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"A White cow was brought forth, which the king must kill, and seeth in water whole, and bathe himself therein stark naked; then, sitting, in the same cauldron, his people about him, he must eat the flesh and drink the broth wherein he sitteth, without cup or dish, or use of his hand."
Cited by Sir R. Peel in the debate on the Union with Ireland, April 25th, 1834.
F. R. A.
Oak House.
Queries.
OLD MUSIC.
To this note, may I be allowed to add a couple of Queries which perhaps some musical reader may be able and willing to answer.
Which Bach was the composer? I do not pretend to know by the style, being only--
AN AMATEUR.
TREASURY OF ST. MARK'S; RECORD AT TIBERIUS.
"that hath no lock, but a crevice through which they cast in the gold that's bequeathed to St. Mark in legacies, whereon is engraven this proud motto:
'Quando questo scrinio S'apria, Tutto 'l Mundo tremera.'
'When this chest is opened, the whole world shall tremble.'"
E. N. W.
Southwark.
UNICORN.
"Like as a lyon, whose imperiall powre, A prowd rebellious unicorn defyes, T'avoide the rash assault and wrathful stowre Of his fiers foe, him a tree applyes, And when him ronning in full course he spyes, He slips aside; the whiles that furious beast His precious horne, sought of his enemyes, Strikes in the stocke, ne thence can be releast, But to the mighty victor yields a bounteous feast."
Shakspeare also speaks of the supposed mode of entrapping them:
"For he loves to hear, That unicorns may be betrayed with trees, And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers."
The ancients were most liberal with their descriptions of fabulous animals, and the Monoceros or Unicorn was a favourite subject with them; but I am not aware whether or no the account which Spencer gives has so early an origin.
The position of the lion and unicorn in the arms of our country seems to have given rise to a nursery rhyme, which I well remember to have learnt:
"The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown, The lion beat the unicorn All round the town," &c. &c.;
unless it alludes to a contest for dominion over the brute creation, which Spenser's "rebellious unicorn" seems to have waged with the tawny monarch.
ERICA.
FLANAGAN ON THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND.
Can you tell me anything of the history of a little work, of which the following is the title?--
It was purchased by a Dublin bookseller at Jones' last sale , for 2s. 6d. The bookseller, who has kindly lent me the book, says that it was never printed in Kilkenny, and that it is very scarce, he having seen only one other copy of it. It is a small quarto of twenty-four pages, beautifully printed on good paper, which leads me also to believe that the book could not have been printed in Kilkenny. The author, whoever he was or is, boldly says that, "There are no Round Towers in Ireland," p. 8., and through the pages of the work runs a vein of nonsense, which would lead a person to think that the author was not very right in his mind. Still, there is something very remarkable in the production.
R. H.
Minor Queries.
E. A. H. L.
This Bishop Merriman had been chaplain to Queen Elizabeth; he was made Vicar of St. John's, Atheboy, in the first year of her reign, and was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, Jan. 19, 1568/9. He died in 1572.
There was formerly a family of the name of Merriman residing in Ireland: does it now exist? In England there are several families of this name: are any of them descended from this source?
T. D. P.
A. N.
E. H. A.
TEWARS.
F. N.
Can the game of billiards, as we now have it, boast of such high antiquity as to have been played by "the serpent of Old Nile;" or is the mention of it simply one of the great poet's anachronisms?
CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.
"Then comes the reckoning when the feast is o'er, The dreadful reckoning, when men smile no more."
A CONSTANT READER.
THOMAS LAWRENCE.
Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
R. H. B.
BALLIOLENSIS.
W. B. D.
When did the laying of foundation stones first become a ceremony?
What old foundation stones have been restored to light, showing the date of laying, and the accessories used, whether oil, wine, and corn, or what else? I have never seen an allusion to such discovery in the demolition of old buildings.
JNO. D. ALLCROFT.
Oxford Square.
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