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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL MAY 25, 1907.

diary, 11 June, 1664, says: "With my wife early to take the ayre, to Hackney there played at shuffleboard, eat cream and good cherries " ; and Dryden in the ' Pro- logue to " King Arthur " ' (1685) writes : So have I seen, in hall of knight or lord, A weak arm throw on a long shovelboard ; He barely lays his piece, bar rubs and knocks, Secured by weakness not to reach the box. A box or trough was placed just below the edge of the table to catch the coins that fell over.

Tray-trip in ' The Imperial Dictionary is called " the ancient game of dice, in which success probably depended on having a trois or three." .In 'Twelfth Night,' II. v., Sir Toby Belch exclaims : " Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave ? " Ben Jonson in ' The Alchemist,' V. ii. (1610), has Subtle telling Dapper that

" Her Grace would have you eat no more Woolsack pie, nor play with costermongers at Mumchance or Tray-trip, but keep the gallant'st company at the best games, Gleek and Primero." In ' The Scornful Lady,' by Beaumont and Fletcher (1616), the Curate complains that " his head is broken by that beast the butler, for reproving him at Tra-trip for swearing." JAMES WATSON.

Folkestone.

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402 ; vii. 3, 82, 284.)

~VOL. IV., ED. 1766, CONTENTS AND AUTHOBS.

DODSLEY in 1748 doubted whether there would be a fourth volume of the collection, but in September, 1753, the materials for it were being collected. By the close of February, 1755, it was out. The authors of many of the pieces were unknown to him.

Pp. 1-6. Elegy written in a country church yard. By Mr. Gray ('D.N.B.').

7-8. Hymn to adversity. By the same.

9-49. Education, a poem in two cantos, in imita- tion of Spenser's Fairy Queen.' Inscribed to Lady Langnam, widow of Sir John Langham, Bart, [and mother of the author]. By Gilbert West.

50-61. Penshurst. Inscribed to William Perry and the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Perry. By the late Mr. F. Coventry (' D.N.B.'). It was printed separately and anonymously in 1750. Mrs. Perry was one of the co- heiresses of the Sidney family, and William Perry, who died in 1757, procured in 1752 the king's sign-manual for their issue to take the name of Sidney only.

61-3. To the Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, Esq. [after- wards Lord Lisburne], in Wales. By the same.

64-70. Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his edition of Shakespear. By Mr. William Collins ('D.N.B.').

71-2. A song from Shakespear's 'Cymbeline.' By the same.

73-5. Elegy to Miss D w d [DashwoodJ in the manner of Ovid. By the late Mr. Hammond ('D.N.B.').

75-8. Answer to the foregoing lines. By the late Lord Hervey (' D.N.B.').

78-85. Epistles in the manner of Ovid. (1) Monimia [Miss Sophia Howe] to Philocles [Hon. Anthony Lowther, oy whom she was ruined]. " The best of his lordship's poems " (Wai- pole, ' Royal and Noble Authors,' ed. Park, iv. 181-8). There are " some pathetic strokes" in it (Warton, 'Essay on Pope,' i. 293). For the story of Miss Howe see Mrs. Delany's ' Autobiography,' vi. 163.

86-90. (2) Flora to Pompey. Appeared in ' The Museum,' i. 92-5.

91-7. (3) Arisbe to Marius, junior ; from Fonte- nelle. Appeared ib., ii. 14-19.

98-102. (4) Roxana to Usbeck ; from ' Les Lettres Persannes' [of Montesquieu]. Lord Hervey has " lengthened it to a degree that is unnatural " (Warton, ' Essay on Pope,' i. 294). This piece is also in ' The Museum,' iii. 378-80.

103-4. Epilogue for Sophonisba, to have been spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.

105. Imitation of the eleventh ode of the first book of Horace.

Ste. is Stephen Fox, afterwards Earl of Ilchester.

106-8. A love letter. The last seven pieces are also by Lord Hervey.

109-10. Verses to Dr. George Rogers ('D.N.B.') on his taking the degree of Doctor in Physic at Padua in the year 1664 [misprint for 1646]. By Mr. Waller ('D.N.B.').

110-15. Virgil's tomb. Naples, 1741. By the Rev. Joseph Trapp ('D.N.B.,' Lvii. 157, col. 2), second son of the well- inown Rev. Dr. Joseph Trapp. Joseph Warton in his ' Essay on Pope ' says that n this piece will be found " as much lively and original imagery, strong painting, and nanly sentiments of freedom, as I have ever read in our language."

115-17. The Link [a favourite walk on the brow a hill at Ovington, near Alresford, Hampshire. 3y Dr. Lowth, the rector].

The rectory of Ovington was Lowth's first preferment. He was collated thereto on

25 July, 1744, and held it untiUhis collation n November, 1753, to the rectory of. East

Woodhay. The Rev. Hugh Stowell, the

present rector of Ovington, tells me that ' the walk on the Link is no longer in use. It nust have been just 'above a 1 side-stream of the