Dec. 22. 1849.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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inaccuracies so frequently interspersed through 
the whole, will be observed with some grains of 
allowance.” His Life of Lord Clive was a book- 
seller’s compilation. Won. Durrant Cooper. 
QUERIES. 
LOVE, THE KING'S FOOL OF THAT NAME. 
In Rawlinson’s Manuscripts in the Bodleian 
(c. 258.), which I take to have been written either 
in, or very soon after, the reign of Henry VIII., 
there is a poem thus entitled :— 
“ Tue ErirarHe or Love, THE Kynan’s FOOLE.” 
Can any of your readers furnish me with inform- 
ation regarding him? He was clearly a man worthy 
of notice, but although I have looked through as 
many volumes of that period, and afterwards, as I 
could procure, I do not recollect meeting with 
any other mention of him. Skelton, who must 
have been his contemporary, is silent regarding 
him; and John Heywood, who was also living at 
the same time, makes no allusion to him that I have 
been able to discover. Heywood wrote the “ Play 
of Love,” but it has nothing to do with the “ King’s 
fool.” 
The epitaph in question is much in Heywood’s 
humorous and satirical style: it is written in the 
Enelish ballad-metre, and consists of seven seven- 
line stanzas, each stanza, as was not unusual with 
Heywood, ending with the same, or nearly the 
same, line. It commences thus : — 
“ O Love, Love! on thy sowle God have mereye ; 
For as Peter is princeps Apostolorum, 
So to the[e] may be sayd clerlye, 
Of all foolys that ever was stultus stultorum. 
Sure thy sowle is in regna polorum, 
By reason of reason thou haddest none ; 
Yet all foolys be nott dead, though thou be gone.” 
In the next stanza we are told, that Love often 
made the King and Queen merry with “‘ many good 
pastimes ;” and in the third, that he was “shaped 
and borne of very nature” fora fool. The fourth 
stanza, which mentions Erasmus and Luther, is the 
following : — 
“ Thou wast nother Erasmus nor Luter ; 
Thou dyds medle no forther than thy potte ; 
Agaynst hye matters thou wast no disputer, 
Amonge the Innocentes electe was thy lotte: 
Glad mayst thou be thou haddyst that knotte, 
For many foolys by the[e] thynke them selfe none, 
* Yet all be nott dead, though thou be gone.” 
The next stanza speaks of “ Dyce Apguylamys,” 
who is told to prepare the obsequy for Love, and 
of “Lady Apylton,” who had offered a “mass- 
penny,” and the epitaph ends with these stanzas : 
“ Now, Love, Love! 
nowle; 
And Love! God have mercye on thy foolysche face, 
And Love! God have mercye on thy innocent sowle, 
Which amonges innocentes, I am sure, hath a place, 
Or ellys thy sowle ys yn a hevy case ; 
Ye, ye, and moo foolys many [a] ene, 
For foolys be alyve, Love, thoughe thou be gone. 
God have merey on thy mery 
“ Now, God have mercye on us all, 
For wyse and folysche all dyethe, 
Lett us truly to our myndes call ; 
And to say we be wyse owr dedes denyethe, 
Wherefore the ende my reason thys aplyethe : 
God amend all foolys that thynke them selfe none, 
For many be alyve, thoughe Love be gone.” 
It is very possible that I have overlooked some 
common source of information to which I may be 
referred; and it is very possible also, that this 
epitaph has been reprinted in comparatively modern 
times, and I may not know of it. This is one of 
the points I wish to ascertain. 
J. Payne Corxier. 
[Was there no such person as Love, and does the 
writer mean merely to pun upon the word? Cupid 
certainly played the fool in the court of Henry VIII, 
as much as any body. } 
MARE DE SAHAM— PORTUM PUSILLUM — WATE- 
WICH. 
Tam much obliged by J.F.M.’s answers respect- 
ing those places. If he will look to the Historia 
Elliensis, lib. ii. ¢.84, 85. vol. i. pp. 200-204. (Anglia 
Christiana), he may be certain whether or not he 
has correctly designated them. He may at the 
same time, if he be well acquainted with Cam- 
bridgeshire, give me the modern interpretation for 
Watewich, also mentioned in chap. 84. of the Hist. 
Elliens. W2bo M: 
THE ADVENT BELLS. 
The Advent bells are ringing in many parishes 
throughout various parts of England during this 
month of December, if I may judge from my own 
neighbourhood — on the western borders of Berks 
— where, at least three times in the week, I hear 
their merry peals break gladsomely upon the dark 
stillness of these cold evenings,. from many a 
steeple around. In the Roman States, and the 
kingdom of Naples and Sicily, the “ pifferari” go 
about playing on a kind of rough hautboy and 
bag-pipes, before the pictures of the Madonna, 
hung up at the corners of streets and in shops, all 
through Advent time; but why are the church 
bells rung in England? What reference in ancient 
documents can be pointed out for the meaning or 
antiquity of the usage ? 
