Mat 10. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



377 



Marino in Addison's Bemarks on several Parts of 

 Italy; Aristotle's Politics, translated by Gillies, 

 lib. ii. Appendix. 



Its lofty and isolated situation has supplied 

 Jean Paul with a simile in his Unsichtbure Loge: 



'• Alle aiidre Wissenscluiften theilen sich jetzt hi 

 eine Universal JNIcnarcliie iiber alio Lcser : aber die 

 Alten sitzen niit iliien wtnigen pliilolosisehen Lehns- 

 leuten einsam atif cinem S. ]\Iarino-^"elsen." — Jean 

 Paul's Werke (Berlin, 1S40, 8vo.), vol. i. p. 1:25. 



In the first line of the letter, "ved«to" should 

 be veditto; and in the seventh line, "difendera?" 

 difenderj;;. F. C. B. 



THE BELLMAN AND HIS HISTORT. 



(Vol. iii., p. 324.) 



The Bellman's songs may be found in the Bell- 

 viaiis Treasury, cmituinivg above a Hundred several 

 Verses, fitted for all Humours and Fancies, and 

 suited to all Times and Seasons. London : 8vo. 

 1707. Extracts from this book are given in 

 Hone's Every Day Booh, vol. ii. p. 1594. 



I have now before me a broadside thus en- 

 titled : " A copy of Verses, humbly presented to 

 the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen, and 

 Common Coiincilmen, and the rest of my worthy 

 IVIasters and jMistresses, dwelling in Cambridge. 

 By Thomas Adams, Bellman, 1810." There is a 

 large engraving, from a wood-block, apparently 

 a century old, representing a bellman, in a flowing 

 wig and a three-cornered hat, holding in his right 

 hand a bell, and in his left a javelin and lantern ; 

 his dog is behind him. 



The verses are : 



1. Prologue. 



2. To the Right "Worshipful the IMayor. 



3. To the Aldermen. 



4. To the Common Councilmen. 



5. To the Town Clerk. 



6. To the Members for the Town. 



7. On the King. 



8. On the Queen. 



9. On Christmas Day. 



10. On New Year's Day. 



11. To the Young I\[cn. 



12. To the Young ilaids. 



13. On Charity. 



14. On Religion. 



15. Epilogue. 



This is marked as the 24th sheet ; that is, as I 

 suppose, the 24th set of verses presented by 

 Mr. Adams. 



I have also a similar broadside, " by Isaac 

 Moulo, jun., bellman, 1824," being " No. III." of 

 Mr. Moide's performances. The woodcut is of a 

 more nKxlerii character than Mr. Adams's, and 

 delineates a bellman in a three-cornered hat, 

 modern coat, breeches, and stockings, a bell in 



his right hand, and a small dog by his side. The 

 bellman is represented as standing in front of the 

 old Shire Hall in Cambridge, having Ilobsou's 

 Conduit on his right. 



The subjects of ]Mr. Moule's verses are similar 

 to those of Mr. Adams, with the following vari- 

 ations. He omits verses to the Town Clerk, the 

 Members for the Town, the Queen, on Charity, and 

 on Religion, and inserts verses " On St. Crispin," 

 and " To my Masters and Mistresses." 



The office of bellman in this town was abolished 

 in 1836, and to the bellman's verses have suc- 

 ceeded similar effusions from the lamplighters, 

 who distribute copies when soliciting Christmas 

 boxes from the inhabitants. C. H. Coopek. 



Cambridge, April 28. 1851. 



Hr^jlic^ ta iHiitor C3ticn'cS. 



" God taltes those soonest," Sf-c. (Vol. iii., p. 302.). 

 — In Morwenstow churchyard, Cornwall, there 

 is this epitaph on a child : — 



" Those whom God loves die young ! 

 They see no evil days, — 

 No falsehood taints their tongue, 

 No wickedness their ways. 



" Baptized, and so made sure. 

 To win their blest abode, — 

 What shidl we pray for more ? 

 They die, and are with God ! " 



C.E.H. 



The belief expressed in these words is of great 

 antiquity. See the story of Cleobis and Biton, in 

 Herod. 1. 31., and the verse from the Als i^cnraruv 

 of Menander : 



" O;' 01 r&fol (piXovffiv airoBv-fiaicet veos." 

 iNIeineke, Frag in. Com. Gr., vol. iv. p. 105. 



L. 



I would suggest to T. II. K. that the origin of 

 this line is Menander's 



" Ov ol Sno\ S)i\o£cny aTroBviirrKii vios." 



Fragm. 1 28. in IMeineke, Fr. Com. Gr. 



imitated by Plautns : 



" Quem di diligunt adulcscens moritur." 



Bucch. Iv. 7. 18. 

 whence the English adase, 



" Whom the gods love die young." 

 Wordsworth's Excur., b. i., has this sentiment : 



" O, Sir, the good die first, 

 And those whose Iiearts are dry as siiniiner dust. 

 Burn to the socket." 



C. P. Pu****. 



[Several otlier correspondents liave kindly replied to 

 this Query.] 



