In Deansgate, Manchester, under an artistic representation of Llangollen Castle, is the following: "Near the above place, in a vault, There is such liquor fixed, You'll say that water, hops, and malt Were never better mixed." As a parallel to the case cited by NEWBURIENSIS, I may mention the sign of the "BROWN COW," near the village of Glodwick, Oldham: "This cow gives such liquor, 'Twould puzzle a viccar" [_sic_]. JOHN SCRIBE. The following verse from the sign-board of the Bull Inn at Buckland near Dover, may not be an uninteresting addition to your list of poetical tavern signs. "The bull is tame, so fear him not, All the while you pay your shot; When money's gone, and credit's bad, It's that which makes the bull run mad!" FRAS. BRENT. Sandgate. At the Red Lion, Stretton, near Warmington: "The Lion is strong, the Cat is vicous[_sic_], My ale is good, and so is my liquors." E. P. PALING. February 20, 1854. At Swainsthorpe, a village five miles from Norwich, on the road to Ipswich, is a public-house known as the "Dun Cow." Under the portrait of the cow, in former days, stood the following couplet: "Walk in, gentlemen; I trust you'll find The dun cow's milk is to your mind." {332} Whether it still remains I know not, as many years have gone by since I passed that way. T. B. B. H. * * * * * "BEHEMOTH." (Vol. ix., p. 77.) Hobbes's _Behemoth_ forms the eighth tract in the collection relating to the civil wars by the Baron Maseres (1815), and occupies nearly 200 pages. The Baron, in his Preface (pp. lxxviii., lxxix.) gives the following character of the work: