Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 | Page 5

good Correspondency between the Two Crowns; and if this House
pleased, he would undertake to keep them safe Prisoners at Somersett
House; and that the chapel there shall have the doors locked, and no
Mass be said there.
"Ordered, That Mr. Hollis do acquaint the French Ambassador, that this
House doth accept of his Offer in securing the Persons of the
Capuchins, till this House take farther Order: and that the Doors be
locked, and made fast, at the Chapel at Somersett House; and that no
Mass be said there.
"Ordered, That the Lord Cramborne and Mr. Hollis shall acquaint the
French Ambassador with the desires of this House, that the Capuchins
be forthwith sent away; and to know if he will undertake to send them
away; and, if he will, that then they be forthwith delivered unto him.
"That Mr. Hollis do go up to the Lords, to acquaint them with the
Resolutions of this House, concerning the Capuchins, and desire their
Lordships' concurrence therein."
Some particulars of the proceedings of the parliament against the
Capuchins may be found in "Memoirs of the Mission in England of the
Capuchin Friars of the Province of Paris by Father Cyprian Gamache,"
in The Court and Times of Charles I., vol. ii. pp. 344. 354.
THOMPSON COOPER.
Cambridge.
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EARLY SATIRICAL POEM.
On the turning over the pages of an old printed copy of Durand's
Rationale Divinorum Officiorus, edited by Bonetus de locatellis
bergomensis, and printed at Lyons in 1506, by Natalis Brabam, for

Jaques Huguetan, I found the following copy of verses written on the
fly-leaf. They are written in a hand which I am inclined to assign to a
date {569} not much later than that of the book. There is no clue to the
author. If they are thought worthy of insertion in "N. & Q.," I beg to
inquire, through the medium of your columns, whether they are to be
found in any collection of early English poems? and whether the author
is known?
The ungallant sentiment of the first three stanzas is obvious. The fourth
is not so plain; nor is its connexion with the others evident, though it is
written without anything to mark separation; and the word "finis" is
placed below it, as if to apply to the whole. I should be obliged if some
one of your readers would give some explanation of it.
W. H. G.
Winchester.
"Wen [sic] nettylles in wynter bryngythe forthe rosses red, And a
thorne bryngythe figges naturally, And grase berrythe appulles in every
mede, And lorrel cherrys on his crope so hye, And okkys berrythe datys
plentyusly, And kykkys gyvythe hony in superfluans, The put in
women yower trust and confydenc.
"When whythynges walke forrestys hartyse for to chase, And herrings
in parkkys the hornnys boldly bloc, And marlyons[2] ... hernys in
morrys doo unbrace, And gomards shut ryllyons owght of a crose boow,
And goslyngs goo a howntyng the wolf to overthrow, And sparlyns
bere sperrys and arms for defenc, Then put yn women yower trust and
confydenc.
"When sparrowes byld chorchys and styppyllys of a hyght, And
corlewys carry tymber yn howsys for to dyght, Wrennys bere sakkys to
the myll, And symgis[3] bryng butter to the market to sell, And
wodcokkys were wodknyffys the crane for to kyll, And gryffyns to
goslynges doo obedienc, Then put in women yower trust and
confydenc.

"O ye imps of Chynner, ye Lydgatys pene, With the spryght of bookkas
ye goodly inspyrryd, Ye Ynglyshe poet, excydyng other men, With
musyk wyne yower tong yn syrryd, Ye roll in yower rellatyvys as a
horse immyrryd, With Ovyddes penner ye are gretly in favor, Ye bere
boys incorne, God dyld yow for yower labor. Finis."
[Footnote 2: Merlin's hawks.]
[Footnote 3: Doubtful; but perhaps for syngies, an old name for the
finch.]
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THE LETTERS OF ATTICUS.
The editor of the Grenville Papers has alluded to some "very judicious
and pertinent remarks in the 'N. & Q.'" respecting the Letters of Atticus,
and as most of your readers will probably agree with him that the
authenticity of these letters is "a curious and interesting question, and
one that deserves very particular attention," I beg to correct an error
into which he and others have fallen, as to the date when Junius ceased
to write under the signature Atticus. The Atticus forwarded by Junius to
George Grenville on the 19th October, 1768, was, there is every reason
to believe, the last from the pen of that writer, who was then preparing
to come before the public in a more prominent character. When another
correspondent adopted the signature Atticus, Woodfall gave his readers
warning by inserting the following notice into the Public Advertiser:
"The Address to the