Borrowed Thoughts

The number of "NOTES AND QUERIES" here alluded to has unluckily not reached me; but in Vol. ii., p. 30., I observe that your correspondent C., in correcting one error, has inadvertently committed another. Monsieur de la Palisse is the hero alluded to in the popular song which was written at the commencement of the eighteenth century by Bernard de la Monnoye, upon the old ballad, composed after the battle of Pavia, and commencing,— "Hélas! La Palice est mort, Il est mort devant Pavie; Hélas! s'il n'estait pas mort, Il serait encore en vie!"