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latter an epitaph on Florens Caldwell and Ann his wife, mentioned by Pettigrew can no longer be found (3 S. i. 389). A third (1 S. vii. 577) was believed by the copyist to belong to an old brass in St. Helen's, London ; but I can find no record of it at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and should be glad of information as to its whereabouts The epitaph is to

"James Pomley, y e sonne of ould Dominick Pomley and Jane his Wyfe : y e said James deceasec y e 7 th day of Januarie Anno Domini 1592, he beyng of y e age of 88 years."

It contains four lines, beginning

Earth goeth upon earth as moulcle upon moulde. There is said to be a similar tomb to a man and his wife at Edmonton on which the same four lines are inscribed (3 S. i. 389 ; Weever ' Funeral Monuments ? ; Pettigrew, ' Chron of the Tombs,' p. 67). Is this still in exist- ence, and can any other instances be given ?

(Miss) H. M. R. MURRAY. Oxford,

[Mr. E. R. Suffling in his * Epitaphia,' Upcott Gill, 1909, prints on p. 282 this epitaph as on Florens Caldwell and Mary Wilde his wife, with the date 1590. Another from Loughor, Glamorgan, on p. 339, reads :

O Earth ! O Earth ! observe this well,

That Earth to Earth must go to dwell, That Earth to Earth must close remain Till Earth for Earth shall come again.]

" THIS WORLD ? S A CITY FULL OF CROOKED

STREETS." In the churchyard of Stoke Goldington in Buckinghamshire there is a gravestone to John Gadsden, who died in 1739. It has the following epitaph : This world's a city full of crooked streets, Death 's the market-place where all men meet ; If life were merchandise that men could buy, The rich would always live, the poor might die.

I have an impression that I have read this in an early eighteenth-century writer. Will one of your readers tell me where ?

CLEMENT SHORTER.

[Mr. Suffling quotes this on p. 401 of his ' Epitaphia,' and adds from Gay : - If Life were Merchandize that all could buy, The Rich alone would Live, the Poor alone would

Die.

He also prints on p 40o a Scottish version of 1689, which he believes to be the original.]

LYSONS'S ' BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ' AND ' EN- VIRONS OF LONDON.' Fletcher's ' English Book-Collectors ' mentions that in the sale of the library of the first Duke of Bucking- ham a set of Lysons's ' Topographical .Account of Buckinghamshire/ extra-illus- trated and bound in 8 vols. folio, was included, also a set of Lysons's * Environs of London,' extra -illustrated and bound in

18 vols. quarto. Any information as to the present whereabouts of these two sets would be appreciated. B. T. BATSFORD.

94, High Holborn, W.C.

" WHEN OUR LORD SHALL LIE IN OUR LADY'S LAP." Most of the readers of ' X. & Q.* must be acquainted with the prophecy, said to be very old,

When our Lord shall lie in our Lady's lap England will meet with a strange mishap, referring, of course, to the Annunciation of the B.V.M. falling on the same day as Good Friday, which will take place on the 25th of March next. Can you inform me how long it is since the coincidence last occurred, and whether the rime is one of Mother Shipton's sayings, or of a later date ? I have known it for more than forty years.

W. F.

' CRITICAL REVIEW,' 1756. Is the copy of The Critical Review (1756) mentioned by Xichols in the following passage still extant, and, if such is the case, where is it to be found ?

"Mr. Wright printed The. Westminster Maga- zine, in which he had marked the writers of every article in a copy which jtrobably still exists. He had, in like manner, when at Mr. Hamilton's, pre- fixed the names of the writers in The Critical Review''' Literary Anecdotes,' vol. iii. p. 399. J. J. CHAMPENOIS.

Oxford.

" BE THE DAY WEARY, BE THE DAY LONG.'*

Which of the following versions is the right one ? The first is given in ' The Book of Sundials l (originally compiled by the late Mrs. Alfred Gatty) from a wall in the village of Ashcott, Somerset, viz. : Be the day weary, be the day long, Soon shall it ring to evensong. The second version I have not been able to trace. It has been repeated to me by a lady and by a bishop :

Be the day weary, or be the day long, At length it ringeth to evensong.

R. Y. PICKERING. Conheath, Dumfries, N.B.

[Both forms are adaptations of a couplet by Stephen Hawes (1517). See DR. SMYTHE PALMER'S reply at 9 S. v. 407.]

' TESTIMONY OF THE SPADE.' This is the title of a work on Babylonian excavation which was noticed a few years ago in The Times. It is desired to know the name of the author and the date of publication ; also, if German, as is supposed (in which case the English title must be a translation), the original title. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.