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NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 195.]
SATURDAY, JULY 23. 1853..
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                              Page
  William Blake                                           69
  A Poem by Shelley, not in his Works                     71
  The Impossibilities of History                          72
  "Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat," by T. J.
  Buckton                                                 73
  Shakspeare Correspondence, by J. Payne Collier,
  George Blink, &c.                                       73
  "The Dance of Death," by Weld Taylor                    76

  MINOR NOTES:--Old Lines newly revived--Inscription
  near Cirencester--Wordsworth--"Magna est Veritas et
  praevalebit"--"Putting your foot into it"               76

  QUERIES:--
  Fragments of MSS., by Philip Hale                       77
  The Electric Telegraph, by W. Matthews                  78

  MINOR QUERIES:--Sir Walter Raleigh--Ancient
  Fortifications: Hertstone, Pale, Brecost--Newton and
  Somers--Daventry, Duel at--Passage in Burial Service--
  "They shot him on the nine-stane rig"--Wardhouse, and
  Fishermen's Custom there--"Adrian turn'd the bull"--
  Cary's "Palaeologia Chronica"--The Southwark Pudding
  Wonder--Roman Catholics confined in Fens of Ely--White
  Bell Heather transplanted--Green's "Secret Plot"--
  "The full Moon brings fine Weather"--Nash the Artist--
  Woodwork of St. Andrew's Priory Church, Barnwell--
  "The Mitre and the Crown"--Military Music               78

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Stoven Church--The
  Statute of Kilkenny--Kenne of Kenne--Rents of Assize,
  &c.--Edifices of Ancient and Modern Times--Gorram--
  "Rock of Ages"                                          80

  REPLIES:--
  Remuneration of Authors                                 81
  On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits                 82
  Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge                         83

  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Multiplication of
  Photographs--Yellow Bottles for Photographic
  Chemicals                                               85

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Donnybrook Fair--Abigail--
  Honorary Degrees--Red Hair--Historical Engraving--
  Proverbs quoted by Suetonius--"Sat cito, si sat bene"--
  Council of Laodicea, Canon 35.--Anna Lightfoot--Jack
  and Gill--Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle--
  Gibbon's Library--St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca--
  "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!"--Emblemata--Campvere, Privileges of--
  Slang Expressions: "Just the cheese"--The Honorable Miss
  E. St. Leger--Queries from the Navorscher--"Pity
  is akin to Love"                                        86

  MISCELLANEOUS:--
  Notes on Books, &c.                                     89
  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                            90
  Notices to Correspondents                               90
  Advertisements                                          90

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Notes.

WILLIAM BLAKE.

My antiquarian tendencies bring me acquainted with many neglected and
obscure individuals connected with our earlier English literature, who,
after "fretting their hour" upon life's stage, have passed away; leaving
their names entombed upon the title-page of some unappreciated or
crotchetty book, only to be found upon the shelves of the curious.

To look for these in Kippis, Chalmers, Gorton, or Rose would be a waste of
time; and although agreeing to some extent with the _Utilitarians_, that we
have all that was worth preserving of the _Antediluvians_, there is, I
think, here and there a name worth resuscitating, possessing claims to a
_niche_ in our "Antiquary's Newspaper;" and for that distinction, I would
now put in a plea on behalf of my present subject, William Blake.

Although our author belongs to the _eccentric category_, he is a character
not only deserving of notice, but a model for imitation: the "_bee_ in his
bonnet" having set his sympathies in the healthy direction of a large
_philanthropy_ for the spiritual and temporal interests of his fellow men.

The congenial reader has already, I doubt not, anticipated that I am about
to introduce that nondescript book bearing the running title--and it never
had any other--of _Silver Drops, or Serious Things;_ purporting, in a kind
of colophon, to be "written by William Blake, housekeeper to the Ladies'
Charity School."[1] The curious in old books knows too, that, apart from