_Pusan_ (Vol. i., p. 440.)--May not the meaning be a collar in the form of a serpent? In the old Roman de Blanchardin is this line:-- "Cy guer _pison_ tuit Apolin." Can _Iklynton_ again be the place where such an ornament was made? Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire, appears to have been of some note in former days, as, according to Lewis's _Topog. Hist._, a nunnery was founded there by Henry II., and a market together with a fair granted by Henry III. As it is only five miles from Linton, it may have formerly borne the name of Ick-linton. C.I.R. "_I'd preach as though_" (Vol. i., p. 415.).--The lines quoted by Henry Martyn are said by Dr. Jenkyn (Introduction to a little vol. of selections from Baxter--Nelson's _Puritan Divines_) to be Baxter's "own immortal lines." Dr. J. quotes them thus:-- "I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men." ED. S. JACKSON. May 18. "_Fools rush in_" (Vol. i., p. 348.).--The line in Pope, "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread," it has been long ago pointed out, is founded upon that of Shakspeare, "For wrens make wing where eagles dare not perch." I know not why that line of Pope is in your correspondent's list. It is not a proverb. C.B. _Allusion in Friar Brackley's Sermon_ (Vol. i., p. 351.)--It seems vain to inquire who the persons were of whom stories were told in medieval books, as if they were really historical. See the _Gesta Romanorum_, for instance: or consider who the Greek king Aulix was, having dealings with the king of Syria, in the 7th Story of the _Novelle Antiche_. The passage in the sermon about a Greek king, seems plainly to be still part of the extract from the _Liber Decalogorum_, being in Latin. This book was perhaps the _Dialogi decem_, put into print at Cologne in 1472: Brunet. C.B. _Earwig_ (Vol. i., p. 383.).--This insect is very destructive to the petals of some kinds of delicate flowers. May it not have acquired the title of "couchbell" from its habit of couching or concealing itself for rest at night and security from small birds, of which it is a favourite food, in the pendent blossoms of bell-shaped flowers? This habit is often fatal to it in the gardens of cottagers, who entrap it by means of a lobster's claw suspended on an upright stick. S.S.S. _Earwig_ (Vol. i., p. 383.).--In the north of England the earwig is called _twitchbell_. I know not whether your correspondent is in error as to its being called in Scotland the "coach-bell." I cannot afford any explanation to either of these names. G. BOUCHIER RICHARDSON. _Sir R. Haigh's Letter-book_ (Vol. i, p. 463.).--This is incorrect; no such person is known. The baronet intended is _Sir Roger Bradshaigh, of Haigh_; a very well-known person, whose funeral sermon was preached by Wroe, the warden of Manchester Collegiate Church, locally remembered as "silver-mouthed Wroe."