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Latm Drinking Song by Richard Bjaithwait, by S. W. 

 Singer - - - - - - - 297 



Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty - 29S 

 " .After m" the Deluge," bv Douglas Jerrold - - 2!I9 



Bishop Thornborough's Monument , . . 299. 



Minor Notes: — King Richard III. — Shakspeare a 

 thorough Sailor — "A fellow. feeling," &c. — Early 

 Instances of the Word " News " — Under tlie Rose - 



QUEHIES : — 



Portraits of Spenser , . • - . 



The Vendace -..,-. 



Minor Queiies: — Ex Pede Herculem — "To-day we 

 purpose " — *' Goii takes those soonest whom He loves 

 the liest " — Qual. "rs' .Attempt to convert the Pope 

 — Whychcote of St. John's — Meaning of Rechibus — 

 Family of Queen Katherine Parr — Skort — Religious 

 Teaching in the German Universities — Epigram by 

 Dunbir — Endymion Porter — Sathai\iel — The Scoute 

 Generall — Anthony Pomeroy. Hean of Cork 



Minor Queries A.nswered : — Civil War Tract — Tri 

 S"ction of the Circle — VVolsey's Son — Oiirdinals and 

 Abbots ia the English Church - -, . - 



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Sir Balthazar Gerbir-r, by J. Crosslef - - - 



The Travels of Baron Munchausen - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Tobacco in the East — 

 Captain John Stevens — MS. Catalogue of Norman 

 Nobility — Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III. — 

 Co-nets — Pope Joan — Abbot Euctacius — The 

 Vellum-bound Junius — Meaning of Waste-book — , 

 Cowdray — S.ilemnisation of Matrimony — Epitaph 

 on the Countess of Pembroke — ,Sca?idal against 

 Queen Elia.ibeth — The Tanthony — The Hippopo- 

 tamus — Tu auteni — Places called Purgatory — Swear- 

 ing bySw.ans, &c. — Edmund Prideaiiv and the Post- 

 office — Small Wor.ls and "Low" Words — Lord 

 Howard of Effingham — Obeahism, &c. 



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Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 

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 Notices to Correspondents 

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fiatcg. 



LATIN DRINKING SONG BY RICHARD BRAITHWAIT. 



I have been surprised, from the facility with 

 wliic.h the author of "Drunken Biirnaby " seems to 

 pour out his Leonine verse, that no otlier proiluc- 

 tions of a simihir charai^ter are known to have 

 issued from his pen. I am not aware that the 

 following ilriiiking song, which may fairly be at- 

 tributed to liim, has ever appeared in print. It 

 was evidently unknown to the worthy Ilaslewood, 

 the crowning glory of whose literary career was 



the happy discovery of the author, Richard Braitb- 

 wait. I transcribe it from the MS. volume from 

 which James Boswell first gave to the world Shak- 

 speare's verses " On the King." Southey has 

 somewhere said that " the best serious piece of 

 Latin in modern metre is Siy Francis Kinaston's 

 Amores Troili et Cvessida, a. translation of the 

 two first books of Chaucer's Poem*; but it was 

 reserved fov famous Babnaby to employ the bar- 

 barous ornament of rhyme, so as to give thereby 

 point and character to good Latinity." 



Southey does not seem to have known those 

 remarkable productions of the middle ages, which 

 have been made accessible to us by the researches 

 of Docen, of Grimm, of Schmeller, and of Mr. 

 Wright ; and, above all, of that exquisite gem, 

 " De Phyllide et Flora," first printed by Doccn f , 

 and since given by Mr. Wright in his collection 

 of Poems attributed to Walter de Mapes. We have, 

 however, a much better text from the hand of 

 Jacob Grimm, in the Memoirs of the Academy of 

 Berlin for 1843, p. 239. Of this poem it is per- 

 haps not exiiggeration to say, that it is an Idyll 

 which would have done honour to ihe literature 

 of any age or country; and if it is the production 

 of Walter de Mapes, we have reason to be proud 

 of it. It is a dispute between two maidens on 

 the qualities of their lovers, the one being a soldier, 

 the other a priest. It breathes of the spring, of 

 nature, and of love ; 



" Erant ambae virgines et amba? reginae, 

 Phyllis coma libera Flora conito crine, 

 Non sunt foririae virginum .sed formse divinae, 

 Et respondent faqies luci iiiatutinoe. 

 Nee stirpe, nee facie, nee ornatu viles, 

 Et annos et animos babent juveniles 

 Sed sunt pariim inpares, et parum hostilts 

 Nam hinc placet clericus illi vero miles." 



* Southey was not aware that the whole of Chaucer's 

 Poem, and the " Testament of Cressid," by Henryson, 

 was translated by Kinaston and accompanied by a 

 copious commentary in English, but only exists in one 

 sole MS. The press of the Camden Society would be 

 well employed on it. 



f In Baron von Aretin's Bei/trage zur Geschicfite 

 und Lileratur, vol. vii. p. 301. ; but the copy, though 

 a good text, was defective at the end. 



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