



side 



G. Village of Herampili 



H. Valley beyond villages 



jr. Short distance west 

 Mount Elias 



K. 



Between Elias and west 

 coast 



{ 

 ■{ 

 -{ 



■{ 



•■{ 



-{ 



•{ 

 '{ 



St r 



Feet. 

 Heicht 60 



L. Naxos, south-east end of 

 the island - 



M. Paros, north, port Naussa. 

 Of this tower only a few 

 courses of the stones are 

 left. It is however sup- 

 posed to have been of 

 the same dimensions as 

 that of Naxos." 



Malta. 



Height 5 5 



Diameter 26 6 



Wall 2 O 



Height 1 1 O 



Diameter 28 5 



Height 15 O 



Diameter 27 O 



Height 7 O 



Diameter 31 8 



Wall 2 6 



Height 16 « 



Diameter 42 10 



Wall 3 O 



Height 15 8 



Diameter 38 S 



Wall 4 to 2 6 



Height 11 10 



Diameter 33 S 



Wall 4 O 



Height 6 O 



Diameter 24 7 



Wall 5 O 



Height 50 O, 



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