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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. ix. JAN. 11, 1902.

qualities she represented. So our pride in the monarchy, proved to be the best form of government under which we can live, is re- newed, and we hail the coming coronation of the King with all its aforetime stateliness and significant symbolism. The pageantry may, perhaps, to some appear childish, but happier they who have not lost their zest in the pleasures of childhood, and can yet enjoy the stately show of a great symbolic cere- mony. And whatever may be the difference in sentiments, it is certain that in the display of dignity and patriotism each member of the united monarchy will claim its due position. " Caledonia stern and wild " will be careful that her "ruddy lion ramps in gold " in all rightful and accustomed places ; and "gallant little Wales," democratic and severely religious though she be, will not be slack to exhibit "the Dragon of the great Pendragoriship," happily of late restored to the national heraldry by the gracious sove- reign.

So let symbols flourish ; and after a long digression (which is committed to the for- bearance of the Editor) 1 would again ask for Carlyle's reference to them.

W. L. PcUTTON.

ARMS OF A MARRIED WOMAN. Is a married woman, who is not herself entitled to arms, allowed to bear the arms of her husband (who is an armigerous person) on a lozenge ?

W. G. D. F.

' FAERIE QUEENE': SUPPLEMENT TO. I have a memorandum among my papers that there is in the Public Library at Cambridge a manuscript supplement to the 'FaerieQueene,' in three books (Ee. iii. 53). Will some one tell me its date, authorship, and whether it has ever been printed ? ASTARTE.

PICTURE OF NEW CROSS GATE. A friend has an old painting most execrably executed, but valuable to the local historian if the date could be ascertained. It represents a large coach outside the public-house called "The Five Bells," at New Cross Gate ; on the sign- post the landlord's name appears as Dyke while the customers are supplied with Cal- vert & Co.'s "Intire." The coach has "John Court, Greenwich to London," and "I.A.C." in a circle on the panel. Under the seat behind is what appears to be a spread eagle ; on the panel is a representation of St. George and the dragon, and on the dickey five belfs. There are three passengers abreast shown inside; two seats behind, holding five persons three and two; and three on top besides the driver, one a lady, wearing a hat like that

worn by Queen Caroline at her trial. Has any reader access to records which would enable me to arrive at a proximate date 1 ?

AYEAHR.

New Cross, S.E.

"FOUNTAIN -PREGNANT." At the age of fourteen Alfred Tennyson wrote :

The fountain-pregnant mountains riven

To shapes of wildest anarchy, By sacred fire and midnight storms That wander round their windy cones.

I suppose the epithet "fountain -pregnant" was of his own imagination, but Dante many centuries earlier made Guido del Duca say :

Ben e che il nome di tal valle pera : Clio dal principle suo (dov' e sipregno L' alpestro monte, end' e tronco Peloro, Che in pochi luoghi passa oltra quel segno) In tin la, 've si rende per ristoro Di quel che il ciel della marina asciuga.

' Purg.,' xiv. 30-35.

Dean Plumptre has a note in which he re- marks (' Purgatory,' p. 103; :

"The word prey no may be a rendering of

Lucan (ii. 397). .Speaking of a district in the Apennines, lie says :

Nulloque a vert ice tell us

Altius intumuit propriusque accessit Olympo. And in this case it would point simply to height. Another rendering refers the word to the character of that part of the Apennines as a watershed, the sources of the Arno and Tiber, the Lamone, the Savio, and two other rivers lying within the coin- pass of eighteen miles."

Did our great English poet owe anything at fourteen to Dante, or was the idea born of his own genius ? ST. SWITHIN.

DONNE'S BURIAL. Walton in his life of Dr. Donne states that "the next day after his burial some unknown friend, some one of the many lovers and admirers of his virtue and learning, writ this epitaph with a coal on the wall over his grave :

Reader ! I am to let thee know,

Donne's Body only lies below ;

For, could the grave his Soul comprise,

Earth would be richer than the Skies ! "

Has this friend ever been surmised 1 It would appear unlikely he was Dr. Fox. Was he Walton himself? He was present at Donne's death, and presumably at his funeral and in London the day after.

STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

" PEN - NAME." I have not read Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup's 'Bi-literal Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon,' but in a sympathetic article in the Publishers' Circular of 14 Decem- ber last a statement is quoted which is said by Mrs. Gallup to have been found in the