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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 1910.

CONTENTS. No. 15.

NOTES :-Sir John Suckling, 281 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 282 John Reynolds, Wilkes's At- torney, 284 Civil Service Archives and Records, 285 Burton and Petrarch " The Widow's Son's " Buns The Oldest Postboy Soper and Parry Families, 286 " Fairery " " Bruck" Goldsmith on Coal-Mines in Cornwall, 287.

OUERIES: T. L. Peacock Lieut. Willoughby : Capt. Morris: Lady Edwardes " The Chosen Few," 287 Admiral Tryon City Sessions Books Ague-Ring Neil Gow, Race-horse Hunt and Clarke's "Autobiographies" Shrove Monday Fermor, Earls of Pomfret Henry Cary Princess Daschkaw John Venner Dickens on Thomas Traddles, 288 Medal : " Brother Adams, 1810 " Kilmington Wills Court Guides S. Marston = M. Thompson Crown Lands at Boston Heaviside and Bradford Families Cart Family Arms Adams Families Ledwell House Rochefoucauld, Champagne", and Hamon Families, 289 Wirral " Do not play Agnes " Henry Boyle, 1826 Sundial Inscription Burial under Rivers, 290.

REPLIES : Sir T. Browne on Olybius's Lamp, 290-The Burning of Moscow The Greenwell Collections Authors Wanted Jacobite Song, 291 'Land of the Midnight Sun' The "Prince Fred" Satire Becket's Personal Habits " Spinney," 292 Tournaments and Jousts- Gainsborough, Architect " Plough Inn " at Longhope Charles Kingsley Virginia, 1607, 293 " Music of the Future" Public School Registers Ashby Fallows Bruce's Followers, 294 " Mallas Rigg "Steerage on a Frigate Swift on Eagle and Wasp Swift at Havisham King's Place Three CCC Court, 295 Yule Log in Cornwall -"Second Chamber "Burglar Folk-lore, 296. George Cumberland Hon. J. Finch Wilkinson Lister Kaye "Comboloio" Grinling Gibbons, 297.

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SIR JOHN SUCKLING.

THE appearance of a new edition of Suckling's works seems to me to justify a note upon the ascription to him of some pieces printed as his by Mr. Hazlitt and Mr. Thompson, his latest editor, and the sources from which they are said to have been derived.

The song " I prithee send me back my heart " appears in ' The Last Remains of Sir John Suckling, 1 1659 ; but it is also to be found in Lawes's ' Ayres and Dialogues, 1 the Third Book, 1658, where it is ascribed to Dr. Henry Hughes. This is not noticed by Suckling's editors, though the attributions iri Lawes's song books are singularly accurate. The editors omit also to notice the fact that The Guiltless Inconstant l (' Last Remains, 1 1659) was, from 1640 onwards, included in the editions of Carew. Another song, beginning ' ' When, dearest, I but think of thee," was claimed by Owen Feltham, and is printed in his ' Lusoria. 1

It is virtually impossible to suppose that Suckling wrote, at the age of fourteen or thereabouts, the cantilena ' ' I went from England into France,'* and his editors, who print from a bad transcript one of many which Mr. Thompson refers to as " the original MS.," seem to be quite unaware that the lines appeared among Corbet's poems in 1647, 1672, and Gilchrist's edition of 1807, and also in * Parnassus Biceps l and ' Musarum Deliciae,* 1656.

The verses beginning ' ' I am confirm' d a woman can " were printed by Mr. Hazlitt from 1 S. i. 72 (1 Dec., 1849). The corre- spondent who sent them signed himself A. D., and Mr. Hazlitt suggested that these initials might represent Alexander Dyce, while Mr. Thompson appears to have no doubt that they do. I think, however, that Dyce was hardly the person to send to ' N. & Q., 1 as unpublished, lines with which most students of seventeenth-century verse would be well acquainted, as they had already been printed in Playford's ' Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues, 1 1652, ' Select Ayres and Dialogues,* 1659, all the editions of Cot- grave's ' Wit's Interpreter, 1 and several editions of ' The Academy of Compliments.'

The only ground for ascribing the two last- mentioned pieces to Suckling is, in the one case, a MS. note of Sir Henry Ellis ; in the other, a similar note of the anonymous com- piler of the collection in which they were found.

Mr. Hazlitt printed, as he thought for the first time, from what he calls ' ' an ignorant transcript," * Sir John Suckling's Answer.' These lines, beginning "I tell thee, fool" (not " fellow,' 2 as Mr. Hazlitt and Mr. Thomp- son print, to the damage of the metre), are almost certainly not Suckling's, and are to be found in 'Wit andDrollery, r 1656, p. 44, and ' Le Prince d' Amour, 1 1660, p. 150.

I am not reviewing Mr. Thompson's book, and therefore I make no comment on various other matters which seem to me to need attention ; but there is one point I should like to clear up, for the possible benefit of future commentators. Suckling in * A Sessions of the Poets l refers to " Little Cid,' 1 and both Mr. Hazlitt and Mr. Thompson think that a translator of Corneille's ' Cid J is meant, the latter going so far as to suggest that Sackville, fifth Earl of Dorset, the sup- posed translator, may have been described as ' ' Little Cid " on account of his youth. The simple fact is that ' ' Cid " is a misprint for "Sid," and, as was pointed out nearly a hundred years ago, the reference is to Sidney Godolphin. G. THOBN-DBUBY.