Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 by Various
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"Did you ever notice the remaining colours of the curious little figure which was painted on the tomb of Chaucer?" M.N.S. [We have heard one of the lay vicars of Westminster {421} Abbey, now deceased, say, that when he was a choir boy, some sixty-five or seventy years since, the figure of Chaucer might be made out by rubbing a wet finger over it.] _Robert Herrick_ (Vol. i., p. 291.)--There is a little volume entitled _Selections from the Hesperides and Works of the Rev. Robert Herrick_. (_Antient_) _Vicar of Dean-Prior, Devon_. By the late Charles Short, Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A., published by Murray in 1839. I believe it was recalled or suppressed, and that copies are rare. J.W.H. _Epitaph of a Wine Merchant._--The following is very beautiful, and well deserves a Note. It is copied from an inscription in All Saints Church, Cambridge. "In Obitum Mri. Johannis Hammond Oenopolae Epitaphium. Spiritus ascendit generosi Nectaris astra, Juxta Altare Calix hic jacet ecce sacrum, Corporum [Greek: anastasei] cum fit Communia magna Unio tunc fuerit Nectaris et Calicis." J.W.H. |
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