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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. i. APRIL 9,

Chaucer has many instances. See the * Nonnes Priests Tale.' Many examples of this use of " sing " may be found in Shakespere, such as "nightly sings the staring owl" ('Love's Labour s Lost,' V. ii.), the song at end ; anc in the earlier part of the song the cuckoo is said to " sing." This song must be remem- bered by everybody. I read it when a boy and have never forgotten it. Shylock says "And others, when the bagpipe sings i' th nose, cannot contain their urine " (' Merchant of Venice,' IV. i.) ; and Portia says, in Act V., " The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark when neither is attended," &c. K. R.

Boston, Lincolnshire.


 * 1 HENRY VI.,' I. i.

Than Julius Caesar or bright The Duke of Bedford's speech is here inter- rupted by the arrival of a messenger; but various conjectures have been offered as to how the last line should be completed : A far more glorious star thy soul will make, Than Julius Caasar or bright

Pope suggested Francis Drake, influenced, probably, solely by his fondness for rhyme (I beg Prof. Skeat's pardon, rime). The reference is evidently to some one whose soul had been supposed to have been trans- ported to the skies as Julius Caesar's was by the comet which appeared after his death. John- son suggested Berenice, but it was only her hair which was so transported, forming the constellation Coma, the stars of which are not very bright. I would suggest that the reference is to Virgil, 'Georg.,' i. 138, "Claramque Lycaonis Arcton," meaning Ursa Major or Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon. Perhaps Shakespeare wrote "or Lycaonis bright." W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

IZAAC WALTON, SAMUEL WOODFORD, AND CHARLES BEALE. I recently had the good fortune to purchase for a trifle a copy of noticed at the time that there was some writing on the title-page, but it was not until some days after my purchase that I examined it. When, however, I did examine it, I found out that on the top of the title- page was written in very small letters " For Mr. Sam Woodford," and underneath were the letters "Iz: Wa:" I have since had the opportunity of comparing the writing with examples contained in the Bodleian at Oxford, and there can be no doubt that the writing is that of Izaac Walton, and that the book was given by him to Woodford. But my dis- covery did not end there, as on p. 399 I round
 * Reliquiae Wottonianse,' third edition, 1672. I

the following note. It is at the top of the page before the commencement of the letters to Sir Edmund Bacon : " The originall of a great part of these letters to Sir Edmund Bacon are in y e Custody of my Dear Cousin Mr. Charles Beale." Now I carefully com- pared the handwriting with specimens of Woodford's writing in the Bodleian, and although I have little doubt the writing is his, it certainly is not so unmistakably his as the writing at the beginning of the book is Walton's. Mary Beale, the portrait painter, who was the wife of Charles Beale, is said to have helped Woodford with his paraphrase of the Psalms, but was Charles Beale Wood- ford's cousin? I should be glad to know this.

There is a book-plate in the book containing the arms of Willis Argent, a chevron sable between three mullets gules and another book-plate appears to have been extracted from the back of the title-page. There is also a note at the top of the back of the title-page : "28 Jan. 1729 Collated & perfect A. Belom." There is also a price marked in pencil on the fly-leaf, 3/-; in fact, the curious thing is that the book appears frequently to have changed hands without any one, including the book- seller from whom I bought it, having suspected its real interest. I should perhaps mention that it is bound in its original binding of mottled calf, but has evidently been rebacked. ALLAN H. BRIGHT.

Gorse Hey, West Derby, Liverpool.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EASTER (continued from 8 th S. vii. 282):

John Pell, 'Easter not Mistimed,' a letter to Haak in favour of the new style, 1664 ('D.N.B.,' xliv. 262 b).

Isaac Barrow, D.D., 'Works,' folio, 1683. Sermons xxix., xxx., ii. 406-431.

Henry Maundrel, 1699, in ' Compendium of Modern Travels,' 1757, vol. i. ch. vi., an account of Easter at Jerusalem.

Letter to the Parishioners of St. B, A., shew- ing the use and necessity of paying Easter Offerings, now restored to the Parish Minister, 1700.

Easter Sepulchre, account of, in Wordsworth s ' Ecclesiastical Biography,' 1818, i. 485-6.

'The Ancient English Office of the Easter Sepulchre,' by Henry J. Feasey, in the Nineteenth Century, May, 1895.

Carols for Easter and Ascension-Tide, compiled and arranged by the Rev. G. R. Woodward, M.A., rector of Chelmondiston, Ipswich. 8vo., 12 leaves. London, 1894.

W. C. B.

WEIGHT OF BOOKS. A correspondent of
 * he Saturday fieview writes complaining of

}he weight of modern books, due to the prac- tice of using in the case of paper intended J or printing sulphate of baryta. He quotes five modern octavo works, the weights or