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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 210. 



can oblige me with the first verse of this love- 

 song ; I only recollect the above lines. 



William Gardiner. 

 Leicester. 



[The following Is the song referred to by our cor- 

 respondent : 



The Forsaken Nymph. 



•* Guardian angels, now protect me, 



Send to me the swain I love ; 

 Cupid, with thy bow direct me ; 



Help me, all ye pow'rs above. 

 Bear him my sighs, ye gentle breezes, 



Tell him I love and I despair, 

 Tell him for him I grieve, say 'tis for him I live ; 



O may the shepherd be sincere ! 



*' Through the shady grove I'll wander. 



Silent as the bird of night, 

 Near the brink of yonder fountain, 



First Leander bless'd my sight. 

 Witness ye groves and falls of water, 



Echos repeat the vows be swore : 

 Can he forget me? will he neglect me? 



Shall I never see him more ? 



" Does he love, and yet forsake me, 



To admire a nymph more fair ? 

 If 'tis so, I'll wear the willow. 



And esteem the happy pair. 

 Some lonely cave I'll make my dwelling. 



Ne'er more the cares of life pursue; 

 The lark and Philomel only shall hear me tell. 



What bids me bid the world adieu."] 



K. C.B.'s. — I observe that in the London Ga- 

 zette of January 2, 1815, which regulates the ex- 

 isting order of the Bath, it is commanded by the 

 eovereign that " there shall be affixed in the 

 church of St. Peter at Westminster escutcheons 

 and banners of the arms of each K. C. B." Has 

 this command been regularly fulfilled on the 

 creation of each K. C. B. ? I believe that on each 

 creation fees are demanded by the Heralds' Col- 

 lege, for the professed purpose of exemplifying the 

 knight's arms, and affixing his escutcheon ; but I 

 never remember to have seen the escutcheons in 

 Westminster Abbey. Tewars. 



[The order never was fulfilled. If the knights were 

 entitled to armorial bearings, no fees whatever were 

 demanded by or paid to the Heralds' College. The 

 statutes of 1815 were, however, abrogated and annulled 

 by the statutes of 1847, and the banners are not re- 

 quired to be suspended in the Abbey. The erection of 

 the banners and plates, however, rested with the officers 

 of the order, and tiie Heralds' College had nothing to 

 do with the matter.] 



Danish and Swedish Ballads. — What are the 

 best and most recent collections of ancient Danish 

 and Swedish ballad poetry ? J. M. B. 



[We believe the best and most recent collection of 

 Danish ballads is the edition of Udvalgte Danske Viser 

 fra Middelalderen, by Abrahamson, Nyerup, Rahbek, 



&c., in five small Svo. volumes, Copenhagen, 1812. The 

 best Swedish collection was Svenska Folk- Visor fran 

 Forteden, collected and edited by Geijer and Afzelius, 

 and published at Stockholm, 1814 ; but the more 

 recent collection published by Arwidson in 1834 is 

 certainly superior. It is in three octavo volumes, and 

 is entitled Svenska Fornsdnger. En Samling af K'dmp. 

 visor, Folk-visor, Lekar och Dansar, samt Barn- och 

 Vail- Sanger. ] 



Etymology of " Conger" — What is the ety- 

 mology of the word Conger, as applied to the 

 larger kind of deep sea eels by our fishermen 

 (who, be it remarked, never add eel. Conger-eel 

 is entirely used by shore-folk) ? 



I imagine that it may be traced from the Danish 

 Kongr, a king, or kings ; for being the greatest 

 of eels, the fishermen, whose nets he tore, and 

 whose take he seriously reduced, might well call 

 him in size, in strength,, and voracity — Kongr, the 

 king. C. D. Lamont. 



Greenock. 



[Todd and Webster derive it from the Latin conger 

 or congrus ; Gr. '^6yypo^, formed of ypda, to eat, the 

 fish being very voracious ; It. yongro ; Fr. congre. ] 



"Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum tibi." — 

 This is, I think, the ordinary form of a saying cited 

 somewhere by Goldsmith, who calls it " so trite a 

 quotation that it almost demands an apology to 

 repeat it." Whence comes it originally ? I am 

 unable to give the exact reference to the passage 

 in Goldsmith, but in his Citizen of the World, 

 letter 5;Jrd, he has a cognate idea : 



" As in common conversation the best way to make 

 the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself, so in 

 writing," &c, 



W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



[Horace, Z>e Arte Poetica, 102.] 



Ecplu^. 



MEDAL AND RELIC OF MART QUEEN OF SCOTS. 



(Vol. viii., p. 293.) 



I possess a cast of this medal as described by 

 your correspondent W. Fraser, but which is a 

 little indistinct in some of the letters of its inscrip- 

 tions. The yew-tree represented on it is generally 

 supposed to be that which stood at Cruikston 

 Castle nearly Paisley ; and its motto " Vires" may 

 perhaps have been intended to denote its natural 

 strength and durability. The date of the medal 

 being 15G6, and Mary's marriage with Lord 

 Darnly having taken place on July 29, 1565, the 

 yew-tree may have been introduced to comme- 

 morate some incident of their courtship, and gives 

 likelihood to the common tradition. I once had a 

 small box composed partly of its wood, and of 



