July 2. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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And as gently lay my head 

 On my grave, as now my bed. 



" These are my drowsy days ; in vain 

 I do now wake to sleep again. 

 O come that hour when I shall never 

 Sleep again, but wake for ever ! 



** Guard me 'gainst those watchful foes. 

 Whose eyes are open while mine close ; 

 Let no dreams my head infest, 

 But such as Jacob's temples blest." 



Bishop Ken. 

 * " Awake, my soul, and with the sun 



Thy daily stage of duty run. 



" Teach me to live that I may dread 

 The grave as little as my bed. 



" O when shall I in endless day 

 For ever chase dark sleep away. 

 And endless praise with th' Heavenly choir, 

 Incessant sing and never tire. 



" You, my blest Guardian, whilst I sleep. 

 Close to my bed your vigils keep ; 

 Divine love into me instil. 

 Stop all the avenues of ill. 



" Thought to thought, with my soul converse 

 Celestial joys to me rehearse ; 

 And in my stead, all the night long, 

 Sing to my God a grateful song." 



In the work referred to — one of the most 

 valuable and best edited of modern days — Mr. 

 Wilkin, when speaking of a fine passage on music 

 in the Religio Medici (vol. ii. p. 106.), asks whe- 

 ther it may not have suggested to Addison the 

 beautiful conclusion of his Hymn on the Glories of 

 Creation ; 



" What tho' in solemn silence, all," &e. 



This passage in Sir Thomas Browne appears for- 

 cibly to have struck the gifted author of Confes- 

 sions of an English Opium-eater (see p. 106. of 

 that work). J. H. Markland. 



BOHN S EDITION OP HOVEDEN. 



(Vol. vii., p. 579.) 



Mk. Riley mistakes my purpose if he thinks 

 that my object was to make a personal attack on 

 him ; and for anything in my last communication 

 which may have appeared to possess that ten- 

 dency, I hereby freely express my regret. Still I 

 cannot allow that he has explained away the mis- 

 takes of which I complained, and of which I still 

 have to complain. The kingdom of Cork never 

 " extended to within a short distance of Waterford ; " 

 and the territory of Desmond was never co-exten- 

 sive with Cork, having been always confined to 

 the county of Kerry. Mr. Riley, therefore, is in 

 error when he uses " Cork " and " Desmond " as 

 synonymous. Again, he falls into the same mis- 



take by assuming " Crook, Hook Point, or The 

 Crook," to be synonyms. I never heard that 

 Henry II. landed at Hook Point, which is in th? 

 county of Wexford, and from which a land jou)t|tey 

 to Waterford would be very circuitous. At Crook, 

 however, on the opposite side of Waterford 

 Harbour, and within the shelter of Creden Head, 

 he is said to have done so; and as that point 

 answers pretty exactly to the Crock of Hoveden, 

 why assume some indefinite point of the " Kingdom 

 of Cork " as the locality, even supposing that its 

 boundary did approach Waterford city ? Really 

 Mr. Riley's explanations but make matters worse. 

 With regard to " Erupolensis " being an alias 

 of Ossoriensis, I may quote the authority of the 

 learned De Burgo, who, speaking of 'the diocese 

 of Ossory, observes : 



" Quandoque tamen nuncupata erat Eyritpolensis 

 ab Eyro Flumine, vulgo Neoro, quod Kilkenniam al- 

 luit." — Hihernia Dominicana, p. 205. note i. 



I maintain that the reading public has just cause 

 to complain, not (as I said on a former occasion) 

 because the editor of such a book as Hoveden's 

 Annals does not know everything necessary to 

 elucidate his author, but because baseless con- 

 jectures are put forward as elucidations of the 

 text. James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



COLERIDGE S CHRISTAEEL. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292.) 



It is difficult to believe that the third part of 

 Christabel, published in Blackwood for June, 1819, 

 vol. V. p. 286., could have either " perplexed the 

 public," or " pleased Coleridge." In the first place, 

 it was avowedly written by " Morgan Odoherty ; " 

 and in the next, it is too palpable a parody to have 

 pleased the original author, who could hardly 

 have been satisfied with the raving rhapsodies put 

 into his mouth, or with the treatment of his inno- 

 cent and virtuous heroine. This will readily be 

 supposed when it is known that the Lady Ge- 

 raldine is made out to have been a man in woman's 

 attire, and that " the mark of Christabel's shame, 

 the seal of her sorrow," is neither more nor less 

 than the natural consequence of her having shared 

 her chamber with such a visitor. 



Is your correspondent A. B. R. correct in stating 

 this parody to have been the composition of Dr. 

 Maginn ? In the biography of this brilliant writer 

 in the twenty-third volume of the Dublin Uni- 

 versity Magazine., Dr. Moir, who had undoubtedly 

 good opportunities of knowing, mentions that his 

 first contribution to Blackwood was the Latin 

 translation of " Chevy Chase," in the number for 

 November 1819 ; if this be correct, many of the 

 cleverest papers that appeared under the name of 

 Odoherty, and which are all popularly attributed 



