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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. JULY 20.1905. MR. HAMONET'S memory at the same time' The line referred to is in the "Dedicace " (1.82, of A. de Musset's 'La Coupe et les Levres (Poeme Dramatique),' and tlie context is so good also that I venture to quote a few more lines, if not out of place here :— Je ne fais grand cas, pour moi, de la critique : JToute mquche qu'elle cat, c'est rare qu'elle pique. On m'a dit 1'an passe que j'itnitais Byron: V".jits qui me coimaissez, vous savez Wen que non. Je hais cummc la mort 1'etat de plagiaire; Mon verre n'eat pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre. C'est bien peu, je le sais, que d'etre homme de bien, Mais toujoura est-il vrai que je n'cxhunie rien. I saw the line in question parodied the other day in a comic journal thus :— Ma cour n'est pas graude, mais je vois dans ma cour. Three pages farther o_n, still in the "Dedi- cace," occurs the following:— Vous me demanderez si j'aime quelque chose. Je m'en vais vous repondre a peu pres comme Hamlet: Doutez, < )| .lii'-lIM, de tout ce qui vous plait, De la r la r-i •.'• dea cieux, du parfum de la rose; Doutez de la vertu, de la nuit et du jour; Doutez de tout au monde, et jamais de 1'amour. Truly a poet's translation of a poet's lines. EDWARD LATHAM. I cannot help MR. LATHAM to the sources he requires; but will he accept some parallels? 1. Gothe, 'Elegien.'i. 6. 3. " Klein, aber inein." 5. "La vie est vaine," from Leon Monte- nacken's 'Peu de Chose.' See 8'" S. vi. 26. 8. "Quome cunquerapittempestas,deferor hospes. Horatius, ' Epist./ lib. i. i. 15. O. KRUEGER. Berlin. LINES ON A MUG (10th S. iii. 228, 353, 435, 498). -I was interested to learn from S. J. A. F. that the lines beginning "Oh, don't the days seem limp and long !" occur in W. S. Gilbert's ' Princess Ida,' produced at the Savoy Theatre. The first two lines are painted on a modern two-handled mug of "Royal Devon Ware" in my possession, an example of the admirable reproductions of old pottery, the sale of which received such a fillip from the dis- cerning patronage of H.R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyle. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. PORTRAITS WHICH HAVE LED TO MARRIAGES (10th S. iii. 287, 334, 377, 435).—A portrait led to Henry VIII.'s fourth wedding. When the marriage between him and Anne of Cleves was proposed he would not consent thereto until Holbein, whom he sent to Flanders for that purpose, had painted her portrait; this met with his approval, and they were married by proxy. On the new queen's arrival at her husband's palace the latter found fault with her for not resembling the portrait, and straightway divorced the " fat Flanders mare." R. L. MORETON. I have a cousin, a Cambridge graduate, who first met his wife's face in The War Cry. MEDICDLUS. INCLEDON: COOKE (10th S. iii. 464).—With reference to the incident respecting George F. Cooke, the earliest record of it I can trace is in 'The Georgian Era, a Memoir of the Most Eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain from the Accession of George I. until the Demise of George IV.* (London, 1834). The memoir of Cooke contains the follow- ing account:— " On the last night of his appearance at Liverpool, he was, as usual, intoxicated and accordingly hissed. Enraged at this, he suddenly advanced to the foot- lights and called out to the audience, 'B 1 ye! b 1 ye all! there's not a brick throughout your town that's not cemented with the blood of an. African !'" Whether the incident really happened or not I cannot say, but it is certain that Cooke performed at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, on 14 August, 1810, and it was announced in The Advertiser that it would be his last appearance that season. He sailed from Liverpool on 4 October following for New York, and seems never to have returned to- England, for he died at New York in Sep- tember, 1811, according to the 'D.N.B.,7' though 'The Georgian Era' says 1812. A. H. ARKLE. Thirty to thirty-five years ago I used to- mix very much with theatrical people, both great and small, and I several times heard the story to which allusion has been made, but never, to my knowledge, was it attributed to Incledon, but always to George Frederick Cooke, and never mentioned as having taken place at Liverpool, but always at Bristol. I heard it told by the late William Creswick to his partner " Dick" Shepherd, in the coffee- room of the " Equestrian Tavern. Blackfriars Road, next door to the Surrey Theatre : and again I can call to mind hearing it told by an intimate friend of my own, James Carter, a well-known singer in his day (now dead about four years), at the Middlesex Music - hall (the "Mogul"), Drury Lane. In each case the words used were substantially those quoted by J. W. E., but, if I remember rightly, somewhat more highly spiced ; but 1 am sure that the word "nigger" was not used by either of the gentlemen of whom I speak as.