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Sometimes I meet them like a man,

Sometimes an ox, sometimes an hound, And to a horse I turn me can,

To trip and trot about them round;
But if to ride,

My back they stride,

More swift than wind away I go,
O'er hedge and lands,
Through pools and ponds,
I whirry, laughing Ho, ho, ho!
When Lads and Lasses merry be,

With possets and with junkets fine,
Unseen of all the company,

I eat their cates and sip their wine :
And to make sport,

I sneeze and snort,

And out the candles I do blow,
The maids I kiss,

They shriek whose this?

I answer nought but Ho, ho, ho! Yet now and then, the maids to please,

I card at midnight up their wool, And while they sleep, and snort, and feaze, With wheel to threads, their flax I pull; I grind at mill,

Their malt up still,

I dress their hemp, I spin their tow; If any wake,

And would me take,

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And wend us laughing Ho, ho, ho!
From hag-bred Merlin's time have I,
Thus nightly revell'd to and fro;
And for my pranks men call me by
The name of Robin Good-fellow;
Fiends, ghosts and sprites
That haunt the nights,

The hags and goblins do me know,
And beldames old

My feats have told,

So Vale, Vale, Ho, ho, ho! London, printed for H. G.

H. G. are doubtless the initials of Henry Gosson whose imprint to several early ballads, intimate his dwelling upon London Bridge, nere the Gate," the end next to Southwark.

DEER-STEALING.-The assertion of Shakespeare's propensity to steal deer, is possibly, after all, nothing more than a detractive fiction. Rainoldes, in his Ouerthrow of Stage Playes, 1599, notices, ‘Time of recreation is necessary, I grant, for schollars, yet in my opinion it were not fit for them to steale deere, or rob orchards.'

LADIES' BUSTLES are of Persian origin. Nott, in his Notes on the Odes of Hafiz, defines this "refaight" as a kind of bolster, which the Persian ladies fix to the under-garment, to produce a certain roundness, thought by them to be highly becoming.

F.S.A.-The Antinous ? gilded bronze statue, was proffered by the Woodburns to the British Museum Trustees, for one thousand pounds, but, as stated was rejected. Since the decease of Samuel Woodburn, M. Longperier, came to London, offered five hundred pounds, and thus obtained it of the Executors.

WILLIS'S

CURRENT NOTES:

A SERIES OF ARTICLES

ON

Antiquities, Biography, Beraldry, Bistory, Languages,

Literature, Natural Bistory, Curious Customs, c.

SELECTED FROM

ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR

1854,

TO THE PUBLISHER,

G. WILLIS,

GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

MDCCCLV.

INDEX TO THE FOURTH VOLUME.

* Indicates that woodcuts illustrate those Articles.

Abernethy's tongue restraint, 81.
Album verses, 88.

American Copyright Memorial, 57.
André's exhumation, 67.

Angelo's Damned Soul? reply, 34,
Ant, a provider? reply, 36.
Apollo Statue? reply, 4.
Arch-Treasurer? reply, 103.
Argyle Library? replies, 60, 66.
Arne's compositions, 15.
Arnold of Brescia? 12.
Ausonius' epigram, 68.
Aut C[a]sar aut Nullus, 28.
Awakening mallet, 31, 34.
Baltimore family, 3.
Barclay of Urie, 86, 93.
Bardwell inscription, 51.
Barrier Treaty reply, 4.
Barristers' costume, 94.
Baxter, Richard, 66.
Beard in the pulpit, 23.
Bear wants a Tail! 16.
Bells, Dorchester, 102.
Bellman's chant, 56.

Bewick's Chillingham Bull, 2, 11.
Biblical variations, 34.
*Bindon Abbey slab, 35.
Border Hospitality, 71.
Bossuet's exhumation, 101.
Bowdich's widow's pension, 67.
Boyce, Scottish historian, 98, 100.
Braithwaite's Whimsies, 18.
*Branks or Scold's bridle, 37, 40.
Brussels' Gazette, 74.
Burger's Leonora ? 3.
Burial fees remitted, 24.
Burke's copyrights, 90.
Burns' six belles, 10.

Butler's Hudibras, 48, 61, 74, 94.
Byron's Curse of Minerva, 4.
Ca Ira, its origin, 76.

Cards in Fifteenth Century, 42.
Carolan's verses, 41.
Carpet words, 32, 44, 52.
Carrickfergus' ducking-stool, 30.
Cervantes' birth place, 51.
Charles I., Icon Basilicon, 28, 33.
Charter house, 34.
Cherry ripe! 102.

