_Poem by Sir E. Dyer_ (Vol. i., p. 355.).--"My mind to me," &c. Neither the births of Breton nor Sir Edward Dyer seem to be known; nor, consequently, how much older the one was than the other. Mr. S., I conclude, could not mean much older than Breton's tract, mentioned in Vol. i., p. 302. The poem is not in England's _Helicon_. The ballad, as in Percy, has four stanzas more than the present copy, and one stanza less. Some of the readings in Percy are better, that is, more probable than the new ones. "I see how plenty _surfeits_ oft."--_P._ suffers.--_Var._ "I grudge not at another's _gain_".--_P._ pain.--_Var._ "No worldly _wave_ my mind can toss."--_P._ wants.--_Var._ These seem to me to be stupid mistranscriptions. "I brook that is another's pain."--_P._ "My state at one doth still remain."--_Var._ Probably altered on account of the slight obscurity; and possibly a different edition by the author himself. "They beg, I give, They lack, I _lend_."--_P._ leave.--_Var._ In this verse, "I fear no foe, I _scorn_ no friend."--_P._ fawn.--_Var._ I think the new copy better. "To none of these I yield as thrall, For why my mind _despiseth_ all."--_P._ doth serve for.--_Var._ The var. much better. In this-- "I never seek by bribes to please, Nor by _dessert_ to give offence."--_P._ deceit.--_Var._ I cannot understand either. So very beautiful and popular a song it would be well worth getting in the true version. C.B. _Monumental Brasses_.--In reply to S.S.S. (Vol. i., p. 405.), I beg to inform him that the "small dog with a collar and bells" is a device of very common occurrence on brasses of the fifteenth and latter part of the fourteenth centuries. The Rev. C. Boutell's _Monumental Brasses of England_ contains engravings of no less than twenty-three on which it is to be found; as well as two examples without the usual appendages of collar, &c. In addition to these, the same work contains etchings of the following brasses:--Gunby, Lincoln., two dogs with plain collars at the bottom of the lady's mantle, 1405. Dartmouth, Devon., 1403. Each of the ladies here depicted has two dogs with collars and bells at her feet.