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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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from N2Y (shabath), to rest; but I think we must 
rather defer to the authority of the LXX. And 
though Nav SY (El-ishboth) may give us Elisa- 
beth, we shall not be able to deduce Isabel from 
bys naw? (Ishboth- E71) quite so easily. B. 
-L—— Rectory, S——, May 4. 1850. 
Trunck Breeches (No. 24. p. 384.), more com- 
monly called “trunk-hose,’ were short wide 
breeches reaching a little above, or sometimes be- 
low the knees, stuffed with hair, and striped. (See 
The Oxford Manual for Brasses, p.cvi.; and 
Planche’s British Costume, pp. 334—339. new ed.) 
Two years ago, I saw in the Strand an old man 
with a gueue; a sight which I made a note of as 
soon as I got home, influenced by the same mo- 
tive that, no doubt, led Smith in 1640 to append 
to the death of “ old Mr. Grice” the remark, “‘ who 
wore truncke breeches,’ namely, the antique sin- 
gularity of the habiliment. Arun. 
Mercenary Preacher (No. 24. p. 384.).—I think 
mercenary is here used in its primary signification, 
and in the sense in which we still apply it to 
troops in the pay of a state foreign to their own; 
to designate one who, having no settled cure, was 
at liberty to be “ hired” by those who had occasion 
for his services. ARunN. 
Abdication of James the Second (No. 8. p. 40.). 
—“ J. E.” would probably hear of the MSS. men- 
tioned by Sir Harris Nicholas, on application to 
the Rev. Sir Thomas Miller, Bart., Froyle, near 
Alton, Hants. i. W. 
Clifton. 
Toom Shawn Caitie (No. 24. p. 383.).—An 
entertaining volume, containing the life and ad- 
ventures of Twm Sion Cuatti, was published at 
Biulth some years ago, by Mr. Jeffery Llewelyn 
Prichard, who recently told me it was out of 
print, and that inquiries had been made for the 
book which might probably lead to a new and im- 
proved edition. Enisan Wanrine. 
Dowry Parade, Clifton. 
Wotton’s Poem to Lord Bacon (No. 19. p. 302.). 
—The poem communicated by Dr. Rimbault, 
with the heading, “To the Lord Bacon when 
falling from Favour,” and with the remark that he 
does “not remember to have seen it in print,” was 
written by Sir Henry Wotton, and may be found 
under the title, “‘ Upon the sudden restraint of the 
Earl of Somerset, then falling from Favour,” in all 
the old editions of the Reliquie Wottoniane (1651, 
1654, 1672, and 1685), as well as in the modern 
editions of Sir Henry’s poems, by Mr. Dyce and 
Mr. Hannah. It was also printed as Wotton’s in 
Clarke’s Aurea Legenda, 1682, p. 97., and more 
recently in Campbell’s Specimens, in both cases, 
doubtless, from Rel. Wotton. The misapplication 
of it to Lord Bacon’s fall dates from an unautho- 
rised publication in 1651, which misled Park in 
his edition of Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors, 
ii. 208. In stanza 3. line 2. of Dr. Rimbault’s 
copy, “ burst” should be “ trust.” R.A. 
“My Mind to Me a Kingdom is” (No. 19. 
p- 302.).— The following note, from the Introduc- 
tion to Mr. Hannab’s edition of the Poems of Sir 
H. Wotton and Sir Walter Raleigh, 1845, p. Ixv., 
will answer Dr. Rimbault’s Query, and also show 
that a claim had been put in for Sir E. Dyer be- 
fore Mr. Singer’s very valuable communication to 
“ Norrs anp QuErigs,” p. 355. 
« There are three copies of verses on that model ; 
two of which, viz., one of four stanzas and another of 
six, were printed by Byrd in 1588. They have been 
reprinted from his text in Cens. Lit. ii. 108—110, and 
Exe, Tudor, i. 100O—103. Percy inserted them in the 
Reliques with some alterations and additions; but he 
changed his mind more than once as to whether they 
were two distinct poems, or only the dissevered parts 
of one (see i. 292-294. 303., ed. 1 767; and i. 307-310. 
ed. 1839). The third (containing four stanzas) is among 
Sylvester's Posthumous Poems, p. 651.3; and Ellis re- 
printed it under hisname. In Cens. Lit. ii. 102., another 
copy of it is given from a music book by Gibbons, 1612. 
Now the longest, and apparently the earliest of these 
poems is signed ‘FE, Dier, in MS. Rawl. Poet. 85., 
fol. 17, 
the two which are not in Byrd, corresponds with a 
stanza which Percy added. The following are the 
reasons which incline us to trust this MS.:—(1.) Be- 
cause it is the very MS. to which reference is com- 
monly made for several of Dyer’s unprinted poems, as 
by Dr. Bliss, 4. 0. i, 743. ; and apparentiy by Mr. Dyce, 
ed. of Greene, i. p. xxxv. n.; and by Park, note on 
Warton, iii. 230. Park is the only person I ean recol- 
lect who has mentioned this particular poem in the 
MS., and he cannot have read more than the first line, 
for he only says, ‘ one of them bears the popular burden 
of “ My mind to me a kingdom is.”’ (2.) Because it 
is quite possible that Dyer wrcte many extant poems, 
of which he is not known to be the author; for, as 
Mr. Dyce says, none of his (acknowledged) productions 
‘have descended to our times that seem to justify the 
contemporary applause which he received.’ (3.) Be- 
cause | cannot discover that there is any other claimant 
to this poem. One of Greene’s poems ends with the 
line, 
* A mind content both crown and kingdom is.’ ” 
( Works, ii. 288., ed. Dyce.) 
Tt will be observed that no mention is here 
made of the copy in Breton’s tract; therefore this 
summary gains from both the correspondents of 
“ Nores and Qurrims”—an addition from the 
one, 2 corroboration from the other. R. A, 
Gesta Grayorum (No. 22. p.351.).—“ J. 8." is 
informed that copies of the Gesta Grayorum are 
by no means uncommon. It was originally printed 
That copy contains eight stanzas, and one of | 
