2'"i S. VI. 151., Nov. 20. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and to recompense ill times with better, if we can live to 

 see them ; which I pray you maj' do, whatsoever becomes 

 of Your still most faithful 



humble Servitor, J. H. 

 " Fleet, 3 Mar. 1646." 



My query still remains unanswered : What is 

 " the Philology of the Wheels of Vicissitude that 

 is but a Circle of Tales ?" Eieionnach. 



flftinar fiatsS. 



Arms of Isle of Man on Etruscan Vase. — You 

 may find space in " N. & Q.," perhaps, for the 

 stray fact that, in the Museum of Antiquities at 

 Rouen, there is an Etruscan vase on which occurs 

 a device curiously resembling the armorial bear- 

 ings of the Isle of Man, which are " Gules, three 

 armed legs, proper." It occurs on the shield of 

 the principal figure, which is that of a warrior 

 stricken down by an armed divinity. There are 

 some Greek and other characters about it, among 

 which I could only decypher the word AOENAIA. 



I was informed that the vase is genuine, but 

 upon that point can express no opinion. 



The legs on the base are not armed, but other- 

 wise there is, I think, no sensible difference from 

 the Manx type. Totjeist. 



Confessor of the MoyalHouseTiold. — ^A question 

 has been raised in The Glohe newspaper respect- 

 ing this office, which was held, when Geo. III. was 

 king, by a Dr. David W- Morgan. (^Glohe, Nov. 

 10, 1858, p. 3. col. 1.) Information on this sub- 

 ject will be found in " N. & Q." 1" S. x. 9. (No. 

 for July 1, 1834.) T. B. 



Pope and Francis Qunrles. — Pope was the au- 

 thor of the well-known couplet : 



" Know then tli yself, presume not God to scan ; 

 The proper study of mankind is man." 



In reading Francis Quarles's Hieroglyphics of 

 the Life of Man, I was struck with the remarka- 

 ble similarity of the ideas expressed in its first 

 two lines and those embodied by Pope in the 

 words I have quoted above. Quarles says : 



" Man is man's A, B, C. There's none that can 

 Kead God aright, unless he first spell man." 



Of course I would not presume to accuse Pope 

 of plagiarism, but I think the coincidence of ideas 

 in two so different works by two so different men 

 is curious, and worthy ,of a corner in " N. & Q." 



G. M. G. 



A Suggestion to Dr. Gauntlett. — Will you al- 

 low me to suggest to Dk. Gadntlett that he 

 would confer a favour upon musicians in general, 

 if he would undertake to publish those parts of 

 the compositions of Padre Uria, Stradella, and 

 Erba, &c., from which it appears that Handel has 

 80 largely borrowed in the construction of the 



oratorio of " Israel in Egypt." (2"'' S. v. 184.) If 

 the Doctor would print them as hand-books to ac- 

 company the oratorio published by Messrs. Novello 

 & Cocks, I have little doubt but that the reading 

 musical public would gladly and generally avail 

 itself of such means of judging in what instances, 

 and how far, Handel has borroived and worked out 

 another man's ideas, and where he has unceremo- 

 niously appropriated. ~ If the work could be brought 

 out at as low a price as the Hand-books, I trust the 

 demand would fully cover the expenses of publi- 

 cation. N. S. Heineken. 

 Sidmouth. 



Poets, true Poets, are Prophets. — Even in our 

 own days, Coleridge prophesied of the atmospheric 

 railroad in the Ancient Mariner : — 



" For why drives on that ship so fast. 

 Without or wave or wind ? 

 The air is cut away before. 

 And closes from behind," &c. 



Webster, rather earlier, prophesied most clearly 

 of the present " Great Eastern," and her mishaps, 

 in The Devil's Law Case : — 



'■■ Ariosto. Come, come, come, 

 You gave these ships most strange, most dreadful. 

 And unfortunate names, I never looli'd they'd prosper. 



" Rnmelio. Is there any ill omen in giving names to 

 ships? 



" Ariosto. Did you not call one The Storms' Defiance, 

 Another T7te Scourge of the Sea, and the third 

 77(6 Great Leviathan ? 



" Romelio. Very right, sir. 



" Ariosto. Very devilish names 

 All three of them ; and surely 1 think 

 They were cursed in their very cradles, I do mean. 

 When they were upon their stocks." 



Can anything be plainer? What were J. P. 

 Collier and Mr. Dtce about, to let the share- 

 holders be so cozened ? Why did not the Record 

 quote the passage, to bolster up its argument ? 

 What ! read stage plays ? Horror ! and profana- 

 tion ! E. H. K. 



^uarfejS. 



CANN TAMILY. 



At 1»* S. vii. 3.30. of " N. &;Q.," I endeavoured, 

 under an assumed name, to obtain some par- 

 ticulars of the history of this family, but without 

 success. I now venture, in my own name, to ask 

 the assistance of your genealogical correspondents 

 in the solution of the following Queries, which 

 have arisen in the course of my researches on 

 the subject. The answers may probably not 

 possess interest enough for the pages of " N. & 

 Q. ; " it would therefore be advisable that com- 

 munications be forwarded to my private address. 



The Canns were seated at Bridgnorth, county 

 Salop, in the thirteenth century. Can anybody 

 supply me with a pedigree of the family at or 



