Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851, page 29 by Various Authors
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deserves to be noted, as there was another Dr. William Nicholson, consecrated Bishop of Gloucester, A.D. 1660.]
Six Abeiles.--In Mrs. Barrett Browning's beautiful poem, Rhyme of the Duchess May, the following lines occur:
"Six abeiles i' the kirkyard grow, On the northside in a row."
Will you or some of your readers kindly inform me what abeiles are. From the context, they would seem to be some kind of tree, but what tree I cannot discover.
M. A. H.
Monkstown, co. Cork, Feb. 18. 1851.
[Bailey, in his Dictionary, says, "An abele-tree is a fine kind of white poplar." See also Chambers' Cyclopædia.]
Southey.--There is a jeu d'esprit attributed to Southey, on the expedition of Napoleon into Russia, beginning,--
"Buonaparte must needs set out On a summer's excursion to Moscow,"
and ending,--
"But there's a place which he must go to, Where the fire is red, and the brimstone blue, Sacre-bleu, ventre-bleu, He'll find it hotter than Moscow."
I know this was printed, for I saw it when a boy. Where can it be found?
M.
[See "The March to Moscow," in Southey's Poetical Works, p. 464., edit. 1850.]
Epigram against Burke.--Can any reader supply me with some lines of great asperity against Edmund Burke, excited (I believe) by the unrelenting hostility exhibited by Burke against Warren Hastings?
The sting of the epigram is contained in the last line, which, alluding to the exemption of Ireland from all poisonous reptiles, runs as follows:--
"And saved her venom to create a Burke."
And if the said lines shall be forthcoming, I should be glad also to be informed of their reputed author.
A BORDERER.
[The following epigram, thrown to Burke in court, and torn by him to shreds, has been always attributed to Mr. Law (Lord Ellenborough), but erroneously:--
"Oft have we wonder'd that on