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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I am desirous of ascertaining the authorship of two sonnets on ' Marriage in Heaven,* commencing respectively thus :

1. They who the resurrection shall attain,

With angels equal, purged of fleshly leaven, They marry not, nor are in marriage given.

2. " Eye hath not seen, ear heard, or heart conceived

What God has there prepared " : of saints

above We know but that they weep not, that they

love.

Also of the following lines, quoted by the late Dean Farrar in his ' Great Books,' New York, 1898, p. 203 :

3. Oh for a deeper insight into Heaven ! More knowledge of the glory and the joy Which there unto the happy souls is given.

And of these :

4. Before her face her handkerchief she spread To hide the flood of tears she aid not shed.

JAMES T. PRESLEY. Cheltenham.

Though absence part us for a while,

And distance roll between, Remember, whosoe'er revile,

I am what I have been.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

VERSE QUOTED BY BURNS. In his cele- brated autobiographical letter to Dr. Moore, 2 Aug., 1787, Burns, speaking^of his distress the year before, says that as soon as he could get the money he took a steerage passage for Jamaica, for

Hungry Ruin had ms in the wind. As is well known, Carlyle quotes this line in his ' Essay.' Who was its author ? I have looked in the concordances to Milton, Pope, and Gray, and have searched through Young's ' Seasons.'

CHARLES SOUTHDOWN.

Ithaca, N.Y.

" GANION COHERIGA," GAELIC MOTTO. In Scott's ' Waverley,' chap. xliv. (p. 334 of the Clarendon Press edition), there is an allusion to " the proud gathering word of Clanronald, Oanion Coheriga (Gainsay who dares).' 1 This is no doubt meant for Gaelic, but must be more than usually corrupt. It is not cor- rected in the Notes. Can any Scotsman tell me the Gaelic orthography ? I fancy I have seen the motto of MacDonald of Clan- ronald given elsewhere as " Dh'aindheoin ce theireadh e," but cannot find it in any of my works of reference, and it is so long since I took lessons in Gaelic that I dare not feel sure of the grammatical correctness of my version. JAS. PLATT, JUN.

" UNREJOICING '* IN WORDSWORTH. I have never been able to satisfy myself as to the exact meaning of the adjective " un- rejoicing n in Wordsworth's splendid poem ' Yew Trees z :

boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries.

Was he thinking of the poison that lurks in their seeds, or of their comparative insignifi- cance, or of the sad associations of the tree on which they grow ? I. M. L.

DE QUINCEY AND SWEDENBORG. Writing in The New-Church Review (Boston, U.S.A.) for January of this year an article entitled ' Swedenborg in English Literature : III. Thomas De Quincey,' Miss Emily Robbins Sugden cites therein from De Quincey 's ' The Female Infidel,' 1853, as follows :

" To say that of Mr. Clowes was until lately but another way of describing him as a delirious dreamer. At present 1 presume the reader to be aware that Cambridge has, within the last few years, unsettled and even revolutionized our estimate of Swedenborg as a philosopher."

De Quincey's presumption being without foundation in my case, I shall be glad if some one will kindly explain to me the meaning of the latter sentence quoted.

CHARLES HIGHAM.

169, Grove Lane, Camberwell.

ARMSTRONG = FAWCETT. On 9 March, 1839, Henry Leslie Armstrong, a comedian, married at Preston Registry Office Maria Louisa Fawcett, an actress, daughter of William Fawcett, a tobacco and snuff manu- facturer. Further information desired about them and their children, if any.

CHAS. A. BERNAU.

Walton-on-Thames.

COSNAHAN FAMILY, ISLE OF MAN. I should be obliged if some of your corre- spondents could supply a pedigree of this family (which was, I believe, of some account in the Isle of Man, and produced one Deemster, if not more), or refer me to any published work in which a pedigree may be found. SIGMA TAU.

ABBOTT FAMILY. Inquiries on this sub- ject have often appeared in ' N. & Q.' in the past (see 4 Feb., 11 March, 13 May, 28 Oct., 1854 ; 22 Nov., 1856 ; 7 May, 1870 ; 7 July, 1888 ; 27 Oct., 1906), and they have elicited valuable information. I should be glad if readers would volunteer to throw further light on the subject by communicating to me any details in their possession regarding the genealogy of any of the Abbotts bearing versions of the same coat of arms (Gules, a