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NOTES AND QUERIES. [a s. iv. AUG. 19, 1911.

GALLY KNIGHT : " IPECACUANHA " IN VERSE (11 S. iv. 102). In ' Arundines Cami,' edited by Henry Drury, 3rd ed., 1846, p. 82, are eight lines headed ' Damon and Juliana.' The first four are those which are reproduced by V. R. The other four are another version of Sir Uvedale Price's lines as given in the note. They are :

From the box the imprudent maid

Three score of them did pick ; Then sighing tenderly she said :

" My Damon, 1 am sick !"

The reference at the foot is " Old Play."

On the next page (83) is a translation into Latin by S. B. = Samuelis Butler, nuper Episcopus Lichfieldensis :

Thyrsi* et Phyllis.

In nemore umbroso Phyllis mea forte sedebat,

Cui inollem exhausit tussis anhela sinum ; Nee mora ; de loculo deprompsi pyxida Isevo,

Ipecacuaneos exhibuique trochos. Illaquidem imprudens medicates leniter orbes

Absorpsitnumero bisque quaterque decem ; Turn tenero ducens suspiria pectore, dixit ;

" Thyrsi, mihi stomachum nausea tristis habet."

Presumably, seeing that Juliana could not exist in elegiac verses, Butler thought fit to change both names, while he swallowed " Ipecacuaneos trochos."

It will be noticed that the number of lozenges taken by Juliana alias Phyllis differs greatly in the three versions.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Samuel Butler's version of " Ippecacuanha" (one p too much) appears in ' Arundines Cami,' 6th ed., p. 115. The heading is ' Ne quid nimis.' URBANUS.

[A. A. B., MR. J. J. FREEMAN, MR. C. S. JERRAM, and MR. STEPHEN WHEELER also thanked for replies.]

EMERSON, HEINE, AND FRANKLIN IN ENGLAND (US. iv. 69, 115). MR. BRESLAR may perhaps like to be referred to the articles which recently appeared in The Publishers' Circular (11 and 25 February, 4 March, 1911) relative to a proposal to place a tablet to Heine's memory on the house, 32, Craven Street, in which he lodged from 23 April to 8 August, 1827. I fear that not much has been done in the matter, notwithstanding the efforts made by that excellent journal. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

MR. BRESLAR is not aware, apparently, that the house in which Benjamin Franklin lived for a while in Craven Street is already marked by an inscription recording the fact. G. L. APPERSON.

THE BURNING OF Moscow (US. iii. 464 ; iv. 74, 116). MR. CLAYTON at the second reference asks why the burning of Moscow has not been attributed to Sir Robert Wilson. Besides other reasons, this i& probably due to the fact that Sir Robert states in his 'Diary,' vol. i. p. 164, that he was a hundred and twenty versts from Moscow when he heard of the fall and the firing of that city. I pointed out at 11 S. i. 274 that the burning of Moscow was very partial.

COL. POLLARD -URQUHART has not based his reply at p. 116 on a good authority. How much was left of Moscow after the fire is shown by the fact that Daru, the best authority for the supply of the army, proposed to pass the winter there. But it may interest readers of ' N. & Q.' to know what a lieut-colonel of the Horse Artillery of the Guard carried away from Moscow for his own use. He took a hundred biscuits a foot in diameter, a sack of flour, more than three hundred bottles of wine, twenty to thirty bottles of rum and of brandy, more than ten pounds of tea and the same quantity of coffee, fifty to sixty pounds of sugar, three to four pounds of chocolate, some pounds of candles, a good edition of Voltaire and of Rousseau, and many other books. These, after passing Smolensko, he abandoned at Taloczii or Tolotchine on 22 November, 34 days after leaving Moscow, for fear of the Emperor having his carriage burnt ; but he took a china breakfast service as far as Wilna. For his own person he had a very fine fur coat. This extraordinary confession of an officer, who, needless to say, embraced the royalist cause as soon as he could, shows how easily the " destroyed " Moscow could have supplied all the wants of the army for its sojourn or for its march.

R. W. PHIPPS, Col. late R.A.

LONG BARROWS AND RECTANGULAR EARTHWORKS (11 S. iii. 88, 273). The "barrow" literature of our country is somewhat extensive. The classic work on the subject is ' British Barrows : a Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds- in Various Parts of England,' 8vo, Oxford,. 1877, by Dr. W. Greenwell and Dr. G. Rolleston. Dr. Greenwell still lives at Durham, an evergreen, hale old man.

The Transactions of our antiquarian societies contain many papers on this fascinating subject, e.g. :

H. H. Lines and W. Phillips. ' Titterstone and other Camps in Shropshire,' Trans. Shrop. A* and N. H. S., Second Series, iii. 1-35.