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 12 s. ix. OCT. 15, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 305 as above, Todd's 'Johnson' (1818), that " this is sometimes pronounced successor,' 1 '' can also be there quoted : And curse the bright successor of the year. True, poets may feel free to hover with their accents, as above noted, or even to use what they themselves feel archaic ; and they i certainly may feel pleasure in the generally | more beautiful or more expressive later -in- i the-word accent. As, Milton, with his love for room to have his vowel-say on a 'May Morning ' (c. 1630) : The flowering May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.* Though early nineteenth-century Words- worth, with has right to the primrose, calls it so. And yet in ' The Wedding Sermon ' of Coventry Patmore's ' Victories of Love ' (1863): In yellow crowds the first primrose. and in Robert Bridges 's ' Demeter ' (1905) : So^they may cull the delicate primrose. Trench noted uproar in Milton (1608-1674). But, though Beattie's ' Minstrel ' (c. 1770) Pope's 1720 ' Homer ' had had uproar heard a mere rapping uproar-f (as in Johnson), and though he poorly says : Can passion's wildest tiproar lay to rest, yet in Wordsworth's ' Prelude ' (ii. 15), still the revelry Continued and the loud uproar ; notwithstanding that in Wordsworth, on the whole, uproar is commoner and Henry Taylor's 1834 'Philip van Artevelde,' II. ii. 3, has And though the horn sounds never so clear With the hounds in loud uproar ; and Campbell (d. 1844) saw Nelson and the North amidst that joy and uproar. And the (c. 1850) ' Consolation ' of Words- worth's follower, Matthew Arnold, has strange unloved uproar. And again, ' Heine's Grave ' : Hither to come from the street's Uproar. Then Ferguson's (1872) ' Congal ' : And heard o'er all the huge uproar, through startled Dalaray The giant went, with stamp and clash. And, almost as late, Morris's * Jason ' (ix. 286) : While in the towers, over the uproar, Melodiously the bells began to ring. One may compare, for noise and stir, shaking themselves out in the verb, Spenser's Her shrill outcries and shrieks so loud did bray That all the woodes and forestes did resound. (' Faery Queene,' i. 6, 7.) How splendid is the place-name in Niagara stuns with thundering sound. (' The Traveller,' 1764.) that characteristic North American Indian penultimate accent, rising a fourth ; as in Caughnawdga near Montreal, or Assinoboia, or Chicago ; or even in Toronto, which might have kept music in its name, if the un- fortunate place had been settled by country- men of those who warble immortal notes and Tuscan air, and who know how to make music out of n + t. And how splendid the place-name amid ocean's yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. (' Childe Harold,' iv. 181 (c. 1818).) And Copenhagen there and Trafalgar. (Southey's ' Dream of the Princess Charlotte,' about the same date.) W. F. P. STOCKLEY. (To be continued.) fined to " The violets, cowslips and the primroses." (' Cymbeline,' I. v. 83.) " The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose." (Ib. IV. ii. 221.) " Pale primroses That die unmarried." (' Winter's Tale,' IV. iv. 122.) t But Shakespeare's ear heard uproar as a noun, always. ABRAHAM COWLEY AND LORD FALKLAND. IF the following has not been noted, it is of some interest as being a letter from Cowley's " chamber-fellow " at Trinity, giving some account of him and of his literary ventures at the age of 20. It also implies that Cowley had received some kind help from that friend of poets and men of learning, Lucius Gary, Lord Falk- land. It is preserved in the Bodleian in Rawlinson MSS., Poet. 246. After a dedica- tion "To- the most accomplisht his highly hono r< i Ld ye L<* Viscount Falkland, vpon the receipt of a book [' Cyril and Synesius,' Grsece, in folio] from his L^ship with a letter," Cresswell gives his lines, " If books
 * Shakespeare indeed had been a modern, con-