shame: {150}
Let dirt and mud thy lazie waters seize,
Thy weeds still grow, thy waters still decrease;
Nor let thy wretched love to Gripus ever cease."

P. 13. ed. 1633.

See also the "Masque," in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Maid's Tragedy_, Act
I. vol. i. p. 17. edit. 1750.

On l. 936. (G.):--

"And here and there were pleasant arbors pight,
And shadie seats and sundry flowring banks."

Spenser's _F. Queen_, vol. ii. p. 146. ed. 1596.

On l. 958. (G.):--

"How now! back friends! shepherd, go off a little."

_As You Like It_, iii. 2.

On l. 989. (D.) See Bethsabe's address to Zephyr in tire opening of
Peele's _David and Bethsabe_:--

"And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes."

On l. 995. (D.):--

"Her gown should be goodliness
Well ribbon'd with renown,
_Purfil'd_ with pleasure in ilk place
Furr'd with fine fashioun."

Robert Henryson's _Garment of Good Ladies_. See Ellis' _Spec. of Early
Eng. Poets_, i. 362.

J.F.M.

* * * * *

FOLK LORE.

_High Spirits considered a Sign of impending Calamity or Death_ (Vol.
ii., p. 84.).--

"_Westmoreland_. Health to my lord, and gentile cousin, Mowbray.

_Mowbray_. You wish me health in very happy season;
For I am, on the sudden, something ill.

_Archbishop of York_. Against ill chances, men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.

_West_. Therefore be merry, cos; since sudden sorrow
Serves to say thus,--Some good thing comes to-morrow.

_Arch_. Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.

_Mow_. So much the worse, if your own rule be true."

Second Part of _King Henry IV._, Act iv. Sc. 2.

In the last act of _Romeo and Juliet_, Sc. 1, Romeo comes on, saying,--

"If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:
My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne;
And, all this day, an unacustom'd spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."

Immediately a messenger comes in to announce Juliet's death.

In Act iii. Sc. 2., of _King Richard III._, Hastings is represented as
rising in the morning in unusually high spirits. This idea runs through
the whole scene, which is too long for extraction. Before dinner-time he
is beheaded.

X.Z.

_Norfolk Popular Rhymes_.--On looking over an old newspaper, I stumbled
on the following rhymes, which are there stated to be prevalent in the
district in which these