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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 28. 
“ Where’er 'tis found, 
On Christian or on heathen ground,” 
if transplanted into your learned pages, would, to 
many readers, afford much pleasure. Meanwhile, 
I would refer the Querist to the useful work of 
Camerarius on Symbols and Emblems. 
“Do thou, bright Phoebus, guide me luckily 
To the first plant by some kind augury.” 
The proverbial expression, ‘“ Under the rose,” 
appears opportunely in p. 214, beautifully illus- 
trated*, but still deserving further considera- 
tion. Schedius (De Diis Germanis) and others 
have, with much learning, shown Venus Urania to 
be the same as Isis Myrionyma. With erudition 
not inferior, but in support of a peculiar theory, 
Gorop. Becanus maintains Harpocrates and Cu- 
pido, son of Venus Urania, to be one and the 
same hieroglyphical character, I shall now en- 
deavour to explain the symbolism and dedication 
of the Rose. ‘This “ flower of flowers” adumbrates 
the highest faculty of human nature— Reason, 
and Silence, or the rest of the reasoning powers, 
which is indicated by the Greek term éemorjun, 
science. (See Harris's Philosoph. Arrang. p. 444., 
and Hermes, p. 869.). ‘To whom, then, could the 
hieroglyphical rose have been more appropriately 
dedicated than Harpocrates, who is described with 
his finger pointing to his mouth—tacito plenus 
amore—a proper emblem of that silence with 
which we ought to behave in religious matters. 
CHE 
“ Where England’s Monarch” (No. 26. p. 415.). 
—The two lines inquired for are in Bramston’s 
Man of Taste, a poem printed about the middle 
of the last century. I need hardly add, that the 
poet was misinformed, it being well known that 
Charles I., when brought to trial, refused to plead 
or to take off his hat. 
There is an account of the Duke of Marl- 
borough’s adventure with Barnard in the Genéle- 
man’s Magazine, May 1758; but it may be the 
same as that in the Annual Register. 
BRAYBROOKE. 
April 27. 
Journeyman (No. 19. p.309.).—“ Gomer” may 
like to know that the old labourers in North 
Essex still speak of a day’s ploughing as a “journey 
at plough.” BRAyBROOKE, 
Sydenham or Tidenham.—I have no doubt as 
to Sydenham, included in the inquiry respecting 
Cromwell's Estates (No. 24. p. 389.), being Tiden- 
ham; for this manor, the property of the Marquis 
* Has “ Arcu.tus” looked for these verses into the 
Rhodologia of Rosenbergius? TI have in vain searched 
for them under “ Rose,” in the Amphitheatrum Sa- 
pientie of Dornavius. 
of Worcester, was possessed by Cromwell; and, 
among my title deeds connected with this parish, 
I have Court Rolls in Cromwell's name both for 
Tidenham itself and for Beachley, a mesne manor 
within it. 
These manors, which were inherited from the 
Herberts by the Somersets, were taken out of 
the former Marches by the statute 27 Hen. VIII. 
cap. 26. § 13., and annexed, together with Woolas- 
ton, similarly circumstanced, to the county of 
Gloucester and to the hundred of Westbury ; of 
which hundred, in a legal sense, they still continue 
a part. Gxro. ORMEROD. 
Sedbury Park, Chepstow, April 18. 1850. 
J. B.'s Treatise on Nature and Art (No.25. 
p- 401.). — The book to which your correspondent 
“ M.” refers, is, I believe, “The Mysteries of Na- 
ture and Art, in Foure severall Parts: The First 
of Water Works,—the Second of Fire Works, 
§c., &ce. By John Bate.” 
I have the second edition, 1635; to which is 
prefixed a rude engraving of the author :—“ Vera 
effigies Johannis Bate, memoria manet, modo per- 
maneant studium et industria.” 
Hermes. 
“A Frog he would a-wooing go.” —In answer 
to the inquiry of “B. G. J.” (in No. 25. p. 401.), 
as to the origin of “‘ Heigh ho!’ says Rowley,” I 
do not think it is older than thirty or thirty-five 
years, when Liston sang an altered version of the 
very old song, — 
“A frog, he would a-wooing ride, 
With sword and buckler by his side,” 
and instead of the usual chorus*, inserted 
«“ Heigho, says Rowley,” 
as a burthen. Liston’s song was published by 
Goulding and Co., Scho Square, entitled “The 
Love-sick Frog,” with an original air by C. E. H, 
Esq. (gy. Charles Edward Horn ?), and an accom- 
paniment by Thomas Cook. The first verse is as 
follows : — 
« A frog he would a-wooing go; 
‘Heigh ho!’ says Rowley ; 
Whether his mother would let him or no, 
With a rowly, powly, 
Gammon and spinach, 
‘Heigh!’ said Anthony Rowley.” 
R. 8.8. 
April 23. 1850. 
“ My Love and I for hisses played, §c.” (No. 19. 
p: 802.).—The little jeu d’esprit which “ Dr. Rim- 
7, 
* In my interleaved copy of Halliwell’s Nursery 
Rhymes, I have the original song of the “ Frog and 
Mouse” with three different melodies, and nonsense 
burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty Richens, 
whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages. 
