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I had always been led to regard death by a broken heart as a vulgar error, no such cause of death being possible. Can any one give any instances of this having occurred, and in what books such instances are given ? for it is well worthy the trouble of examining them, and comparing them with the great case, which I have ventured to bring forward. K

" How sweet is the song" fyc. I wish to know who is the author of the well-known lines com- mencing,

" How sweet is the song of the lark, as she springs, To welcome the morning with joy on her wings."

FB.

Odments. The other day in the Waterloo Road, at an omnium gatherum shop, I saw the above word written in legible characters upon a piece of pasteboard suspended in the windows. Never having met with this expression before, I went in and asked the master what it meant, and he at once replied, " that it showed people that he bought and sold odds and ends." Is this an old word revived, or is it one freshly invented for the present day ? CENTURION.

P.S. I have looked \nio AJJ scon gh"s Index to Shakspeare, and do not find it in that volume.

John Howe. In the edition of this celebrated Nonconformist divine's works (published during his lifetime), in three vols. by Tegg in 1848, the editor states in the "advertisement 1 that the pub- lishers intended a three volume edition of Howe's Posthumous Works. Was this last edition ever published ? If not, where can I procure a list of the posthumous works ? Also, what has become of the portrait of Howe, stated to have been re- cently in the possession of the late Dr. Thomas Gibbons of Hoxton Square? MAGDALEXENSIS.

J. Larhing. Among the readers of " N. & Q." is there any one sufficiently versed in the history of paper manufacture in England to in- form me what would be the date of a sheet of 4to. letter paper, gilt edged, with the name of J. Lark- ing on it as the manufacturer ? The presumed date, is about 1780. Can any particulars be added relative to the said J. Larking ? An answer to this Query would much oblige CHARTOPHYLAX.

Quentin Bely Morweg Laale. In the Comparaison des Langues, par J. P. Brebeuf, Paris, an. vii., among examples of the similarity of Dutch to English is,

" Dan mogt sy liner tonge roeren,

Als de hoeren, Quick-quack-queet ick segget al."

Quentin Bely, 19.

Two Danish writers, Morweg and Laale, are quoted. Can any of your readers say who they

and Quentin Bely are, and what they wrote ? Some of the quotations are very curious. P. S. F. Creil.

Skillfull Serjeant Corderoy. Would MR. Foss or any of your correspondents give me any in- formation respecting this gentleman, his arms or family? See Bliss's Life of Anthony a Wood, ed. 1848, vol. i. p. 133. W. H. LAMMIN.

Fulham.

Plants in Sleeping Rooms. I believe it is pretty generally thought, that sleeping in a room where plants are is hurtful: and that plants give out gases necessary to the preservation of human life, and use others that not so used would harm us. How are the two notions reconciled ?

C. F. B.

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"Jamie frae Dundee." What, is known of tho authorship of the following song, which either be- longs to, or was introduced in an opera n;imed Marian, about seventy years since? I should be glad to learn who were the authors of the words and music of that opera, as I have never been able to obtain a copy of the libretto of that opera :

" I canna like ye, gentle sir,

Although a laird 3-6 be ; For weel I like the bonnie lad

Wlia brought, me frae Dundee. And I'll gang awa' wi' Jamie, Oh, I'll gang awa' wi' Jamie, Oh,

I'll gang awa' wi' Jamie o'er the lea ; I'll gang awa' wi' a free gude will,

For he's a' the warld to me.

" I'll gang wi' Jamie frae Dundee,

To cheer the lanesome way: His cheeks are ruddy o'er wi' health,

He's frolicsome and gay. And I'll gang, c.

" The laverock mounts to hail the morn,

The lintwhite swells her throat; But nane o' them 's sae sweet or clear

As Jamie's tunefu' throat. And I'll gang, &c."

JuVERNA.

[This dramatic piece 'is entitled, " Marian, an Opera as performed at Covent Garden. 'Ihe music composed and selected by William Shield, the words by Mrs. Frances Brooke. Oblong folio, 1788." The words of the airs, songs, &c. were republished separately in 1788, 8vo. The following is the original version of the song :

" I canno' like ye, gentle sir,

Altho' a laird ye be; I like a bonny Scottish lad

Wha brought me fra' Dundee. " Hand away ! Haud away !

Wi' Jamie o'er the lea I gang'd along wi' free gude will, He's a' the world to me !