Dec. 15. 1849.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
109 
“ When greater tempests, than on sea before, 
Receiv’d her on the shore, 
When she was shot at for the king’s own good, 
By legions hir’d to bleud ; 
How bravely did she do, how bravely bear ! 
And shew’d, though they durst rage, she durst 
not fear.” 
The queen landed at Burlington on 22nd Feb. 
1642, so that Cartwright may have written what 
| precedes; but how could he have written what | 
follows, the fifth stanza of the poem, which men- 
_ tions an event that did not occur until six or seven 
years afterwards ? 
“ Look on her enemies, on their Godly lies, 
Their holy perjuries, 
Their curs’d encrease of much ill gotten wealth, 
By rapine or by stealth, 
Their crafty friendship knit in equall guilt, 
And the Crown-Martyr’s bloud so lately spilt.” 
Hence arises my first question — if Cartwright 
were not the author of this poem, who was? 
Although Izaac Walton, Jasper Mayne, James 
Howell, Sir John Birkenhead, and a host of other 
versifyers, introduce the volume with “ laudatory 
lays,” we are not to suppose that they meant to 
vouch for the genuineness of every production 
therein inserted and imputed to Cartwright. Was 
the whole poem “ On the Queen’s Return” foisted 
in, or only the two stanzas above quoted, which 
were excluded when the book was called in? 
The next poem on which I have any remark to 
make immediately succeeds that ‘“ On the Queen’s 
Return,” and is entitled “Upon the Death of the 
Right Valiant Sir Bevill Grenvill, Knight,” who, 
we know from Lord Clarendon, was killed at 
Lansdown on 5th July, 1643, only five months 
before the death of Cartwright, who is supposed 
to have celebrated his fall. This production is 
incomplete, and the subsequent twelve lines on 
p- 305, are omitted in the ordinary copies of 
Cartwright’s Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other 
Poems : — 
“ You now that boast the spirit, and its sway, 
Shew us his second, and wee’l give the day: 
We know your politique axiom, Lurk, or fly ; 
Ye cannot conquer, ’cause you dare not dye: 
And though you thank God that you lost none 
there, 
*Cause they were such who liv’d not when they 
were; 
Yet your great Generall (who doth rise and fall, 
As his successes do, whom you dare call, 
As Fame unto you doth reports dispence, 
Either a or his Excellence) 
Howe'r he reigns now by unheard-of laws, 
Could wish his fate together with his cause.” 
It is clear to me, that these lines could not 
haye been written in 1643, soon after the death of 
Sir B. Grenvill; and, supposing any part of the 
poem to have come from the pen of Cartwright, 
they must have been interpolated after the eleva- 
tion of Cromwell to supreme power. 
Ihave thrown out these points for information, 
and it is probable that some of your readers will 
be able to afford it: if able, I conclude they will 
be willing. 
It may be an error to fancy that the copy of 
Cartwright now in my hands, containing the can- 
celled and uncancelled leaves, is a rarity; but 
although in my time I have inspected at least 
thirty copies of his Comedies, Tragi- Comedies, 
with other Poems, I certainly never met with one 
before with this peculiarity. On this matter, also, 
I hope for enlightenment. 
Do the stanzas “On the Queen’s Return” and 
the lines on the death of Sir B. Grenvill exist in 
any of the various collections of State Poems ? 
INVESTIGATOR. 
MINOR QUERIES, 
Christencat. 
In Day’s edition of Tyndale’s Works, Lond. 
1573, at p. 476., Tyndale says: — 
“ Had he” [Sir Thomas More] “ not come begging 
for the clergy from purgatory, with his supplication of 
souls—nor the poor soul and proctor been there with 
his bloody bishop Christé catte, so far conjured into his 
own Utopia.” 
I take the word to be Christencat; but its two 
parts are so divided by the position of Christé 
at the end of one line, and catte at the beginning 
of the next, as to prevent it from being certain 
that they form one word. But I would gladly 
learn from any of your correspondents, whether 
the name of Christencat, or Christian-cat, is that 
of any bishop personified in the Old Moralities, or 
known to have been the satirical soubriquet for 
any bishop of Henry VIII.’s time. The text would 
suggest the expectation of its occurring either in 
More’s Utopia, or in his Supplication of Souls, but 
I cannot find it in either of them. 
Henry Watrer, 
Hexameter Verses in the Scriptures. 
Sir, —I shall feel obliged to any of your readers 
who will refer me to an hexameter line in the 
authorised English version of the Old Testament. 
The following are two examples in the New 
Testament. 
Art théu hé | that should | cdme Gr | do wé | lodk for 
2i{nothér. || 
Hisbands | love your | wives and | bé not | bittér 
ijgainst thém. || 
W. J.B. R. 
