Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Tombs of Bishops._--The following bishops, whose bodies were interred
elsewhere, had or have tombs in the several cathedrals in which their
hearts were buried:--William de Longchamp, William de Kilkenny, Cardinal
Louis de Luxembourg, at Ely; Peter de Aquâ Blancâ, at Aquablanca, in Savoy;
Thomas Cantilupe, at Ashridge, Bucks (Hereford); Ethelmar (Winton), at
Winchester; Thomas Savage (York), at Macclesfield; Robert Stichelles
(Durham), at Durham.
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
Durham.
_Lines on visiting the Portico of Beau Nash's Palace, Bath._--
And here he liv'd, and here he reign'd,
And hither oft shall strangers stray;
To muse with joy on native worth,
And mourn those pleasures fled for aye.
Alas! that he, whose days were spent
In catering for the public weal,
Should, in the eventide of life,
Be destin'd sad distress to feel.
An ever open heart and hand,
With ear ne'er closed to sorrow's tale,
Exalts the man, and o'er his faults
Draws the impenetrable veil.
L. M. THORNTON.
Bath.
_Acrostic in Ash Church, Kent._--The following acrostic is from a brass in
Ash Church, Kent. It is perhaps curious only from the fact of its being
unusual to inscribe this kind of verse on sepulchral monuments. The capital
letters at the commencement of each line are given as in the original:
"J John Brooke of the parish of Ashe
O Only he is nowe gone.
H His days are past, his corps is layd
N Now under this marble stone.
B Brookstrete he was the honor of,
R Robd now it is of name,
O Only because he had no sede
O Or children to have the same;
K Knowing that all must passe away,
E Even when God will, none can denay.
"He passed to God in the yere of Grace
One thousand fyve hundredth ffower score and two it was,
The sixteenthe daye of January, I tell now playne,
The five-and-twentieth yere of Elizabeth rayne."
FRAS. BRENT.
Sandgate.
_A Hint to Publishers._--The present period is remarkable for its numerous
reprints of our poets and standard writers. However excellent these may be,
there is often a great drawback, viz. that one must purchase an author's
entire works, and cannot get a favourite poem or treatise separately.
What I would suggest is, that a separate title-page be prefixed to every
poem or treatise in an {147} author's works, and that they be sold
collectively or separately at the purchaser's option. Thus few would
encumber themselves with the entire works of Dryden, but many would gladly
purchase some of his poems if they could be had separately.
These remarks are still more applicable to encyclopædias. The _Encycl.
Metropol._ was a step in the right direction; and henceforth we may hope to
have each article sold separately in _octavo_ volumes. Is there no chance,
amid all these reprints, of our seeing Heywood, Crashaw, Southwell,
Habington, Daniel, or Drummond of Hawthornden?
MARICONDA.
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