Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

Aimait une jeune bergère:

Il voulait être son époux,

Mais il n'avait pas su lui plaire:

Travaillez, travaillez, bon tonnelier!

Raccommodez votre cuvier!"

GEORGE MÉTIVIER.

Wyle Cop (Vol. iv., p. 116.).

—May not Wyle Cop be derived from the Anglo-Saxon wylle, well or fountain, and cop, head or top? SALOPIAN can perhaps judge whether "Fountain Hill" or "Well Head" would be at all applicable to the Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury.

THOS. LAWRENCE.

Ashby de la Zouch.