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Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 by Various
page 15 of 60 (25%)

"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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