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issued early in the seventeen-fifties has " Milton, Mr. John," and, what is more noteworthy, " Shakespeare, Mr. William, his eminent success in tragi -comedy."

EDWAKD BENSLY. Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

WORDS AND TUNES WANTED (11 S. viii. 107). When I was a small boy, nearly seventy years ago, our nursery maid used to sing .us the following, which, though evidently not very accurate, may give H. K. ST. J. S. something of what he asks for :

One day three gipsies came to the door.

They sang so high and they sang so low

That downstairs came the lady, O !

She took off her silks and her satins too,

And over her shoulders a blanket threw.

Says she, "To-night with you I '11 go

Along with the draggle-tail gipsies, O ! "

That very same night her lord came home

And asked for his lady, O !

The servant maid she danced and said,

"She is gone with the draggle-tail gipsies, O ! "

" O 1 saddle me my horse with speed,

And bring to me my babe so small,

And I will ride both high and low,

Until I find my lady, O ! "

So he rode high and he rode low,

And he rode o'er the valleys, O !

And then he spied his lady, O 1

Among the draggle-tail gipsies, O !

" O ! how could you leave your houses and lands ?

And how could you leave your babe so small ?

And how could you leave your only lord,

And follow the draggle-tail gipsies, O ! "

" O ! I '11 come back to my houses and lands,

And I '11 come back to my babe so small,

And I '11 come back to my only lord,

And let the draggle-tail gipsies go."

B. D.

' The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O ! ' (words and tune with piano accompaniments) will be found in ' Folk-Songs from Somerset,' by Mr. Cecil Sharp, First Series, and in Baring-Gould and Mr. Cecil Sharp.
 * Folk-Songs for Schools,' by the Rev. S.

W. PERCY MERRICK.

Elvetham, Shepperton.

In * The Pocket Book of Poems and Songs for the Open Air,' compiled by Edward Thomas (E. Grant Richards publisher, London, 1907), pp. 15-17, will be found ' The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, O ! ' words and tune, as taken " From Folk-Songs from Somerset, gathered and edited by Cecil J. Sharp and Charles L. Marson."

T. F. DWIGHT. [CoL. FYNMORE also thanked for reply.]

" THE FIVE WOUNDS " (11 S. viii. 107). These unitedly form one of the series known as " the Emblems of the Passion," which see ' The Calendar of the Prayer Book ' (Oxford, Parker & Co.)

"are constantly found in churches The five

wounds are sometimes represented by the hands- and feet with the heart in the middle, each pierced with a wound, at times by a heart only pierced with five wounds. The example illustrated upon a shield [hands, feet, and heart] on page 223 is taken from one of the poppy-heads in the chancel of Cumnor Church, Berks.

I confess that, although I have met in scores of mediaeval churches (mostly fif- teenth century) with the heart, hands, and feet on one shield, I have never seen the heart alone with five wounds. Hence, as my opportunities are, perhaps, exceptionally great, such representations must be very rare. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

These are represented in a decorative medallion on one side of the Janus stone crucifix now preserved in the church of Sherburn-in-Elmete. The pierced heart is in the middle, and the nail-marked hands and feet are figured round it. The date of the work is supposed to be of the latter end of the fifteenth century.

This duplex crucifix was discovered in a little chapel at the north-east corner of the churchyard, and was claimed as his property by a churchwarden. Other people de- murred, and then, with the precedent of Solomon in view, it was suggested that the beautiful thing should be sawn in twain, and that one face should be handed to the warden, and the other retained by the parishioners. This ruthless act w r as per- formed, and for many years the porch of Steeton Hall was dignified by the sacred sign, and wind and weather wrought thereon. At the present time both halves of the crucifix are in Sherburn Church ; they have not been conjoined. One is on the north wall, the other on the east wall of the north aisle.

I feel sure that I have seen " The Five Wounds " in different mediums in France, but I cannot track them in my brain or in my books. According to Parker's ' Calendar of the Prayer Book ' (p. 223), they are on a poppy-head at Cumnor Church, Berkshire, where the execution is primitive and stiff. Sometimes quinary arrangements of decora- tive subjects are thought to be allusive to- the Wounds.

In his ' Glossary of Ecclesiastical Orna- ment ' Pugin gave some coloured designs