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holding a cinquefoil pierced, slipped. Under- neath is printed evidently at some recent period the following :

" Ex - Libris Rowland Davies, LL.D., Prebend of Kilnaglory, 1670 ; Dean of Ross, 1679 ; Chaplain to the Forces of King William in Ireland from 1688 to Sept., 1690; Dean of Cork and Rector of Carrigaline, .1710. (Died llth December, 1721, aged 82. )"

It was given to me by Robert Day, F.S.A., of Cork, who told me the arms were those of the Cornish family of Davies.

THOS. U. SADLEIR.

Trinity College, Dublin.

"MANURANCE" (9 th S. vii. 125, 274, 336). There is an orthographical overlapping, touch- ing upon the ideas of holding and cultivating, in Jamieson (Supplement), where he unites " manure " and " manor " as different spellings of one verb, and follows this with the phrases "to manor the land"; "to manure justice, i.e., to practice or follow law."

ARTHUR MAYALL.

OLD SONGS (9 th S. viii. 104, 212). I regret that I delayed replying to these three queries. First, 'The Lamentation of a Sinner.' An old black-letter ballad, of date earlier than 14 December, 1624, when it was transferred property, ' The Sorrowful Lamentation of a Penitent Sinner,' sung to its own tune cited as 'The Lamentation of a Sinner,' quite dis- tinct from ' Fortune my Foe,' or 'Aim not too High,' which was the tune used for a later ballad entitled 'The Young Man's Repent- ance ; or, the Sorrowful Sinner's Lamenta- tion,' beginning

You that have spent your time in wickedness, Now mind the dying words I shall express.

Both of these ballads are reprinted, for the sake of contrast, on pp. 99 and 100-102 of the now completed ' Roxburghe Ballads,' part xxiii., 1895, vol. viii., with the broadside woodcuts, and correction of the mistake in part x. vol. iv. pp. 364-5 as to the tunes being identical. The earlier 'Sorrowful Lamentation of a Penitent Sinner,' of which exemplars are preserved in Pepys Coll., at Magdalen College, Cambridge, ii. 13, and Rpxb. Coll., iii. 37, in the British Museum Library, was given in 1883, with its woodcut of the Saviour showing the stigmata in His raised hands and His side. It has nine four- line stanzas, the first of which is this :

Lord my God, I come to thee, in all my grief

and pain, Now turn to me in my distress, and comfort me

again ; And enter not to judgment, Lord, with sinful dust

and clay : Nor with thy Servant be [Thou] wrath, nor turn

thy face away.

Reprinted for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright before 1681, earliest broadside extant. Of the other ballad three exemplars remain, viz., Pepys, ii. 37 ; Roxb., ii. 562 ; and Jersey, ii. 75, now Lindesiana, 1431. Printed for J. Back, at the Black Boy, on London Bridge. Date, as licensed for publication, 1685.

Second, 'The Beggar's Petition,' with its eleven stanzas, is given complete in the new edition, 1809, London, of ' Elegant Extracts,' vol. i. p. 467, where it is stated to be anony- mous. But I believe the author of it was the Rev. Thomas Moss, who died in 1808; and that it was published without his name so early as 1769. The first and the eleventh stanzas are identical, and run thus :

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your

door;

Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span : Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.

These lines were formerly so popular that even Fascination Fledgeby (vide Charles Dickens's excellent novel 'Our Mutual Friend,' book iii. chap, i.) knew them, and applied them irreverently to the old Jew Riah when cross-examining him about the disappearance of Lizzie Hexam :

" ''You can't be a gallivanting dodger,' said Fledgeby. 'For you're a regular "pity the sorrows," you know if you do know any Christian

with this Lizzie?'" Written in 1865.

Third, it is asked by A. F. T., probably inaccurately, "In what song do the days call the sun their dad 1 " I have no doubt that the song required is one named ' Lamp- lighter Dick,' beginning thus :

I'm Jolly Dick the Lamplighter; they say the

sun 's my Dad,

And truly I'believe it, Sir, for I 'm a pretty lad. Father and I the world do light, and make it look

so gay ; The difference is, I lights by night, and father

lights by day.

There are three stanzas more. It was written and composed by Charles Dibdin for his 'Oddities,' 1789, one of his entertainments, and is given on p. 225, and again with the music for pianoforte on p. 237, of vol. i. of G. H. Davidson's ' Songs of Charles Dibdin,' 1848 edition ; previously issued in 1842.

Here is the true beginning, for identifica- tion, of the " set of lilting verses commencing k Pity, kind gentlefolks ! ' " mentioned ante, p. 212. I remember to have heard them in or before 1835 :