Mar. 31. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of the fifteenth century, in the possession of a gen- 

 tleman at Chard : 



« In twice 200 years the Bear 

 The Crescent will assail ; 

 But, if the Cock and Bull unite, 

 The Bear will not prevail. 



« But mark, in twice ten years again. 

 Let Islam know and fear — 

 The Cross shall stand, the Crescent wane, 

 Dissolve and disappear." 



Without venturing to make any note on this pro- 

 phecy, I would put the following Query, viz. 

 When and where are to be found the first traces 

 of the bear, the cock, and the bull being used to 

 personify Russia, France, and England ? 

 ^ -^ . E.S.S.W. 



Brighton. 



"When the maggot hites" (Vol. viii., p. 244.). 

 — In Mr. J. B. Nichols's edition of The Life and 

 Errors of John Dunton (London, two vols. 8vo., 

 ]818), vol. i. p. 10., occurs a passage, with a note 

 appended, from Dunton's own memoir, which pro- 

 bably will point out the original source of this 

 quotation : 



" I once published a book, I remember, under the title 

 of Maggots, but it was written by a Dignitary of the 

 Church of England." 



The frontispiece to the volume is an anonymous 

 portrait of the author, the picture of a man writing 

 at a table, a maggot on his forehead, and under- 

 neath are these lines ; 



" In's own defence the author writes. 

 Because when this foul maggot bites. 



He ne'er can rest in quiet ; 

 Which makes him make so sad a face. 

 He'd beg your worship, or your grace, 



Unsight, unseen to lay it." 



The volume in question is entitled Maggots ; or 

 Poems on several Subjects never hefore handled. 

 By a Scholar. It was written by Mr. Samuel 

 Wesley, and published in 1685, at London. A 

 character of Mr. Wesley is given by Dunton, 

 vol. i. p. 163. &c. Seeviens. 



The Stuart Papers (Vol. xi., p. 170.). — C. Y. 

 complains that these papers have not been pub- 

 lished and are not accessible ; C. Y. is mistaken. 

 Any one acquainted with Lord Mahon's History 

 of England^ will inform him that all the really 

 interesting and important letters and papers in 

 that collection have been published by Lord 

 Mahon in the Appendices to his History, and the 

 letters thus made public for the first time amount 

 to at least 150. K. N. 



Saints who destroyed Serpents (Vol. vi., pp. 147. 

 230. 519.). — A long list, with much curious in- 

 formation on the subject, may be found in 

 L. F. A. Maury's Essai sur les Legendes pieuses 

 du Moyen-age, p. 144. : Paris, 1843. J. C. R. 



Professors (Vol. xi., p. 47.). — " What consti- 

 tutes a professor ? " A very sensible question, 

 and, considering how much it is abused, deserves a 

 reply. I once heard Lord Ellenborough ask a 

 witness what he was ; he replied, " A professor of 

 music." The query then was, " Where did you 

 take your degree ? " " Nowhere." " Then, Sir, 

 you are not a professor ; you may teach music, 

 but you are a mere music-master. A professor 

 receives a degree in art or science from an acknow- 

 ledged university.''' This distinction I heard in 

 early life. I have before me a local paper of a 

 few days' date, which I beg to quote, the West 

 Brit07i, Feb. 23, 1855: 



« Mr. Hempel, of Truro, has taken the degree of Ba- 

 chelor of Music at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. We under- 

 stand that Mr. Hempel is the first Cornishman who has 

 taken a musical degree." 



James Cornish. 



" Timoleon" (Vol. xi., p. 139.). — The following 

 notice appears in the Play-house Dictionary, of 

 this work and its author. The title-page of my 

 copy has been extracted ; I am unable, therefore, 

 to give the date of its publication : 



" Martyn, Benjamin, Esq. Who or what this gentleman 

 was, or whether still living, I know not. He, however, 

 lays claim to a place in this work, as being author of one 

 play, which was acted with some success, and is entitled 

 Timoleon. Trag." 



H. G. D. 



Old and neiv Boohs (Vol. x., p. 345.). — In 

 Lord Dudley's Letters to the Bishop of Llandaff: 

 London, Murray, 1840, p. 143., occurs the follow- 

 ing : 



« In literature I am fond of confining myself to the best 

 company, which consists chiefly of my old acquaintance, 

 with whom I am desirous of becoming more intimate, and 

 I suspect that nine times out of ten it is more profitable, 

 if not more agreeable, to read an old book over again, 

 than to read a new one for the first time." 



W. J. D. R. 



Eminent Men bom in 1769 (Vol. xi., pp. 27. 

 135.). — Mr. Paton, in his book on Servia, gives 

 a report of a dialogue which he had with some 

 native dignitary. Part of it is to this effect (I 

 quote from memory) : 



« ' How old is Gospodj' Wellington ? ' 



« ' About seventy-five. He was born in the same year 

 with Napoleon and Mahommed Ali.' 



" ' Indeed ! Nature must have worked with her sleeves 

 tucked up in that year.' " 



J. C. R. 



Ki7ig Dagolerfs Revenge (Vol. x., p. 508.). — 



" Sadregesilum, Aquitania3 Ducem, infamiffi causa fuisse 

 barbffi amputatione deformatum a Dagoberto rege Fran- 

 corum, memoria; prodjt iEmonius. Sed et Clodoveus, ut 

 asserit Gregorius Turonensis, Charaium regem vinctum 

 totondit, et quoniam sibi csesariem repullulaturum mina- 

 batur, interfecit. At digna omnino Chrotildis Reginse 

 historia, qnse ab eodem antore recenseretur. Filios Clodo- 

 meri Childebertus patruus deliberabat utrum incisa coma 



