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comedy of 'Tis Well ifs No Worse, refer thereto, 

 and inform us whether these lines belong to Bick- 

 erstaff. They certainly are not Kembles, though 

 your correspondent W. T. M., Hong Kong (vii. 

 192.) presumes them to be his. S. H. (iv. 72.) 

 traces them to An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 

 which was published in 1785. Now Kemble's 

 Panel was first produced 28tii November, 1788. 

 (Bowden's Memoirs of Kemble, vol. i. p. 423.) 

 The question therefore is, were these lines ad- 

 mitted into the Asylum from BickerstafFs comedy, 

 or from some other source ? Geo. E. Fkerb. 



[The lines are not in BickerstafFs comedy 'Tis IVell it's 

 no Worse, 8vo., 1770 ; but they occur in The Panel, Act I. 

 Sc. 1., by J. P. Kemble, who seems to have quoted them 

 from An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1785, vol. i. p. 15., 

 where they appear without any name, entitled "An Ex- 

 postulation."] 



Words used hy Milton (2"'> S. vii. 129.) — I beg 

 to inform your correspondent T. that he will find 

 instances of the old use of the words " symbol " 

 and " metal " in Dean Trench's Essay on some 

 Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, Parker, 

 1857, p. 35. I may add the following as illustra- 

 tive of " symbol : " — 



"(A man) may increase learning or confirm his no- 

 tices, cast in his symbol of experience and observation, 

 till the particulars may become a proverbial sentence and 

 a rule," &c. — J. Taylor, Sertn. 22, " The Good and Evil 

 Tongue," p. 280. ed. Edin. 1850. 



H. C. 



Separation of Sexes in Churches (2°^ S. vii. 76.) 

 — This peculiarity was noticed at Turin by a re- 

 cent traveller : — 



" Remaining over the Sunda)% in the absence of any 

 English service, we went to the Vaudois Church. The 

 men were ranged on one side of the centre aisle, the 

 women on the other, and the costumes of the latter showed 

 they were chiefly from the Protestant valleys, not Turi- 

 nese." — Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps, by the Kev. 

 S. W. King, M.A., chap. x. p. 225., 8vo. 1858. 



F. R. R. 



James Davies (2"^ S. vii. 131.) — The James 

 Davies, to whom Dean Trench refers in his Notes 

 on the Parables, was Master of the National School 

 on Devanden Hill, Monmouthshire. He was born 

 in 1765, and died in 1849. A full account of him 

 will be found in The Life of James Davies, a Vil- 

 lage Schoolmaster, by Sir Thomas Phillips, Lond. 

 John W. Parker, 1850. 'AAiews. 



Dublin. 



The Crown of France offered to the Dulie of 

 Wellington (2""* S. vii. 88.) — On perusing Mb. 

 Proctor's letter referring to the passage in Sir 

 John Malcolms Life, I copied the extract, and 

 transmitted it to a gentleman, a Companion of the 

 Order of the Bath, who served at head quarters 

 of the Duke of Wellington's army during the 

 whole of the Peninsular War, and also in the 

 campaign in Flanders in 1815. 



In reply ray informant states as follows : — 

 " I belonged to the head quarters of the army on its 

 advance from Waterloo to Paris in 1815, but I can say 

 that I never heard, during that march, nor afterwards at 

 Paris, nor since, that any proposition was ever made to 

 offer the crown of Prance to the Duke of Wellington." — 

 Dated Feb. 1st, 1859. 



If such a rumour had existed my informant 

 must have heard of it from the high position 

 which he occupied in connexion with our army in 

 the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. G-. L. S. 



Pythagoras on Beans (2»* S. vii. 125. 153.) — 

 Various explanations of the mystical precept of 

 Pythagoras, " to abstain from beans," are cited 

 from a lost treatise of Aristotle in Diog. Laert. 

 viii. 34. One of them is derived from the sup- 

 posed oligarchical character of beans, on account 

 of their use in voting. Plutarch, de Educat. c. 

 17. gives a similar explanation. He says that this 

 prohibition is a caution against entering public 

 life ; for that the votes by which magistracies 

 were conferred were originally given by beans. 

 Other passages in which the political interpreta- 

 tion of this precept is illustrated are cited in the 

 note of Wyttenbach on the passage of Plutarch. 

 White and black beans are (or were of late years) 

 used in balloting at clubs. To black-bean a can- 

 didate is an expression still employed, especially 

 in Ireland. L. 



It strikes me that Coleridge got the expla- 

 nation of Pythagoras' prohibition of beans from 

 one who was certainly no stick, — Plutarch, 

 and that it had been previously noticed by Je- 

 remy Taylor. See Holy Living, sect. iv. p. 80., 

 ed. Bohn, where we find the following in a note : 



" Fabis abstine, dixit Pythagoras : olim nam magis- 

 tratus per suffragia fabis lata creabantur. — Plut." 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



" Death hath a thousand ways to let out life " (1»* 

 S. xii. 204.) — The sentiment, but not the words, I 

 think, are Delaune's. Does not Ellis give them 

 (for I have not his Specimens by me to refer to) ? 

 "But to go forth Death opens many gates." 



And where is a complete copy of Delaune's 

 Works to be seen or procured ? Geo. E. Frere. 



Twelve Alls (P* S. vii. 502. ; xii. 185.292. 440. 

 500.) — Several articles have appeared in " N. & 

 Q." on the Four Alls, Five Alls, and Nine Alls. 

 May not this singular inn sign have been sug- 

 gested by Robert Greene's Spanish Masquerado, 

 4to. 1589, where we find the following twelve 

 articles of the state of Spain : " 1. The Cardinalls 

 sollicite all. 2. The King grauntes all. 3. The 

 Nobles confirme all. 4. The Pope determines all. 

 5. Cleargie disposeth all. 6. The Duke of Medina 

 hopes for all. 7. Alonso receives all. 8. The In- 

 dians minister all. 9. The Souldiers eat all. 10. 

 The people paie all. 11. The Menkes and Friers 



