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 NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. vi. FKB.. 1920.

The name Bradbury was of late attached -to a Treasury note for 1Z., and not only t the paper token of ten shillings, as MB MENMUIB implies. Sovereigns, perhaps golc .coins generally, were often referred to a " yellow boys." We are in no " yellow peril " of seeing too many of them just now

ST. SWITHIN.

Will you permit me to say that while "fiver" is familiar slang in America, '. never heard the expression " monkey " for a $500 bill, and I doubt very much if the wore .is in use in our country with this meaning. CHARLES E. STRATTON.

70 State Street, Boston, Mass.

[MR. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT, who also replies refers readers to 10 S. vii. 469 ; viii. 293, 395, 477 ix. 37, 417.]

DEAL AS A PLACE OF CALL (12 S. vi. 12). The old East Indiamen used to call regu- larly at Deal, it being their custom to anchor in the Downs both when outward and home- ward bound, often staying there for a number of days. The ships were taken down the Thames by the East India Com- pany's own pilots, this Corporation having their own pilot-cutter. Passengers going to the East frequently joined their ship in the Downs, and were often well " fleeced " by the Deal boatmen who put them on board. No doubt some of those returning from the East would be glad to land at Deal and coach or post to London, thereby avoiding the delay involved in the passage round to the Thames. See ' The Old East Indiamen,' by E. K. Chatterton, pp. 154, 219, &c. (T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., London, n.d.).

T. F. D. [G. H. W. also thanked for reply.]

f GREEN HOLLY (12 S. v. 319; vi. 21). A carol in praise of the holly, written in the reign of Henry VI., is in the Harleian Col- Icetion of MSS., No. 5396. It was printed in Brand's ' Popular Antiquities,' by Ellis. f~ William Sandys, F.S.A., in his ' Christmas- tide,' speaking of the practice of decorating churches and houses with evergreens at the Christmas season, says :

" In the earlier carols thb holly and the ivy are mentioned, where the ivy. however, is generally treated as a foil to the holly, and not considered appropriate to festive purposes.

Holly and Ivy made a great party, Who should have the mastery

In lands where they go. Then spoke Holly, ' I am friske and jolly, I will have the mastery '

In lands where they go."

Apart from the probability that the holly in common with other red berried trees, like

the hawthorn and the rowan-tree, was a sacred tree from the earliest times, its bright red berries must always have made it the most attractive evergreen for winter decora- tions, and its popular name of " Christmas " bears witness to its long and close association with the revels and merriment of the Christmas season. It appears to me that this association is sufficient to account for the idea that the holly is the emblem of mirth. WM. SELF WEEKS

In the verses sent by LADY RUSSELL (ante, p. 22), " Ivy hath a lybe,' '" lybe " is probably a misreading of kybe, a chilblain. The front part of a fc is often so small and indistinct in MSS. as to be over-looked.

J. T. F.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. v. 322).

2. The whole poem will he found in Ward's ' English Poets,' vol. iii. pp. 579-58U.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

3. A misquotation. The opening lines of ' Early Rising,' by J. G. Saxe, runs thus :

God bless the man who first invented sleep.

C. S. C.

This appears to be an imperfect recollection cf the opening lines of Canto IV., Doctor Syntax's Tour in search of the picturesque ' : Rless'd be the man, said he of yore Who Quixote's lance and target bore ! Bless'd be the man who first taught sleep Throughout our wearied frames to creep, And kindly gave to human woes The oblivious mantle of repose ! For the' original of which see ' Don Quixote,' part II., chap. Ixviii. E.G. BAYFORD.

38 Eldon Street, Barnsley.

The lines occur in a set of humorous verses entitled ' Early Rising' written bv John Godfrey Saxe, an American born in 1816, who died in 1887. 3ancho Pauza's words (in 'Don Quixote,' II., 68) began :

' Bien haya el que invento el sueno, capa que jubre todos los liumanos pensamientos '

The saying also took the fancy of Sterne ; see Tristram Shandy,' book IV., chap. xv.

JOHN B. WAINFAVRIGHT.

[DR. HENRY LEFFMANN also thanked for reply.]

4. Your correspondent misquotes Kingsley, who wrote : In Arzina caught,

Perished with all his crew.

_ingsley misquotes Thomson. The passage occurs n 'The Seasons,' near the end of ' Winter.'

C. S. C.

Arzina is said to be a harbour near Kegor, where Norwegian Lapland marches with Russian, lowever, neither place can be found in such maps ud gazetteers as I have been able t,o consult.

JOHN B. WAIKEWRIGHT. PROF. G. C. MOORE SMITH also thanked for reply

6. When Milton lost his eyes Poetry lost hers ccurs in ' Guesses at Truth,' by J. C. and A. W. Hare. C. S. C.