disappearance is
fully traced. Referring such of your readers as may feel interested in
the subject to that volume, and reserving for the future numbers a long
list of other interesting Queries which are now before me, it will
gratify me to obtain, through your medium, any information respecting
the MS. referred to. I remain, Sir, yours truly,

JOHN BRITTON.

[Our modesty has compelled us to omit from this letter a warm eulogium
on our undertaking, well as we know the value of Mr. Britton's testimony
to our usefulness, and much as we esteem it.]

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INEDITED SONG BY SIR JOHN SUCKLING.

I do not remember to have seen the following verses in print or even in
MS. before I accidentally met with them in a small quarto MS. Collection
of English Poetry, in the hand-writing of the time of Charles I. They
are much in Suckling's manner; and in the MS. are described as--

_Sir John Suckling's Verses_.

I am confirm'd a woman can
Love this, or that, or any other man:
This day she's melting hot,
To-morrow swears she knows you not;
If she but a new object find,
Then straight she's of another mind;
Then hang me, Ladies, at your door,
If e'er I doat upon you more.

Yet still I'll love the fairsome (why?--
For nothing but to please my eye);
And so the fat and soft-skinned dame
I'll flatter to appease my flame;
For she that's musical I'll long,
When I am sad, to sing a song;
Then hang me, Ladies, at your door,
If e'er I doat upon you more.

I'll give my fancy leave to range
Through every where to find out change;
The black, the brown, the fair shall be
But objects of variety.
I'll court you all to serve my turn,
But with such flames as shall not burn;
Then hang me, Ladies, at your door,
If e'er I doat upon you more.

A.D.

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WHITE GLOVES AT A MAIDEN ASSIZE.

The practice of giving white gloves to judges at maiden assizes is one
of the few relics of that symbolism so observable in the early laws of
this as of all other countries; and its origin is doubtless to be found
in the fact of the hand being, in the early Germanic law, a symbol of
power. By the hand property was delivered over or reclaimed, hand joined
in hand to strike a bargain and to celebrate espousals, &c. That this
symbolism should sometimes be transferred from the hand to the glove
(the _hand-schuh_ of t