"Thou ermin'd judge, pull off that sable cap."
More specific reference will not be necessary for those who have seen the work. Is the writer known? I am somewhat surprised that not one of Byron's friends has, so far as I know, hinted a denial of the authorship; for, scarce as
the work may be, I suppose some of them must have seen it; and, under existing circumstances, it is possible that a copy might get into the hands of a desperate creature who would hope to make a profit, by republishing it with Byron's and Moore's names in the title-page.
I. W.
Arms at Bristol.—In a window now repairing in Bristol Cathedral is this coat:—Arg. on a chevron or (false heraldry), three stags' heads caboshed. Whose coat is this? It is engraved in Lysons' Gloucestershire Antiquities without name.
E. D.
Passage in Thomson.—In Thomson's "Hymn to the Seasons," line 28, occurs the following passage:
"But wandering oft, with brute, unconscious gaze,
Man marks not Thee; marks not the mighty hand
That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres;