Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374.).--A complete collection of
local rhymes would certainly be both curious and interesting. Those
cited by Chambers in his amusing work are exclusively Scotch; for a
collection relating to English towns, I would refer your Querist MR.
FRASER to Grose's _Provincial Glossary_, where, interspersed among the
"Local Proverbs," he will find an extensive gathering of characteristic
rhymes. I conclude with appending a few not to be found in either of
these works:
"RICHMOND.
"Nomen habes _mundi_, nec erit sine jure, secundi,
Namque situs titulum comprobat ipse tuum.
From thy rich mound thy appellation came,
And thy rich seat proves it a proper name."
_Drunken Barnaby's Journal._
"Anglia, mons, fons, pons, ecclesia, foemina, lana.
England amongst all nations is most full,
Of hills, wells, bridges, churches, women, wool."
_Ibid._
"Cornwall swab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings,
And Leicester beans, and bacon fit for kings."
Dr. King's _Art of Cookery_. See _Spectator_.
In Belgium I am perhaps beyond bounds, but may cite in conclusion:
"Nobilibus Bruxella viris, Antverpia nummis,
Gandavum laqueis, formosis Burga puellis,
Lovanium doctis, gaudet Mechlinia stultis."
WILLIAM BATES.
You may perhaps think the accompanying, "Rhymes on Places" worthy of
insertion, on the districts of the county of Ayr, viz.:
"Carrick for a man,
Kyle for a cou,
Cunninghame for butter and cheese,
And Galloway for woo."
F. J. H.
_"We three"_ (Vol. v., p. 338.).--It may interest your correspondent to
learn that a public-house exists in London with the sign he mentions. It
is situate in Virginia Row, Bethnal Green, is styled "The Three
Loggerheads," and has a signboard ornamented with a couple of busts: one
of somewhat Cæsarian aspect, laureated; the other a formidable-looking
personage with something on his head, probably intended for the dog-skin
helmet of the ancient Greeks,--but as the style of art strongly reminds
one of that adopted for the figure-heads of ships, I confess my doubts
on the subject. Under each bust appears the distich:
"WE THREE
LOGGERHEADS BE."
The sign appears a "notability" in the neighbourhood, as I have more
than once in passing seen some apparent new comer set to guess its
meaning; and when he confessed his inability, informed, in language more
forcible than elegant, that he made the third Loggerhead.
W. E. F.
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