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 350 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.ix.o OT .2o f io2i. of poets. Highway is old. But Sir Henry Taylor :-* And broad highway to power, that ever then. . . . (' Philip van Artevelde,' II. ii. Z.) The good poet's instinct had also (III. ii.) the song : Thy place shall be like an old churchydrd, which was old, and is still Scots (though some North Britons deny that). And still is said, " St. Paul's Churchyard.'" Yet Shakespeare always churchyard, e.g. : Like graves i' the holy churchyard." (' Coriolanus,' III. iii. 51.) Was crossbow ever otherwise in prose ? Yet ' The Ancient Mariner ' (1. 20) : With my crossbow I shot the albatross. And ' Philip van Artevelde ' (I.) : And pierce them, for crossbows. A horse for me. Swinburne, among others, writes ' Both- well,' II. xiv. : Though . . . This man sometimes even touch me to the quick. Francis, in his ' Horace,' Sat. i. 10, had had, about a century before : Don't you sometimes the mighty Homer blame ? In 1916, C. H. Sorley's ' Marlborough and other Poems ' improves on ' Macbeth' s ' " wine and wassail " : So I descend beneath the rail To warmth and welcome and wassail. wes, hdl, be whole, hale. Here is a poet of 1918, who, perhaps without anyone's " authority," did not refrain from writing (and marking) : Rage unto rage, hate unto hate, doth shake The doors of Heaven with its impotent prayer. (Dora Sigerson, in ' The Sad Years.') And what shall we say to pushing back accents, at a poet's will ? Henry Taylor's (' Philip van Artevelde,' I. x.) Thou shalt receive it from love's Exchequer. So, or no blank verse. But exchequer in seventeenth century and since. W. F. P. STOCKLEY. (To be continued.} " INTRIGUING " ADMIRAL VERNON (see ante, p. 321). The necessity for severe compression and omission did not allow of showing that in the political career of Admiral Edward Vernon he was not ex- clusively the instrument of the Parliamen- tary Opposition on the East Coast of England and London Port. Nor did this naval commander's landed interests confine his political activities to Suffolk and the sister counties. In 1722 Edward Vernon was returned for Penryn for which, after having served as Commander of the Grafton in the squadron sent out to join the Danish squadron in the Baltic, he was re-elected on the accession of George II. And, though he soon rendered himself conspicuous by his virulence against the placemen in office, it was not until July, 1739, in the Commons, that he avowed what he was convinced he could do at Porto Bello with six sail-of-the-line. To the surprise of his political and personal enemies he made that boast effectual. There is, of course, much virtue in " if." But it looks not improbable that if Admiral Vernon had been given a free hand and had been furnished with efficient support of Admiralty supplies, he would at Cartagena have much hastened the downfall of the Spanish empire in America, North, South, and Central ; and possibly thus have changed the whole course of subsequent history. Me. EPITAPHS. Of the following epitaphs, the first is in Paignton parish church, and the second in the parish church of Wath, near Ripon, Yorkshire : 1. IN Memory of Mets JOAN BVTLAND and son, WHO DIED IN CHILD BED ye 9th DAY OF NOVEMBER in Night of death here rests ye gooo & fan*, who all life Day, gaue God Both heai and ear, no Dirt nor Distance hindered her Resort, for love still paved ye way, & cvt it short to parents, husband, friends none Better knew, ye tribute of Dvty, & she PaiD it tow. Beloved By & loving all Dearly, her son to whom she first Gave life, then lost her owne he Kino Poor lamb for his DaM a full Year cried, alas in vain, therfor for love he DieD Anno Domi 1679. 2. Hear lies whats left of Stephen Penton Rector who being dead yet speaketh once for all my beloved parishioners since any of you may be the next Let everyone prepare to be so To prepare for death devoutly receive the sacrament to prepare against svdden death receive it Often make your will while yov are in good health That you may have leisvre to die wisely & if yov hope to die comfortably Yov mvst resolve to live righteously God send us all an happy meeting He was born at Winchester was formerly fellow of New Colledge Principal of Edmund's Hall & rector of Glimpton All in Oxon and also rector of Tingswick He died rector of this Church of Wath & Prebendarie of Ripon October 18th anno dni 1706 etat : svae 67. M. A. MORRISON.