“But thou, proud Chame, which thus hast wrought me spite,
  Some greater river drown thy hatefull name;
  Let never myrtle on thy banks delight;
  But willows pale, the leads of spite and blame,
  Crown thy ungratefull shores with scorn and 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.

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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 parishes are situated, viz. between Norwich and Yarmouth:—­