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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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bert's, under the impression that they were Mr. 

 King's. It happened that some of them had been 

 printed in Mr. Lambert's volume, and the dis- 

 covery of this led to an explanation of the affair. 



H. Martin. 

 Halifax. 



Minute Engraving on Glass (Yol. xi., p. 242.). 

 — Your correspondent B. will find a very inte- 

 resting account of the manner in which this ex- 

 traordinary fine writing is executed, in Dr. 

 Lardner's Museum -of Science and Art, part xvi. 

 p. 73. Dr. Lardner there states, that as the 

 method by which those marvellous effects are pro- 

 duced is not yet patented, he is not at liberty to 

 explain its details ; but he adds, — 



" It may be stated generally to consist of a mechanism 

 by which the point of the graver or style is guided by a 

 system of levers, which are capable of imparting to it 

 three motions in right lines, which are reciprocally per- 

 pendicular, two of them being parallel, and the third at 

 right angles to the surface on which tlie characters or 

 design are written or engraved. The combination of the 

 motions in the direction of the axis, parallel to the surface 

 on which the characters are engraved or written, deter- 

 mine the form of the characters, and the motion in the 

 direction of the axis at right angles to that surface de- 

 termines the depth of the incision, if it be engraving, or 

 the thickness of the stroke, if it be writing." 



F. J. Geubb. 



B. will find some particulars of this process, 



which was shown in the Exhibition of 1851, in 



Lardner's Museum of Science and Art, part xvi., 



for April, 1855. A. O. H. 



Blackheath. * 



Pidmo Marinus (Vol. xi., p. 224.). — In reply 

 to Mb. Ivitchin's inquiry, I send the following 

 extract from the Diccionario de la Lengua Castel- 

 lanapor la Academia Espahola, Paris, 1824 : 



" Pulmon Marino. — Especie contada par algunos entre 

 la de mariscos 6 testaceos, aunque su cobertura 6 valva no 

 es sino un callo duro y grueso. Otros autores le tienen 

 por especie de esponja, que cuandoanda nadando sobre las 

 aguas del mar es senal de tempestad. Su figura es muy 

 semejante a la del pulmon de los animales. Pulmo ma- 

 rinus." 



Dublin. 



Lansallos Bell (Vol. xi., p. 100.). — By the 

 courtesy of Mb. Couch, I was favoured with a 

 rubbing of the devices to which he has called 

 attention. I at once recognised them as old ac- 

 quaintances, having met with the very same on 

 other mediaeval black-letter bells : viz. on one at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne ; at Compton Bassett, Wilts ; 

 on the seventh at Magdalen College ; and on two 

 of the bonny Christ Church bells, Oxford. As 

 for the crosslet, that is a mere variety of the 

 Christian emblem. The octagonal form alluded 

 to is merely the shape of the mould, block, or 

 matrix, which the workman pressed a little too 



deep into the mould. The pots as represented, 

 with covers, handles, and spouts, are not I believe 

 known in heraldry ; but being blazoned with a 

 chevron, and occurring through such a breadth of 

 country, from Northumberland to Cornwall, they 

 are probably the assumed arms of a fraternity 

 or the craft of bell-founders. And the other 

 shield, charged with a chevron between three 

 trefoils (not fleurs-de-lys), occurring as it does 

 with the other, cannot be the arms of any local 

 family, but either some emblematical assumption 

 of the bell-founder, or the arms of his own family, 

 The date I should set in the fifteenth century. I 

 hope Mr. Willis will favour the public with a cut 

 of these devices in his current notes. 



H. T. Ellacombb. 

 Eectory, Clyst St George. 



Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. iv., pp. 175. 242. ; 

 Vol. v., pp. 39. 305. 380. 475. ; Vol. viii., p. 527. ; 

 Vol. ix., p. 162.). — The following are additional 

 quotations from the English poets illustrative of 

 this fable : 



" Not from nobility doth virtue spring, 

 But virtue makes tit nobles for a king ; 

 From highest nests are croaking ravens borne, 

 While sweetest nightingales sit on a thorn." 



William Browne, Pastorals. 



" The nightingale, as soon as April bringeth 

 Unto her rest a sense, a perfect waking, 

 When late bare earth, proud of new clothing, springeth. 

 Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making."* 

 Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnets. 



" . . . . Leaning on a thorn her dainty chest. 

 For fear soft sleep should steal into her breast, 

 Expresses in her song grief not to he exprest." (!!!) 



Giles Fletcher. 



" And whiles against a thorn thou bear'st thy part, 

 To keep thy sharp woes waking, wretched I, 

 To imitate thee well, against my heart 

 Will fix a sharp knife to affright my eye." 



Shakspeare, Rape of Lucrece. 



" The lowly nightingale, 

 A thorn her pillow, trills her doleful tale." 



William Thompson, Hymn to May. 



" There, as sad Philomel, alike forlorn, 

 Sings to the night from her accustom'd thorn ; 

 While, at sweet intervals, each falling note 

 Sighs in the gale, and whispers round the grot. 

 The sister wo shall calm her aching breast, 

 And softer slumber steal her cares to rest." 



Darwin, Botanic Garden. 



" The bird forlorn 

 That singeth with her breast against a thorn." 



Hood, Flea of the Midsummer Fairies. 



* These lines were quoted at Vol. viii., p. 652., in a 

 note on the "Character of the Song of the Nightingale." 

 I again quote them, in order to place them under their 

 proper heading, and also for the purpose of giving their 

 author's name, your previous correspondent having in- 

 troduced the lilies with these words: "This exquisite 

 little song, written by I know not whom, but set to music 

 by Thomas Bateson in 1C04." 



