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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 282. 



HandeVs " II Moderator — " L' Allegro ed II 

 Pensieroso," composed by G-. F. Handel. This is 

 in three parts : of the first two, the words are by 

 IVIilton. My Query Is, By whom were the words 

 for the third part written ? They are sometimes 

 called " II Moderato," and consist of — 

 " Recitative. ' Hence boast not.' 



Air. ' Come with native lustre.' 



Jiecit. ' Sweet Temperance.' 



Ohnrus. ' All this company serene.' 



\Air. ' Come with gentle hand.' 



Recit. ' No more, short life.' 



Air. ' Each action will.' 



Duet. ' As steals the morn.' 



Chorus. ' Thy pleasures, Moderation, give.' " 



I quote from the fourth volume of Dr. John 

 Clarke's Handel. C. be D. 



[I. Moscheles, the editor of " L' Allegro, II Pensieroso 

 ed II Moderato," for the Handel Society, 1848-4, states, 

 that " the author of ' II Moderato ' is not known."] 



Anonymous Worh . — " Fables of Flowers for 

 the Female Sex ; with Zephyrus and Flora, a 

 Vision. By the Author of ' Choice Emblems for 

 Youth :' London, 1781." Who wrote these Fables 

 " for the amusement (?) of her Highness Charlotte, 

 Princess Royal of England ? " A. Challsteth. 



[John Huddlestone Wynne, a miscellaneous writer, 

 born in South Wales, 1743; died 1788.] 



" / hear a voice,'' §-c. — Who is the author of 

 the following lines ? — 



" I hear a voice you cannot hear, 

 Which sa}'s, T must not stay ; 

 I see a hand you cannot see, 

 Which beckons me away." 



H. E. 

 Ivingsland. 

 [Thomas Tickell. See his ballad, " Colin and Lucy."] 



fishermen's superstition. 

 (Vol. xi., p. 142.) 



By way of a set-off against the irreligious doings 

 of the fishermen of Buckle, to " bring good luck," 

 it may be well to put on record in " N. & Q." the 

 custom at Clovelly (on the north coast of this 

 county) ; where a better example is set, and " a 

 more excellent way shown," for obtaining a suc- 

 cessful supply of herrings when the fishing season 

 begins. 



The fishermen all attend a special service at 

 the church. The 107th Psalm is substituted for 

 the Psalms of the day. The Gospel for the Fifth 

 Sunday after Trinity is read. The Old Hundredth 

 Psalm is sung by all the fishermen, before the gene- 

 ral thanksgiving ; after it, the following prayer : 

 TTie Clovelly Fishermen's Prayer. 



" Almighty and loving Father, Thou rulest in heaven, 

 in the earth, in the sea, and in all deep places ; there is 



no creature but hears, understands, and obeys Thy voice. 

 Thou speakest the word, and there ariseth the stormy 

 wind and tempest. Again, Thou speakest the word, and 

 there follows a great calm. And be Thou pleased to 

 speak a word of mercy and comfort to Thy servants in 

 their honest calling : still the winds — smoothe the waves ; 

 and let them go forth and come in in safety. Protect their 

 persons, secure their vessels, and all that appertains unto 

 them ; and let not a hair of any man's head perish. They 

 may with Thy Disciples fish day and night, and catch 

 nothing ; but if Thou pleasest to speak such a word as 

 Thou didst then, they shall encompass so great a multi- 

 tude as neither their nets nor vessels shall contain. Let 

 all be done according to the good pleasure of our God, 

 whether many or whether few — blessed be God for all. 

 Only, we beseeeh Thee, let not our sins withhold good 

 things from us ; and therefore pardon our sins of what 

 kind soever : especially our murmurings and our pre- 

 sumings ; our pro&nation of Thy Holy Day, and Thy Holy 

 Name ; our covetousness and unthankfulness ; our intem- 

 perance, and our hatred, and variance with each other. 

 And let us make such just, wise, and holy improvements 

 of these Thy blessings, that we may have the comfort of 

 them while we have to live; and we, and all others, may 

 rejoice in the loving-kindness of the soul. And do Thou 

 make us, O Lord, to consider that we prosper more by 

 Thy Providence than by our own industry; and that 

 Thou canst, by one word speaking, send all these bless- 

 ings to another shore, and to another people that shall 

 serve Thee better, and be more thankful than we have 

 been. Make us. Gracious Lord, to consider the utter un- 

 certainty of all our lives ; and how easy it is for Thee, 

 O Mighty God, to raise a blast, or commission a wave, 

 and dash us against a rock, and throw us from this to an 

 ocean of endless misery. Let us therefore always have 

 upon our minds an awful regard of the great and terrible 

 God, in and by whom we must live ; that while we do 

 live, we may live in His fear : and when we come to die, 

 we may die in His favor, and then partake of His glory, 

 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." 



Such was the use twenty years ago, and I was 

 told " It always had been so." However praise- 

 worthy, it could not of course have ever had the 

 sanction of authority. H. T. Ellacombe. 



Eectory, Clyst St. George. 



STONBHBNGE. 



(Vol. xi., p. 126.) 

 Dr. Townson, in Tracts and Observations on 

 Natural History, Sfc, says that the outer circle and 

 third row with the stone in the avenue and those 

 adjoining the vallum (for which see Sir Richard 

 Colt Hoare's Ancient History of South Wiltshire, 

 and the plates there), are all " of a pure fine- 

 grained, compact sandstone, and only differ a 

 little in their colour ; some of them being white, 

 and others inclining to yellow." The second 

 circle and the interior row consist of " a fine- 

 grained griinstein," interspersed with black horn- 

 blende, felspar, quartz, and chlorite, excepting four 

 in the circle, one of which is a siliceous schistus, 

 another an argillaceous schistus, and the others 

 horn-stone, with small specks of felspar and pyrites. 

 The slab or altar-stone is different from all these, 



