r, good men grieve,
Knaves devise, and fooles believe;
Help, Lord! and now stand to us,
Or fooles and knaves will quite undoe us,
Or knaves and fooles will quite undoe us."

From whence are these lines taken?

L. B. L.

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Dame Hester Temple._--"Lady Temple lived to see seven hundred of her own
descendants: she had thirteen children." I have extracted this
"sea-serpent" from an extract in Burke from _Fuller's Worthies_, but I am
unable to refer to the original for confirmation of this astounding fact;
if true it is wonderful.

Y. S. M.

[Fuller's amusing account of Dame Hester Temple will be found in his
_Worthies of Buckinghamshire_, vol. i. p. 210. edit. 1840. He says:
"Dame Hester Temple, daughter to Miles Sands, Esq., was born at Latmos
in this county, and was married to Sir Thomas Temple, of Stow, Baronet.
She had four sons and nine daughters, which lived to be married, and so
exceedingly multiplied, that this lady saw seven hundred extracted from
her body. Reader, I speak within compass, and have left myself a
reserve, having bought the truth hereof by a wager I lost. Besides,
there was a new generation of marriageable females just at her death;
so that this aged vine may be said to wither, even when it had many
young boughs ready to knit.

"Had I been one of her relations, and as well enabled as most of them
be, I would have erected a monument for her--thus designed. A fair tree
should have been erected, the said lady and her husband lying at the
bottom or root thereof; the heir of the family should have ascended
both the middle and top bough thereof. On the right hand hereof her
younger sons, {469} on the left her daughters, should, as so many
boughs, be spread forth. Her grandchildren should have their names
inscribed on the branches of those boughs; the great-grandchildren on
the twigs of those branches; and the great-great-grandchildren on the
leaves of those twigs. Such as survived her death should be done in a
lively green, the rest (as blasted) in a pale and yellow fading colour.

"Pliny, lib. vii. cap. 13. (who reports it as a wonder worthy the
chronicle, that Chrispinus Hilarus, _praelata pompa_, 'with open
ostentation,' sacrificed in the capitol seventy-four of his children
and children's children attending