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NOTES:--
Old Songs. 257
"Junius Identified." by J. Taylor. 258
Folk Lore:--Spiders a Cure for Ague--Funeral Superstition--Folk
Lore Rhymes. 259
On a Passage in the Tempest, by S.W. Singer. 259
Punishment of Death of Burning. 260
Note on Morganatic Marriages. 261
Minor Notes:--Alderman Beckford--Frozen Horn--Inscription
translated--Parallel Passages--Note on George Herbert's Poems--"Crede