June 21. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



493 



therefore, to suGjijest that he owed this line to one 

 in Chaucer's " lieves Prologue : " 



" Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken." 

 In Chaucer the sentiment it embodies is satiri- 

 cal : — 



" For whan we may not don, than wol we speken, 

 Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken." 



In Gray, on the other hand, it is the moralist 

 who solemnly declares : 



" E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, 

 E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires." 



But the coincidence cannot surely be accidental. 



William J. Thoms. 



Shahspeare Family. — In the Rotiilorum Patentium 

 et Clausorum Cancellarice Hibernice Calemlarium, 

 vol. i. pars i. p. 99 b. is an entry, which shows 

 that one Tliomas Shakespere and Richard Portyn- 

 gale were appointed Comptrollers of Customs in 

 the port of Youghal, in Ireland, in the fifty-first 

 year of Edward III. J. F. F. 



Epitaph on Dr. Humphrey Tindall (Vol. iii., 

 p. 422.). — The epitaph in Kiilyleagh churchyard is 

 not unlike the following inscription on the tomb of 

 Umphrey Tindall, D.D., Dean of Ely and Presi- 

 dent of Queen's College, Cambridge, who died 

 Oct 12, 1650, in his sixty-fifth year, and is buried 

 in the south aisle of the choir of Ely Cathedral : — 

 " In presence, government, good actions, and In birth, 



Grave, wise, courageous, noble, was this earth ; 



The poor, the Church, the College say, here lies 



A friend, a Dean, a Master, true, good, wise." 



K. C. 



Cambridge. 



Specimens of Composition. — In the current (June) 

 number of the Eclectic Review there is a critique 

 on Gilfillan's Bards of the Bible, the writer of 

 which indulges in the use of several most inelegant, 

 extraordinary, and unpardonable expressions. He 

 speaks of "spiritual monoptotes," &c., as if all his 

 readers were as learned as he himself professes to 

 be : but the climax of his sorry literary attempt is 

 as follows : 



" Over the whole literature of modern times there is 

 a feeling of reduced inspiration, milder possession, re- 

 laxed orgasnius, tabescent vitality, spiritual collapse." 

 — P. 725. 



What would the author of the Spectator have 

 thought of a writer wlio could iinblushingly parade 

 before the literary puljlic such words as "relaxed 

 orgasmus," " tabescent vitality," " monoptotes," 

 &c.? J. II. Kershaw. 



Burke'. 1 '■'■mighti/ Boar of the Forest." — It has 

 been much canvassed, what induced Purke to call 

 Junius the " miglity bo;ir of the forest." In the 

 tliii'teeiilh book of tin; Iliiid I found that Llonie- 

 iieus, when awaiting tlie attack of ^Eiieas, is com- 

 pared to the " boar of the mountains." I think it 

 therefore probable that Burke applied the com- 



parison (quoting from memory) to Junius. Per- 

 haps you will not think this trifle unworthy of a 

 place among the " Notes." 



Kenneth E,. H. Mackenzie. 



caucric^. 



QUERIES ON TENNYSON. 



I should be much obliged to any of your cor- 

 respondents who would explain the following 

 passages of Tennyson : 



1. Vision of Sin {Poems, p. 361.) : 



" God made himself an awful rose of dawn." 



2. Vision of Sin (Poems, p. 367.) : 



" Behold ! it was a crime 

 Of sense avenged by sense that wore with time." 



3. In Memoriam, p. 127. ; 



" Over those ethereal eyes 

 The bar of Michael Angelo." 



(Coleridge, Introduction to Second Lay Sermon, 

 p. xxvi., says : 



" Whose ample foreheads, with the weighty bar, ridge- 

 like, above the eye-brows, bespoke observation followed 

 by meditative thought : " 



but why the allusion to Michael Angelo ?) 



[Is our correspondent aware that the " Har of 

 Michael Angelo " has already formed the subject of a 

 Query from Mr. Singer. See our 2nd Vol., p. 166.] 



4. The Princess, p. 66. : 



" Dare we dream of that, I ask'd. 

 Which wrought us, as the workman and his work, 

 That practice betters." 



" Heir of all the ages." Is this traceable to the 

 following lines of Goethe ? 

 " M?in Vermiichtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit I 



Die Zeit ist mein Vermachtniss, raein Acker ist die 

 Zeit!" 



Is the poem " The Lord of Burleigh " founded 

 on fact or not ? In an old review of Tennyson 

 in the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly, it is 

 stated to refer to the " mesalliance of the Marquis 

 of Westminster ; " but any such notion is denied 

 in the article on " Ballad Poetry " in the last 

 number of that journal. Eryx. 



ancient modes or hanging bells. 



In the Churchwardens' accounts of EcclesfielJ 

 parish, the following entries occur : — 



" 1527. It. paid to James Frodsam for makyng of 

 iiij bell coUers, xiiij''. 



" It. paid to Robert Dawyre nii*dyng a bell 



wlieyll, iij''. 



" 1 5'M. It. for festnynge a gogoii in ye belle yocke, j''." 



The foregoing extracts are quoted with a view 

 to ascertaining at how early a period the frame- 

 work, now employed lor suspending bells in 



