NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 37·87.
[541] Stukeley’s Palæographia Britannica, No. 11. 1745.
[542] Ibid.
[543] Stowe’s Annals, 159.
[544] Baker’s Chronicles, 94.
[545] Ibid.
[546] Bellman’s Treasury, 1707.
[547] “In good king Charles’s golden days.”
This is said to have been written by an officer in colonel Fuller’s regiment, in the reign of king George I. It is founded on an historical fact, and, though it reflects no great honour on the hero of the poem, is humorously expressive of the complexion of the times in the successive reigns from Charles II. to George I.
[548] “My fond shepherds of late were so blest.”
A favourite air in Dr. Arne’s “Eliza.”
[549] “There lived a youth in Ballan o Crazy.”
This song is ascribed to a lady of great quality: it does not, however, abound with the wit which usually flows from female pens; but it admits of being sung with great humour.
[550] Gentleman’s Magazine.
[551] Communicated by D. B. C. from Boswell’s Antiquities of England and Wales.
[552] Busby’s Concert Room and Orchestra Anecdotes, &c.
[553] Miss Plumptre.
[554] Burney’s History of Music.