Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 | Page 5

have had the trouble of drawing an inference.
Burnet's good old prattle I can bring present to my mind; I can make
the Revolution present to me."--_Charles Lamb: Letters_.
GUSTAVE MASSON.
Hadley, near Barnet.
Bishop Burnet.--An Epigram on the Reverend Mr. Lawrence Eachard's
and Bishop Gilbert Burnet's Histories. By MR. MATTHEW GREEN,
of the Custom-House.
"Gil's History appears to me Political anatomy, A case of skeletons
well done, And malefactors every one. His sharp and strong incision
pen, Historically cuts up men, And does with lucid skill impart Their
inward ails of head and heart. Lawrence proceeds another way, And
well-dressed figures does display: His characters are all in flesh, Their
hands are fair, their faces fresh; And from his sweet'ning art derive A
better scent than when alive; He wax-work made to please the sons,
Whose fathers were Gil's skeletons."
From a Collection of Poems by several hands. London: Dodsley, 1748.
J.W.H.
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EPIGRAMS FROM BUCHANAN.
A beautiful nymph wish'd Narcissus to pet her; But he saw in the
fountain one he loved much better. Thou hast look'd in his mirror and
loved; but they tell us No rival will tease thee, so never be jealous.
J.O.W.H.
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There's a lie on thy cheek in its roses, A lie echo'd back by thy glass,
Thy necklace on greenhorns imposes, And the ring on thy finger is

brass. Yet thy tongue, I affirm, without giving an inch back, Outdates
the sham jewels, rouge, mirror and pinchbeck.
J.O.W.H.
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MISTAKES ABOUT GEORGE CHAPMAN THE POET.
Dr. W. Cooke Taylor, in the introduction to his elegant reprint of
_Chapman's Homer_, says of George Chapman, that "he died on the
12th of May, 1655, and was buried at the south side of St. Giles's
Church." The date here is an error; for 1655 we should read 1634.
Sir Egerton Brydges, in his edition of Phillip's Theatrum Poetarum
(Canterbury, 1800, p. 252.), says of the same poet, "A monument was
erected over his grave by Inigo Jones, which was destroyed with the old
church." Here also is an error. Inigo Jones's altar-tomb to the memory
of his friend is still to be seen in the churchyard, against the south wall
of the church. The inscription, {373} which has been imperfectly re-cut,
is as follows:--
"Georgius Chapman Poëta MDCXX Ignatius Jones, Architectus Regius
ob honorem bonarum Literarum familiari suo hoe mon D.S.P.F.C."
There is no proof that Inigo Jones's tomb now occupies its original site.
The statement that Chapman was studied on the south side of the
church is, I believe, mere conjecture.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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MINOR NOTES
_Shakspeare and George Herbert._--Your correspondent D.S. (Vol. ii.,
p. 263.) has pointed out two illustrations to Shakspeare in George
Herbert's poems. The parallel passages between the two poets are
exceedingly numerous. There are one or two which occur to me on the

instant:--
_The Church Porch_:
"In time of service, seal up both thine eyes, And send them to thy heart;
that, spying sin, They may weep out the stains, by them did rise."
Cf. _Hamlet_, III. 4.:
"O Hamlet, speak no more; Thou turnst mine eyes into my very soul,
And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their
tinct."
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_Gratefulness_:
"Thou, that hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, a grateful
heart."
Cf. _Second Pt. Henry Sixth_, I. i.:
"O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness;
For Thou hast given me, in this beauteous face, A world of earthly
blessings to my soul."
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_The Answer_:
"All the thoughts and ends Which my fierce youth did bandy, fall and
flow Like leaves about me, or like summer friends, Flies of estate and
sunshine."
Cf. _Troil. and Cressida_, III. S.:
"Men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer;
And not a man, for being simply man, Hath any honour."

Also, _Third Pt. Henry Sixth_, II. 6.:
"The common people swarm like summer flies, And whither fly the
gnats, but to the sun? And who shines now, but Henry's enemies?"
S.A.Y.
_Old Dan Tucker._--In a little book entitled _A Thousand Facts in the
Histories of Devon and Cornwall_, p. 50., occurs the following
passage:
"The first governor [of Bermuda] was a Mr. Moore, who was
succeeded by Captain Daniel Tucker."
Does this throw any light on the popular negro song--
"Out o' de way, old Dan Tucker," &c.?
H.G.T.
_Lord John Townsend._--I have a copy of the _Rolliad_, with the
names of most of the contributors, taken from a copy belonging to Dr.
Lawrence, the editor of the volume, and author of many of the articles.