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NOTES AND QUERIES, [n s. xn. AUG. 21, 1915.

' Bard of the Dimbovitza,' this rather sug- gesting that the poems are original. I may mention that it contains a ' Song of the Shroud (while Spinning it).' See ante, p. 66.

H. I..B.

WORDS OF POEM WANTED. The following verses of a poem, entitled ' England and America/ were quoted in The Review of Reviews some time about 1898 :

Mother of Celt, and of Cymric, and Briton, Nurse of lone isles, in the Asian main,

Deep in thy heart is the mother-love written Who ever sought it, and sought it in vain.

Thou gatherest all with enfoldings maternal Races wide sundered, the fair and the swart,

Sunburnt or scorched, by the frost wind hibernal, Thou boldest them all in thy cherishing heart !

These are mere aliens but thouhadst a daughter, Her firstling words they were lisped at thy knee,

Thou nearest her voice, beyond the gray water ! How like is the voice the face like to thee !

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply the remainder of the poem, which I believe originally appeared in an American pub- lication ? JOHN PATCHING.

Lewes.

SIR JOHN FINCH : IPSWICH AND ASHFORD. In his will Sir John Finch left to relatives "the Mannor of Herald at Ipswich " and the '' Parsonage of Ashford " in the county of Kent. I should be glad of information concerning both these places. The Rector of Ashford tells me that he has never heard of the "P:?rs:nage" the rector's house being kno\vn as " The College," Ashford, and that he cm find no reference to Finch in the Register. T. A. MALLOCH, M.D.

TENNYSON AND GOLDSMITH : A PARALLEL. Can any reader bring forward a parallel to the lines in Tennyson's ' Ulysses '

Yet all experience is an arch where thro' Gleams that untra veiled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.

besides the following in Goldsmith's ' Tra- veller ' ?

Impelled with steps unceasing to pursue Some fleeting good that mocks me with the view; That like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies.

There is another reference in Goldsmith to the horizon, which I cannot for the moment trace, and should be glad to hear about. The above chance coincidence has not been published, I think, previously, although both poems, of course, are literary common- places " quamquam inter arma silent Musse." CECIL OWEN.

EMPLOYMENT OF WILD BEASTS IN WAR- FARE. I should be glad to know of any passages in mcdernor ancient writ ings where there is mention of this Jpract ice. A well- known place in Lucretius, V. 1302 ff. enumerates (besides elephants) wild bulls,, wild boars, and lions. J. P POSTGATE.

The University, Liverpool.

DR. BUSBY : ROBERTS. In J. T. Smith's ' Nollekens and his Times' (1895), p. 167, it is stated that

" our friend Roberts, of the Exchequer, has Busby's- house at Ealing, where Busby's Walk still remains, on which the doctor used to exercise of a morning, lo 'wash his lungs,' as he used to say."

I should be glad to know more of " our friend " Roberts, and of his house at Ealing r where Busby is said to have lived.

G. F. R. B.

RICHARD MARTYN, who died in 1502, styles himself "Bishop in the Universal Church, ' T and desired to be buried in the Greyfriars r Church at Canterbury. He bequeathed his second mitre, his cross-staff, and his cross- head to his church of Lydd (Kent), and mentions also his church of Ickham. Of what see 'could he have been Bishop ? He is not mentioned in the ' D N.B.'

W. L. KING,

Paddock Wood.

OVERLAND PANORAMA. Andre Melly, in his ' Lettres d'Egypte et de Nubie,' London (privately printed), 1852, refers (p. 7) to " le panorama de F Overland." Was this Overland Panorama an exhibition in London or a book ? If the former, was any catalogue or guide to it printed, or what is known about it ? FRIDK. A. EDWARDS.

' THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH.' I should be grateful for a clue to the following points w T hich I have failed to find :

1. Who was the Florentine knight who escaped from a high tower in Brescia by means of his squire's shooting the end of a long line in at his window (chap, x.) ?

2. What is the reference for the sweating of statues (a) before the battle of Chaeronaea ? (b) durinp Cicero's Consulship (chap. Ixxiv.) ?

3. What was the Festum Dei Mortis at Rome (ibid.) ?

4. Who was Ephis, who had an adventure with a lion similar to that of Androclus (ibid.) ?

5. What is the meaning of " Jairi," applied apparently to prison governors (chap, x.) ? and " Gorgonii," applied to rustics (chap, xxiv.) ?

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