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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn a i. AF*. ie, 1910.
amplified version, not an entirely baseless
forgery. Giles, in his translation of Asser's
' Life,' is bold enough to render the Latin
hexametres into Somersetshire verse to
increase the realistic character of the
narrative ; but whether this would be more
familiar to a cowherd's wife of the ninth
century remains a doubt :
Ca'sn thee mind the ke-aks, man, an' docssin zee
'em burn ? I'm boun thee's eat 'em vast enough, az zoon az
'tiz the turn.
J. FOSTER PALMER.
Royal Avenue, S.W.
TICKET, PORTRAIT PAINTER : DR. R. WARREN (11 S. i. 265). I have noted the following books by Dr. R. Warren :
Sermons, 2 vols., 1710 (Lowndes).
Practical Discourses on Various Subjects. Proper for all Families. 2 vols., portrait, London, 1723. Vol. i. dedicated to James, Duke of Chan- dos ; vol. ii. to Henry Hoare, Esq., see 7 S. xii. 103.
Preparative to Death, written by Erasmus, 8th ed., London, 1727. There had been a Cambridge ed. of the Latin in 1685.
The Impartial Churchman : or, A fair and candid Representation of the Excellency and Beauty of the Church of England. Together with an Earnest and Affectionate Address to Protestant Dissenters. Portrait. London, 1728. A Quaker replied to this ; see Smith, ' Bibliotheca Anti- Quak.,' 1873, p. 444.
Answer to Bp. Hoadly's Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Lord's Supper, 3 parts and appendix, Cambridge, 1736-7.
The Churchman's Daily Companion, 2nd ed., London, 1738.
Amory, ' Life of JohnBuncle,' 1756, p. 345, gives a droll account of Dr. Warren's preach- ing at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on 30 January.
In the ' Answer to Hoadly ' he is described as of Cavendish in Suffolk. I suppose he was the Robert Warren of Christ's College, Cam- bridge, B.A. 1700, M.A. 1704, D.D. 1716.
W. C. B.
CUCKOOS AND DUCKS TO CLEAR MUD AWAY (11 S. i. 208, 257). Some time in the early sixties I was told in North Lincolnshire that I might go out to play ' ' when the ducks had picked up [or " had eaten "] the mud."
The habit which ducks have of searching for food in mud with a nibbling movement of the beak probably gave rise to the saying.
D. (jr.
" LE WHACOK" (11 S. i. 88, 278). There was, and there probably will be as long as the World lasts, a sign of " The Haycock " at Wansford in Northamptonshire, a village locally spoken of as " Wansford in England." Dr. Neale made the mistake of calling it
"The Haystack" in ' Hierologus ' (p. 41),
but he gave the legend of its origin as I heard
it from my grandfather, if we read cock for
stack. I am not sure that the public-house
has not become a private residence, but have
faith that the old sign has been preserved
for a memorial.
Richard Brathwait attributes a like adventure to himself in ' Barnabas Itin- erarium.' In ' The History of Signboards ' the lines he devotes to Wansford are credited to Taylor the Water Poet. ST. SWITHIN.
[MB. J. T. PAGE also refers to " The Haycock " at Wansford.]
COFFIN HOUSE : COFFIN CHAPEL (11 S. i. 224). In The Daily Mail of 23 July, 1901, appeared a sketch of the Baptist Chapel, Fressingfield, Suffolk, known as ' ' The Coffin Chapel." The letterpress contained the following paragraph :
" Its origin is not the outcome of an accidental freak on the part of the builder, the structure being expressly planned on these lines by a former pastor of the place, who desired that the chapel should be erected in the form of a coffin in order that the worshippers and public generally might be reminded of their latter end."
JOHN T.. PAGE.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. i. 269). C. B. W. errs in placing his first quotation, ' ' See what a speck is he dwindled into ! " in Lamb's ' Dissertation upon Roast Pig.' It occurs in ' The Convalescent,' and may possibly (as Mr. Lucas conjectures) have been suggested by a speech of Falstaff (' 1 Henry IV.,' III. iii.) : " Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely," &c.
2. Goldsmith's ' Traveller,' 1. 270.
3. " The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever." Lamb, ' Fancy employed on Divine Subjects,' 1. 1.
4. From the Prologue to Marston's ' Antonio's Revenge.'
5. (a) From "Wordsworth's ' Tintern Abbey' lines; (6) "And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." Milton, ' P.L., iii. 50.
6. Found in a letter from Gray to I Walpole ('Letters,' ed Tovey, i. 7-8),^and conjectured to be Gray's version of Virr.. ' Mn: vi. 282-4.
7. Keats, ' Eridymion,' ii. 198.
8. Spenser, 'Faerie Queene,' I. vi. 14.
9. Ibid., III. vi. 31-2.
10. Beaumont and Fletcher, ' Philaster, V. v.
11. Dryden, 'Epistle to John Dryden, 18.
