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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following lines are cited in American speeches of the year 1828 :

1. And when he died, he left his lofty Name A Light, a Landmark on the cliffs of fame.

2. [A] factious mouther of imagin'd wrongs, To sting and goad the maddening multitude, And set the monster loose for desolation.

I shall be glad to learn whence the lines come. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

WASHINGTON IRVING'S ' SKETCH-BOOK.' The following quotations, &c., occur in Washington Irving's ' Sketch-Book ' (1820). I have searched several books of reference in the hope of identifying them, but without success, and now ask the aid of readers of ' N. & Q.'

1. In the service of mankind to be

A guardian god below ; still to employ The mind's brave ardour in heroic aims, Such as may raise us over the grovelling herd And make us shine for ever that is life.

Thomson.

2. Ships, ships, I will descrie you

Amidst the main ; I will come and try you, What you are protecting, And projecting,

What 's your end and aim. One goes abroad for merchandise and trading, Another stays to keep his country from invading, A third is coming home with rich and wealthy

lading. Halloo ! my fancie, whither wilt thou go ?

Old poem.

This is given as anonymous in ' English Minstrelsy ' (Edinburgh, Ballantyne & Co., 2nd ed., 1810), vol. ii. song 13.

3. Darkness and the grave.

4. I never heard

Of any true affection but'twas nipt With care, that, like a caterpillar, eats The leaves of the spring's sweetest book, the rose. Middleton.

5. Though your body be confined

And soft love a prisoner bound, Yet the beauty of your mind

Neither check nor chain hath found.

Look out nobly then and dare Even the fetters that you wear.

Fletcher.

6. Religion, " a very excellent sort of thing that ought to be countenanced and kept up."

7. The mother " that looked on his childhood."

8. Thorow earth and waters deepe

The pen by skill doth passe : And fertly nyps the world's abuse,

And shoes us in a glass, The vertu and the vice

Of every wight alyve.

Churchyard.

T. BALSTON.

JAMES HOOK, son of William Hook of Lambeth, Surrey, was at Westminster School in 1797. I should be glad to learn some particulars of his career and the date of his death. G. F. R. B.

THOMAS HOOKER was admitted to West- minster School 19 June, 1773. Particulars of his parentage and career, as well as the date of his death, are desired.

G. F. R. B.

RICHARD HUCK became Vicar of Gorton, Suffolk, and of Fishley, Norfolk, in 1801. I should be glad to ascertain the exact date of his death, which is said to have occurred " about 1837." G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM HUGHES, son of William Hughes of London, was admitted to Westminster School 11 February, 1772, and is said to have been chaplain to the Prince of Wales. I am anxious to obtain further particulars of his career and the date of his death.

G. F. R. B.

FRENCH PEASANT DRINKING SONG. I once saw in a book on country life in France, published in London, but the name of which I have forgotten, an amusing song, of which the following were the first words : Pour eViter la rage de la femme dont je suia

Je boire a sa sant6 le vin de quatre sous.

Can any one supply me with the rest ? CAMPBELL LOCK, Ashknowle, Whitwell, Ventnor.

COWPER ON LANGFORD. In Cowper's ' Task,' Sixth (last) Book, almost two- sevenths of the way through (I regret that the lines are not numbered in my editions), are the lines :

Nor him, who by his vanity seduc'd,

And sooth' d into a dream that he discerns

The diff'rence of a Guido from a daub,

Frequents the crowded auction : station' d there

As duly as the Lang ford of the show,

With glass at eye, and catalogue in hand, &c.

Who was " the Langford of the show " ?

H. J.

" PAINT THE LION." In The New Wonderful Magazine, vol. ii. p. 237, s.v t Thursday (vol. ii. is not dated ; vol. i. is " for the year 1793 "), we read :

" This day a woman going on some occasion on board a ship in the river, some of the creW took it in their heads to paint the lion, as they called it ; which was performed by stripping the woman quite naked, and smearing her over with tar, and in that manner threw her into the river, where she was nearly drowned."

Was " to paint the lion " ever current slang ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.