"To none of these I yield as thrall,
For why my mind _despiseth_ all."--_P._
doth serve for.--_Var._

The var. much better.

In this--

"I never seek by bribes to please,
Nor by _dessert_ to give offence."--_P._
deceit.--_Var._

I cannot understand either.

So very beautiful and popular a song it would be well worth getting in
the true version.

C.B.


_Monumental Brasses_.--In reply to S.S.S. (Vol. i., p. 405.), I beg to
inform him that the "small dog with a collar and bells" is a device of
very common occurrence on brasses of the fifteenth and latter part of
the fourteenth centuries. The Rev. C. Boutell's _Monumental Brasses of
England_ contains engravings of no less than twenty-three on which it
is to be found; as well as two examples without the usual appendages
of collar, &c. In addition to these, the same work contains etchings
of the following brasses:--Gunby, Lincoln., two dogs with plain
collars at the bottom of the lady's mantle, 1405. Dartmouth, Devon.,
1403. Each of the ladies here depicted has two dogs with collars and