Church, and who plucked aside, as he spoke, the gorgeous robes in
which his quondam fellow-reveller was dressed.

The reply of the pope was prompt, and, like the question, in a rhyming
Latin couplet. I wish, if possible, to discover, the name of the
pope;--the terms of his reply;--the name of the bold man who "_put him
to the question_;"--by what writer the anecdote is recorded, or on what
authority it rests.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

_The Carpenter's Maggot._--I have in my possession a MS. tune called the
"Carpenter's Maggot," which, until within the last few years, was played
(I know for nearly a century) at the annual dinner of the Livery of the
Carpenters' Company. Can any of your readers inform me where the
original is to be found, and also the origin of the word "Maggot" as
applied to a tune?

F.T.P.

_Lord Delamere._--Can any of your readers give me the words of a song
called "Lord Delamere," beginning:

"I wonder very much that our sovereign king,
So many large taxes upon this land should bring."

And inform me to what political event this song, of which I have an
imperfect MS. copy, refers.

EDWARD PEACOCK, JUN.

_Henry and the Nut-brown Maid._--SEARCH would be obliged for any
information as to the authorship of this beautiful ballad.

[Mr. Wright, in his handsome black-letter reprint, published by
Pickering in 1836, states, that "it is impossible to fix the
date of this ballad," and has not attempted to trace the
authorship. We shall be very glad if SEARCH's Query should
produce information upon either of these points.]

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REPLIES.

FRENCH POEM BY MALHERBE.

The two stanzas your correspondent E.R.C.B. has cited (Vol. ii., p. 71.)
are from an elegiac poem by MALHERBE (who died in 1628, at the good old
age of seventy-three), which is entitled _Consolation a Monsieur Du
Perrier sur la Mort de sa Fille_. It has always been a great favorite of
mine; for, like Gray's Elegy and the celebrated _Coplas_ of Jorge
Manrique on the death of his father, beside its philosophic moralising
strain, it has that pathetic character which makes its way at once to
the heart. I will transcribe the first four stanzas for the sake of the
beauty of the fourth:--

"Ta douleur, Du Perrier, sera done eternelle,
Et les tristes discours
Que te met en l'esprit l'amitie paternelle
L'augmenteront toujours.

"Le malheur de ta fille au to