_Lines on Chaucer_ (Vol. v., p. 586.).--The lines should be quoted:--
"Britain's first poet,
Famous old Chaucer,
Swan-like, in dying
Sung his last song
When at his heart-strings
Death's hand was strong."
They are taken from Hymn cxxiii. of _Hymns and Anthems_, London, C. Fox,
1841.
[Gamma].
_Fairlop Oak_ (Vol. v., pp. 114. 471.).--Your correspondents J. B. COLMAN
and SHIRLEY HIBBERD will find much information relative to this oak and the
fair in a work with the following title:
"Fairlop and its Founder, or Facts and Fun for the Forest Frolickers.
By a famed first Friday Fairgoer; contains Memoirs, Anecdotes, Poems,
Songs, &c., with the curious Will of Mr. Day, never before printed. A
very limited number printed. Tobham, Printed at Charles Clark's Private
Press. Fairlop's Friday, 1847."
J. Russell Smith, 30. Soho Square, had several copies on sale some time
back.