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NOTES AND QUERIES, 
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Thad always been led to regard death by a broken 
heart as a vulgar error, no such cause of death 
being possible. Can any one give any instances 
of this having occurred, and in what books such 
instances are given? for it is well worthy the 
trouble of examining them, and comparing them 
with the great case, which I have ventured to 
bring forward. : K. 
“ How sweet is the song,” §c. —I wish to know 
who is the author of the well-known lines com- 
mencing, — 
«“ How sweet is the song of the lark, as she springs, 
To welcome the morning with joy on her ane 
Re 
Odments. —'The other day in the Waterloo 
Road, at an omuium gatherum shop, I saw the 
above word written in legible characters upon a 
piece of pasteboard suspended in the windows. 
Never having met with this expression before, I 
went in and asked the master what it meant, and 
he at once replied, “ that it showed people that he 
bought and sold odds and ends.” Is this an old 
word revived, or is it one freshly invented for the 
present day ? CENTURION. 
P.S.—I have looked into Ayscough’s Index to 
Shakspeare, and do not find it in that volume. 
John Howe. — in the edition of’ this celebrated 
Nonconformist divine’s works (published during 
his lifetime), in three vols. by Tege in 1848, the 
editor states in the “advertisement” that the pub- 
lishers intended a three volume edition of Howe's 
Posthumous Works. Was this last edition ever 
published? If not, where can I procure a list of 
the posthumous works? Also, what has become 
of the portrait of Howe, stated to have been re- 
cently in the possession of the late Dr. Thomas 
Gibbons of Hoxton Square? #§Maaparenensis. 
J. Larking. — Among the readers of “N. & 
Q.” is there any one sufficiently versed in the 
history of paper manufacture in England to in- 
form me what would be the date of a sheet of 4to. 
letter paper, gilt edged, with the name of J. Lark- 
ing on it as the manufacturer? The presumed 
date is about 1780. Can any particulars be added 
relative to the said J. Larking? An answer to 
this Query would much oblige Cuarropuynax. 
Quentin Bely — Moirweg — Laale. —In the 
Comparaison des Langues, par J. P. Brebeuf, Paris, 
an. vii, among examples of the similarity of 
Dutch to English is, — 
“Dan mogt sy haer tonge roeren, 
Als de hoeren, 
Quick-quack-queet ick segget al.” 
Quentin Bely, 19. 
Two Danish writers, Mérweg and Laale, are 
quoted. Can any of your readers say who they 
and Quentin Bely are, and what they wrote? 
Some of the quotations are very curious. P.S. F. 
Creil, 
Shillfull Serjeant Corderoy. — Would Mr. Foss 
or any of your correspondents give me any in- 
formation respecting this gentleman, his arms or 
family? See Bliss’s Life of Anthony 4 Wood, ed. 
1848, vol. i. p. 133. W. H. Lamnin. 
Fulham. 
Plants in Sleeping Raoms.—I1 believe it is 
pretty generally thought, that sleeping in a room 
where plants are is hurtful: and that plants give 
out gases necessary to the preservation of human 
life, and use others that not so used would harm 
us. How are the two notions reconciled ® 
pay A ae 7 
linar Queries Mtth Answers. 
“ Jamie frae Dundee.” — What is known of the 
authorship of the following song, which either be- 
longs to, or was introduced in an opera named 
Marian, about seventy years since? I should be 
glad to learn who were the authors of the words 
and music of that opera, as I have never been able 
to obtain a copy of the libretto of that opera: 
“T canna like ye, gentle sir, 
Although a laird ye be; 
For weel I like the bonnie lad ~ 
Wha brought me frae Dundee. 
And [ll gang awa’ wi’ Jamie, Oh, 
V’ll gang awa’ wi’ Jamie, Oh, 
I'll gang awa’ wi’ Jamie o’er the lea; 
I'll gang awa’ wi’ a free gude will, 
For he’s a’ the warld to me. 
“Tl gang wi’ Jamie frae Dundee, 
To cheer the Janesome way: 
His cheeks are ruddy o’er wi’ health, 
He’s frolicsome and gay. 
And I'll gang, &c. 
“ The laverock mounts to hail the morn, 
The lintwhite swells her throat ; 
But nane o’ them ’s sae sweet or clear 
As Jamie’s tunefw’ throat. 
And [ll gang, &c.” 
JUVERNA, 
[This dramatic piece is entitled, “ Marian, an Opera as 
performed at Covent Garden. ‘The music composed and 
selected by William Shield, the words by Mrs, Frances 
Brooke. Oblong folio, 1788.” The words of the airs, 
songs, &c. were republished separately in 1788, 8yo. The 
following is the original version of the song: 
“T canno’ like ye, gentle si 
Altho’ a laird ye be; 7 
I like a bonny Scottish lad 
Wha brought me fra’ Dundee, 
“Taud away! Haud away! 
Wi’ Jamie o’er the lea 
I gang’d along wi’ free gude will, 
He’s a’ the world to me! 
