Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 | Page 5

that this line, a very remarkable one, has been cleverly
condensed from the following passage in Pope's Windsor Forest:--
"But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we
see; And where, tho' all things differ, all agree."
This sentiment has been repeated by other modern writers. Pope
himself has it in the Essay on Man, in this form,--
"The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife Gives all the
strength and colour of our life."
It occurs in one of Pascal's Pensées:
"J'écrirai ici mes pensées sans ordre, et non pas peut-être dans une
confusion sans dessein: C'est le véritable ordre, et qui marquera
toujours mon objet par le désordre même."

Butler has it in the line,--
"For discords make the sweetest airs."
Bernardin de St. Pierre, in his Etudes de la Nature:
"C'est des contraires que résulte l'harmonie du monde."
And Burke, in nearly the same words, in his Reflections on the French
Revolution:
"You had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural and in the
political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers,
draws out the harmony of the universe."
Nor does the sentiment belong exclusively to the moderns. I find it in
Horace's twelfth Epistle:
"Nil parvum sapias, et adhuc sublimia cures, . . . . . . Quid velit et possit
rerum concordia discors."
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Lucan, I think, has the same expression in his Pharsalia; and it forms
the basis of Longinus's remark on the eloquence of Demosthenes:
[Greek: "Oukoun tên men phusin tôn epanaphorôn kai asundetôn pantêi
phulattei têi sunechei metabolêi? houtôs autôi kai hê taxis atakton, kai
empalin hê ataxia poian perilambanei taxin."]
It may be said that, as Pope adopted the thought from Horace or Lucan,
so a poet of the fifteenth century (such as the supposed Rowley) might
have taken it from the same sources. But a comparison of the line in
The Tournament with those in Windsor Forest will show that the
borrowing embraces not only the thought, but the very words in which
it is expressed.
HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.
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FOLK LORE.
Legend of Llangefelach Tower.--A different version of the legend also
exists in the neighbourhood, viz. that the day's work on the tower being
pulled down each night by the old gentleman, who was apparently
apprehensive that the sound of the bells might keep away all evil spirits,
a saint, of now forgotten name, told the people that if they would stand
at the church door, and throw a stone, they would succeed in building
the tower on the "spot where it fell," which accordingly came to pass.
CERIDWEN.
Wedding Divination.--Being lately present on the occasion of a
wedding at a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, I was witness to the
following custom, which seems to take rank as a genuine scrap of
folk-lore. On the bride alighting from her carriage at her father's door, a
plate covered with morsels of bride's cake was flung from a window of
the second story upon the heads of the crowd congregated in the street
below; and the divination, I was told, consists in observing the fate
which attends its downfall. If it reach the ground in safety, without
being broken, the omen is a most unfavourable one. If on the other
hand, the plate be shattered to pieces (and the more the better), the
auspices are looked upon as most happy.
OXONIENSIS.
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SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.
Shakspearian Drawings.--I have very recently become possessed of
some curious drawings by Hollar; those relating to Shakspeare very
interesting, evidently done for one Captain John Eyre, who could
himself handle the pencil well.

The inscription under one is as follows, in the writing of the said J.
Eyre:
"Ye house in ye Clink Streete, Southwarke, now belonging to Master
Ralph Hansome, and in ye which Master Shakspeare lodged in ye while
he writed and played at ye Globe, and untill ye yeare 1600 it was at the
time ye house of Grace Loveday. Will had ye two Rooms over against
ye Doorway, as I will possibly show."
Size of the drawing, 12 × 7, "W. Hollar delin., 1643." It is an exterior
view, beautifully executed, showing very prominently the house and a
continuation of houses, forming one side of the street.
The second has the following inscription in the same hand:
"Ye portraiture of ye rooms in ye which Master Will Shakspeare
lodged in Clink Streete, and which is told to us to be in ye same state as
when left by himself, as stated over ye door in ye room, and on the
walls were many printed verses, also a portraiture of Ben Jonson with a
ruff on a pannel."
Size of the drawing 11-5/8 × 6-7/8, "W. Hollar delin., 1643:" shows the