"I hear a lion," &c.—Can any of your correspondents favour me with the origin of the following jeu d'esprit, reputed to have been addressed to the Speaker in the House of Commons?—
"I hear a lion in the lobby roar!
Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door
And keep him out?
Or shall we let him in,
And see if we can get him out again?"
To ascertain by whom, and upon what occasion, the above lines were uttered, would considerably gratify
Sagitta.
"The Exercist Day" at Leicester.—In the Chamberlain's accounts for this borough for the year 1604-5, I find the following entry:
| "Item. The vjth of Novembr [1604], being the exercist daye, given to the preacher and mynistrs at the exercistz, one pottell of clarett wyne and one quarte of sacke | s. ij | d. iiij |