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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. NOV. 26,

SEMI-EFFIGIES (10 th S. ii. 269). At pp. 176-8 of 'Memorials of the West,' by W. H. Hamil- ton Rogers, F.S.A. (Exeter, 1888), there is a -description and an excellent illustration of one of these monuments, but it appears to be different from those mentioned in my query .as existing at Lichfield, in that it is described .as a slab, and therefore presumably resting in a horizontal position, while those at Lich- field are embedded in the wall and rest vertically on their sides, the faces of the monuments being almost flush with the wall ; the two apertures disclosing the head and ieet (where still existing) of the figures in recumbent postures, the figures lying on their backs. Another difference is that the openings are trefoil-headed instead of right- angular.

The following is from Mr. Rogers's book referred to :

" Digress we for a time here to notice a contem- porary and remarkable monument occurring in

a chantry on the North side of the chancel of the parish church of North-Brize in Oxfordshire, erected to feir John Daubygne, and dated 1340.

"On a large sepulchral slab are two deep-sunk trefoil-arched compartments or openings, one at ach end, and within them is sculptured the repre- sentation of the upper and lower extremities of a Knight

" In the lower opening are shown the legs from just below the knee, with the feet resting on a lion

" The central space between the two openings is occupied with a large heraldic achievement, supplemented below with two smaller shields

"Around the edge [i.e., of the slab] is this inscription [which is then set out] "

But few of these semi-effigial monuments exist, and the intention seemingly was to show the deceased person in a coffin or bier, with his armorial insignia over him.

H. W. UNDERDOWN.

In- 'The Cathedral Church of Lichfield : a Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See,' by A. B. Clifton '(London, Bell & Sons, 1898), there is a description of " the most curious monument in the cathedral " on pp. 92-4, which may to some extent answer your correspondent's questions. F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART.

Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

" COME, LIVE WITH ME " (10 th S. ii. 89, 153). MR. BAYNE'S reference does not convince me. " Fayre lined " may be good English, but is not very apposite to the word " cold." However, I am not writing this to press my absurd suggestion to the point of revul- sion, but to protest, in a mild sort of way, against MR. BAYNE'S contrasting of "the poet's imagery with the prosaic details of his father's trade." There is nothing prosaic

about work which has all the higher elements of poesy in it if the worker brings to it an artistic feeling. In fact, nothing more poetical can be conceived than the making of a pair of dainty shoes or slippers for some beauty. In a country like ours, maintained by commerce and mechanical arts, it is time that the old absurd ideas about the de- grading effects of trade upon consanguinity were cast into limbo. At some period every man's ancestor was a hunter or savage, and therefore "in trade." M. L. R. BRESLAR.

"GRANT ME, INDULGENT HEAVEN" (10 tb S. ii. 309). The lines beginning with these words remind us of Cowley's style, and are perhaps a variation of those printed in his 4 Poetical Blossoms ' (1633) under the title of 'A Vote.' This poem consists of eleven stanzas, the last three of which are as follows :

This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Some honour I would have, Not from great deeds, but good alone. Th ignote are better than ill known.

Rumour can ope the grave ;

Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not from the number, but the choice of friends.

Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more

Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, not luxury. My garden painted o'er '

With Nature's hand, not Art's, and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.

Thus would I double my life's fading space, For he that runs it well twice runs his race.

And in this true delight, These unbought sports, and happy state, I would not fear, nor wish my fate,

But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display, Or in clouds hide them : I have lived to-day. *

So wrote Cowley when he was only thirteen years of age. In 1647 ' The Mistress ; or, Several Copies of Love - Verses,' was pub- lished, among which there is a poem entitled this I will quote the second, which will show that, though his years were doubled, his yearning after a country retreat was un- changed :
 * The Wish,' containing five stanzas. From

Ah, yet, E're I descend to th' Grave May I a small House, and large Garden have ! And a few Friends, and many Books, both true, Both wise, and both delightfull too ! And since Love ne're will from me flee,

See

Prof. Arber's 'Jonson Anthology,' He quotes from the second edition ot tiie" 'Poetical Blossoms,' 1636, but I have not followed his curious punctuation.

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