10 s. vii. JAN. 5, loo:.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
What 's not destroy'd by Time's devouring hand ?
Where 's Troy, and where 's the May-pole in the
Strand?
are very familiar to us. 286-97. The man of taste. By the same. Sir Andrew is Sir Andrew Fount aine,
- ' The di'mond count," says Walpole, was
- ' a noted venturer, who was said to be going
to marry the D ss of Buckingham, when he was detected and decamped."
298-321. An essay on conversation. By Benjamin Stillingfleet. ' D.N.B.'
This poem is addressed to William Wind- ham, of Felbrigg, near Cromer, Norfolk, to whom Stillingfleet had been tutor, and with whom he travelled abroad. More than once the author shows himself angry with Bentley in refusing Mm a fellowship at Trinity College. " B y " should be filled up as Bentley. " B-rm-n " is Burman ; " Ba-l-y " is Bailey. Dr. Doran says that Stillirigfleet's poem helped the social reform of Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Montagu. It "lays down some very excellent rules, that implicitly followed would make con- versation impossible."
321-3. Ode to a lady on the death of Col. Charles Ross in the action at Fontenoy. Written May, 174:,. By Mr. William Collins.' D.N.B.'
324. Ode written in the same year. By the same.
325-6. ^Ode to evening. By the same.
327. Verses written on a blank leaf, by [George Granville] Lord Lansdowii ('D.N.B.') 'when he presented his works to the queen, 1732.
328-9. Advice to a lady in autumn.
This and the three next pieces are by Lord Chesterfield ('D.N.B.').
329-3(X On a lady's drinking the Bath waters. 330. Verses written in a Lady's ' Sherlock upon Death.' 331-2. Song.
Fanny in 1. 1 is Lady Fanny Shirley. The Rev. R. S. Cobbett in his 'Memorials of Twickenham,' 1872, p. 69, expresses his belief that the song was written by Mr. Thomas Philips, a dramatic writer. An article by George Agar Ellis, afterwards Lord Dover, on ' Chesterfield and Fanny,' is in ' The Keepsake ' for 1831, pp. 1-15.
An original poem by Lord Hervey, which was printed in a few copies of the first edition of this Miscellany, but then suppressed as too personal, is reproduced in The Gentle- man's Magazine for 1796, pt. i. 509. Cf. i&. pt. i. 530 ; pt. ii. preliminary page, and p. 740.
The poem to the Earl of Warwick (pp. 22-6), that on the prophecy of Nereus (pp. 30-33), the following poems to p. 115
inclusive, the prologue spoken by Garrick
(pp. 200-2), and the poems from p. 321
inclusive to the end of the volume, were
not in the first volume of the first edition.
The six ' Town Eclogues ' by Lady M. W. Montagu, ' The Lover,' and the other poems to p. 115 inclusive, and the prologue spoken by Mr.. Garrick (pp. 200-2) were in the third volume of that edition.
- The Art of Cookery,' by Dr. King, and
the following poems by him (vol. i. first edition, pp. 223-63), and ' The Apparition,' by Dr. Evans (ib. pp. 238-68, the paging being repeated), were afterwards omitted. W. P. COURTNEY.
"FIRST-FOOTING," ANNO DOM. 1907:
SOME OLD SONGS. THE poem written an entire century ago by the Hon. William Robert Spencer (1770- 1834), as an ' Epitaph on the Year 1806,' needs no alteration beyond a single word to fit it as an echo to the present date. For it begins and ends thus, with touching appropriateness :
5 Tis gone, with its thorns and its roses, With the dust of dead ages to mix !
Time's channel for ever encloses The year [Nine]teen Hundred and Six.
[Tn'O Ntanzoff intervene,.]
If thine was a gloom the completest
That death's darkest cypress could throw,.
Thine, too, was a garland the sweetest That life in full blossom could show.
One hand gave the balmy corrector Of ills which the other had brewed
One draught from thy chalice of nectar All taste of thy bitter subdued.
'Tis gone with its thorns and its roses !
With mine tears more precious may mix To hallow this midnight which closes
The year [Ninejteen Hundred and Six.
Thus did our earlier and better " Bobby Spencer " prove himself a century ago to be a " First-Footer," as they would say in Scotland. For myself, an Englishman born, a Surrey native, and of Lambeth, Gray's Walk Road, my " first footing " in Scotland that I can remember is of the date 1828 or 1829. Of this anon.
It so happens that I can remember a long series of happy " First-Footings " in the " Land of Cakes," which I and my dear father before me (Joseph Ebsworth, 1788- 1868) found to be brimming over with hospitality and true-heartedness, as was worthy of the country that gave birth to Robert Burns and to Walter Scott men
