NGLEBY.

Birmingham.

_The Willingham Boy._--ABREDONENSIS will find full information on all the
points he appears from your Notices to Correspondents (Vol. viii., p. 66.)
to have inquired after in--

"Prodigium Willinghamense, or Authentic Memoirs of the Life of a Boy
born at Willingham, near Cambridge, with some Reflections on his
Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius, and Knowledge, by
Thos. Dawkes, Surgeon."

W. P.

_Unlucky Days_ (Vol. vii., p. 232.).--The Latin verses contained in the old
Spanish breviary, adverted to by W. PINKERTON, bear a close resemblance to
those which are to be found in the Red Book of the Irish Exchequer. The
latter form part of a calendar which is supposed to have been written
either during the reign of John or Henry III. A similar calendar, with like
verses, has been printed by the Archaeological Society, Dublin. As the lines
in the Red Book vary in some respects from those which have appeared in "N.
& Q.," I have taken the liberty of inclosing a transcript of them.

"_January._ Prima dies mensis, et septima truncat ut ensis.
_February._ Quarta subit mortem, prosternit tertia fortem.
_March._ Primus mandantem, dirumpit quarta bibentem.
_April._ Denus et undenus, est mortis vulnere plenus.
_May._ Tertius occidit, et septimus hora relidit.
_June._ Denus pallescit, quindenus federa nescit.
_July._ Terdecimus mactat, Julii denus labefactat.
_August._ Prima necat fortem, perditque secunda choortem.
_September._ Tertia Septembris, et denus fert mala membris.
_October._ Tertia cum dena, clamat sit integra vena.
_November._ Scorpius est quintus, et tertius est nece cinctus.
_December._ Septimus exanguis, virosus denus ut anguis."

JAMES F. FERGUSON.

Dublin.

_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. vii. _passim_.).--Midlothian:

"Musselboro' was a boro',
Whan Edinboro' was nane;
An Musselboro' 'll be a boro',
Whan Edinboro's gane."

W. T. M.

Hong Kong.

Cambridgeshire folks say,--

"Hungry Hardwick,
Greedy Toft,
Hang-up Kingston,
Caldecott[6] naught."

P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.

[Footnote 6: Pronounced _Cawcote_.]

_Quotation Wanted_ (Vol. vi., p. 421.).--See Byron's _Dream_, stanza ii. v.
30.:

"She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts."

P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.

_Lamech_ (Vol. vii., p. 432.).--For "Lamech," see Mr. Browne's excellent
_Ordo Saeclorum_, ch. vii. Sec. 302., 184