Chess, in fifteenth century, 42.
Chinese, prophecies respecting, 6.
Chinese, religious belief, 13.
Christ's nativity, 27.
Christmas-day, 19, 27.
Christmas Tree, 11, 32.

Christ's Hospital petition, 40.
Christina and singers, 32.

Chronograms, 15.

Church bell inscriptions, 31.
Churches, positions of? 37.
Cibber's Apology, 90.

Claude's Judgment of Paris? 98.
Clean shave, 58.

Closing of Churchyards, 94.
Coffee-house civilities, 4.

Coleridge, inedited letters, 53, 54.
Colman's perversion, 76.
*Coronet for scolds, 79.
Country Book-club, 80.
Cromwell's death, 51.
Cross and Crescent, 68.

*Cucking-stools, 9, 21, 29, 30, 79.
David II., of Scotland, 55.
Devil's Sonata, 24.

Grey, Lady Jane, 6.

Guizot, 28.

Gustavus Adolphus's retort, 79.

Gwynne, Nell, 21.
Hamlet's Grave, 19.

Handel Statue, 60.

Harleston Ducking-stool, 30.

Harvey's Way to Heaven, 50.
Head's pension, 67.
Henry VII., 42.

Heraclea, discovery, 45.
Herd's birth-place, 89.
He that fights, etc. 61.

Hewing blocks with razors, 19; reply, 26.

History, its uncertainties, 73.
Hogg's Widow's pension, 67.

Dining with Duke Humphrey? reply, 11. Hot-pot? with reply, 30.

Divining rod, 48.

Dodo, reply, 4.

Dog-killing, 88.

Dorchester church, 52.

Dublin Traders' Token, 44.
Ducking, see Cucking stool,
Dumb waiter query, 20.

Edward I., Coronation oath, 33.
Eikon Basilike, 28, 33.
Electric Telegraph, 3, 32, 45.
Eleonora Rediviva, 18.
England Europe's glory, 30.

England's Kinges and Governors, 11.
English Mercurie, 89n.
Eotens, or Giants, 50.
Erasmus and Luther, 72.
Escroquer? 10, reply, 52,
Essex, Countess of, 24
Faussett Antiquities, 47, 60.
Fiery Flaming Roll, 94.
Firing of the Bird, 87.

Fontenelle's opinion of Mahomet, 4.
Founders' Company, 65.
Franklin's saying Ca Ira, 76.
Frederic the Great, 18.
Gauden, Icon Basilikê, 33.
Gazettes, their origin, 74.
Giàour aggressions, 74.
Glass-window rhymes, 96.
God save the King, 15.
Golden Grave, 63.
Golden Sickle? 13.
Goldsmith's copyrights, 91.

Graves bedecked with Roses, 59.

Gravesend Ducking-stool, 9.

Human figures, with wings? 51.
Humphrey, Duke, 11.

Hydrophobia Cures, 2, 27.

Hymnus Melitensium Vespertinus, 2.
Incentives to Readers, 16.
Innocent X., 50.
Inoculation, 44.

Intellectual Coincidence, 101.

Ipswich ducking-stool, 9.
Ireland cuneiform slabs, 54.
Irish Fix, 87.

Isabella colour? reply, 35.
Jack the Giant-Killer, 41, 50.

Jermyn of Rushbroke, 22.

Jest, whence derived? replies, 41, 64
Jewish disabilities, 12.
Joan, Pope, 100.

Johnson's Dictionary, Suppl. to, 28.
Jonson, Ben, 22, 35.

Juggernauth car, 32.

Juvenal, translated by Johnson, 90.
Kennedy? 3, reply, 11.

Kenney's daughters' pension, 67.
Kerry Earldom? 52.

Kilclief Castle, 54.

Kingston ducking-stool, 9.
Kitchener's Soirée hint, 76.
Knox's descendants, 58.
Kotzebue's assassination, 36.
Landon's verses, 63.
Lawyers in Westminster, 50.
*Leicester ducking-chair, 29.

Leicestershire poetical signs, 75.
Library advantages, 72.

Licence for Sunday Sports, 85.

Gray's Elegy, omitted verse, 59; Odes, Light and dark sides of God, 94.

etc. 90.

Great effects from little causes, 51.

Great Men's descendants, 58.

Lilly, prototype of Sydrophel, 48. Literary remuneration, 90. London Cries, 102.

Long Hair, notes on, 76.

