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Page 15
G.H. BARKER.
Whitwell, Yorkshire.
I.
"Lips like cherries crimson-juicy,
Cheeks like peach's downy shades,
Has my Lucy--lovely Lucy!
Loveliest of lady's maids!!!
II.
"Eyes like violet's dew-bespangled,
Softly fringed deep liquid eyes!
Pools where Cupid might have angled
And expected fish to rise.
III.
"Cupid angling?--what the deuce! he
Must not fish in Lucy's eye!
Cupid leave alone my Lucy--
You have other fish to fry!!!
IV.
"But with patience unavailing--
Angling dangling late and soon--
Weeping, still I go a _wail_ing,
And _harp on_ without harpoon.
V.
"Kerchief, towel, duster, rubber,
Cannot wipe my weeping dry--
_Whal_ing still I lose _my blubber_,
Catching _wails_ from Lucy's eye.
VI.
"Blubber--wax and spermaceti--
Swealing taper--trickling tear!
Writing of a mournful ditty
To my lovely Lucy dear.
VII.
"Pouring tears from eyelids sluicy,
While the waning flamelet fades,
All for Lucy--lovely Lucy,
Loveliest of lady's maids.
"C.H. WILLIAMS."
[The foregoing ballad does not appear in the edition of the works of
Sir C. Hanbury Williams (3 vols. 8vo. 1822), from the preface to which
it appears that he was born in 1709, installed a Knight of the Bath in
1746, and died on the 2nd November, 1759.]
* * * * *
MINOR QUERIES.
_Book called Tartuare.--William Wallace in London._--1. Is there any one of
your correspondents, learned or unlearned, who can oblige me with any
account of a printed book called _Tartuare?_ Its date would be early in the
sixteenth century, if not before this.
2. After William Wallace had been surprised and taken, he was brought to
London, and lodged, it is said, in a part of what is now known as Fenchurch
Street. There is a reader and correspondent of yours, who, I am assured,
can point out the site of this house, or whatever it was. Will he kindly
assist arch�ological inquirers, by informing us whereabouts it stood?
W.(I.)
_Obeism._--Can any of your readers give me some information about _obeism_?
I am anxious to know whether it is in itself a religion, or merely a rite
practised in some religion in Africa, and imported thence to the West
Indies (where, I am told, it is rapidly gaining ground again); and whether
the _obeist_ obtains the immense power he is said to possess over his
brother negroes by any acquired art, or simply by working upon the more
superstitious {60} minds of his companions. Any information, however, on
the subject will be acceptable.
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