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NOTES:-- Dr. Johnson and Dr. Warton, by F.H. Markland. 481 Spenser's Monument. 481 Borrowed Thoughts, by S.W. Singer. 482 Folk Lore:--Easter Eggs--A Cure for Warts--Charm for Wounds--Fifth Son--Cwm Wybir. 482 Bartholomew Legate, the Martyr. 483 Bohn's Edition of Milton's Prose Works. 483 Reprint of Jeremy Taylor's Works. 483 Dr. Thos. Bever's Legal Polity of Great Britain. 483

QUERIES:-- Dr. Richard Holsworth and Thos. Fuller. 484 Queries upon Cunningham's Handbook of London. 484 On a Passage in Macbeth. 484 Minor Queries:--As throng as Throp's Wife--Trimble Family--"Brozier." 485

MISCELLANIES:-- Bishop Burnet as an Historian--Dance Thumbkin--King's Coffee House--Spur Money. 493

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 494 Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 494 Notice to Correspondents. 494 Advertisements. 495

NOTES

DR. JOHNSON AND DR. WARTON.

"All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue." &c. &c.

Warton died in 1745, and his Poems were published in 1748.

"Let observation with extensive view, Survey Mankind from China to Peru."

Though so immeasurably inferior to his own, Johnson may have noticed these verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. Besides the imitation before quoted, both writers allude to Charles of Sweden. Thus Warton says,--

"'Twas hence rough Charles rush'd forth to ruthless war."

Johnson, in his highly finished picture of the same monarch, says,--

"War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field."

J.H. MARKLAND.

Bath.

SPENSER'S MONUMENT.

"Edmundus Spenser, Londinensis, Anglicorum poetarum nostri seculi fuit princeps, quod ejus Poemata, faventibus Musis, et victuro genio conscripa comprobant. Obiit immatura morte, anno salutis 1598, et prope Galfredum Chaucerum conditur, qui foelicisime Poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem haec scripta sunt Epitaphia.

"Hic prope Chaucerum situs est Spenserius, illi Prominens ingenio, proximum ut tumulo Hic prope Chaucerum Spensere poeta poetam Conderis, et versud quam tumulo proprior, Anglica te vivo vixit, plausitque l'oesis; Nunc moritura timet, te moriente mori."

I have also a folio copy of Spenser, printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, London, 1679. In a short life therein printed, it says that he was buried near Chaucer, 1596; and the frontispiece is an engraving of his tomb, by E. White, which bears this epitaph:--

"Heare lyes the body of Edmond Spenser, the Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose Divine spirit needs noe othir witness than the works which he left behind him. He was borne in London in the yeare 1510, and died in the yeare 1596."

Beneath are these lines:--

"Such is the tombs the Noble Essex gave Great Spenser's learned reliques, such his grave: Howe'er ill-treated in his life he were, His sacred bones rest honourably here."

E.N.W

Southwark, April 29 1850.

BORROWED THOUGHTS.

"Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,"

is borrowed from the following by the Chevalier de Cailly entitled,--

"Il est au bout de ses travaux, Il a pass? le Sieur Etienne; En ce monde il eut tant des maux, Qu'on ne croit pas qu'il revienne."

Another well-know epigram,--

"I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,"

is merely a version of the 33d epigram of the first books of those by the witty Roger de Bussy, Comte de Rabutin:--

"Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas, Je n'en saurois dire la cause, Je sais seulement une chose; C'est que je ne vous aime pas."

Lastly, Prior's epitaph on himself has its prototype in one long previously written by or for one John Carnegie:--

"Johnnie Carnegie lais heer, Descendit of Adam and Eve, Gif ony con gang hieher, I'se willing gie him leve."

S.W. SINGER

FOLK LORE.

"Sayesth that she can charme for fyer and skalding in forme as oulde women do, sayeng 'Owt fyer in frost, in the name of the Father, the Sonne, and the Holly Ghost;' and she hath used when the skyn of children do cleve fast, to advise the mother to annoynt them with the mother's milk and oyle olyfe; and for skalding to take oyle olyfe only."

W. DURRANT COOPER.

W.S.G.

ELIJAH WARING.

BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR.

Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake in England for their religious opinions.

A.B.R.

BOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON'S PROSE WORKS.

REPRINT OF JEREMY TAYLOR'S WORKS.

C. PAGE EDEN.

DR. THOMAS BEVER'S LEGAL POLITY OF GREAT BRITAIN.

I do not know if such a notice as this is intended to be, is admissible into your publication.

Many years ago, I bought of a bookseller a MS. intitled "A Short History of the Legal and Judicial Polity of Great Britain, attempted by Thos. Bever, LL.D., Advocate in Doctor's Commons, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1759." It is presented to Richard Pennant, Esq.; and there is a letter from Mr. Bever to Mr. Pennant wafered to the fly-leaf. At the close of the "Advertisement," the author "earnestly requests that it may not be suffered to fall into the hands of a bookseller, or be copied, without his consent: and whenever it shall become useless, and lose its value with the present owner, that he will be kind enough to return it to the author if living, or if dead, to any of his surviving family at Mortimer near Reading, Berks."

J.R.

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