ry Rhymes_, I
have the original song of the "Frog and Mouse" with three different
melodies, and _nonsense_ burthens, as sung by my excellent nurse, Betty
Richens, whose name I hope to see immortalised in your pages.]

"_My Love and I for kisses played, &c._" (No. 19. p. 302.).--The little
_jeu d'esprit_ which "Dr. RIMBAULT" {459} has given from Paget's _Common
Place Book_:--

"My love and I for kisses play'd,"

occurs in the MS. volume from which James Boswell extracted
"Shakspeare's Verses on the King," but with a much better reading of the
last couplet:--

"Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine?
Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe."

They are entitled, "Upon a Lover and his Mistris playing for Kisses,"
and are there without any name or signature. They remind us of Lilly's
very elegant "Cupid and Campaspe."

The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself entitles it:--

"Fair stood the wind for France,"

is to be found in the very rare volume with the following title, _Poemes
Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael
Drayton, Esquire_. At London, printed by R.B. for N.L. and J. Flaskett.
12mo. (No date, but circa 1600.)

I think the odes are given in the other volumes of the early editions of
Drayton's _Miscellaneous Poems_; but I speak without book, my collection
being in the country.

The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Milner Barry, was made by Dr.
Nott of Bristol, whose initials, J.N., are on the title page. "The head
and front of my offending" is the Preface of Mr. Pickering's neat
edition of Herrick in 1846.

S.W.S.

March 12. 1850.

["O.E." informs us that these pretty lines form No. CCXXXIX. of
_A Collection of Epigrams. London. Printed for J. Walthoe_,
1727, and of which a second volume was published in 1737; and
"J.B.M." adds, that they are also to be found in the
_Encyclopaedia of Wit_, published about half a century since.]

_Teneber Wednesday._--In Hall's _Chronicle_, under the date of 23rd Hen.
VIII., is this passage:

"When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament for that tyme
ended, and was proroged till the last day of Marche, in the next
yere. In the Parliament aforesayde was an Acte made that
whosoeuer dyd poyson any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote
water to the death; which Acte was made bicause one Richard
Roose, int the Parliament tyme, had poysoned d