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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2» d S. IX. June 9. 'CO. 



heiress of Seymour Bowman, Esq., of Kyrkos- 

 wald, Cumberland and of the Inner Temple. 



2nd. Whether the said Peter Smith bore arms ; 

 before his marriage, and, if so, what they were ? 



3rd. Any information respecting his ancestors 

 will be most acceptable. 



4th. "Was the above mentioned Dorothy Bow- 

 man the only child of Seymour Bowman, Esq. ? 



C. E. S. 

 A descendant of the Rev. Peter Smith. 



Law of Scotland. — Is it true that by the law 

 of Scotland a man is entitled to add his mother's 

 maiden name to his own, after her death, should 

 he choose to do so ? Querist. 



William Parker. — Is there any direct evi- 

 dence to prove that William Parker, uncle to 

 Thomas the last Lord Morley and Mounteagle, 

 died without legitimate issue ? Mr. T. C. Banks, 

 author of the Dormant and Extinct Baronage, told 

 me there was not ; and I have seen an old pedi- 

 gree which states that he married a Miss Hollings- 

 worth, whom he abandoned, and had issue by her 

 a daughter who married and had issue. 



Arnold Voost. 



Quotations Wanted. — Who is the author of 

 these lines : — 



" With that, she smote her on the lips — 

 Were dyed a double red : 

 Hard was" the heart that dealt the blow, 

 Soft were the lips that bled." 



(They refer to Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosa- 

 mond.) I should be glad to know where the rest 

 of the poem is to be found. F. L. 



1. " Words are fools' pence, and the wise man's coun- 

 ters." 



2. " I'll make assurance doubly sure." * 



3. " Thus fools mistake reverse of wrong for right." — 

 Pope? 



4. "Politeness is benevolence in trifles." 



5. " Nuuquam pcriclum sine periclo vincitur." 



6. " Call not the Royal Swede unfortunate." 



Ache. 



" Trust not in Reason, Epicurus cries, 

 But test the senses; there conviction lies." 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



Who is the author of the hymn commencing : 



" The Lord our God-is full of might, 

 The winds obey his will : 

 He speaks, and in his heavenly height 

 The rolling sun stands still." 



It is No. 36. of Bickersteth's collection. 



Cervus. 



[• Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 1.— Ed. "X. & Q."] 



Who is the author of the following lines ? — 



"Be pleased and satisfied with what thou art: 

 Act well thine own allotted part. 

 Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, 

 Nor wish, nor fear the coming of the last." 



AV. J. S. 



" My blessings on your heart, 

 You brew good ale." 



[ Tico Gentlemen of Verona, Act III. Sc. 1.] 



J.E. 



" They came, they went. Of pleasures past away 

 How often is this all that we can say, 

 Came like the cystus." 



" We wept not, though we knew that 'twas the last." 



N. J. H. 



"Cleanliness is next to Godliness." 

 Where is this to be found ? * 



W. T. 



Can any of your correspondents kindly inform 



me where I may find the following lines ? — 



"She took the cup of life to sip, 



Too bitter 'twas to drain; 



She put it gently from her lip, 



And fell to sleep again." 



The following words, or at least words of similar 

 meaning, I heard quoted as from an old divine. 

 Where may they be found? — 



" Humility deepens through all eternity, and is greater 

 before the glory of the throne, than in the dust of the 

 footstool." 



In the Bible we read, " Perfect love casteth 

 out fear." Can any of your readers help me to 

 any passage of similar import in our English poets, 

 showing that as love increases, jealousy and sus- 

 picion decrease ? Libya. 



Put a sneck in the kettle crook. — " Hech, 

 Sirs, wha wad a thocht it put a sneck i' the kettle 

 crook after that," is a saying of no unfrequent use 

 among us in the northern parts of these islands on 

 hearing of any circumstance having happened cal- 

 culated to cause surprise, or create wonder by its 

 novelty. Thus the phrase is frequently used by 

 those to whom an instance of " pluck " is told, of 

 a husband in whose menage generally " the gray 

 mare is considered to be the better horse," on 

 listening to an account of a veteran celebataire 

 having taken to himself for wife his plain cook or 

 a Miss in her teens, or a woman of slow parts 

 being reported to have perpetrated a passable 

 calembourg or an average Jew de mots. Should a 

 story get afloat of a mean-dispositioned fellow 

 having acted a generous part, " a brute of a hus- 

 band" having made some solitary display of re- 

 gard for an "ill-used wife," a mother-in-law 

 having disinterestedly preferred to reside in her 



[* The probable origin from Hebrews x. 22. is shown 

 in our 1" S. iv. 491— Ed. " N. & Q."] 



