hing carried over the head.

By the way, the "Description of a City Shower" contains one of the latest
examples of _ache_ as a dissyllable:--

"A coming shower your shooting corns presage,
Old _aches_ throb, your hollow tooth will rage."

H.B.C.

U.U. Club, Jan.

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QUERIES.

SONNET (QUERY, BY MILTON) ON THE LIBRARY AT CAMBRIDGE.

In a _Collection of Recente and Witty Pieces by several eminente hands_,
London, printed by W.S. for Simon Waterfou, 1628, p. 109., is the following
sonnet, far the best thing in the book:--

"ON THE LIBRARIE AT CAMBRIDGE.

"In that great maze of books I sighed and said,--
It is a grave-yard, and each tome a tombe;
Shrouded in hempen rags, behold the dead,
Coffined and ranged in crypts of dismal gloom,
Food for the worm and redolent of mold,
Traced with brief epitaph in tarnished gold--
Ah, golden lettered hope!--ah, dolorous doom!
Yet mid the common death, where all is cold,
And mildewed pride in desolation dwells,
A few great immortalities of old
Stand brightly forth--not tombes but living shrines,
Where from high sainte or martyr virtue wells,
Which on the living yet work miracles,
Spreading a relic wealth richer than golden mines.

"J.M. 1627."

Attached to it, it will be seen, are the initials J.M. and the date 1627.
Is it possible that this may be an early and neglected sonnet of Milton?
and yet, could Milton have seriously perpetrated the pun in the second
line?

C. HOWARD KENYON.

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BURYING IN CHURCH WALLS.

(Vol. ii., p. 513.)

MR. W. DURRANT COOPER has mentioned some instances of burials in the walls
of churches; it is not however clear whether in these the monument, or
coffin lid, is in the inside or the outside of the wall.

Stone coffin lids, with and without effigies, are very frequently found
placed under low arches hollowed in the wall in the _interior_ of the
church: tombs placed in the _exterior_ of the wall are much less common;
and the singularity of their position, leads one to look for some peculiar
reason for it. Tradition often accounts for it by such stories as those
mentioned by MR. COOPER. Such is the case with a handsome canopied tomb (I
think with an effigy) on the south side of the choir of the cathedral of
Lichfield, where we are told that the person interred died under censure of
the church. Oth