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hilly landscape. There is no artist’s mark that I 
can discover, although it is noticeable, but pro- 
bably is accidental, that the end of the cord sus- 
taining the curtain is thrown into the exact form 
of the initials of John Wynants, (UU. The pic- 
ture is in perfect preservation, and of great 
beauty ; but a vague remembrance haunts me of 
having seen the design somewhere. Can any of 
your readers recognise it from the description ? 
Has a similar picture been engraved? and if so, 
from what original ? 
DRYDEN’S FUNERAL, 
At the risk of presuming to have discovered 
something like a “ mare’s nest,” for I blush to say 
have not time to keep pace with your wonder- 
ful assemblage of things otherwise forgotten, rare 
or recondite, to be met with in the various pages 
of your “ N. & Q.”, do allow me to make an ass 
of myself by submitting the following extract 
from “ the Works of the late ingenious Mr. George 
Farqukar,” 9th edit., published 1760. He says 
(vol. i. p. 73.) : 
“T come now from Mr. Dryden’s funeral, where we had 
an Ode in Horace sung, instead of David’s Psalms; 
whence you may find, that we don’t think a poet worth 
Christian burial. The pomp of the ceremony was a kind 
of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras than him, 
because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque; but he was 
an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary 
fashion: for, I do believe, there was never such another 
burial seen. 
“The oration, indeed, was great and ingenious, worthy 
the subject, and like the author, whose prescriptions can 
restore the living, and his pen embalm the dead. And 
so much for Mr. Dryden, whose burial was the same with 
his life, variety, and not of a piece. The quality and 
mob, farce and heroicks; the sublime and ridicule mixt 
in a piece—great Cleopatra in a hackney coach.” 
After this Note, I avail myself of the privilege 
of your invaluable miscellany to put Queries, viz. : 
1. Which was the “Ode in Horace” so sung, 
and who composed the music? 
2. Is the “great and ingenious oration” still 
extant? And was, or was not, Dr. Garth, who 
(it is asserted) “didn’t write his own ‘ Dispen- 
ae ” the author of it ? 
finally, and notwithstanding my presumption, 
I shall feel but too happy if my pen should be the 
humble means of embalming these, to me, interest- 
ing facts in your perennial. 
may also mention, that the same ingenious 
Mr. George Farquhar, on a “Friday night at 
eleven o'clock,” about or a little before the time 
above mentioned, reports himself to have flawn to 
Spring Gardens, where he says, “ nothing I found 
entertaining but the nightingale,” &c. Does the 
oldest inhabitant in Westminster remember such 
athing? If not, there is only one other place for 
it to be “noted” in, Equinz Nipvs. 
BOYLE LECTURE. 
Can you, or any of your readers, give me infor- 
mation on the following points relating to the 
Boyle Lecture 2? — 
Ist. Can a perfect list of the preachers be ob- 
tained ? That in Darling’s Encyc. Bibl. has many 
lacune. 
2nd. What public functionaries appoint the 
preacher? ‘This would be important as probably 
enabling an inquirer to make researches in the 
proper quarter. 
3rd. Have any long intervals occurred in which 
no preacher has been appointed? And if so, from 
what cause or causes? Darling gives no preacher 
at all from 1807 to 1821, and from this latter date 
no one occurs till 1846-7. 
4th. Is the preacher appointed for one, two, or 
three years? In Darling’s list, some appear to 
hold the office even for four years, and many for 
two or three. 
5th. Is any regular notice given of the vacancy 
in the preachership, or of the time and place 
where the lecture is preached ? 
These are not the®days when we can afford to 
lose the champions of “the Christian religion 
against infidels.” It concerns us, therefore, to 
know whether champions are appointed ; whether 
they are able ones; and if so, that their achieve- 
ments should be known. 
Besides, the subject has an antiquarian interest ; 
and so is, I hope, not unfit for your pages. 
A Constant READER. 
SAinar Queries. 
Italian Manuscript Operas. —I have in my pos- 
session 224 volumes of Italian manuscript operas, 
containing from 1400 to 1500 different works, and 
upwards of 73,000 pages of written matter. 
At the commencement of by far the greater 
part of these operas, there is the name of the 
author; as also by whom the music was written, 
to whom it was dedicated, when, and where 
performed; with the names of the actors and 
actresses, and the parts taken by them in the 
performance, 
This collection was made by a distinguished 
Maltese Jesuit, not long since deceased ; and, as I 
am told, embraces all the operas which were 
known in Europe from 1654 to 1822. 
My object in writing this Note is for the 
purpose of asking if any similar collection is 
known to exist in England ? W. W. 
Malta. 
Popular Names of Cattle. —As I am only an 
occasional reader of “ N. & Q.,” Iam noi aware 
| if my Query will be importunate, and a repetition. 
