France, in Revenge for the Affront offered him by the French
King, in sending him (instead of the tribute due) a ton of
tennis balls." And, lastly, the "Rev. J.R. WREFORD" has called
our attention to the fact that it is printed in the collection
of _Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of
England_, edited by Mr. Dixon for the Percy Society in 1846.

Mr. Dixon's version was taken down from the singing of an
eccentric character, known as the "Skipton Minstrel," and who
used to sing it to the tune of "_The Bold Pedlar and Robin
Hood_."]


_Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore_ (No. 20. p. 320.).--This Query
has brought us a number of communications from "A.G.," "J.R.W.,"
"G.W.B.," "R.S.," and "The Rev. L. COOPER," who writes as follows:--

"The undoubted author is the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, a young
Irishman, curate of Donoughmore, diocese of Armagh, who died
1823, in the 32nd year of his age. His _Life and Remains_ were
edited by the Archdeacon of Clogher; and a _fifth_ edition of
the vol., which is an 8vo., was published in 1832 by Hamilton,
Adams, and Co., Paternoster Row. At the 25th page of the Memoir
there is the narration of an interesting discussion between Lord
Byron, Shelley, and others, as to the most perfect ode that had
ever been produced. Shelley contended for Coleridge's on
Switzerland; others named Campbell's Hohenlinden and Lord
Byron's Invocation in Manfred. But Lord Byron left the
dinner-table before the cloth was removed, and returned with a
magazine, from which he read this monody, which just then