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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. m. FEB. is, 1911.

Chelsea, January, 1714/15, to 1720. Governor of Kingston-on-Hull, 1722. Died 14 March, 1725.

4. General William Evans. Served in 1st Foot Guards : twice wounded at siege of Namur. Colonel afterwards of Regiment of Dragoons (now 4th Hussars). Wounded at Dunblane in Rebellion of 171516. Governor of Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1722 to 1740. Also at one time held the appointments of Surveyor of the Meltings and Clerk of the Irons in the Mint. Died 29 January, 1740. By will left pictures to the Earl of Grantham.

There are no pictures of the above- mentioned officers at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. W. H. W.

WALTER HADDON. In Munday's edition of Stow's ' Survey ' is printed a ten-line Latin verse setting forth the six considera- tions to be borne in mind by those desirous of leading an exemplary career. The verse in question is stated to have formed one of the inscriptions in the old church of SS. Anne and Agnes, but does not occur in conjunction with any recorded interment, and no date is specified. The name of the author is given as "Gualterus Haddonus," however. Who was he ? WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

W. AND G. IRELAND. Can any reader inform me if W. Ireland of Sebbon's Build- ings, Islington, and G. Ireland of Barnsbury Place, Islington, were related to the notorious W. H. Ireland ? Their date is circa 1827. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

EPIGRAM IN SCHOPENHAUER. I shall be glad if anyone will favour me with an English rendering of the following epigram, which is quoted in Schopenhauer's essay ' On Reading and Books ' : Leset fleizig die Alten, die wahren eigentlich Alten Was die Neuen da von sagen bedeutet nicht viel.

W. H. C.

. " LET us GO HENCE, MY SONG'S." I shall be glad to know where I can renew my acquaintance with a poem commencing Let us go hence, my songs, let us go hence. Mr Owen Seaman used the form of the lyric as a base for a poem in Punch of 3 August last, but I have failed to find a reference in numerous Dictionaries of Quotations I have consulted. A small fragment still clings to my memory :

Yea, though we sang like angels in her ear bhe will not hear.

J. H. K.

FRENCH QUOTATION. The maxim, " On cause mieux quand on ne dit pas, causons," occurs in Keats's ' Letters,' vol. i. p. 68 (Buxton Forman's cheap edition, 1901). Whence comes it ? I do not find it in the ' Dictionary of Quotations (French) ' by T. B. Harbottle and P. H. Dalbiac (Sonnen- schein, 1908). NEL MEZZO.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following lines are quoted in Miss Gordon Cumming's * Two Years in Ceylon,' vol. ii. p. 146. I should be glad to know the author, and the poem from which they are extracted :

Not 'neath the domes where crumbling arch and

column

Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But in that fane most catholic and solemn

Which God hath planned In that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply. Its choirs the winds and waves, its organ thunder, Its dome the sky.

I quote from memory, perhaps not quite correctly. CHAS. LAISHLEY.

Wellington, N.Z.

Close following Love into my house Crept Pain and pale-faced Fear ; Now are they welcome grown, and dear, For, at their passing, Love herself had flown.

W. V. COLE.

On a Liskeard borough loving-cup of 1681 is

Qui fallit in poculis fallit in omnibus. Whence comes it ? YGREC.

" WHEN SHE WAS GOOD," &c. Is the author known of the lines,

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl,

Bight in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good

She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid !

They have been attributed to Longfellow.

J. T. F. Durham.

[At 10 S. ii. 528 it was suggested that Thomas Bailey Aid rich was the author.]

" O DEAR, MY GOOD MASTERS." Can any one communicate to me a ballad of which the following are the first four lines ? They were told me by an old man who has been Long dead :

dear, my good masters, pray what shall we do, In this year sixteen hundred and seventy-two ? For since Queen Elizabeth mounted the throne, Sure, times like the present scarce ever were known.