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 9 th S. X. JULY 5, 1902.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

LOS DON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1903.

CONTENTS. No. 236.

NOTES : Hvnan on Birth of Edward VII. Verses for a Prince of Wales Cowley, 1 Living Memory of Corona- tion of George IV., 3 Gleek " Cigar " " Sheregrig." 4 Inaccurate Allusions Pound's Day " Met," 5 Took's Court " Autocrat " in Russian Scotch Literary Church- men, fi.

QUERIES : Orange Blossoms, 6 Papal Provisions Wood- house Napper Tandy Follett Grace before Meat ' Bataille Loquifer' "Cockledumditt" Past Tenee, 7 Schaw of Gospetry Cantership Stuart Portraits Glad- stone Browne Quotation Howe " A-sailing by the night" "Pec saetna," 8 Lovel : De Hautville May Cats, 9.

REPLIES :" Meresteads," 9 "Hopeful": "Sanguine" Nicknames for Colonies Barras Afnsworth, 10 Iron Duke Nottingham "Ploughing his lonely furrow" Westminster City Motto Tennis Patmore Quotation

modo" Week, 12 Kennett's Father "Only too thank- ful " " The " " Box Harry," 13 Eccleston Heuskarian Rarity " Bar sinister," 14 School Rules Nanoleon's Last Years, 15 Willughby's 'Ornithology' "Hop the twig" ' Aylwin* Latin Verses West Bourne. 16 Boon for Bookworms " Lutes of amber" "Buff Week" Wren's Mallet, 17 Comma Misplaced Yarrow Unvisited Pole, 18.
 * Cigarettes Shakespeare v. Bacon, 11 " Prospicimus

NOTES ON BOOKS : Paton's ' Early History of Syria and Palestine ' Duff's 'Theology and Ethics of the Hebrews ' -'Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society' ' Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldic*.'

States.

HYMN ON THE BIRTH OF

KING EDWARD VII. AT this moment, in which the thoughts of the nation are centred upon King Edward, the following hymn written on the occasion of his birth will be read with interest. The author of it was Henry Fothergill Chorley, who was connected with the Athenceum for thirty-five years.

HYMN. Thou that from Thy throne of splendour,

Where the angels humbly bow, With an eye of mercy tender,

Lookest down on worlds below ; Deign with gracious ear to gather

Ev'ry heart of England's prayer ; King of Kings ! of parents Father, Bless the Mother in the Heir !

Lord, whose love paternal heedeth

Monarch's triumph, peasant's sleep, Grant him all that pilgrim needeth

On a heav'nward path so steep : Truth, to Fear and Flatt'ry stranger ;

Valour, noblest deeds to dare ; O through empire's toil and danger,

Bless the Mother in the Heir.

Crown his youth with ail the pleasure

Health and Strength and Joy bestow ; Crown his age with richer treasure,

Love, that grateful myriads owe : Be his reign in future story

Traced with words of record fair ; God ! to England's peace and glory,

Bless the Mother in the Heir !

J. S. S.

VERSES FOR AN EXPECTED PRINCE OF WALES (1555).

"THE time," says Fox in his 'Acts and Monuments,' "was thought to be nigh that this young master should come into the world." Bells were rung, bonfires and pro- cessions made in London and all over the kingdom. The rumour, however, turned out to be a false one. Fox tells us that *' there was a cradle very sumptuously and gorgeously trimmed, upon the which cradle for the child appointed, these verses were written both in Latin and English :

Quam Mariiesobolem, Deus optime, summe, dedisti, Anglis incolumem redde, tuere, rege.

The child which thou to Mary, Lord of might !

hast send [sic], To England's joy, in health preserve, keep, and

defend ! "

' J. S. S.

ABRAHAM COWLEY.

THE fourth edition of this celebrated writer's English works was published in 1674. I have a copy of it before me, which is of exceptional interest, because it is en- riched witn numerous marginal notes, written partly just after the death of Thomas Oray, to whom the annotator refers as " our late poet," and from whom he quotes more than once. Gray died in 1771. The notes are subscribed with a capital "H," and as the writer informs us that all those pieces (in- variably spelt peices) to which the letter is affixed are included "in Dr. Hurd's edition of Cowley's 'Select Works," 1772," I am more than inclined to think that this is one of the very books Dr. Hurd himself used in making his selection, and that the marginalia are in his own handwriting. But I have other and stronger reasons for arriving at this interesting conclusion. Dr. Samuel Johnson has the following sentence in his life of Cowley : " Jonson and Donne, as Dr. Hurd remarks, were then in the highest esteem." I have been unable to consult what is printed in the ' Select Works,' but this is what I find written in the margin of p. 33 of the ' Pin- darique Odes,' on which the famous one to "Brutus" begins. The note, which I give exactly as I find it, is as follows :

"The subject of this ode seems to have been chosen by the poet for y e sake of venting his indig- nation against Cromwell. It has been generally supposed y' Mr. Cowley had no ear for harmony, & even no taste of elegant expression. And we w a be apt to think so from his untun'd verse, and rugged style : but y" case was only this : Donne and Jonson were the favorite poets of y" time, & there- fore y e models, on w ch our poet was ambitious to form himself. But unhappily these poets affected