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 i2s. viii. APRIL IB, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 307 How shall the voice of history justly tell What heights you mounted, or what depths you fell ? How here Vittoria's deathless deeds declare ? How execrate the Queen's Oppressor there ? How here the fame of Waterloo relate ? There mark Majocchi's mean confederate ? How reconcile the contrast you display The Hero to the Minion of the dav ? Oh ! if there yet remain some generous part Some feeling yet undeaden'd in your heart, Leave to the base, he dastard, and the bad. What meet rewards u-om Tyrants may be had : Leave such to credit all the varying lies, Which Knaves can weave or Royalty devise :* He it thine, retir'd from war's alarms, Xo more to stain the triumph of your arms Xo more to dwindle from your high career, By quenching Glory's blaze hi Woman's tear. Let contrite blushes yet your fame redeem, Nor stand of Britain's curse the branded thsme. This production is given a conspicuous place in each of the three papers. That Charles Lamb was the author is, of course, sheer conjecture ; but he frequently wrote for The Morning Chronicle ; his political epigrams, and the like, were anonymous or pseudonymous ; they were written, for the most part, during 1820 ; and in style these lines to Wellington seem to me remarkably similar to the verses addressed to Canning, entitled ' The Unbeloved,' which appeared in The Champion of September 23rd and 24th, 1820, and are known to be by Lamb. E. G. CLAYTON. RAINING IN THE SUNSHINE. In Thomas Wright's ' Essays on Subjects connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History of England in the Middle Ages,' 1846, voL i., p. 130, we read : " When it rains and the sun shines at the same time, the Normans say that the devil is beating his wife. We think we have heard a similar Baying in England." In this part, it is popularly believed that one can behold the fox's wedding procession, should he take up a flat stone or tile from the ground, spit on its under surface, and gaze on it while it is raining in the sunshine ; or should he peep at such a rain through the loop formed by peculiarly intercrossing the thumbs and fingers of his two hands, simulating, as it were, the union of two foxes' K I M AGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe. Kii, Japan. PUBLICATIONS OF FREDERICK LOCKER- LAMPSON. The Cornhill Magazine of January and February last contains ' Re- collections of Frederick Locker-Lampson,' by his son Oliver. The writer states of his parent's output (p. 87) : " How frail is the cargo when all is counted up. There is ' Lyra Elegantiarum,' an anthology of other people's poems, which he issued early in life ; ' Patchwork,' a commonplace book, not mainly original ; and lastly a slender booklet of his own verse, ' London Lyrics.' It was not until after his death that his prose volume of memoirs, ' My Confidences,' appeared." Mr. Oliver Locker-Lampson ought to be better informed than I upon his subject, but I have good reason to believe that ' London Lyrics ' was his father's earliest book. It was issued in 1857. ' Lyra Elegantiarum ' did not come out till 1867. The first English edition was suppressed because it contained some copyright lines by Landor. ' Patchwork ' followed in 1879. ' N. & Q.' may be useful in adjusting matters. ST. SWITHIN. " SOME." I have just discovered a further justification of the hackneyed saying : " There is nothing new under the sun." During the last few years much use has been made of the slang expression " some," used as a substitute for almost any adjective. It is interesting to note that the word, used in this sense, occurs in Act V., Scene i. of Shadwell's 'Sullen Lovers,' 1679, when Emilia says : " Certainly he's distracted. This is some revenge." This is on a par with the use of " I don't think " in Shakespeare. GWENDOLINE GOODWIN. FFAIREBANCK AND RAWSON FAMILIES (con- tinued from 11 S. vi. 166, 214). Since I last sent you some entries taken from a Breeches Bible, dated 1608, I have been able to decipher some further entries written on pages which had been gummed together. These further entries I now send you. It is evident from internal evidence that this family of ft'airebanck resided at or near Kingston-on-Thames. Alexander Fairebanck went into Staffordsheir the 16th of Octobr 1593 [written in a later hand than the subsequent entries]. Edward ffairebanck and Ellen his weife were marryed the ixth daie of May 1585. Joseph ffairebanck the first sonne of Edward ffairebanck was baptized the xxvth daie of February 1586. Elisander ffairebanck sonne of Edward ffaire- banck was baptized the last of January 1588.
 * &ee Mr. Dentnun's ca.stigatioii of a Royal Duke.