Feb. 22. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



155 



There is another couplet worth citing — • 

 " The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ; 

 So cahn are we, when passions are no more." 



How different were the effusions of Waller's 

 earlier muse ! In the year 1645, Humphrey 

 Mosley published " Poems, ^r., written by Mr. Ed. 

 "Waller, of Beaconsfield, Esquire, lately a i\Iember 

 of the Honourable House of Commons." The 

 title-page also states that — • 



" All the Lyrick Poems in this Booke were set by 

 iVIr. Henry L-iwes of the King's Cliappell, and one of 

 his ."Majesties Private jMusick." 



It is not a little "remarkable that the same piib- 

 lisher, in the same year, should have also given to 

 the world the first edition of that precious volume 

 — l^WXiovCs Minoi' Poems ; and, in the advertise- 

 ment prefi.xed, he thus adverts to the circum- 

 stance : — 



" That ineouractement I have already received from 

 the most ii'.genious men, in their clear and courteons 

 entertainment of Mr. Waller's late choice Peeces, hath 

 onece more made me adventure into the world, present- 

 ing it with these ever-r/reen and not to be blasted laurels." 



Il.ad Humjjhrey Mosley any presentiment of the 

 deathless fame of Milton ? S. W. Singer. 



" The SouVs darli Cottage,'' §x. (Vol.iii., p. 105.). 

 — This admired couplet can never escape recollec- 

 tion. It was written by Waller. From the tenor 

 of some preceding lines, and the place which the 

 verses occupy in the edition of 1693, they must be 

 among the latest of his compositions. 



EOLTON ConNET. 



[A. H. H., R. B., C. J. R., H. G. T., and other 

 friends have replied to tliis Qeery. 



The Rev. J. Sansom points out a kindred passage 

 in his poem of Divine Love, canto vi. p. 249. : 



" Tlie soul contending to that light to fly 

 From her dark cell," &c. 



H. G. sends a beantiftil parallel passage from 

 Fuller (Holy State Life of Monica) : " Drawing near 

 her deatli, she sent most pious thoughts as iiarbingers 

 to lieaven, and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness 

 through the chinks of her sickness-broken bodv." 

 And J. H. M. informs us lliat amongst Duke's Poen;s 

 is a most flattering one addressed to Waller, evidently 

 allusive to the lines in question.] 



"Beaut// Retire" (Vol.iii., p. 105.).— The lines 

 beginning "Beauty Retire," wliicli Pepys set to 

 music, taken from the second part of the Siege of 

 Rhoden, act iv. scene 2., are in-inted in the 5th 

 Yolunie of llie Memoirs, p. 250., .3rd edition. 



I believe the music exists in the rejiysian 

 Library, but any of the Fellows of Magilalcnc 

 College could ascertain the fact. Brayukooke. 



Mijthology of the Stars (Vol. iii., p. 70.). — I 

 would here add to my rccomnieudatiou of Captain 



Smyth's Celestial Cycle (ante, p. 70.), that soon 

 after it ajipeared it obtained for its author the 

 annual gold medal of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society ; and that it is a book adapted to the 

 exigencies of astronomers of all degrees, from the 

 experienced astronomer, furnished with every 

 modern refinement of appliances and means of 

 observation, to the humbler, but perhaps no less 

 zealous beginner, furnished only with a good pair 

 of natural eyes, aided, on occasion, by the common 

 opera-glass. Such an observer, if he goes the 

 right way to work, will make sure of a higli degree 

 of entertainment and instruction, and may rea- 

 sonably hope to light on a discovery or two, worthy, 

 even in the present day, of being recorded. 



Robert Snow. 



Simon Bache (Vol. iii., p. 105.). — Thesauraj'ins 

 Hospitii. — The ofiice of " Thesaurarius Ilospitii," 

 about which A. W. H. inquires, means, I believe, 

 " Treasurer of the Household." In Chauncy's 

 Hertfordshire, vol. ii. p. 102., the inscription on 

 Simon Bache is given in the same terms as by 

 your correspondent. The learned author then 

 gives, at p. 103., the epitaph on another monument 

 also in Knebworth Church, erected to the memory 

 of John Hotoft, in which occur these two lines : 

 " Ilospitii regis qui Thesaurarius olim 

 Henrici sexti merito poUebat lionore." 



At p. 93. of the same volume. Sir Henry Chauncy 

 speaks of the same John Hotoft as an eminent 

 man, and sheriff of the county, and adds: 



" He was also Treasurer of the King's Household 

 afterwards; he dyed and was buried in the chancel of 

 this church, where his monument remains at this day." 



Who Simon Bache was, or how he came to be 

 buried at Knebworth, I canr.ot tell. Tiie name of 

 "Bach" occurs in Chaimcy several times, as that of 

 mayors and assistants, at Hertford, between 1672 

 and 1689. J. H. L. 



Winifreda (Vol. iii., p. 108.). — It may perhaps 

 interest Lord Braybrooke and J. II. M. to know, 

 that I have in my possession the copy of Dods- 

 ley's Minor Poems, which belonged to John Gil- 

 bert Cooper, and which was bought at the sale 

 of his grandson, the late Colonel John Gilbeit- 

 Cooper-Gardiner. The song of " A"\'inifreda" is 

 at jiage 282. of the 4th volume ; and a manuscript 

 note, in the handwriting of (he son of the author 

 ni Letters concerning Taste, states it to have been 

 written " by John Gilbert Cooper." The praise 

 bestowed by Cooper on the poem, and which 

 J. H. M. conceives to militate against his claim to 

 the composition, is obviously intended to apply to 

 the original, and not to Cooper's elegant transla- 

 tion. A. 



Newark. 



Queries on Costume (Vol. iii., p. 88.). — Addi- 

 son's paper La the Spectator, ifo. 127,, seems to be 



