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BEN JONSON : PINDAR (11 S. xi. 267). 'The following lines in ' The Forest,' x. Pallas, nor thee I call on, mankind maid, That at thy birth, mad'st the poor smith afraid, Who with his axe, thy father's mid-wife plaid,
 * Prseludium,' 13-15 :

may be compared with Pindar, ' Olympian, vii. 35-8 (65-70) :

' Avix 'A0cu'pii; viv Kal Fata /j.a,Tr)p.

If this is not the passage meant when Jonson is said to have " quoted " this ode of Pindar, the resemblance is certainly most remarkable. EDWARD BENSLY.

Uriversity College, Aberystwyth.

NANCY DAWSON (US. xi. 400, 460). As MB. BLEACKLEY says, there are several references which he gives to Nancy Daw- son in earlier volumes of * N. & Q.' MR. E. H. COLEMAN also recapitulated them at 7 S. ix. 496 (1890), in answer to an inquiry I had made as to this lady at p. 378 of that same volume ; but this reference MR. BLEACKLEY has no doubt missed, as I had included my inquiry in another subject C Volunteer Regimental Colours ' ) without think, the last occasion on which this subject has been discussed in ' N. & Q.' ; but, inas- much as my inquiry has never yet been answered, and as a quarter of a century has now elapsed since I sent it from Fiji, I would crave the Editor's permission to repeat it. It was to ask what connexion existed between this *' famous dancer " and the old Inns of Court Rifle Volunteers, or " The Devil's Own," as George III. called them a name which appears to be publicly recognized, as I see it on the notice-board outside the new Lincoln's Inn Orderly-room an Stone Buildings, belonging to their successors, the '* Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps," which in its modern form has already, I am informed, supplied some 2,500 officers to the military forces of the King in the Great War.
 * giving a double title. MR. COLEMAN' s is, I

I believe that there is a portrait in oil of Nancy Dawson in stage costume at the Garrick Club, and several printed portraits are known to exist ; but I well remember that there used to be a coloured portrait of her, together with several other prints, in the old orderly- room in New Square when I was a member of the old corps in the " seventies " ; but at that time I could get no information as to

how or when we became possessed of it. It now, I am informed, is a treasured possession of the new corps in the mess- rcom at the Temple.

That some connexion between the old corps and Nancy Dawson existed is evident from the fact that its regimental air bore her name and an excellent one it was to march to, I remember, though I cannot say that it reminded me of the tune of the old children's game of " Here we go round the mulberry bush," to which several of your correspondents have compared ' Nancy Dawson's Song.' To the tune of this old air, I am told, the new corps still marches.

I would refer your readers to what I said at 7 S. ix. 378, but I should be glad to know how the old " Inns of Court " corps came to adopt Nancy Dawson as its apparent patron. This side of the question has not yet been touched upon by any of your correspondents, early or late. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

NOTES ON STATUES AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE (2 S. xi. 47 ; 3 S. i. 267 ; 7 S. v. 7, 51, 145 ; 8 S. v. 407, 470 ; vi. 92, 138, 249, 333; ix. 213; 9 S. ii. 65, 198; viii. 202 ; 10 S. x. 491 ; 11 S. ii. 322, 371, 454, 508 ; iii. 187, 230, 241, 315, 385, 429, 473 ; iv. 138, 176, 499 ; vi. 398 ; ix. 219 ; x. 168, 347; 11 S. xi. 468). Under this head reference is made by MR. J. ARDAGH to Mr. Wilfrid Meynell's article, in The Windsor Magazine for May, 1904, ' The Pictures in the Royal Exchange.' Those interested should also consult Mr. Charles Welch's excellent booklet, ' Illustrated Apcount of the Royal Exchange and the Pictures Therein,' where (see 11 S. ix. 220) not only the frescoes are described, but an exhaustive history given of the Royal Exchange with its statues. It costs 6e?., and is obtainable at the office in the building, or from either of the beadles. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club. [MR. R. PIERPOINT also thanked for reply.]

GEORGE BODENS (US. xi. 267, 477). The name of George Bodens appears in the ' Army List ' up to (and including) the year 1785, but disappears in 1786. For refer- ences to him vide ' Diary of Madame d'Arblay ' (A. Dobson), i. 423 ; * Mems. of Samuel Foote,' W. Cooke, ii. 92-4 ; ' The Olio,' Francis Grose, p. 197 ; ' Letters of the late Lord Lyttelton ' (1780), p. 123 ; Town and Country Magazine, xiii. 177 ; Hist. MSS. Com., 15 Rep. App. X. pt. vi. 553; ' The Grenville Papers,' iv. 278-9.

The Capt. Charles Bodens mentioned by MR. ROBERT PIERPOINT is no doubt the