Pec. 17. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



583 



Another : 



" An honest, prudent wife was she ; 

 And was always inclin'd 

 A tender mother for to be, 

 And to her neighbours kind." 



Belgrave. This I quote from memory ; it may 

 not be verbally, but it is substantially correct : 



" Laurance Stetly slumbers here ; 

 He lived on earth near forty year ; 

 October's eight-and-twentieth day 

 His soul forsook its house of clay, 

 And thro' the purj ether took its way. 

 We hope his soul doth rest in heaven. 

 1777." 



Newtown Linford, adjoining Bradgate Park. In 

 this churchyard is a tombstone on which is en- 

 graved only the letters of the alphabet and the 

 simple numerals. The story goes, that he who 

 lies below, an illiterate inhabitant of the village 

 in the last century, whose name, I believe, is now 

 forgotten, being very anxious that, after death, a 

 tombstone should be erected to perpetuate his 

 memory, and being fearful that his relatives might 

 neglect to do so, came to Leicester to purchase 

 one himself. Seeing this stone in the mason's 

 workshop (where it was used by the workmen as 

 a pattern for the letters and figures), he bought It 

 " a bargain," supposing it would serve his purpose 

 as well as a new one, and after his decease it was 

 placed at the head of his grave, where it now ap- 

 pears. 



All Saints' churchyard, Leicester. On two chil- 

 dren of John Bracebridge, who were both named 

 John, and died Infants : 



" Both John and John soon lost their lives, 

 A.nd yet, by God, John still survives." 



Throsby {Hist, of Leic.) relates that Bishop Thur- 

 low, at one of his visitations, had the words hy 

 God altered to thro' God. WiiiLiAM Kelly. 



Leicester. 



LONGrELLOw's "REAPER AND THE FLOWERS." 



On looking over, a short time ago, a book of 

 German songs, I was much struck by the similarity 

 of thought, and even sometimes of expression, 

 between the above piece from Mr. Longfellow's 

 Voices of the Night, and a song by Lulse Relchardt, 

 a few verses of which I subjoin; as perhaps the 

 song may not be known to some of your corre- 

 spondents. 



" It is a favourite theme," as Sir W. Scott says, " of 

 laborious dulness to trace such coincidences, because 

 they appear to reduce genius of the higher order to the 

 usual standard of humanity, and of course to bring the 

 autiior nearer to a level with his critics." 



It Is not, however, with the view of detracting 

 from the originality of Mr. Longfellow, that these 



two small pieces are put side by side ; for possibly 

 the song alluded to was never seen by our trans- 

 atlantic neighbour, but merely for the purpose 

 of showing how the poets treat the same, and cer- 

 tainly not very novel subject. 



" DER SCHNITTER TOD. 



(Von Luise Reichardt.) 

 " Es ist ein Schnitter, der heisst Tod, 

 Der hat Gewalt vom hochsten Gott. 

 Heut' wetzt er das Messer, 

 Es schneid't schon vie! besser, 

 Bald wird er drein schneiden, 

 Wir milssen's nur leiden. 



Hiite dich, schbn's Bliimelein ! 



" Was heut' noch griin nnd frisch dasteht, 

 Wird morgen sclion hinweg gemiiht; 

 Die edlen Narzissen, 

 Die Zierden der Wiesen 

 Die schon' Nyagnithen, 

 Die turkischen Binden. 

 Hiite dich, schon's Bliimelein ! 



*' Viel hundert tausend ungezahlt, 

 Was nur unter die Sichel fallt : 

 liir Rosen, ihr Lilien, 

 Euch wird er austilgen, 

 Auch die Kaiserkronen 

 Wird er nicht verschonen. 



Hiite dich, schbn's Bliimelein ! 



'•' Trotz, Tod ! Komni her, ich fiircht' dich nicht ! 

 Trotz, eil daher in einem Schnitt ! 

 Werd' ich nur verletzet, 

 So werd' ich versetzet, 

 In den himmlischen Garten, 

 Auf den wir alle warten, 



Freue did), schbn's Bliimelein ! " 



J. C. B. 



" Receipt " or " Recipe." — In one of Mr. RyleV 

 popular tracts, " Do you pray ? " Wertheim and 

 Mackintosh: London, 1853, occurs the following 

 expression, p. 18. : 



" What is the best receipt for happiness?" 



Is the use of 'Receipt" for "recipe" to be ad- 



mitted Into the English language ? 



W.E. 



Death of Philip III. of Spain. — D'Israeli, in 

 his Curiosities of Literature, states to the effect 

 that this king's fatal illness was induced by the 

 overheating of a brazier, whereof state etiquette 

 forbad the removal until the person in regular 

 attendance should arrive. For this statement 

 he quotes no authority, and consequently Mr. 

 Bolton Corney, In his Illustrations of the Cu- 

 riosities of Literature (2nd ed., p. 87.), discredits 

 the story. 



It is singiriar that Mr. Corney should have for- 

 gotten that the anecdote Is given by the Marcchal 



