_Ballad Editing._--The "_Outlandish Knight_" (Vol. iii.,p. 49.).--I was exceedingly glad to see Mr. F. Sheldon's "valuable contribution to our stock of ballad literature" in the hands of Mr. Rimbault, and thought the treatment it received no better than it deserved. _Blackwood_, May, 1847, reviewed Mr. Sheldon's book, and pointed out several instances of his "godfathership;" among others, his ballad of the "Outlandish Knight," which he obtained from "a copy in the possession of a gentleman at Newcastle," was condemned by the reviewer as "a vamped version of the Scotch ballad of 'May Collean.'" It may be as the reviewer states, but the question I would wish answered is one affecting the reviewer himself; for, if I mistake not, the Southron "Outlandish Knight" is the original of "May Collean" itself. I have by me a copy, in black letter, of the "Outlandish Knight," English in every respect, and as such differing considerably from Mr. Sheldon's border edition, and from "May Collean;" and, with some slight alterations, the ballad I have is yet popularly known through the midland counties. If any of your correspondents can oblige me with a reference to the first appearance of "May Collean," sheet or book, I shall esteem it a favour. EMUN. Birmingham. _Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli._--In his controversy with Bowles touching the poetry of Pope, Byron states that it was upon the Princess of Eboli, mistress of Philip II. of Spain, and Mangirow, the minion of Henry III. of France, that the famous Latin epigram, so well known to classic readers, was composed, concluding with the couplet: "Blande puer lumen quod habes concede parenti, Sic tu caecus Amor, sic erit illa Venus." Can any contributor to the "NOTES AND QUERIES" suggest what authority his lordship has for his statement? Many years since, a curious paragraph appeared in one of the public journals, extracted apparently from an historical work, specifying the extraordinary political embroglios which the one-eyed duchess occasioned, eliciting from one of the statesmen of her times the complimentary declaration, that if she had had two eyes instead of only one, she would have set the universe on fire. A reference to this work--I fancy one of Roscoe's--would be of material service to an historical inquirer. C. R. H. {209} _Engraved Portrait._-- "All that thou see'st and readest is divine, Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine; Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde, View here the case; i'th Booke the Jewell finde." The above quatrain is placed beneath a portrait characteristically engraved by Cross. Above the head is the following inscription:-- "AEtatis Suae 50ș. Octob. 10. 1649."