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of Oxford.'"
But these lines are not to be found in Browne's Pastorals. In book ii.,
song 4., there is an epitaph, but which bears little resemblance to the
one in question. It concludes with the following conceit:
"If to the grave there ever was assign'd One like this nymph in body
and in minde, We wish here in balme, not vainely spent, To fit this
maiden with a monument, For brass, and marble, were they seated here,
Would fret, or melt in tears, to lye so near."
Addison, in The Spectator, No. 323., speaks of this epitaph as "written
by an uncertain author." This was not more than seventy-five or eighty
years after Jonson's death. In the lives of the Sidneys, and in Ballard's
Memoirs of Celebrated Ladies (1752), no author is mentioned; but the
latter speaks of the epitaph as likely to be more lasting than marble or
brass. To the six lines which generally stand alone, the following are
added in the two last-mentioned works:
"Marble pyles let no man raise, To her name, for after daies, Some kind

woman, born as she, Reading this like Niobe, Shall turn marble, and
become, Both her mourner and her tomb."
These are also given by Brydges in his Peers Of James II., but they are
not in Jonson's works. Did they originally form part of the epitaph, or
are they the production of another and later author?
That this epitaph should be attributed to Jonson, may possibly have
arisen from the following lines being confounded with it. Jacob, in his
English Poets, says--
"To show that Ben was famous at epigram, I need only transcribe the
epitaph he wrote on the Lady Elizabeth L. H.:
"Underneath this stone doth lie As much virtue as could die, Which
when alive did harbour give To as much beauty as could live.
J. H. M.
Bath.
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Minor Queries.
The Vellum-bound Junius.--Mr. Cramp, in his late publication, Junius
and his Works, conjectures that the printer having bound a copy of
Junius for and under the direction of the writer of the letters, followed
the pattern in the binding of other copies; and this, he says, "will
account for similar copies having been found in the libraries of so many
persons, which from time to time has occasioned so much speculation."
With Mr. Cramp's conjecture I do not concern myself; but I should be
much obliged if he would inform me, through your Journal, in what
libraries, and where, these many vellum-bound copies have been found,
and where I can find the speculations to which they have given rise.
V. B.
The Vellum-bound Junius.--Some years ago, on reading the private

letters of Junius, addressed to H. S. Woodfall, and printed by G.
Woodfall, 1812, I was particularly struck by those of No. 58. and 59.,
wherein he states a desire to have one set of his letters (which were
published 3d March, 1772, by Woodfall) bound in vellum.
Constantly bearing in mind the fact of the vellum copy, I invariably
examined all the book {263} catalogues that came in my way for it. At
last the long-wished-for object appeared in the Stowe sale, and I
immediately gave my agent instruction to purchase the book for me,
and he might offer as much as 10l.: he bid 8l., and then it was intimated
that it was no use to go on; that fifty guineas would not purchase it, or
any other sum.
Query, Has this volume been in any other sale? if not, it certainly
connects the Buckingham family with Junius, though it does not prove
the author.
W. D. HAGGARD.
[The Stowe copy of Junius, it appears, was bought by Mr. Rodd for 9l.,
no doubt upon commission.]
What is a "Tye?"--In Essex, many parishes have a place called "the
tye," which I believe is always an out-lying place where three roads
meet. In an old map I have seen one place now called "Tye" written
"Dei." Is it where a cross once stood, and Tye a corruption of Dei?
Forby, in his East Anglian Vocabulary, mentions it, but cannot make it
out.
A. HOLT WHITE.
"Marriage is such a Rabble Rout."--In D'Israeli's Curiosities of
Literature, Moxon's edition, in 1 vol. p. 118., or ed. edited by his son,
vol. i. p. 363., under the head "A Literary Wife," are the lines--
"Marriage is such a rabble rout, That those that are out, would fain get
in; And those that are in, would fain get out:"

quoted from Chaucer. I have heard these lines quoted as being from
Hudibras: as I cannot trace them in my editions of Chaucer of Butler,
perhaps some of your readers can tell me where I can find them?
S. WMSON.
Arms of Robert Nelson.--Can any of