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other. It did not devour the works of men,
nor drag virgins to its cave, nor was it clad
in scales.
In heraldry the griffin is a symbol of vigilance, but in its higher symbolism it has reference (since at least the time of Dante) to Jesus Christ. In a note to the vision of the griffin in ' Purg.,' canto xxix., Gary says :
" Under the Gryphon, an imaginary creature, the forepart of which is an eagle, and the hinder a lion, is shadowed forth the union of the divine and human nature in Jesus Christ."
And no one can read the magnificent de- scription of the griffin in Ruskin's ' Modern Painters ' without seeing that the griffin was the reverse of a power of evil. I sup- pose that Carlyle was confusing the griffin with the dragon.
May I ask also what was the origin of, and what the symbolism intended by, the hippogriff ? Lucis.
" OLD KING COLE." Can any of your readers tell me where to get the music of an old version of the above nursery rime, in which three fiddlers, tailors, painters, and cobblers are called for in turn, the chorus lengthening with each verse ? The final verse runs as follows :
Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he ; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl,
And he called for his cobblers three. Chorus :
- Bore a hole in the sole," said the cobbler ;
" Work it up and down," said the brush to the
painter ; " Stitch it in and out," said the needle to the
tailor ;
" Tweedle, tweedle, tweedle," said the bow to the fiddler,
" Tweedle, tweedle, tweedle, twee."
(Miss) M. MOOYAART.
Uplowman Rectory, Tiverton, Devon.
JOHN HOLLO WAY, M.P. FOB WALLINGFORD 1685-7. I am unable with certainty to specify his precise identity. Sir Richard Holloway, Kt., Justice of the King's Bench, 1683-8, had a son John who matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, 28 April, 1676, aged fifteen, and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1682. He was buried in the Temple Church, 15 Feb. 1720/21. He had a daughter Anne, who married successively Sir Henry Oxenden 1st Baronet of Dene Court, Kent, and after wards Richard Coote, 3rd Earl of Bella mont ; she died 13 Feb., 1723/4, and was buried at St. Anne's, Soho (G. E. C.'s 'Complete Peerage'). I think that this
bhn would be the M.P. ; if so, who was his
wife ?
But there were no fewer than three ther contemporary Johns, any one of whom might have been the Wallingford epresentative. Old Serjeant Holloway (will dated 6 April, 1678 ; proved 20 Jan., 1679/80) had, besides his eldest son and leir Charles, a second son John, who was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1664, but who in some way had given ffence to his father, who in his will directs lis son Charles "to be kind and loving to lis brother John and sister Mary, to pass >y in remembrance of their former errors and miscarriages," and leaves his said son John 51. " in token of our reconciliation.'* The will of Alicia Holloway, widow of the Serjeant (dated 28 April, 1684 ; pr. 26 Jan., 1684/5), makes no mention of this son John, though Mary is named.
Two other Johns, cousins of the* foregoing sons respectively of Richard Holloway of Oxford and Thomas Holloway of Bucks, the first and fourth sons of John Holloway [died 1678), the younger brother of the Serjeant were probably also living at the same time. As these were aged respectively eight and nineteen in 1669, they would both be qualified for Parliamentary service in 1685. W. D. PINK.
Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. From what small causes great events do oft arise ! I am not sure if I am quoting correctly, but this is the purport of the passage I want to find. Lucis.
[" What great events from little causes spring !" is another rendering.]
Where can I find the following quotation ?
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
JAMES KNOX. [Tennyson's ' (Enone,' 11. 147-8.]
"Y-CALLED": "Y-COLED." The quota- tion for the former is in ' Piers the Plowman,' C. xvii. 351, where it means provided with a calle, kelle, or caul ; but I find no such verb in the ' N.E.D.' I couple the second word on the possibility of its having a like meaning. Am I right ? It occurs in ' Kyng Alisaunder ' (Weber), 1. 2686 :
Foure thousand knyghtis, and mo ;
Wyght of mayn, and strong of bones,
Y-coled alle for the nones.
The editor's note runs : " Y-coled, armed ; colla, Sax. [?], a helmet." H. P. L.
