Your correspondent "F.B." asks for the remainder of the song. In pity to yourself and your readers, I forbear sending you the countless stanzas--numerous enough in the _original_ song, but now, by the additions of successive generations, swelled to a volume. He will find in Chappell's collection all that is worth having, with the assurance, repeated oft enough for the most enthusiastic of our _modest_ countrymen, that "In Britain's race if one surpass, A man of Kent is he." LAMBERT LARKING. Ryarsh Vicarage. _Bess of Hardwick_ (No. 18. p. 276.).--The armorial bearings of John Hardwick, of Hardwick, co. Derby, father of Bess, were: Argent, a saltier engrailed, and on a chief blue three roses of the field. M. COMES. Oxford, March 9. 1850. _Trophee_ (No. 19. p. 303.).--"Trophe," in the Prologue of Lydgate's Translation of Boccaccio's _Fall of Princes_, is a misprint: _corrige_-- "In youth he made a translation Of a boke, which called is Troyle, In Lumbardes tonge, as men may rede and se, And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylous and Cres-eyde." The book called _Troyle_ is Boccaccio's _Troilo_, or _Filostrato_. M.C. Oxford, March 11. 1850. {340} _Emerald_ (No. 14. p. 217.).--Before we puzzle ourselves with the meaning of a thing, it is well to consider whether the authority _may_ not be very loose and inaccurate. This _emerald cross_, even if it was made of emeralds, might have been in several pieces. But we are told generally, in Phillips's _Mineralogy_, that "the large emeralds spoken of by various writers, such as that in the Abbey of Richenau, of the weight of 28 lbs., and which formerly belonged to Charlemagne, are believed to be either green fluor, or prase. The most magnificent specimen of genuine emeralds was presented to the Church of Loretto by one of the Spanish kings. It consists of a mass of white quartz, thickly implanted with emeralds, more than an inch in diameter." The note to the above exemplifies what I have just said. It is called _emerald_, he says, because it is _green_, from the Greek. I might make a query of this; but it is clearly a mistake of some half-learned or ill-understood informant. The name has nothing to do with green. _Emerald_, in Italian _smeraldo_, is, I dare say, from the Greek _smaragdus_. It is derived, according to the Oxford _Lexicon_, from [Greek: mairo], to shine, whence [Greek: marmarugae]. In looking for this, I find another Greek word, _smirix_, which is the origin of _emery_, having the same meaning. It is derived from [Greek: smao], to rub, or make bright. I cannot help suspecting that the two radical verbs are connected. C.B.