e mention of him in
Higgins's _Anacalypsis_, but I have not now access to that work. I wish
some learned person would do for other countries what Blunt has partly
done for Italy and Sicily; that is, show the connection between heathen
and Christian customs, &c.

F.C.B.

_Vox et praeterea nihil._--Whence come these oft-quoted words? Burton, in
_The Anatomy of Melancholy_ (not having the book by me, I am unable to
give a reference), quotes them as addressed by some one to the
nightingale. Wordsworth addresses the cuckoo similarly, vol. ii. p.
81.:--

"O, cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?"

C.W.G.

_Cromwell Relics_.--In Noble's _Memorials of the Protectorate House of
Cromwell_ it is stated, in the Proofs and Illustrations, Letter N, that
in 1784, there were dispersed in St. Ives a great number of swords,
bearing the initials of the Protector upon them; and, further, that a
large barn, which Oliver built there, was still standing, and went by
the name of Cromwell's Barn; and that the farmer then renting the farm
occupied by the Protector circa 1630-36, marked his sheep with the
identical marking-irons which Oliver used, and which had O.C. upon them.

Can any of your correspondents inform me if any of these relics are
still in existence, and, if so, where?

A.D.M.

_Lines on "Woman's Will_."--Many of your readers will have heard quoted
the following stanza, or something like it:--

"The man's a fool who strives by force or skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will;
For if she will, she will you may depend on't,
And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't."

I have heard these lines confidently attributed to Shakspeare, Byron,
&c. by persons unable to verify the quotation, when challenged so to do.
I can point out where the first two lines may be found with some
variation. In _The Adventures of Five Hours_, a comedy translated from
the Spanish of Calderon, by Samuel Tuke, and {248} printed in the 12th
volume of Dodsley's _Old Plays_ (edit. 1827), in the 5th act (p. 113.),
the lines run thus:--

"He is a fool, who thinks by force or skill
To turn the current of a woman's will."

I should be glad if any one could inform me by whom the latter lines
were added, and where they may be found in print.

C.W.G.

_Pity is akin to Love_.--Where are the following words to be met
with?--

"For Pity is akin to Love."

I have found very