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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. v. JUNE 29, 1912.

underneath, the well-known sign of the bank, a grasshopper. It is quite an admir- able example of what such a tablet should be, neat, legible, concise. The premises of Lloyd's Bank, occupying a large part of Change Alley, are inscribed with the date 1886. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

" OUR LIFE IS BUT A WINTER'S DAY

(11 S. v. 250, 397). The epitaph beginning with this line,' which occurs on tombstones in many churchyards with many variations, I have at last traced to its source. Mr. Sutton of Crawford House, Surbiton, has allowed me to go through his first editions of the works of Fran. Quarles, and there I found it. The original is :

Our Life is nothing but a Winter's day : Some only break their Fast, and so away : Others stay Dinner, and depart full fed : The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed : He 's most in debt that lingers out the Day : Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay.

The verse is in " Divine Fancies | Into | Epigrams, | Meditations, ] and Observations. 1687."
 * By Fran. Quarles. | Corrected, London

Tombstone masons since then have rung the changes on its lines, as will be seen by comparing the above with the variants which have appeared in ' N. & Q.,' copied from churchyards all over the country.

J. HARRIS STONE. Ox. and Cam. Club.

The same is at Burton Stather, co. Line., on the gravestone of Thomas Roberts, d. 1810, cet. 56, and Elizabeth his wife, d. 1809, cet. 52. But the fourth line runs :

The oldest Man but Sups, and goes to Bed.

J. T. F. Durham.

UNDERTAKER'S "BLACK LADDER" (11 S. v. 370). I have seen undertakers' men use a slide, or sort of ladder, down which coffins were slid from the upper room of ill-built cottage houses. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

BELL (11 S. v. 449). Henry Bell of Wallington Hall, Norfolk (born 1748), married, 1773, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Scarlet Browne of King's Lynn, and their eldest son, Scarlet Browne Bell (born 1774), married in India Frances, daughter of Francis Brodie, barrister-at-law. They had a son Frederic Browne Bell, born 29 Aug., 1804. The John William Browne Bell, aged 11 in 1819, was probably another son. WILLIAM GILBERT.

35, Broad Street Avenue, E.G.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S- v. 449). The words of the song,

Last night the nightingale woke me. are by Theo. Marzials, and the music by- Half dan Kjerulf. The song was published by Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., 325,. Oxford Street, I think about 1885. The German words begin :

Ich konnte heute nicht schlafen. The English title of the song is ' Last Night," the German ' Sehnsucht.'

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

In " Halfdan Kjerulf's Album of Songs ; Translation by T. Marzials ; London, Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., 84, New Bond Street " (published, perhaps, about 1881-5). The- German version of the charming song in question is by Christian Winther : "Ich konnte heute nicht schlafen, mich weckte- die Nachtigall." ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

Translated from the German of Christian) Winther. Published by Lengnick & Co. r 14, Berners Street, London.

WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

The third quotation in this inquiry has- been set to music under the title of ' If,' by Giro Pinsuti, " from the verses entitled ' A Match ' by A. C. Swinburne." The- song was published by Chappell & Co., and my copy dates back twenty-five years at least. JOHN T. PAGE.

[Miss G. DE CASSEL FOLKARD and MR. WIL^ LOUGHBY MAYCOCK also thanked for replies.]

WOMEN AS CHURCHWARDENS (11 S. v~ 369). The judgment in Gordon v. Hayward (21 Times Law Reports, 298) may be read in connexion with this subject.

R. L. MORETON.

HABERJAM FAMILY (11 S. v. 429). H. E. H. will find Haberjam, or Habergham,. wills at Chester Probate Registry : Richard Habergham of Habergham, co. Lane. ; will proved 1590 (A); Richard Haberghamt of Habergham Eaves, 1614; John Haber- gham of Habergham, Esquire, 1661. The- modern form of this name appears to be Abram. See Barber's ' British Family Names.' JOHN LIVESEY.

PAUSANIAS (11 S. v. 448). The edition of 1824 is, no doubt, a reprint of the transla- tion issued in 3 vols., 8vo, 1794, by Thomas Taylor, " the Platonist." See ' D.N.B.' or ! ates's ' Dictionary of General Biography,' 4th ed., 1885. WM. H. PBET.

[C. W. S. also thanked for reply.]