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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No, 218. 



■well as their intrinsic beauty, render them worthy 

 ■of notice : 



" I heard the raptured nightingale, 

 Tell from yon elmy grove, his tale 



Of jealousy and love, 

 In thronging notes that seem'd to fall, 

 As faultless and as musical. 



As angels' strains above. 

 So sweet, they cast on all things round, 

 A spell of melody profound : 

 They charm'd the river in his flowing. 

 They stay'd the night-wind in its blowing, 

 They luU'd the lily to her rest, 

 Upon the Cherwell's heaving breast." 



To those interested in this subject, so full of 

 historical and classical, as well as poetical associa- 

 tions, I would mention that a late Master of Caius 

 College, Cambridge, the Rev. Dr. Davy, printed 

 some years since, for private circulation, a small 

 pamphlet entitled Observations on Mr. Fox's Let- 

 ter to Mr. Grey., in which he refutes that eminent 

 statesman's theory of the merry note of the night- 

 ingale. This pamphlet is so full of elegance and 

 classical research, that it is much to be regretted, 

 not only that it has never been published, but 

 that it is the only work of the learned author — the 

 friend and associate of Porson, of Parr, and of 

 Maltby. I possess a presentation copy, which, as 

 only a very few copies were printed, I would 

 gladly lend to any of your readers interested in 

 this curious and long-pending controversy. 



NoEKis Deck. 



Cambridge. 



Add to the already long list, this from Spenser : 



" That blessed bird, that spends her time of sleep 

 In songs and plaintive pleas, the more t'augment 

 The memory of his misdeed that bred her woe." 



And this exquisite little song, written by I know 

 not whom, but set to music by Thomas Bateson 

 in 1604 : 



*' The Nightingale, as soon as April bringeth 



Unto her rested sense a perfect waking, 

 While late bare earth proud of her clothing springeth. 



Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making ; 

 And mournfully bewailing. 



Her throat in tunes expresseth, 



While grief her heart oppresseth, 

 For Tereus' force o'er her chaste will prevailing." 



H. Gabdineb. 



Inscriptions in Boohs (Vol. viil., p. 64. &c.). — 

 John Bostock, sometime Abbat of St. Alban's, 

 gave some valuable books to the library of Glou- 

 cester Hall, Oxford, with these lines in the com- 

 mencement : 



*' Quern si quis rapiat raptim, titulumve retractet, 

 5, Vel Juda laqueum, vel furcas sentiat. Amen." 



Anon. 



Door-head Inscription (Vol. vIII., p. 454.). — A 

 friend has kindly sent me an improved version of 

 the inscription over the gate of the Apostolical 

 Chancery, which, with his permission, I beg to 

 forward to you : — 



" Fide Deo, die sajpe preces, peccare caveto. 

 Sis humilis, pacem dilige, magna fuge, 

 Multa audi, die pauca, tace abditn, scito minori 

 Parcere, majori cedere, ferre parem. 

 Propria fac, persolve fidem, sis sequus egenis, 

 Parta tuere, pati disce, memento mori." 



H. T. Ellacombe. 



Fogie (Vol. vlil., pp. 154. 256.). — In the citadel 

 of Plymouth, some twenty or twenty-five years 

 since, there was a band of old soldiers (principally 

 men of small stature) who went by this name. 

 They were said to be the only men acquainted 

 with all the windings and outlets of the subter- 

 ranean passages of this fortification. 



The cognomen " old fogie " is In this neighbour- 

 hood frequently applied to old men i-emarkable 

 for shrcAvdness, cunning, qualntness, or eccen- 

 tricity. This use of the term Is evidently figu- 

 rative, borrowed from its application to veteran 

 soldiers. Cannot some of the military coi're- 

 spondents of " N. & Q." give the origin of the 

 word ? Isaiah W. N. Keys. 



Plymouth. 



Sir W. Heivet (Vol.vIH., p. 270.).— Mb. Gbif- 

 FiTH will find in Thoresby's Ducatus LeodinensiSy 

 p. 2. (Whittaker's edit.), a pedigree of the family 

 of Osborne, which gives two generations previous 

 to Edward Osborne, who mai'rled Ann Hewet, 

 namely, — 



Richard Osborne, who mai-rled Elizabeth, 



daughter of Fyldene, by whom he had 



Richard, who married Jane, daughter of John 

 Broughton of Broughton, Esq., and sister and heir 

 to Edward and Lancelyn Broughton. 



Sir Edward Osborne, Knight, Citizen, and Lord 

 Mayor of London (1582), who died in 1591, mar- 

 ried Ann, daughter and sole heir of Sir William 

 Hewet, Lord Mayor of London, 1559, by whom 

 he had Sir Hewet Osborne, born 1567, died 1614. 

 Sir Edward had a second wife, Margaret, daughter 

 of , who died in 1602. 



There is a note at the bottom of the page, 

 quoted from a MS. in the College of Arms, E 1. 

 fol. 190., "That this descent was registered the 

 30th March, 1568, when Hewet Osborne was the 

 age of one year and .... days." 



Edwabd Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton in Lindsey. 



Ladies' Arms home in a Lozenge (Vol. vIH., 

 pp. 37. 83. 277. 329.). — The difference between the 

 fusil and the lozenge Is well known to all heralds, 

 though coach-painters and silversmiths do not 



