May 6. 1854.] 



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peared at Stutgart in 1618. Many of his poems, 

 which he had left in MS. with his brother Lud- 

 wig in Germany, perished with him during the 

 horrors of the war. " What has become," Wecker- 

 Kn feelingly exclaims, " of my Myrta, that dear 

 poem, composed of so many sonnets and stanzas ? " 



Perhaps some of the readers of " N. & Q.," who 

 are conversant with the literature of England and 

 Germany during the period alluded to, may be 

 able to solve the question as to the real author of 

 ±he verses mentioned. John Macbat. 



Oxford. 



Plants and Flowers. — Might I inquire of your 

 correspondent Eirionnach why his long-pro- 

 mised Notes on the " ecclesiastical and rustic pet 

 names" of plants and flowers have never been 

 forthcoming ? I have often lingered on the 

 threshold of the " garden full of sunshine and of 

 bees," where Eirionnach has laboured ; would he 

 kindly be my guide to the pleasant domain, and 

 indicate (without trespassing on your columns I 

 mean) the richest gatherings of the legendary lore 

 and poetry of the vegetable kingdom ? Are there 

 any collections of similes drawn from plants and 

 flowers ? Dr. Aitkin has broken ground in his 

 Essay on Poetical Similes. Any notes on this 

 subject, addressed to the "care of the Editor," 

 •will greatly oblige Sigma. 



Customs, London. 



Quotations wanted. — Whence the following : 



1. " Condendaque Lexica mandat Damnatis, poenam 

 pro poenis omnibus unam." 



Quoted at the end of the Preface to Liddell and 

 Scott's Lexicon ? 



2. " Rex erat Elizabeth, sed erat Regina Jacobus ? " * 



P. J. F. Gantileon. 



Unde? 



" Extinctus amabitur idem." 



W. T. M. 



Griffith, William, Bishop of Ossory. — Any facts 

 relative to the fife of this prelate will be acceptable, 

 as I am about to go to press with a work com- 

 prising Lives of the Bishops of Ossory. 



James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



,[* Rapin has given the parentage of this pasquil at 

 <he end of his History of James I. : 



" Tandis qu' Elizabeth fut Roy 

 L'Anglois fut d'Espagne l'effroy, 

 Maintenant, devise et caquette, 

 Regi par la Reine Jaquette."] 



" Cowperiana." — Southey, in his Preface to the 

 last volume of his edition of Cowper's Works 

 (dated Aug. 12, 1837), speaks of his intention to 

 publish two additional volumes under the title of 

 Cowperiana. Were these ever published ? If not, 

 will they ever be ? W. P. Storer. 



Olney, Bucks. 



John Keats s Poems. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me what legend (if any) John Keats the 

 poet refers to in his beautiful poem of St. Agnes' 

 Eve, st. xix., when he says : 



" Never on such a night have lovers met, 

 Since Merlin paid his demon all the monstrous debt." 



And pray let me know what is implied in the con- 

 cluding lines of his absurd poem of Hyperion, as 

 they have always been a mystery to me. "Eavdos. 



Holland. — We have the kingdom of Holland, 

 we have the Holland division of Lincolnshire, and 

 in Lancashire we have the two townships of 

 Downholland and Upholland. Is the derivation of 

 each the same, and, if it be, what is the affinity ? 



Prestoniensis. 



Armorial. — Can the younger son of a peer use 

 the supporters to his family arms ? 



Prestoniensis. 



Stoke and Upton. — These names of places are 

 so very common, and in some counties, as Bucks, 

 Worcester, and Devon, apply to adjoining villages, 

 that it would be interesting to know the origin of 

 the names, and of their association. 



Jno. D. Alcroft. 



Slavery in England. — One of the recent vo- 

 lumes published by the Chetham Society, the 

 Stanley Papers, part ii., contains the household 

 books of the third and fourth Earls of Derby, 

 temp. Queen Elizabeth. I find in the " orders 

 touching the government of my Lo. his house," 

 that at the date thereof (1558) slavery in some 

 form or other existed in England, for in the 

 mansion of this powerful noble it was provided — 



" That no slaves nor boyes shall sitt in the hall, but 

 in place therefore appoynted convenyent." 



And, — 



" That the yemen of horses and groomes of the 

 stable shall not sufifre any boyes or slaves to abye about 

 the stables, nor lye in theym, nor in anie place about 

 theym." 



Was there then in England the form of slavery 

 now in existence in the United States, and until 

 lately in the West Indies ; or was it more like the 

 serfdom of Russia ? And when was this slavery 

 abolished in England ? Prestoniensis. 



" Go to Bath." — What is the origin of this 

 saying ? E. R. 



