June 4. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Lucan, I think, has the same expression in his 

 Phai'salia; and it forms the basis of Longinus's 

 remark on the eloquence of Demosthenes : 



" OvKovv rr]v fiev <^v(Tiv tS>v iirava^opoov Kai acrvvdfruv 

 iravTri (pvXdrrti rfj cTuvf/il fiera^oKfj- ovToii aitTtfi Kcii 

 7] Toiis &TaKToy, Kal iixTzaKiv 7] aTa|ta Ttoiav vepiAafn^dvei. 

 ■rd^iy." 



It may be said that, as Pope adopted the thought 

 from Horace or Lucan, so a poet of the fifteenth 

 century (such as the supposed Rowley) might 

 have taken it from the same sources. But a com- 

 parison of the line in llie Tournament with those 

 in Windsor Forest will show that the borrowing 

 embraces not only the thought, but the very words 

 in which it is expressed. Hbnbt H. Bbeen. 



St. Lucia. 



FOLK LOBE. 



Legend of Llangefelacli Tower. — A different 

 version of the legend also exists in the neighbour- 

 hood, viz. that the day's work on the tower being 

 pulled down each night by the old gentleman, who 

 was appai-ently apprehensive that the sound of 

 the bells miglit keep away all evil spirits, a saint, 

 •of now forgotten name, told the people that if 

 they would stand at the church door, and throw 

 a stone, they would succeed in building the tower 

 on the "spot where it fell," which accordingly 

 came to pass. Cbbidwen. 



Wedding Divination. — Being lately present on 

 the occasion of a wedding at a town in the East 

 Hiding of Yorkshire, I was witness to the following 

 custom, which seems to take rank as a genuine 

 scrap of folk-lore. On the bride alighting from 

 her carriage at her father's door, a plate covered 

 with morsels of bride's cake was flung from a win- 

 dow of the second story upon the heads of the 

 crowd congregated in the street below ; and the 

 divination, I was told, consists in observing the 

 fate which attends its downfall. If it reach the 

 ground in safety, without being broken, the omen 

 is a most J^wfavourable one. If, on the other hand, 

 the plate be shattered to pieces (and the more the 

 better), the auspices are looked upon as most 

 happy. OxoNiENsis. 



SHAKSPEABE COEBESPONDENCE. 



Shakspearian Drawings. — I have very recently 

 become possessed of some curious drawings by 

 Hollar; those relating to Shakspeare very inte- 

 resting, evidently done for one Captain John Eyre, 

 who could himself handle the pencil well. 



The inscription under one is as follows, in the 

 writing of the said J. Eyre : 



" Ye house in ye Clink Streete, Soutliwarke, now 

 belonging to Master Ralph Hansome, and in ye which 

 Master Shakspeare lodged in ye while he writed and 



played at ye Globe, and untill ye yeare 1600 it was at 

 the time ye house of Grace Loveday. Will had. ye 

 two Rooms over against ye Doorway, as I will pos- 

 sibly show." 



Size of the drawing, 12 X 7, " W. Hollar delin., 

 1643." It is an exterior view, beautifully exe- 

 cuted, showing very prominently the house and a 

 continuation of houses, forming one side of the 

 street. 



The second has the following inscription ia the 

 same hand : 



" Ye portraiture of ye rooms in ye which Master 

 Will Shakspeare lodged in Clink Streete, and which 

 is told to us to be in ye same state as when left by 

 himself, as stated over ye door in ye room, and on the 

 walls were many printed verses, also a portraiture of 

 Ben Jonson with a ruff on a panne). " 

 Size of the drawing llf X 6|, " W. Hollar delin., 

 1643 :" shows the interior of three sides, and the 

 floor and ceiling, with the tables, chairs, and 

 reading-desk ; an open door shows the interior of 

 his sleeping-room, being over the entrance door 

 porch. 



The third — 



" Ye Globe, as to be seen before ye Fire in ye year 

 1615, when this place was burnt down. This old 

 building," &c. 



Here follows a long Interesting description. It is 

 an exterior view ; size of drawing 7^ wide X 9^ 

 high, " W. H. 1640." 



The fourth shows the stage, on which are two 

 actors : this drawing, 7^ X 6^, was done by 

 J. Eyre, 1629, and on which he gives a curious 

 description of his accompanying Prince Charles, 

 &c. ; at this time he belonged to the Court, as he 

 also accompanied that prince to Spain. 



The fifth, done by the same hand in a most 

 masterly manner, pen and Ink portrait of Shak- 

 speare, copied, as he writes, from a portrait be- 

 longing to the Earl of Essex, with interesting 

 manuscript notice. 



The sixth, done also by J. Eyre : 



" Ye portraiture of one Master Ben Jonson, as on 

 ye walls of Master Will Shakspeare's rooms in Clinke 

 Streete, Southwarke." — J. E. 1643. 



The first three, in justice to Hollar, independent 

 of the admirers of the immortal bard and lovers of 

 antiquities, should be engraved as " Facsimiles of 

 the Drawings." This shall be done on my re- 

 ceiving the names of sixty subscribers, the amount 

 of subscription one guinea, for which each sub- 

 scriber will receive three engravings, to be paid 

 for when delivered. P. T, 



P. S. — These curious drawings may be seen at 

 No. 1. Osnaburgh Place, New Koad. 



Thomas Shakspeare. — From a close examination 

 of the documents referred to (as bearing the sig- 

 nature of Thomas Shakspeare) in my last com- 



