"There was a little frog, lived in the river swim-o, And there was an old crow lived in the wood of Ennow, Come on shore, come on shore, said the crow to the frog again-o; Thank you, sir, thank you, sir, said the frog to the crow of Ennow,
But there is sweet music under yonder green willow, And there are the dancers, the dancers, in yellow."
"_She ne'er with treacherous Kiss_."--Can any of your readers inform me where the following lines are to be found?
"She ne'er with treacherous kiss her Saviour stung, Nor e'er denied Him with unholy tongue; She, when Apostles shrank, could danger brave-- Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave!"
"_Incidit in Scyllam_" (Vol. ii., p. 85.).--
"Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim; Sie morbum fugiens, incidit in medicos."
Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first? I think it was Lord Grenville who quoted them as found somewhere together.
_Nicholas Brigham's Works._--Nicholas Brigham, who erected the costly tomb in Poets' Corner to the memory of Geoffrey Chaucer (which it is now proposed to repair by a subscription of five shillings from the admirers of the poet), is said to have written, besides certain miscellaneous poems, _Memoirs by way of Diary_, in twelve Books; and a treatise _De Venationibus Rerum Memorabilium_. Can any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" state whether any of these, the titles of which are certainly calculated to excite our curiosity, are known to be in existence, and, if so, where? It is presumed that they have never been printed.
_Ciric-Sceat, or Church-scot._--Can any of your readers explain the following passage from Canute's Letter to the Archbishops, &c. of England, A.D. 1031. (_Wilkins Conc._ t. i. p. 298):--
"Et in festivitate Sancti Martini primitæ seminum ad ecclesiam, sub cujus parochia quisque degit, quæ Anglice _Cure scet_ nominatur."
[If our correspondent refers to the glossary in the second vol. of Mr. Thorpe's admirable edition of the _Anglo-Saxon Laws_, which he edited for the Record Commission under the title of _Ancient Laws and Institutes of England_, he will find s.v. "_Ciric-Sceat--Primitiæ Seminum_ church-scot or shot, an ecclesiastical due payable on the day of St. Martin, consisting chiefly of corn;" a satisfactory answer to his Query, and a reference to this very passage from Canute.]