Icil Morice iert latinier
Al rei Dermot, ke mult l'out cher."—Norman-French Chronicle of Conquest of Ireland, edited by F. Michel (as quoted in Wright's Essays, vol. ii. p. 215.).
I here conclude, as I must not seek to monopolise space required for more valuable contributions.
J. M. B.
Tunbridge Wells.
INEDITED POEMS.
I send you two poems which I have found in a little rough scrap-book of a literary character of last century, and which, not having myself met with in print, I trust you will consider worth preserving in your pages. The one styled "A Scotch Poem on the King and the Queen of the Fairies," has a vein of playful satire running through it, but I do not detect any word which justifies the ascription of its paternity to Scotland. Perhaps some of your readers would oblige me by indicating the source from which this poem has been taken, if it is already in print.
A SCOTCH POEM ON THE KING AND THE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES.
Upon a time the Fairy Elves,