: Notes and Queries Number 47 September 21 1850 by Various - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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NOTES:-- Old Songs. 257 "Junius Identified." by J. Taylor. 258 Folk Lore:--Spiders a Cure for Ague--Funeral Superstition--Folk Lore Rhymes. 259 On a Passage in the Tempest, by S.W. Singer. 259 Punishment of Death of Burning. 260 Note on Morganatic Marriages. 261 Minor Notes:--Alderman Beckford--Frozen Horn--Inscription translated--Parallel Passages--Note on George Herbert's Poems--"Crede quod habes"--Grant to Earl of Sussex--First Woman formed from a Rib--Beau Brummell's Ancestry. 262

QUERIES:-- Gray's Elegy and Dodsley's Poems. 264 Hugh Holland and his Works, by E.F. Rimbault, L.L.D. 265 Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood. 266 Minor Queries:--Bernardus Patricius--Meaning of Hanger--Cat and Bagpipes--Andrew Becket--Laurence Minot--Modena Family--Bamboozle--Butcher's Blue Dress--Hatchment and Atchievement--"Te colui Virtutem"--"Illa suavissima Vita"--Christianity, Early Influence of--Meaning of Wraxen--Saint, Legend of a--Land Holland--Farewell--Stepony Ale--"Regis ad Exemplar"--La Caronacquerie--Rev. T. Tailer--Mistletoe as a Christmas Evergreen--Poor Robin's Almanacks--Sirloin--Thompson of Esholt. 266

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 271 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 271 Notices to Correspondents. 271 Advertisements. 272

NOTES.

OLD SONGS.

I heard, "in other days," a father singing a comic old song to one of his children, who was sitting on his knee. This was in Yorkshire: and yet it could hardly be a Yorkshire song, as the scene was laid in another county. It commenced with--

"Randle O'Shay has sold his mare For nineteen groats at Warrin'ton fair,"

and goes on to show how the simpleton was cheated out of his money.

All, indeed, that this proves is, the probability of the hero of the song being also a native of Cheshire, or one of the adjacent counties; and that the legend is a truth, even as to names as well as general facts. The song is worthy of recovery and preservation, as a remnant of English character and manners; and I have only referred to Hasted to point out the probable district in which it will be found.

One song more may be noticed here:--the rigmarole, snatches of which probably most of us have heard, which contains an immense number of mere truisms having no connexion with each others, and no bond of union but the metrical form in which their juxtaposition is effected, and the rhyme, which is kept up very well throughout, though sometimes by the introduction of a nonsense line. Who does not remember--

"A yard of pudding's not an ell,"

and other like parts?

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