Louis, Dauphin of France, 42.
Luther, 72, His descendants, 58.
Mahomet "horriblement beau !" 4.
Mahommedan gallantry, 72.
Manns epitaph, 34.
Manorial custom, 84.
Manuscript Bible, 76.
Manuscripts' spoliation, 52.

Margaret, Queen of Scotland, 55.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 14.
Mary II., last hours, 25.
Maryland Pattern Shilling, 3.
Masquerade Divinity, 50.
Mendizabal, 12.

Merit an obstacle, 21.

Michaelmas Goose, 79.

Milton's descendants, 58. Statue,

Vauxhall Gardens, 51.
Minute Calligraphy, 95, 104.
Molldavia (Moldavia) 20.
Montagu correspondence, 89.
Montgomery's Lectures, 84.
Montrose kirk candlesticks, 85.
More's descendants, 58.
Mundy, Anthony, 70.
Murray, epitaph, 83.
Muscovite passport, 49.
Musgrave autographs, 52.
Napier correspondence, 7.
Napoleon the First, 104.
Neapolitan Inn-bill, 30.

Newton family particulars, 77, 78.
"Newton's House, 1.
Nicolas' widow's pension, 67.
Nine days Wonder? reply, 6.
*Norfolk ducking-stools, 21, 30.
Norwegian Song, 22.
Numismata Hellenica, 20:
Numismatist's Vicissitudes, 23.
Obituary:

Banks, Tho. Christopher, 92. Nixon, Samuel; sculptor, 68. Sowerby, George Brettingham, 68. Opera in France, 56.

Oriel window explained, 83.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 24.
Oxtail Soup? reply, 87.
Padua, Image of Virgin, 60.
Paley's lectures, 63.

Paltock's Peter Wilkins, 90.
Panmure Monuments, 100.
Parliamentary costume, 103.
Parochial Deposits, 104.
Patrick's Half-pence, 43.
Pellico, Sylvio, 14.

Percy's Oh Nanny! 64. Copy-right of Reliques, 91.

Pharmaceutical, 59, 64, 72.
Phoenician Tavern sign? 73.

Pickering, William, 43.

Pindar's (Dr. Wolcot) Annuity, 92.

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Untranslatable pun, 73.

Quebec Parliament house destroyed, 14. Uncle Sam, 68.
Quo Fas et Gloria ducunt? 70.
Raleigh's descendants, 58.
Raphael's loggie in Vatican, 71.
Red-cap, Mother, 17, 18.
Reed, Isaac, 92.

Ridley's descendants, 58.
Robertson's Charles the Fifth, 4.
Rock struck by Moses, 60.
Roman Era defined, 69.

*Roman pavement, Dorchester, 73.
Romeo and Juliet, 68.
Rooke, Admiral, 24.
Roubillac, sculptor, 60.
Royal Furnishing, 87.
Rule Britannia, 15.
*Rumming, Elinour, 17.
Rutland, Duchess of, 87.
Saladine Tenth, 72.
Schiller's house sale, 78, 92.
Scold's bridle, see Branks.
Scotland's Curse? reply, 10.
Scotland's Hills, 96, 100.
Scott (Sir Walter) Album verses, 88.
Inedited letters, 8, 71. Tally ho! 7.
Sebastopol, 80, 81.

Semel insanivimus omnes? reply, 35.
Sending to Coventry, 88.
Sforza, Isabella? reply, 70.

*Shakespeare's Puck, 47.

Upcott's Living Authors, 88. Vabalathus? replies, 32, 37, 49, 70. Verimdr? 32; replies, 37, 49, 70. Vaillant's mishap at sea, 23.

by Dr. Lister, 70.

Visited

Vane's attainder, 33.
Varieties of Literature, 92.
Vatican, decaying splendour, 72.
Vauxhall Gardens, 51.

Veritas Temporis Filia? 104.
Vernon? reply, 21.
Verses:

Bell-rock Light-house, 88.
In Feline obitum, 42.
Letitia's Charms, 41.
On a Garden Seat, 87.

To a Violet, 67.

Man's Life an Hour-Glasse, 52.
Versus Cancrinus? reply, 95.
Voltaire's Niece, 102.

Waller's Calender, 30.
Warner's long range, 83.

Warton's History of English Poetry,
95. Happy quotation, 94.
Watts' pension, 67.

Warwickshire, Sign-boards, 75.
Warwick crest, 16.

Webster's 11 Penseroso, 44.

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Errata.-P. 98, col. 2, line 3, for eloquence, read elegance. Ibid. line 4 from bottom, for Aberd. read Aberb. or Aberbrothoc. P. 99, col. 2, line 28, for William the Norman, read William the Lion.

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