The Poet Gay and his Relatives.
—In a letter from the late Bishop Copleston to the Rev. E. Tyler, in Jan. 1839, on the death of his mother at the age of ninety-two (published in his Memoirs), he says, "Her father and poet Gay were brothers' sons."
H. T. E.
Queries.
THOMAS BASTARD, AND SONG AGAINST SHEEP-FARMING.
The twentieth epigram in the fourth book of Chrestoleros, by T. B. (poor Thomas Bastard), printed 1598, is to the following effect:
"Sheepe have eate up our medows and our downes,
Our corne, our wood, whole villages and townes.
Yea, they have eate up many wealthy men,
Besides widowes, and orphane childeren: