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NOTES AND QUERIES. - 
either by R. O. or myself, will probably give 
Mr. T. suflicient information of the principal ones 
in which the “ black broth” is mentioned. W. 
QUERIES. 
TEN QUERIES CONCERNING POETS AND POETRY. 
1. In a curious poetical tract, entitled A Whip 
for an Ape, or Martin displaied; no date, but 
printed in the reign of Elizabeth, occurs the fol- 
lowing stanza : — 
“ And ye grave men that answere Martin’s mowes, 
He mockes the more, and you in vain loose times. 
Leave Apes to Dogges to baite, their skins to Crowes, 
And let old Lanam lashe him with his rimes,” 
Was this old Lanam, the same person as Robert 
Laneham, who wrote “a Narrative of Queen Eli- 
zabeth’s Visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575”? 
Ido not find his name in Ritson’s Bibliographia 
Poetica. 
2. In Spence’s Anecdotes of Books and Men 
(Singer's edit. p. 22.), a poet named Bagnall is 
mentioned as the author of the once famous poem 
The Counter Scuffie. Kdmund Gayton, the author 
of Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote, wrote a tract, 
in verse, entitled Will Bagnall’s Ghost. Who was 
Will Bagnall? He appears to have been a well- 
known person, and one of the wits of the days of 
Charles the First, but I cannot learn anything of 
his biography. 
3. In the Common-place Book of Justinian 
Paget, a lawyer of James the First’s time, pre- 
served among the Harleian MSS. in the British 
Museum, is the following sonnet : — 
“© My love and I for kisses play’d ; 
Shee would keepe stakes, I was content; 
But when I wonn she would be pay’d, 
‘This made me aske her what she ment; 
Nay, since I see (quoth she), you wrangle in vaine, 
Take your owne kisses, give me mine againe.” 
The initials at the end, “W.S.”, probably stand 
for William Stroud or Strode, whose name is given 
at length to some other rhymes in the same MS. 
I should be glad to know if this quaint little 
conceit has been printed before, and if so, in what 
collection. 
4, What is the earliest printed copy of the 
beautiful old song ‘‘ My Mind to me a Kingdom 
is?” It is to be found in a rare tract by Nicholas 
Breton, entitled The Court and Country, or A 
Briefe Discourse betweene the Courtier and Coun- 
try-man, 4to. 1618. Query, is Breton its author? 
5. Mr. Edward Farr, in his Select Poetry, chiefly 
Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (vol. i. 
p- xix.), calls Nicholas Breton, Sir Nicholas. Is 
there any authority for Breton’s knighthood ? 
6. Can John Davies, the author of Sir Martin 
Mar-people, 1590, be identified with John Davies 
of Heretord, or Sir John Davies, the author of 
Nosce Teipsum, 1599? 
7. In whose possession is the copy of Marlow 
and Chapman’s Hero and Leander, 1629, sold in 
Heber’s sale (Part iv., No. 1415)? Has the Rev. 
Alex. Dyce made use of the MS. notes, and the 
Latin Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood, by Mar- 
low, contained in this copy ? 
8. Has any recent evidence been discovered as 
to the authorship of Zhe Complaynt of Scotland 2 
Is Sir David Lindsay, or Wedderburn, the author 
of this very interesting work ? 
9. In the Rev. J. E. Tyler’s Henry of Mon- 
mouth (vol. ii. Appendix, p. 417.), is a ballad on 
The Battle of Agincourt, beginning as follows : — 
« Fair stood the wind for France, 
When we our sails advance ; 
Nor now to prove our chance, 
Longer will tarry : 
But, putting to the main, 
At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, 
With all his martial train, 
Landed King Harry.” 
The author of this old ballad, the learned editor 
says, was Michael Drayton; but [ have not been 
able to find it in any edition of his works which I 
have consulted. Can Mr. Tyler have confounded 
it with Drayton’s Poem on the same subject? 
Any information upon this: point will be very 
acceptable. 
10. On the fly-leaf of an Old Music Book which 
I lately purchased is the following little poem. 
I do not remember to have seen it in print, but 
some of your correspondents may correct me. 
“TO THE LORD BACON WHEN FALLING FROM FAVOUR. 
“ Dazel’d thus with height of place, 
Whilst our hopes our wits beguile ; 
No man marks the narrow space 
*Twixt a prison and a smile. 
« Then since fortune’s favours fade, 
You that in her arms do sleep, 
Learn to swim and not to wade, 
For the hearts of kings are deep. 
“ But if greatness be so blind, 
As to burst in towers of air; 
Let it be with goodness lin’d, 
That at least the fall be fair. 
“ Then, though dark'ned you shall say, 
When friends fail and princes frown ; 
Virtue is the roughest way, 
But proves at night a bed of down.” 
It is in the hand-writing of “ Johs. Rasbrick 
vic. de Kirkton,” but whether he was the author, 
or only the transcriber, is uncertain. 
Epwarp F. Riupaurt. 
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