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 350 NOTES AND QUERIES, [io» B. iv. OCT. a. "FOUNTAIN-HEADS AND PATHLESS GROVES.'' —Can any reader give the origin of these verses, quoted in Emerson's essay on 'Love'? Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves. Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a passing groan— These are the sounds we feed upon. I thought they belonged to Keats, but cannot find them, and should not have suspected him of the inaccuracy of describing a bat as a fowl. EDWARD M. LAYTON. [They are by Beaumont, are the second part of delights," and are imitated by Milton in ' II Pen- eeroBo.'J EARLY LIFT.—In the 'Greyille Memoirs' (Genoa, 18 March, 1830, evening) there is a reference to the king and queen, who " for the comfort of their bodies had a machine made like a car, which is drawn up by a chain from the bottom to the top of the house ; it holds about six people, who can be at pleasure elevated to any story, and at each landing-place there is a contri- vance to let them in and out." Is this the first mention of anything approaching our modern " lift" ? FRANK SCHLOESSER. 15, Grosvenor Road, Westminster, S.W. [See 7th S. x. 85; 8th S. x. 412, 465; xi. 154; 9th S. vi. 313.] CUSTOM OF THRAVES.—I shall be glad to learn the origin of this church custom. WILLIAM ANDREWS. Royal Institution, Hull. "T.OTUM SUME, FLUIT."—Can any of your readers afford a solution to the following ? The answer would be in one word, and of course in Latin:— Totum sume, fluit: caudam procide, volabit. Tolle caput, pugnat. Viscera carpe, dolet. H. P. S. 'PisHOKEN.'—Who wrote 'Pishoken,' sung off Deptford by Hogarth and his friends on their way down the river 1 J. A. CRAWLEY. WILLIAM MORRIS'S WELSH ANCESTRY. — Mention is made in J. W. Mackail's ' Life oi William Morris' of his Welsh ancestry. Who were his ancestors in Wales ] A. W. 'LYRICAL BALLADS': MOTTO.—Can any of your readers help me as to the source of the motto which Wordsworth put on the title page of the 1800edition of 'Lyrical Ballads' Quam mini ad genium, I'apiniane, tuum. WILLIAM KNIGHT. Malvern. MOON NAMES. (10th S. iv. 289.) EIGHTEEN years ago (see 7th S. vii. 301) I showed that the Anglo - Saxon names of the months were given on much the same principle as we now employ the phrases " Harvest Moon" and the like. I also showed that the familiar statements about these months, which have been cited over and over again from Verstegan, are nearly all baseless, and due to Verstegan's extreme boldness of invention and bluster. Per- haps it may be interesting to give the modern equivalents of the A.-S. names once more, beginning with January. They are: 1. The latter Yule; 2. Mud month ; 3. Hretha's month (Hretha was a goddess worshipped by the English in their heathen days); 4. Easter month (Easter was also a goddess) ; 5. Three - inilkings month ; 6. The former Lithe (i.e., warm month); 7. The latter Lithe; 8. VVeed month : 9. Holy month; 10. Storm- felling month (the month when storms bring own leaves and broken boughs); 11. Sacri- .ce month ; 12. The former lule. For a fuller account see the article referred . I regret to say that "Mud month " is as appropriate as ever. WALTER W. SKEAT. In South Lincolnshire forty years ago the ollowing were in use : August, Haymakers'; September, Harvester Harvesters'; October, Shooters'; November, Hunters'. The late- ness of the first two is accounted for by ,heir having been interchanged in old days; aefore the inclosures (see 'General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln,' 1799, drawn up for the Board of Agriculture by its Secretary, p. 195) hay was cut, left in swarth, unturned, until it became yellow, and gathered in September after the corn harvest; thus September was then the hay- makers' month, and August the harvesters'. ALFRED WELBY. Your correspondentVALTYNE asks for names of different moons. I find in Longfellow's 'Song of Hiawatha' "the Moon of Snow- shoes," "theMoon of Leaves," and "the Moon of Strawberries." The references will be found in canto ii.:— In the night when nights are brightest, In the dreary Moon of Snow Shoes. In canto v.:— First he built a lodge for fasting. In the Moon of Leaves he built it. In canto vii.:— When the birds were singing gaily. In the Moon of Leaves were singing.
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