Longevity (Vol. viii., p. 442.).—Mr. Murdoch's Query relative to Margaret Patten reminds me of a print exhibited in the Dublin Exhibition, which bore the following inscription:
"Mary Gore, born at Cottonwith in Yorkshire, A.D. 1582; lived upwards of one hundred years in Ireland, and died in Dublin, aged 145 years. This print was done from a picture taken (the word is torn off) when she was an hundred and forty-three. Vanluych pinxit, T. Chambers del."
Eirionnach.
"Now the fierce bear," &c. (Vol. viii., p 440.).—The lines respecting which θ. requests information are from Mr. Keble's Christian Year, in the poem for Monday in Whitsun Week. They are, however, misquoted, and should run thus
"Now the fierce bear and leopard keen
Are perish'd as they ne'er had been,
Oblivion is their home."
G. R. M.