June 2. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



435 



demanded, namely, five shillings, for about five 

 minutes' labour, I felt I could not afford to con- 

 tinue such expensive inquiries. At this moment 

 I am very desirous to discover the parentage, &c. 

 of an Irish judge, an Englishman by birth ; but as 

 I cannot tell of which inn he was a member, I do 

 not wish to spend five shillings on a search that 

 might in the first three inns be fruitless, or in 

 other words to pay (perhaps) IZ. for the gratifica- 

 tion of mere curiosity. Y. S. M. 



" rd he a hutterfly " (Vol. xi., p. 304.). — Your 

 correspondent's memory has not deceived him ; 

 the Latin verses in question appeared in 1 828, and 

 I think that they were copied into the Dublin 

 Evening Packet, whence, perhaps, the cutting 

 named by Y. S. M. was taken. The first four 

 lines originally appeared thus : 



" Ah ! sim papilio natus in flosculo 

 Rossa ubi lilia violaeque patent, 

 Floribus advolans, avolans, osculo 

 Gemmulas omnes quae suave olent ! " 



In the Arundines Cami these lines are altered to, — 



" Ah ! sim Papilio natus in flosculo, 

 Rosae ubi liliaque et violse halent, 

 Floribus advolans, avolans, osculo 



Gemmulas tangens quae suave olent ! " 



I prefer the verses as they originally appeared. 



Anon. 



Cdldecotfs Translation of the New Testament 

 (Vol. viii., p. 410. ; Vol. ix., p. 600.). — Is your 

 correspondent T. J. certain of the following facts 

 respecting Mr. Caldecott ? That " his father pur- 

 chased for him a commission in the East India 

 Company's service ; but soon after his arrival in 

 India, conceiving a dislike to the army, he sold his 

 commission." 



If this is not either authenticated or corrected 

 in your pages, the above passage may hereafter be 

 cited to prove the practice of purchase in the East 

 India Company's service. Tempera et Scribe. 



Old Almanacs (Vol. xi., p. 323.). — The fol- 

 lowing titles may interest Sir W. C. Trevelyan, 

 though they do not answer his Query : 



" An Almanacke and Prognosticatyon for the Yeare of 

 our Lorde mdli, practised by Simo Henringius and 

 Lodowike Boyard, Doctors in Physike and Astronomye, 

 &c. At Worcester, in ye Hygh Streete. Printed by 

 John Owen." 



At the end of the book is added : " They be also 

 to sell at Shrewesbury." 



" A Nevve Almanacke and Prognostication collected for 

 ye yere of our Lord mdlviii, wherein is expressed the 

 change and ful of the Mone, with their Quarters. The 

 varietie of the ayre, and also of the windes throughout the 

 whole yeare, with infortunate times to bie and sell, take 

 medicine, sowe, plant, and jo'urney, &c. Made for the 

 meridian of Norwich and Pole Articke, lii degrees, and 

 serving for all England. By William Kenningham, Phy- 



sician. Imprinted in London by John Daye, dwelling 

 over Aldersgate." 



" A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication for the Yeare 

 of our Lord God mdlxi. Expressing the Change, Full, 

 and Quarters of the Moone, &c. Exactly calculated and 

 made for the Meridian and Situation of Gloucester and 

 Poole Artike, there mounted liii degrees, and serving for 

 all England. By Louis Vaughan, 156 L Imprinted at 

 London in Flete Streete, nere to St. Dunston's Church, by 

 Thomas Marshe." 



Another by Thomas Buckmaster, 1568, — 



" Perfectly made and calculated for the Meridian and 

 Pole Artike of London, beyng exalted 61 degrees, 34 mi- 

 nutes. Serving for all England," &c. 



Another : 



" For the yeare of our Lord God mccccclv, made for 

 the Meridian of Yorke and country thereabout. Practised 

 bj' Anthony Askham, Physician and Priest. Imprinted 

 at London, &c., by Wyllyam Powell." 



Icicles are often called ides in Lancashire at the 

 present time. P. P. 



" Coming events cast their shadows before " (Vol. 

 xi., p. 238.). — With regard to the two famous lines 

 in Lochiel's warning — 



" 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 

 And coming events cast their shadows before." 



not, as quoted in " N. & Q.," 



" 'Tis the sunset of life gives the mystical lore. 

 And coming events cast their shadows before." 



I subjoin the following note, as to their origin, 

 from p. 89. of the beautiful edition of the poet's 

 works, edited by the Rev. W. A. Hill, M. A., 

 Worcester College, Oxford, and published by 

 Moxon, London, 1851. Mr. Hill says: 

 " Touching the oft-repeated lines — 



' 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 

 And coming events cast their shadows before.' 



the following memorial has been preserved. The poet 

 was on a visit at Minto. He had gone early to bed, and, 

 still meditating on the wizard's ' warning,' fell fast asleep. 

 In the night he awoke repeating, ' Events to come cast 

 their shadows before;' that was the idea he had been in 

 search of nearly a whole week. He rang the bell more 

 than once with increased force. At last the servant ap- 

 peared. The poet was sitting with one foot in the bed and 

 the other on the floor, with an air of mingled inspiration 

 and impatience. ' Sir, are you ill ? ' inquired the servant. 

 ' 111 ! never felt better in my life. Leave me the candle, 

 and oblige me with a cup of tea as soon as possible.' He 

 then started to his feet, seized hold of the pen, and wrote 

 down the happy thought, but as he wrote changed the 

 words ' events to come ' into ' coming events,' as it now 

 stands in the text. Looking to his watch he obsers^ed 

 that it was two o'clock, the right hour for a poet's dream ; 

 and over his 'cup of tea' he completed the first sketch of 

 Lochiel." 



C. K. 



Your correspondent D., in his note on this re- 

 markable line, makes no reference to a previous 

 communication on the subject (Vol. vi., p. 505.), 

 in which I think I have shown that Campbell had 



