"When your ginnes and snares _catch any of the Bloudie-birdes, dally not with them, blood will have blood_; contracte not their bloude-guiltinesse vpon your owne soules, by an vnwarranted clemencie and mildnesse."--P. 30. "(_Note._--The 'Bloudie-birdes,' _i. e._ the cavaliers.)" From "A Peace Offering to God: a Sermon preached," &c., by Stephen Marshall, B.D. 1641. "Not like tavernes, and alehouses, howses of lewd and debauched persons, where _Zim and Jim_ dwels, dolefull creatures, fitt only to be agents to Satan."--P. 50. I conclude with a rather interesting scrap, which I do not remember to have met with elsewhere, from "The Ruine of the Authors and Fomentors of Ciuill Warre; a Sermon," &c., by Samuel Gibson. 1645. "There was a good motto written ouer the gates at Yorke, at King James the Firste his firste entraunce into that city: 'Suavis Victoriæ amor populi.' _i. e._ the sweete victorie is the love of the people."--P. 27. R. C. WARDE. Kidderminster. * * * * * A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF TWELVE POSTAGE-STAMPS. In the advertising sheet of "N. & Q." for December 18, 1852, its unartistic readers have the tempting offer placed before them of being taught "the art of drawing and copying portraits, views, steel or wood engravings, with perfect accuracy, ease, and quickness, _in one lesson_! And when the gentle reader of "N. & Q." has recovered from the shock of this startling announcement, he is further instructed that, "by sending a stamped directed envelope and twelve postage-stamps, the necessary articles will be forwarded with the instructions." Who would not, thinks the gentle reader, be a Raphael, a Rubens, or a Claude, when the metamorphosis may be effected for twelve postage-stamps? And then, delighted with the thought that no expensive residence in Italy, or laborious application through long years of study, will be required, but that the royal road to art may be traversed by paying the small toll of twelve postage-stamps, he forthwith gives them to "Mr. A. B. Cleveland, 13. Victoria Street, Brighton," and in due course of time Mr. A. B. C. forwards him "the necessary articles with the instructions," the former of which the gentle reader certainly finds to be "no expensive apparatus," but as simple as A, B, C. The articles consist of a small piece of black paper, and a small piece of common tissue paper, oiled in a manner very offensive to a susceptible nose. The instructions are printed, and are prefaced by a paragraph which truly declares them to be "most simple:"