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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 76. 



of the capture of a whale at Greenwich, immedi- 

 ately previous to Cromwell's death. I take leave 

 to inform him that, in a tract entitled A Catalogue 

 of natural Rarities^ with great Indust7'y, Cost and 

 thirty Years Travel in foreign Countries collected, 

 by Hobert Hubert, alias Forges, Gent., and sworn 

 Servant to his Majesty. And Dayly to be seen at 

 the Place called the Miisick House, at the Miter, 

 near the West End of St. Paul's Church, 16G4, 

 there is the followinn; item : — 



" The vein of the tongue of that whale that was taken 

 up at Greenwich, a little before Cromwell's death." 



W. PlNKEKTON. 



Ham. 



Fronte Capillata, ^-c. (Vol. iii., pp. 8. 43. 124.). 

 — The following lines from T^a&so &Amore Fuggitivo 

 contain the same figure as the Latin quoted above : 

 " Crcspe ha le chiome e d'oro, 

 E in quella guisa appunto, 

 Clie Foituna si pinge 

 Ha lunghi e folti in suUa fronte I crlni ; 

 Bla nuda ha poi la testa 

 Agli opposti confini." 



RoBEKT Snow. 



The lines quoted by your correspondent are 

 from Peacock's " Headlong Hall," and are imi- 

 tated from Machiavelli's " Capitolo dell' Occa- 

 sione." The whole air stands thus ; the second 

 stanza differing slightly from the version given by 

 Mr. Bukt. The lines are very pretty, at least in 

 my opinion. 



" LOVE AND OPrORTUNlTV. 



" Oh 1 who art thou, so swiftly flying? 



My name is Love, the child replied ; 

 Swifter I pass than so nth -winds sighing, 



Or streams through summer vales that glide. 

 And who art thou, his flight pursuing? 



'Tis cold Neglect whom now you see : 

 The little god you there are viewing. 



Will die, if once he's touched by me. 



" Oh ! who art thou so fast proceeding'. 



Ne'er glancing back thine eyes of flame? 

 Mark'd but by few, through earth I'm speeding. 



And Opportunity's my name. 

 What form is that which scowls beside thee? 



Ilepentance is the form you see : 

 Learn then, the fate may yet betide thee . 



She seizes them who seize not me." 



W. R. M. 



JoJin Sanderson, or the Cushion-dance (Vol. ii., 

 p. 517.). — Though I am unable to answer your 

 correspondent Mac's inquiry as to the antiquity 

 of this dance, it may interest him as well as 

 others of the readers of " Notes and Queries " 

 to know, that when Walpole made up his mind to 

 abandon his Excise bill (which met with a still 

 fiercer opposition out of doors than in the House 

 of Commons), he signified his intention to a party 



of his adherents at the supper-table, by quoting 

 the first line of the accompanying song : — 



" This dance it will no further go I " * 



Tills, at least, shows the popularity of this dance 

 in the reign of George II. H. C. 



W^ork ington. 



George Steevens and William Stevens (Vol. iii., 

 p. 230.). — The late Sir J. A. Park wrote Memoirs 

 of William Stevens, the Treasurer of Queen Anne's 

 Bounty, and the biographer of Jones of Nayland. 

 As little I'esemblance must have existed between 

 this gentleman and " the Puck of commentators," 

 George Steevens, as between the two Harveys : 



" The one invented Sauce for Fish, 

 The other Meditations." 



J. H. M. 



Memoirs of Stevens by the late Sir James Allan 

 Park have been published, and are well worth 

 reading; but this Stevens was not George Steevens, 

 the Shakespearian commentator, but William, 

 Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty, one of the 

 most meek and humble minded of men, 



" He was inferior to none in profound knowledge, 

 and steady practice of the doctrines and discipline of 

 the Church of England ; austere to himself alone, cha- 

 ritable and indulgent towards others, he attracted the 

 young by the cheerfulness of his temper, and the old 

 by the sanctity of his life." 



Miss Bockett should not confound such a holy 

 character with George Steevens. E. H. 



Memoirs of George Steevens, Esq., F.R.S. and 

 F.S.A. (Vol. iii., p. 119.).— In answer to A. Z. it 

 may be stated that a brief memoir of Mr. Steevens 

 was given in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the 

 Eighteenth Century, vol. ii. p. 680.; further anec- 

 dotes, and some of his letters, in vol. v. of Nichols's 

 Literary Lllustrations ; and further letters (his 

 correspondence with Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dro- 

 more), in vol. vii. of the latter work; besides many 

 incidental notices, which will be found by reference 

 to the indexes. On the last occasion a copy of his 

 portrait by Dance, was attached; and in vol. v. of 

 the Literary Illustrations is an engraving of his 

 monument by Flaxman, in Poplar Chapel. N. 



Tradescant (Vol. iii., p. 119.). — At what period 

 the elder Tradescant came into England is not 

 with certainty known, but it is supposed to have 

 been about the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, or 

 the beginning of that of James I. He obtained 

 the title oi Royal Gardener circa 1629. 



It may not be superfluous to mention (on the 

 authority of Allen's History of Lambeth, p. 142.) 

 that formerly the three following lines were on 

 the monument in Lambeth churchyard, until its 



* This occurred in the year 1733. 



