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NOTES AND QUERIES. - [io s. xii. OCT. 9, 1909.

anywhere else. I shall be glad of outside references. The name is not, in my view, the same as Seccombe and Seckham (which are still not uncommon), as the pronuncia- tion of the local name was clearly Seacum.

R. S. B.

FLYING ACROSS THE LAKE OF PERUGIA. Father Grimaldi's reported flight across the English Channel (see 10 S. xi. 145 ; xii. 170, 238, 272) reminds me that another Jesuit, Francesco Lana of Brescia, to wit, in his ' Prodromo ' (Brescia, 1670) mentions the feat performed by another man who is reported to have flown across the Lake of Perugia, but alighted too heavily on the ground and was killed :

" Narrasi per cosa certa che un tale, di cui non soyvienemi il nome, a tempi nostri con simile arti- ficio [come Dedalo] passo volando dall' ima all' altra parte del Lago di Perugia," &c.

Is the name of this flying man mentioned anywhere else ? L. L. K.

" THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT " : AUGUSTUS BRAHAM. Some weeks ago I was seeking the origin of the words " Though lost to sight, to memory dear." I have now been supplied with the words of a song written and com- posed by Braham, and sung by him circa 1830. It begins :

Though lost to sight, to memory dear

Thou ever wilt remain ; and it ends :

Yet though thy smile be lost to sight, To memory thou art dear.

Did the words suggest the song ? or did the song first give currency to the words ? G. W. E. RUSSELL.

[Bartlett, 'Familiar Quotations,' 9th ed., 1891, under George Linley prints the whole of the song, and says it was " written and composed by Linley

for Mr. Augustus Braham, and sung by him It

is not known when the song was written probably about 1830.]

" ONE " : ITS PRONUNCIATION. The modern common pronunciation of " one," which is well known to have sounded in Chaucer's time, and even in Shakespeare's, like the first syllable of " only " (cf. Prof. Skeat's ' Etym. Diet.' and the 'N.E.D.'), is said to have arisen in Shrop- shire and in neighbouring Wales. It would be desirable to trace this supposed Welsh influence upon the English pronunciation, and to quote some similar instances where an initial vowel was preceded by the sound of w, in accordance with Welsh euphony.

H. KREBS. Oxford.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Could any of your numerous readers refer me to the author of the lines following ? I have searched several ' Dictionaries of Quotations,' but without success : Praise is devotion, fit for noble minds, The differing world's agreeing sacrifice.

W. S. RESTALL.

(1) Can any one tell me the author of the following ?

Give my youth, my faith, my sword,

Choice of the heart's desire ; A short life in the saddle, Lord !

Not long life by the fire.

(2) Can any one complete the following poem and name the author ? It is said to be in ' Lyra Mystica ' :

The graves grow thicker and life's ways more bare

As years on years go by. Nay ! There are more green gardens in thy care,

And more stars in thy sky. Behind, hopes turned to pain, aud joys to grief,

Are fading out of sight ; Before

Are shining in God's light.

LEZZE.

Perish the roses and the palaces of kings.

E. BISCHOF.

Forenoon and afternoon and night ; forenoon And afternoon and night ; forenoon and what ? The empty song repeats itself no more ? Yea, that is life : make this forenoon sublime, This afternoon a psalm, this night a prayer, And time is conquered, and thy crown is won.

F. A. A.

' JOHN BROWN.' Who is the author of, and where can I procure, the lines known as ' John Brown,' which used to be much in favour at penny readings when I was a young man ? They begin, if memory serves me : I've a wife and I've a friend, I 've a guinea I can spend, And a troop of little children at my knee, John Brown.

ONALED. [By Charles Mackay.]

' ARAMINTA.' Where can I obtain w a omic recitation entitled ' Araminta,' well mown in the sixties ? A. J. BAKER.

201, Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, Manchester.

"SPURRINGS" OR BANNS, AND LAMENESS. A servant-girl put the " spurrings " in the other week, and " they " were " axed " for
 * he first time the Sunday afterwards. The

engine-driver on the premises adjoining remarked to other workpeople on the Monday following : " Just loike hoo sho limps ! " It