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NOTES AND QUERIES. t n s. v. MAT, 23, 1012.

AUTHORS OB EXPLANATIONS WANTED.

1. " The third part of these people could not tell what to ask or demand, but followed each other like beasts, as the shepherds did of old time, saying how they would go conquer the Holy Land, and at last all came to nothing. "^-Berners's Froissart : ' Insurrection of Wat Tyler.'

What is the story of these shepherds ?

2. " The success of that petty province of Holland (of which the grand Seignior proudly said, if they should trouble him as they did the Spaniard, he would send his men with shovels and pickaxes, and throw it into the sea)," <fcc. Browne's ' Religio Medici.'

Who is " the grand Seignior " of this pas- sage ?

3. "It is like a lamprey : take out the string in the back, it may make good meat." Fuller's ' Holy 'and Profane "State ' : ' Of Jesting.' What is the rationale of this ?

4. So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships, armies, battles, in the firmament ; Till steady eyes the exhalations solve, And all to its first matter, cloud, resolve.

Quoted by Defoe, ' History of the Plague.' Who was the author ?

5. " The authoress of a famous modern romance begs a young nobleman's permission to pay him her ' kneeling adorations.' " Pope, ' On Dedica- tions.'

Who was the authoress, &c. ?

6. " Quantulacunque estis, vos ego magna yoco." Dr. Johnson's ' Rambler ' on ' A Garret and its Tenants.'

What is the reference ?

7. "They gave [the deer] law.... for twenty minutes ; when the stop-dogs were permitted to pursue." White's ' Selborne.'

What exactly are " stop-dogs " ? I can find them in no dictionary.

8. " Secure in the last event of things." Quoted by Miss Edgeworth in ' Ennui,' one of the ' Tales of Fashionable Life.'

What is the reference ?

9. Who wrote

" the comedy of the ' Frenchman in London,' which was acted at Paris for several nights together " ? Connoisseur, No. 138, by Cowper.

10. " The scales that fence."

11- " hear the loud stag speak."

12. Oh memory ! shield me from the world's

poor strife,

And give those scenes thine everlasting life. These three are from Hazlitt's essay on his first acquaintance with poets : see ' Winterslow.' Authors wanted.

^ 13. "'There are people' says Landor, 'who think they write and speak finely, merely because they have forgotten the language in which their

fathers and mothers used to ta.lk to them.' "

Lockhart's ' Scott,' vol. v. p. 301. Reference wanted.

14. " An endless significance lies in Work."

15. " Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by Action alone."

16. " ' It is so,' says Goethe, ' with all things that man undertakes in this world.' "

These three are quoted in Carlyle's ' Past and Present' : 'Labour.'

17. " Liquid ruby," i.e. wine. Lockhart's ' Scott,' vol. v. p. 309.

T. BALSTON, _, 110, Elm Park Mansions, Chelsea.

SIB JOHN JEFFEBSON, one of the Justices in Ireland, 1691, resided in Stephen's Green, Dublin, and was buried in St. Peter's, Dublin, on 28 October, 1700. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Cole of Gates- head. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say if he left any children ?

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN.

(11 S. iv. 487; v. 92.)

MAY I be allowed to make a few corrections and additions to MB. W. SCOTT'S reply to my queries on the whereabouts of early editions of certain of Drummond's poetical works ? Since I first wrote, I have pursued my investigations, and I am now in a posi- tion, I think, to throw some fresh light on the whole question.

1. Copies of the earlier (1613) of the two known editions of ' Teares on the Death of Mceliades ' are not, as MB. SCOTT appears to think, plentiful ; as far as I have been able to ascertain, one copy only has been traced, and that is to be found in the library of Mr. Christie Miller at Britwell Court. It was formerly Mr. Corser's copy. The copy that was once in the library of the University of Edinburgh (presented, along with other of his works, by Drummond himself) has disappeared, as I stated before, and may possibly be now reposing on the other side of the Atlantic.

2. Of ' Mausoleum ' I find there are two copies one at Britwell Court (formerly Corser's), and one in the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. The copy quoted by Corser as being in the library of Edinburgh Uni- versity appears to be irretrievably lost. Neither copy of 'Mausoleum,' nor any other copy that has been described or noted at any time, contains ' Teares on the Death of Moeliades,' so that MB. SCOTT'S explanation