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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



C2»<« S. VII. Mak. 6. '69. 



♦ C. Hoc est in Coelo, ubi est sedes D. 



* D. Id est Dei ; qui scilicet dev3 quatuor scribitur 

 litteris adnotantibus, D. Dans, E. Aeternara, V. Yitam, 

 S. Suis : et quis sit iste Deus, indicat E. 



' E. Aeteinus: et ad obtineadam banc sedem Dei 

 aeteriii, necesse est habere F. 



' F. Fidem, quae nobis data est mediante G. 



' G. Gratia ipsius Dei : ad quam gratiam conservandam 

 oportet uti H. 



' H. Humilitate scilicet associata cura J. 



' J. Justitia videlicet, et cum K. 



« K. Karitate et sic adimplebitur L. 



' L Lex Dei. Et quaenam sit ista lex, deitjonstrat M. 



' M. Quatuor constat lineis, quarum duae rectae et 

 altera duaruni major, tres sunt leges, videlicet lex naturae, 

 lex scripta et lex evangelica. Quid contineant istae 

 leges, indicat N. 



' N. Habet duas lineas rectas alteri transversali an- 

 nexas, quae denotant duo praecepta legis, videlicet, 

 Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo et ex 

 totis viribus tuis: et proximum tuum sicut te ipsum. 

 Vel quod tibi non vis alteri ete. Et fac alteri quod tibi 

 vis fieri. Nee sufficit scire leges sine O. 



* O. Est Observantia praeceptorum Dei et ad ea obser- 

 vanda oportet habere P. 



' P. Patientiam scilicet, cum sit nobis contrarium Q. 



* Q. Quaestio videlicet inter spiritum et sensum, quae 

 §uperatur cum R et S. 



' R. S. Rerum scilicet Sapientia: et ad banc sapien- 

 tiam exercendam oportet uti T. 



' T. Temperantia : non enim plus decet sapere quam 

 oportet sapere, sed ad sobrietatem, et sic acquiremus V. 



' V. Vitam aeternam, quam concedet nobis X. 



' X. Xps, qui etiam scribitur per Y. 



' Y. Yesus Xps, qui propter Z. 



' Z. Propter Zelum nostri amoris exinanivit semetip- 

 sum, formam servi accipiens, nee dubitavit manibus tradi 

 nocentium et crucis subire tormentum.' " 



J.M9. 



WindoW'pane Literature. — From a window at 

 La Maison Blanche (Loiret), copied ann. 1818 : — 



" Puiss^-je, 6 nation perfide, voir ta marine en poudre, 

 Tes maisons bruMes, ecrasees par la foudre, 

 Voir le dernier Anglais au dernier soupir, 

 Moi seul en etre cause, et mourir de plaisir," 



The following is of a still earlier date ; from the 

 windows of a little inn in Scotland, somewhere 

 about the Lakes. I give it from memory : — 



" Indians assert that whereso'er they roam, 

 In battle slain they seek their native home. 

 Did every nation hold this doctrine [ ? maxim] right. 

 Not English pay would make a Scotchman fight." 



The annual visit of our gracious Queen, Vic- 

 toria the Good, and of her right worthy Consort, 

 and of half the best blood of England, has taken 

 away from us this reproach. Scotus. 



Literary Hoaxes. — It is stated in the last num- 

 ber of the Publishers' Circular that the editor of 

 the Buffalo Republic, an American paper, lately 

 inserted some trashy verses in his columns with the 

 name attat'hed of " William Cullen Bryant," the 

 celebrated American poet. The lines were ex- 



tensively copied into other papers ; but it now ap- 

 pears that they were not written by Bryant, but 

 by the editor of the Buffalo Republic, jn order (to 

 use his own words), " to establish the fact, which 

 was plain to our mind, that no matter how atro- 

 cious an effusion was [might be], the name of a 

 poet who had established a reputation for poetry, 

 would make it true poetry in the eyes of a large 

 majority of poetry readers." A similar trick was 

 once played off at theexpenseof the AbbeDelille,as 

 related by Madame Genlis in her Memoires (torn, 

 iii. p. 172, Paris et Londres, 1825), in the following 

 terms : — 



" M. le Due de Liancourt et I'Abbe Delille etoient a ces 

 eaux (de Spa), nous les voyions tous les jours. M. de 

 Liancourt fit un tour charmant h. I'Abbe Delille ; il com- 

 posa, sous le titre de couplets pour la fete de Madame la 

 Duchesse d'OrMans, une romance bien dans les rfegles de 

 la versification, mais la plus insipide qu'il put imaginer, et 

 il mit au bas la signature de I'Abb^ Delille : il la fit ira- 

 primer, avec des articles de nouvelles, dans un papier qu'il 

 intitula Gazette de Leyde, et il ne fit tirer de cette com- 

 position qu'une demi douzaine d'exemplaires, qu'il nous 

 distribua, et que nous re9umes h dejeuner h, Wauxhall, 

 avec I'Abbe' Delille, et corame ^tant la veritable Gazette 

 de Leyde r^pandue dans toute I'Europe. La colore de 

 I'Abbe Delille fut inexprimable ; il ne supportoit pas 

 I'idee que I'on pourroit, a Paris, le croire I'auteur de sem 

 blable couplets ; son chagrin fut tel-que je voulus le dcs- 

 abuser sur-le-champ. On ne me le permit pas, et on eut 

 la cruaut^ de le laisser plusieurs jours dans cette peine 

 d'esprit." 



J. Macrat. 

 " Something to be said on both sides." — Apropos 

 of A. De Morgan's " Something to be said on 

 both sides" (2"'^ S. vi. 480.), allow me to propose 

 a well-poised qucestio vexata for ingenious argu- 

 ment; which, though by no means original, I 

 have never yet seen put forward in the columns 

 of " N. & Q." If it is said of a man in an ec- 

 stasy (%K-(TTaaii) of delight that he cannot contain 

 himself, is it because he is too large or too small 

 for the purpose ? J. D. Ottinge. 



Norwich. 



Bishop Barndbee. — The children in Norfolk, 

 and maybe elsewhere, call by this name the co- 

 leopterous insect more usually known as Lady- 

 bird. When it alights on the hand, they practise 

 a kind of divination with it, repeating the follow- 

 ing rhyme : — 



" Bishop Bishop Barnabee, 

 Tell me when my wedding be ; 

 If it be to-morrow-day. 

 Take your wings and fly away. 

 Ely to the East, fly to the West, 

 And fly to them that I love best." 



Now, Messrs. Forby and Moore, who have 

 written Glossaries, the one of Norfolk, and the 

 other of Suffolk dialect, have been put to flight 

 by this marvellous insect ; for all connection with 

 " Barnaby Bright," or with Strutt's " Barn-or- 

 boy Bishop," is utterly absurd. And I can form 

 no idea why it should be a Benebee blessed bee. 



