Page:Notes and Queries - Series 11 - Volume 8.djvu/395

 us. vii, MAY 17, i9i3.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

387

to guide the reader on, the point. Pre- sently, however, Lamb himself gives helpful information, telling his correspondent that " the paragraph begins, ' But that which is to be faulted,' and the story not long after follows." A little searching reveals the paragraph in question as the second in section eight of the work, this section forming the conclusion, and being entitled " A Pero- ration concerning the Contingencies and Treatings of our Departed Friends after Death, in order to their Burial, &c."

THOMAS BAYNE,

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

WILLIAM CROTCH, Mus.Doc. Dr. Mann of Cambridge is forming a collection of portraits and other matters relating to Dr. Crotch, who, in 1797, succeeded my ancestral kinsman Dr. Philip Hayes as Professor of Music to the University of Oxford. I have in my possession an advertisement -pro gramme of a performance given by Crotch as " a musical phenomenon," partly in MS. and partly printed by J. Ware & Son. This performance took place " in the Card Room of Beck's Coffee- Ho use." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help me to identify these printers or Beck's Coffee- House ? A. M. BBOADLEY. The Knapp, Bradpole, Bridport.

JOHN MOULTRIE. On behalf of a literary friend in America I am seeking to trace some descendant of the Rev. John Moultrie, the poet, Vicar of Rugby, and friend of Dr. Arnold. Can any of your readers give me any information ? T. M. HARVARD.

4, Queen's Leaze, Forest Hill, S.E.

EWING OF IRELAND. In Burke's ' General Armory ' are given certain coats of arms assigned to families of the name of Ewing. With one exception they are from one origin, and are assigned to Scottish families, the oldest being the arms of Ewing of Keppoch, county Dumbarton. The exception is as follows :

"Ewing (Ireland). Quarterly gu. and or, the second and the third charged with a saltire of the first Crest the moon in her complement ppr."

What family, and where located in Ire- land, ever bore these arms ?

JOHN G. EWING.

Detroit, Michigan.

SHENSTONE'S EPITAPH. I shall be glad if some reader will supply the whole of an epitaph on Shenstone the poet, written in English by a Frenchman, beginning

Under this plain stone Lies William Shenstone, and ending

This monument rural.

F. C. W. H.

[The verses are given at 6 S. iv. 485, and we reprint them here from that page :

This Plain Stone To William Shenstone. In his verses he displayed,

His mind natural : At Leasowes he layed

Arcadian greens rural. Venus fresh rising from the foamy tide,

She ev'ry bosom warms, While half withdrawn she seems to hide,

And half reveal her charms. Learn hence, ye boastful sons of taste !

Who plant the rural shade, Learn hence, to shun the vicious waste Of pomp, at large displayed.]

AUTHORS WANTED. I am anxious to discover the author of the following words and the poem from which they are taken : Thy works, thine alms, and all thy good endeavour

Stayed not behind, nor in the grave were trod ;

But, as Faith pointed with her golden rod, Followed thee up to joy and bliss for ever.

WALTER BURT. 4, Brick Court, Temple, E.G.

And, before he heard

The tidings of his melancholy loss,

For this same purpose he had gathered up

A heap of stones, which by the streamlet s edge

Lay thrown together, ready for the work.

Lerwick.

J. WlLLCOCK,

AESCHYLUS ON HOMER. In the Intro- ductory Essay to the " Family Library " Edition of ^Eschylus (John Murray, 1831) it is stated that JSschylus

" was an early and ardent admirer of Homer, and used modestly to say, in allusion to the great benefit he derive'd from his works to his own tragedies, that he had been to a great feast of poetry and had brought away some of the, scraps."

Can any of your readers inform me where this saying of JEschylus is first recorded, or what authority there is for it ?

H. H. ST.

[The passage will be found in Athenseus, at viii. 347e. It runs thus : 068' tirl vovv paMftevt* ra TOV Ka\ov Kal \afj.7rpov AiVx^Xov, 5s ras avrov t\ey<= ruv 'O/r^ov