Kilkenny.

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MINOR NOTES.

_Borrowed Thoughts._--Mr. SINGER (Vol. i., p. 482.) points out the
French original from which Goldsmith borrowed his epigram beginning--

"Here lies poor Ned Purdon."

I find, in looking over Swift's works, a more literal version of this
than Goldsmith's:--

"Well then, poor G---- lies under ground,
So there's an end of honest Jack;
So little justice here he found,
'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back."

I should like to add two Queries:--Who was the Chevallier de Cailly (or
d'Aceilly), the author of the French epigram mentioned by Mr. Singer?
And--when did he live?

H.C. DE ST. CROIX


_An Infant Prodigy in 1659._--The following wonderful story is thus
related by Archbishop Bramhall (Carte's _Letters_, ii. 208.: Dr.
Bramhall to Dr. Earles, Utrecht, Sept. 6-16, 1659):--