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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any of your readers tell me who is the author of the following lines ?

Though absence parts us for a while And distance rolls between, Believe, whoever may revile, I 'in still what I have been.

H. S.

1. Last night the nightingale woke me. Last night when all was still ;

It sang in the gold en moon light From out the woodland hill. I opened my window so gently, I looked on the dreamy dew, And O, the bird, my darling, Was singing of you of you. (3 verses.) I think it is translated from German.

2. Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,

Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

(3 verses. )

This piece I came across about 1899 in some paper I think The Taller.

3. If love were what the ro^e is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad 01- singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasures or grey grief ; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.

(3 verses. )

4. Were I a rose, with sweet caress My petals to thy face I 'd press, And all my heart to thee disclose Its secret thoughts,

Were I a rose. (3 verses.)

I should also be glad, in each case, to know the name of the publisher.

K. F. DAVID. [3. Swinburne: vol. i. of 'Poems and Ballads.']

" SHIEVE." In connexion with the subject (now prominently before the public) of simplified spelling, I have been looking for examples of English words in which ie represents the long e sound, such as belief, believe, reprieve, &c. In my examination of De Porquet's ' Dictionary,' pt. ii., English-French, 1856, I came across the word " shieve, va. ma., culer." In the corresponding French-English he defines " culer, vn. ma., to go astern." I have since searched several other dictionaries, but without being able to find shieve.

The meaning given seems to preclude its association in any way with either " sheaf," pi. " sheaves " (of corn), or " sheeve " (?), the' roller in a pulley block. What is the word ? W. S. B. H.

DESCENDANTS OF SIK ERASMUS DRYDEN LIVING IN DUBLIN. Besides the mother of Jonathan Swift, there were other Dublin members of the poet's family.

John Dryden was on the books of Trinity College in 1733.

Elizabeth Dryden married Thomas Kinsley, who was Sheriff of Dublin during the FitzGerald rebellion in 1798. They left a son, Clement Archer (d.s.p.), and a daughter Elizabeth, who married Viscount Harberton and d.s.p. 1863.

Hannah Dryden, sister of Mrs. Kinsley, married John Semple, an architect who built the " Four Courts " of Justice in Dublin. They left several children.

Can any one confirm or throw light on these traditions, and say who was * the father of Elizabeth and Hannah ?

VIATOR. Monteros.

BRETON SONG : TRANSLATION WANTED. Could any of your readers give me a rough translation (French or English) of the following Breton song ?

Koantik he marionik, Koantik a delikadd, Ru evel eur rosennik A glaz e daou lagadd.

It is mentioned in Souvestre's ' Le Foyer Breton ' as " 1'air de Marionnik ' ' ; the author did not, however, follow his usual practice of frenchifying it. A. E. B.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. THOMAS BAGHOTT was admitted to Westminster School 26 March, 1813. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' identify him ?

2. BELL. William Bell was admitted to Westminster School 20 Feb., 1815, aged 14 ; John William Browne Bell, 11 Jan., 1819, aged 11 ; Edward Lloyd Bell, 7 Nov., 1821, aged 13 ; and James Horace, 7 Feb., 1829, aged 11. Information concerning all or any of these Bells is desired.

3. JAMES CUMBERLAND BENTLEY was ad- mitted to Westminster School 11 March, 1772. Was he a grandson of Dr. Richard Bentley, the famous Master of Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge ? I should be glad to obtain particulars of his parentage and career, and the date of his death.

4. RICHARD BEVAN was admitted to West- minster School 11 March, 1776. I should be glad to receive any information about him.

G. F. R, B.