The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more."
S. Wmson.
Sir J. Covert, not Govett (Vol. vii., p. 85.).—Quæro may be perfectly assured that there never was a baronet of the name of Govett, nor a member of parliament so called. P. C. S. S. is confident that the individual to whom Quæro refers, as having sat in the second parliament of Charles II., must have been Sir John Covert, Baronet, who was member for Horsham. The misnomer would not be surprising in a list which contains such names as Nosrooth for Noseworthy, Cowshop for Courthope, Meestry for Masters, and Grubbaminton and Zerve for Heaven knows what!
P. C. S. S.
Chatterton (Vol. vii., pp. 14. 138.).—I feel very much obliged to J. M. G. for his answer to my question. May I ask if he has any other documents or information which would throw light on the origin and history of the Rowley poems? The inquiry has interested me for more than forty years, and I have long been about as fully convinced that Chatterton did not write the poems, as that I did not write them myself. For any help towards finding out who did write them, I should be very thankful.
N. B.
Tennyson (Vol. vii., p. 84.).—The following brief Note from Democritus in London; with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-Fellow, is a reply to the first Query of H. J. J.:
"Ye may no see, for peeping flowers, the grasse."
George Peele.
"You scarce could see the grass for flowers."