"§ At lest wise, if it be a poinet of good service, to
renne awaie at all times, when the countree hath most
neede of his helpe to sticke to it."

Thus we are enabled to throw back more than a century these famous
Hudibrastic lines, which have occasioned so many inquiries for their
origin.

I take this opportunity of noticing a mistake which has frequently
been made concerning the _French_ translation of Butler's
_Hudibras_. Tytler, in his _Essay on Translation_; Nichols, in his
_Biographical Anecdotes of Hogarth_; and Ray, in his {178} _History
of the Rebellion_, attributes it to Colonel Francis Towneley;
whereas it was the work of _John_ Towneley, uncle to the celebrated
Charles Towneley, the collector of the Marbles.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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FIELD OF THE BROTHERS' FOOTSTEPS.

I do not think that Mr. Cunningham, in his valuable work, has given
any account of a piece of ground of which a strange story is
recorded by Southey, in his _Common-Place Book_ (Second Series, p.
21.). After quoting a letter received from a friend, recommending
him to "take a view of those wonderful marks of the Lord's hatred to
_duelling_, called _The Brothers' Steps_," and giving him the
description of the locality, Mr. Southey gives an account of his own