_Earth upon Earth, &c._--I think the information which has been elicited in connexion with the so-called "Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott," "N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 498., sufficiently curious to justify an additional reference to the sentiment in question; the more so as I have to mention the name of its putative author. In Montgomery's _Christian Poet_, 3rd edit. p. 58., he gives, under the title of "Earth upon Earth," five verses, which it would appear are substantially the same as those published by Weaver (whose _Funeral Monuments_, his only publication, I have not within reach), but they exhibit considerable verbal difference in the verses corresponding with those cited in "N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 576. Montgomery tells us in a note that this extract, given under the name of William Billyng, along with another from a poem entitled "The Five Wounds of Christ," by the same author, were from "a manuscript on parchment of great antiquity, in possession of William Bateman, Esq.," of which a few copies had been printed at Manchester, and "accompanied by rude but exceedingly curious cuts." Now who was William Billyng? And when did he live? Montgomery says "the age of this author is well known." The death of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom Weaver (_Fun. Mon._ 1631) applies the Stratford epigraph, is temp. Edward III. Is Mr. Bateman's MS. in a hand indicating so early a date? J. H. _Picalyly_ (Vol. viii., p. 8.).--In Barnaby Rich's _Honestie of this Age_, p. 37. of the Percy Society reprint, we find this passage: "But he that some fortie or fifty yeares sithens should haue asked after a Pickadilly, I wonder who could haue understood him, or could haue told what a Pickadilly had beene, either fish or flesh." Little did the writer think that in future years the name would become a "household word;" though his prophecy as to the meaning of the word has been fulfilled by the appearance of the Query in the pages of "N. & Q." The editor of the work, Mr. Peter Cunningham, has a long note on the above passage; and I am indebted to him for the following. "Ben Jonson (_Works_ by Gifford, viii. 370.) speaks of a _picardill_ as a new cut of band much in fashion: 'Ready to cast at one whose band stands still, And then leap mad on a neat _picardill_.' "But Middleton, _The World tost at Tennis_, 1620, speaks of a _pickadill_ in connexion with the shears, the needle, &c. of the tailor; from which it appears to have been an instrument used for plaiting the picked vandyke collar worn in those days. "Mr. Gifford, in a note on another passage in Ben Jonson, says: