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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" A merry ladd whose greedy mind 

 Did seeke for such a prey. 

 Neglecting much the reverend stile 

 That on ye caskete lay, 

 Tooke out ye gold, and blotting out 

 The p'sons name thereon, 

 Wrote ' Resurrexit, non est hie,' 

 Thy God is risen and gone." 



Sent to Mr. Xoy at his great Fead wben he vias 

 made serjeant-at-law : — 



" When the world was drowned 

 No ven'son was found, 

 For then there was no parke. 

 Here we sitt, 

 And have ne'r a bit, 

 For Noy hath all in his arke." 



Benj. Johnson. 



Poesyes pro annulo. Among others are — 



" There is no other, and I am he, 

 That loves no other, and thou art she." 



" E3'e doth find, heart doth chose. 

 Faith doth bind, death doth lose." 



" Blessed is the woing 

 That is not long a-doiug." 



" Let us be one ) " To live in love 



Till we are none." J I love to live." 



"Love well and 1 "Virtus non vultus, 

 Live well." J Patior ut potiar." 



" Sequor ut consequar." 



" I seek to be 

 Not thine but thee." 



Varieties. — On woman's faults : an old edition 

 of the well-known rhyme : — 



" We men in many faults abound, 

 But two in women can be found ; 

 The worst that from their sex p'ceeds. 

 Is naught in words and naught in deeds." 



On sending a pair of gloves : — 



" From this small token take the letter G, 

 And then 'tis love, and that I send to thee." 



De Sanitate et Medico : — 



" Health is a jewel, true, which when we buy, 

 Physicians value it accordingly." 



Ques. " Wherein doth principalh' consist the love of 

 God?" 



Atis, " In one word, God is to be worshipped amore, 

 viz. 



" Amore summo, 

 More vero. 

 Ore fideli, 

 Ee omni." 



An acrostic on John Pyni, who deceased Dec. 

 8, 1G43 : — 



" I do not greive, but thousands more 



ver thj' marble drops a seconde showre ; 

 11 earts fill'd with sorrow, eyes still overflow, 

 N othing but tears can ever drown sadd woe. 



P eace, quiet rest the give, thj' name shall be 



1 n everie heart worne for thy memorie. 



M cane time thy fame even as engageed thou hast, 

 E ver to celebrate while time doth last." 



Of epitaphs there is a great store, among 

 which — 



" Hie jacet in requie Woodcock John vir generosus 

 Major Londoniae, mercerus valde morosus." 



"Hie jacet Tom Shorthose, 

 Sine tombe, sine sheets, sine riches. 

 Qui vixit sine gown, 

 Sine cloake, sine shirt, sine breeches." 



Dm Musica : — 



" Musicen primum docuit voluptas. 

 Musices auxit studium voluptas. 

 Musices usum retinet voluptas, gaudia fundens. 

 Mussicen lusit placidus cupido. 

 Musicen lusit citharea mollis. 

 Musicen lusit cithara suavi clarus Apollo. 

 Musiceu mentes tenuit virorum. 

 Musiceu sensus tenuit ferarum. 

 Musice montes et aquas et ornos sede removit. 

 Musice summis dominatur astris. 

 Musice terrae dominatur imce, 

 Musice ponto dominatur alto cuncta pererrans. 

 Musice mentis medicina moestae. 

 Musice multum minuit malorum. 

 Musice magnis, medicis, minutis, maxima mittit." 



On Abp. Laud, beheaded Jan. 1645 : — 



" Heer Ij-es within ye compass of this eai-th 

 A man of boundless pride, of meanest birth ; 

 England's hist Primate, whose unequall fate 

 Made him the prince's love, the people's hate. 

 A Protestant in shew, yet joyned by ait 

 An English headpeiee to a Roman heart ; 

 A seeming patriote, j'et this wonder bredd, 

 Hee was the Churche's, his a traitour's head, 

 Which being taken of, hee thus did dye. 

 The churche's, prince's, people's enemy." 



Then come some versijicandi exempla on sacred 

 subjects, such as the Lord's Prayer in sapphics 

 and hexameters. 



The most usual names and appellations of the 

 Son of God in the Scriptures : — 



" Spes, via, vita, salus, ratio, sapientia, lumen, 

 Judex, porta, gigas, rex, gemma, propheta, sacerdos, 

 Messiah, Zeboah, rabbi, sponsus, mediator, 

 Virga, columna, manus, petra, filius, Emanuel, 

 Vinea, pastor, ovis, pax, radix, vitis, oliva, 

 Fons, paries, agnus, vitulus, leo, propitiator, 

 Verbum, homo, rete, lapis, domus, ut sic omnia 

 Xtus." 



Enigmas. 



1. In tibiam. 



"Non ego continuo morior, si spiritus exit, 

 Nam redit assidue, quamvis et stepe recedat." 



2. Musica. 



(Mus.) (Musca.) 



"Si caput est currit; ventrem conjunge volabit, 



(Muscatura.) (Mustum.) 



Adde pedem comedas, et sine ventre bibas." 



The old story of the fox, the goose, and the 

 corn. 



" Over a bridge one lately was to pass. 

 Which had a treble charge to reconvay, 

 A goose, a fox, some come, the other was 

 Each bent the other to devour or slay. 

 Now, in their single carriage, I would know 

 How he escaped the danger, yet did goe : 



