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Junius and Dr. Johnson Inscriptions on Angelus Bells -Churches with Thatched Roofs - Iron Hand -"To Slait"-Jefwellis-"Morning's Pride"- Runic Inscrip- tion at St. Molio-Numismatics - Night a Counseller - A Query on Pope- Legend of the Book of Job - Sword Query: Sahagum Bourbon Sprig - L'Homme Fossile en Europe-Palindromic (or Sotadic) Verse The Hin- doo Trinity-Passage in Lord Bacon- -William Sharp, Surgeon-Jarvey Dr. Wolcot -The Valley of Mont- Notes on Books, &c. Notes. RICHARD DUKE, THE POET. It was not until the late Rev. Dr. Maitland dis- In a" Chronological Table of English History," A.D. 1595. Aug. I [Richard Duke] came to London to be ap- 1607. Aug. I, warden of my company† for 2 yeres to come. *See "N. & Q." 2nd S. ii. 4. The Scriveners. During the second year of the 1658. June the 13th MY SONNE RICHARD WAS BORNE BE- TWEENE THE HOWERS OF ONE & TWO IN YE AFTER- Aug. the 20th my daughter Elizabeth dyed and was 1663. Dec. 2. Daughter Eliz. dyed & was buryed the 4th 1668. Jul. 15th my deare and loveing wife Anne Duke departed this life in child bedd imediately after shee was delivered of a sonne dead borne. Duke, it appears, was for some time tutor to the Duke of Richmond, the son of Charles II. by the Duchess of Portsmouth. The poet is known to have enjoyed the friendship and praises of Dryden, Waller, Otway, Lee, Creech, and other contemporary wits of his day, and seems to have been a polite and accomplished scholar, and a respectable, though not a great poet. His poems were printed by Tonson in a volume with those of the Earl of Roscommon in 1717, 8vo. In 1710 Duke was presented by Dr. Trelawney, Bishop of Winchester, to the wealthy living of Witney, in Oxfordshire, which he enjoyed but for a few months. On Feb. 10, 1710-11, having returned from an entertainment, he retired to bed in apparent health, but the next morning was found a corpse. His death is thus noticed by Dean Swift: 66 'Dr. Duke died suddenly two or three nights ago; he was one of the wits when we were children, but turned parson, and left it, and never writ farther than a prologue or recommendatory copy of verses. He had a fine living given him by the Bishop of Winchester about three months ago: he got his living suddenly, and he got his dying so too."-Swift's Journal to Stella, Feb. 14, 1711. Again on Feb. 16, he says, " Atterbury and Prior went to bury poor Dr. Duke." J. YEOWELL. Barnsbury. POETIC PAINS. "There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, So writes Cowper in "The Task," and its truth will be recognised by every one who has ever made verses. It is, however, not always a "pleasure," and it is often a needless expense of time; and as it is very generally a rime that is given chase to, much labour might, I think, be saved by the use of a riming dictionary. Byron, I believe, always used one; and what may appear strange, my late friend Rossetti, though actually an improvisatore, always had one by him when writing verses. On the other hand, Thomas Hood told me that he had often had to go through the dictionary from end to end in search of a word; and I remember when Crofton Croker and I were writing the second volume of The Irish Fairy Legends, that when I called on him one evening he read to me what he had written of his ballad, "The Lord of Dunkerron," and he stopped at the last stanza without giving the final word, which I supplied at once. By," said he, slapping the table, "I have been hunting for that very word these last two hours." All this labour might 66 HALS'S "CORNWALL." Amongst a large collection of works connected with the county, I have The Parochial History of Cornwall, by William Hals, one of the rarest of topographical works. This fragment of his intended history is a portion of the second part, and comprises the account of seventy-two parishes, from Advent to part of Helston inclusive, in 160 folio pages. It was published by Andrew Brice, a printer at Exeter, in 1750, and contains ten numbers only, when the work dropped from want of encouragement or some other reason. Hals first brought down his history to 1702, but continued it to 1736, and died in 1739, long before the well-known epigram of "Here lies poor Fred." Now, whatever merit may be due to this composition, a reference to Hals will deprive it of the stamp of originality, unless we can assume that the author was really unacquainted with Hals's epigram, and that it is therefore simply a question of singular unanimity of thought between two persons of distant times and places, |