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Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 by Various
page 44 of 66 (66%)

Which being done, they murder the unhappy lady. Shortly after, Lord
Weirie comes home, and has the "fause nourrice" burnt at the stake. From
the circumstance that the name of the husband of the murdered lady was
Weirie, it is conjectured that this tragedy took place at Balwearie
Castle, in Fife, and the old people about there constantly affirm that
it really occurred. I am not aware that there exists any connection
between the hero of this story and the _nursery rhyme_; for, as I before
stated, I think Lonkin a corruption of Lammilsin.

H.H.C.


_Rowley Powley_ (Vol. ii., p. 74.).--Andre Valladier, who died about the
middle of the sixteenth century, was a popular preacher and the king's
almoner. He gained great applause for his funeral oration on Henry IV.
In his sermon for the second Sunday in Lent (Rouen, 1628), he says;--

"Le paon est gentil et miste, bien que par la parfaite beauté de
sa houppe, par la rareté et noblesse de sa teste, par la
gentilesse et netteté de son cou, par l'ornement de ses pennes
et par la majesté de tout le reste de son corps, il ravit tous
ceux qui le contemplent attentivement; toutefois au rencontre de
sa femelle, pour l'attirer à son amour, il déploye sa pompe,
fait montrer et parade de son plumage bizarré, et RIOLLÉ PIOLLÉ
se presente à elle avec piafe, et luy donne la plus belle visée
de sa roue. De mesme ce Dieu admirable, amoreux des hommes, pour
nous ravir d'amour à soy, desploye le lustre de ses plus
accomplies beautez, et comme un amant transporté de sa bienaimée
se {252} montre pour nous allecher à cetter transformation de
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