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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 235. 



the usurping powers had allotted for him by cer- 

 tificate. Could Colonel Dominick have been his 

 relative ? 



I pray information on this subject, and any 

 others connected with the Army List, with any 

 documentary assistance which, or the inspection of 

 which, the correspondents of "N. & Q." may afford 

 me ; and such services will be thankfully acknow- 

 ledged. If I were aided with such by them, and 

 by the old families of Ireland, the work should be 

 a gem. John D'Aeton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



quotations wanted. 



(Vol. ix., pp. 247. 301.) 



" The knights are dust, 

 Their good swords are rust, 

 Their souls are with the saints, we trust." 



This seems to be an imperfect recollection of the 

 concluding lines of a short poem by Coleridge, 

 entitled " The Knight's Tomb." (See Poems of 

 S. T. Coleridge: Moxon, 1852, p. 306.) 

 The correct reading is as follows : 



" The knight's bones are dust, 

 And his good sword rust ; 

 His soul is with the saints, I trust." 



G. Tatlob. 



Your correspondent's mutilated version I have 

 seen on a china match-box, in the shape of a Cru- 

 sader's tomb. C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



" Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love." 



These lines are also Coleridge's (Poems, &c, 

 p. 30., edit. 1852). He afterwards added the fol- 

 lowing note on this passage : 



" I utterly recant the sentiment contained in the 

 lines — 



Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love 

 Aught to implore were impotence of mind; 



it being written in Scripture, 'Ask, and it sball be given 

 you !' and my human reason being, moreover, con- 

 vinced of the propriety of ofFering petitions, as well as 

 thanksgivings, to Deity.— S. T. C, 1797." 



H. G. T. 



Weston-super-Mare. 



The line quoted (p. 247.) as having been ap- 

 plied by Twining to Pope's Homer, is from Ti- 

 bullus, iii. 6. 56. P. J. F. Gantileon. 



" A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind," 



is to be found in the epilogue written and spoken 

 by Garrick on quitting the stage, 1776.* 



[* See " N. & Q.," Vol. iii., p. 300.] 



A parallel passage appears in Troilus and Cres- 

 sida, Act III. Sc. 3. : 



" One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." 



Newbcbiensis. 



The following lines, and the accompanying pa- 

 raphrase, probably those inquired after by X. Y., 

 are in Davison's Poems, or a Poetical Rhapsody 

 (p. 50., 4th impression, 1621), where they form 

 the third "device." I do not know who the writer 

 was. 



" Quid pluma laevius? Pulvis. Quid pulvere ? Ven- 

 tus. 

 Quidvento? Mulier. Quid muliere? Nihil." 



" Dust is lighter than a feather, 

 And the wind more light than either; 

 But a woman's fickle mind 

 More than a feather, dust, or wind." 



F. E. E. 



The lines quoted by L. are the first two (a 

 little altered) in the opening stanza of a ballad 

 entitled The Berkshire Lady. The correct ver- 

 sion (I speak on the authority of a copy which I 

 procured nearly thirty years ago in the great 

 ballad-mart of those days, the Seven Dials) is, — 



" Bachelors of every station, 

 Mark this strange but true relation, 

 Which in brief to you I bring ; 

 Never was a stranger thing." 



The ballad is an account of " love at first sight," 

 inspired in the breast of a young lady, wealthy 

 and beautiful of course, but who, disdaining such 

 adventitious aids, achieves at the sword's point, 

 and covered with a mask, her marriage with the 

 object of her passion. It is much too long, and 

 not of sufficient merit, for insertion in " N. & Q." 



F. E. E. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 364. 605. ; Vol. ix., p. 45.) 



I am extremely obliged to your several corre- 

 spondents who have replied to my Query. 



I now send you " a remarkable case," which 

 occurred in 1657, and throws considerable light 

 upon the subject. 



Dr. Owen, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, being a 

 witness for the plaintiff in a cause, refused to be 

 sworn in the usual manner, by laying his right hand 

 upon the booh, and by hissing it afterwards ; but he 

 caused the book to be held open before him, and 

 he raised his right hand ; whereupon the jury 

 prayed the direction of the Court whether they 

 ought to weigh such evidence as strongly as the 

 evidence of another witness. Glyn, Chief Justice, 

 answered them, that in his opinion he had taken 



