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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. HL JUNE 17, 1011.

Again, the same writer, in a note in * Rox- burghe Ballads,' vii. 303, says :

" Amusing would it be to trace the direct inter- course which had probably existed in his closing years between D'Urfey and Allan Ramsay. Letters crossed between them after they had met personally. But caprici"us Chronos, while preserving no end of antiquarian lumber, cancels the diaries and letters that we most covet."

Can some of your many readers say on what authority these statements about " close acquaintance," " letters crossed," and D'Urfey's visits to Edinburgh, are made ? W.

Aberdeen.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any one tell me where a poem said to have been written by the late George W. Thornbury is to be found ? I am very anxious to see it, either in manuscript or print. I know only two lines :

And Capel and Hurst, Charles drank to her first.

In some copies Wogan, I understand, supplies the place of Capel.

EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A. Kirton-in-Lindsey.

1. Welcome to the British shore.

Quoted by Cowper from " a song " in August, 1765.

2. Smug and silver Trent.

3. When house and land ar3 gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent.

4. And nonsense shall b eloquence in love. Quoted by Cowper as said by " Dry den or Nat Lee."

5. And now a poet's gratitude you see :

Grant him two favours, and he '11 ask for three.

Said by Cowper to be from Dr. Young, but I cannot find it in Young's works.

6. Adds fresh beauties to the spring, And makes all nature look more gay.

Quoted (April, 1792) by Cowper from " a song much in use when we were boys."

M. M.

" THE GAG," " GUILLOTINE," AND " KAN- GAROO " AS PARLIAMENTARY TERMS. Who originated these amusing names ? In a Herts paper I read :

" Various instruments of torture had been in vented in the House of Commons, and used from time to time to the discomfort of that House These were known as the Gag, Guillotine, and Kangaroo. Tle most eccentric and remarkable of all devices was the Kangaroo, which arranged that the Chairman was allowed to select from a list of mem- bers' amendments those to come before the House,

and members went home with the best speeches they ever made in their lives undelivered. It was a very aggravating thing, and caused much vexation of spirit."

M. A. OXON.

[For " Kangaroo Closure " see ante, p. 345.]

' THE RAIGNE or KING EDWARD III.' : FALCONRY.

And dare a falcon when shees in her flight, And ever after sheele be haggard like.

III. v. 46-7.

King Edward is speaking of the demoralizing effect of sending aid to the Prince of Wales, hard pressed at Cressi, and immediately explains the simile he has used : Let Edward be delivered by our hands, And still, in danger, hele expect the like. The meaning of the illustration is thus made quite clear, but since the play has been ascribed to Shakspere, it would be interest- ing and of some importance to know if the terminology of falconry is accurately used. The word "dare" seems to belong to the art of catching larks, either by terrifying them with hawks or by attracting them with looking-glasses or red cloth, as in ' Henry VIII.,' III. ii. 279.

Were falcons ever "dared" like larks? and why should daring a flying falcon make it a " haggard," or wild unreclaimed hawk ?

The example is not given in the valuable storehouse of Elizabethan sport, Mr. Justice Madden' s ' Diary of Master William Silence.' P. A. MCELWAINE.

ENVY, " ELDEST-BORN OF HELL." Will

any leader favour me with an exact and full reference for the first use of the phrase " eldest-born of Hell " as applied to Envy ?

H. V. KNOX.

SCALES FAMILY. I shall be glad if some one will throw light on the pedigree of the Nottinghamshire family of Scales. Early in May, 1644, the Earl of Manchester besieged Lincoln Castle. It was a serious undertaking, but was in the end successful. Very soon after he was victorious, a list was compiled of the Royalist officers who had been made prisoners, and pub- lished in London by R. Cotes for John Bellamy. Among these occurs the name of William Scales. The place of his residence is not given, but there cannot be much doubt that his home was in Nottingham-, shire, probably on the east side thereof. In ' The Rector's Book, Clay worth, Notts/ a work published last year, and reviewed in ' N. & Q.' at 11 S. i. 519, there occurs in the