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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 101. 



" Here let me careless ami unthoua;htful lying 

 Hear the soft winds above me flying, 

 With all their wanton boughs dispute, 

 And the more tuneful birds to both replying, 

 Nor be my self too mute. 



" A silver stream shall roll his waters near ; 

 Gilt with the sunbeams here and there, 

 On whose enamel'd bank. I'll walk, 

 And see how prettily they smile, and hear 

 How prettily they talk." 

 And — 

 " Soft-footed winds with tuneful voices there 

 Dance through the perfumed an-, 

 There silver rivers through enamel'd meadows glide, 

 And golden trees enrich their side." 



Translation of Pindar's Second Olympic Ode. 



Or let Liiii compai-e Gray's Latin and English 

 versos upon the death of his friend ]Mr. West with 

 Cowley's upon the death of Mr. Willirau Harvey 

 and Mr. Crashaw : 



" Hail, Bard Triumphant ! and some care bestow 

 On us the Poets Militant below," &c. 



Cowley on Mr. Crashaw. 



" At Tu, sancta anima, et nostri non indiga luctus," &c. 



Grai/. 



To these lines on Crashaw Pope is indebted for 

 a sentiment which in his hands assumes a very 

 infidel form : 



" For modes of faith let senseless bigots fight ; 

 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." 

 Crashaw had become a Roman Catholic, and was 

 a canon of Loretto when he died ; but Cowley's 

 Protestant feelings could not blind him to his 

 worth, and he says : 



" His Faith perhaps in some nice tenets might] 

 Be wrong; his Life, his soul were in the Right." 



IIow much the two last-mentioned poems of 

 Gray's owe to Milton's " Lines to JVIansus " and 

 his " Epitaphium Damonis," any one acquainted 

 with them may remember. I have only been 

 alluding to Gray's reproductions of Cowley. Rx. 



Warmington. 



Minor jJatc^. 



Remains of Si?- Hugh Montgomery (Vol. iv., 

 p. 206.). — Allusion has been made to the following 

 stanza from " Chevy Chase : " — 



" Against Sir Hugh Montgomery, 

 So right his shaft he set, 

 The grey goose wing that was thereon 

 In his heart's blood was wet." 

 Having lately visited the sea-batliing town of 

 Largs, my attention was attracted to a building 

 in the churchyard forming the present burying 

 ground. In this building, bearing date of erection 

 1636 by Sir Robert Montgomery (ancestor of the 

 present Earl of Egliuton), there is an elaborately 

 carved tomb of mason work, beneath which is a 



strongly arched stone vaiilt, where, besides the 

 founder and others, tradition has placed the re- 

 mains of the brave Sir Hugh Montgomery. It is 

 difficult to reconcile this with the long prior date 

 of the battle of Chevy Chase, unless the vault, 

 which has certainly a very ancient look, can be 

 substantiated to have existed before the above 

 building. Taking matters as they go, the remains 

 of the warrior now appear in the most humiliating 

 condition — reduced to a hard, dry bony skeleton 

 deprived of legs and thighs, with the singular ap- 

 pearance of the skull having (been cloven (most 

 likely) by a battle-axe, the skull being held to- 

 gether by some plate or substance and rude stitch- 

 ing. The body is said to have been originally 

 embalmed, and enclosed in a lead coffin, which 

 was barbarously torn off some forty years ago, 

 as sinks for fishing nets. The building, tomb, and 

 vault, taken altogether, present perhaps one of the 

 finest specimens of , this species of architecture 

 in Scotland, and are additionally curious from the 

 cone roof of the building being highly ornamented 

 with descriptive paintings in a tolerable state of 

 preservation. It is understood that some his- 

 torical notices of the whole have been privately 

 printed by a Scotch antiquarian, of which some 

 of your learned readers may be aware, and may 

 furnish more ample details than the foregoing. 



G. 



Glasgow, Sept. 23. 1851. 



Westminster Hall. — The following extract from 

 the Issue Roll of Michaelmas Term, 9 Hen, VII. 

 1493, may be interesting to some of your readers, 

 and will perhaps lead to a speculation on the nature 

 of " the disguisyings" alluded to : — • 



" To Richard Daland, for providing certain spec- 

 tacles, or theatres, commonly c.-»lled scaffolds, in the 

 great hall at Westminster, for performance of ' the 

 disguisyings,' exhibited to the people on the night of 

 the Epiphany, as appears by a book of particulars ; 

 p:iid to his own hands, £28. 3s. 5|d." — Devon's Issue 

 Roll, 5IG. 



Possibly the next entry, which is in Michaelmas 

 in the following year, of a payment of five marks 

 yearly " to John Englissh, Edward Maye, Richard 

 Gibson, and John Hamond, ' lusoribus Regis,' 

 otherwise called in English the players of the 

 king's interludes, for their fees," — has some con- 

 nexion with " the disguisyings." Dessawdorf. 



Meaning of " Log-ship." — If you have a spare 

 corner, can you grant it to me for the origin of a 

 word which describes an article used in every sailing 

 and steam vessel in the world, and yet perhaps 

 not one sailor in a thousand knows whence it is 

 derived. I allude to the word " log-ship," the 

 name of the little wooden float (quadrant-shaped) 

 by which, with a line attached, the vessel's speed 

 is ascertained. Before the invention of the line 

 with "knots" on it, a "chip," or floating-scrap, 



