2n'i S. VII. Junk 4. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



453 



worn-out drunkard, in these words : " My next 

 care is to contrive for the health which I lost by 

 sitting many years at the sac/c- bottle." What, 

 however, the writer really does allege as the cause 

 of the loss of his health, was his "sitting many 

 years at the inc^-bottle !" Two lines farther on, 

 the printed text reads : " WTiat between love, care, 

 and much sorrow, I have not yet looked into some 

 collections," &c. The original has : " What be- 

 tween some care and much sorrow." 



These instances may be taken as a fair example 

 of the degree of correctness with which the corre- 

 spondence contained in these two volumes are 

 transcribed from the originals. Of the fitness of 

 the editor for the task of adding illustrative notes, 

 judgment may be formed from the fact that to an 

 allusion made, at p. 135., vol. ii., by Mr. J. Hill to 

 his sending Pepys the "Novelles" from Rotter- 

 dam, there is appended a note which informs the 

 reader, by quotations from Gibbon and the Diet, 

 de I'Acad. Prang., that these gazettes were the 

 Novellm of the Emperor Justinian ! 



W. D, Maceay. 



[We may as well state, that the work noticed by our 

 •correspondent was not the one edited by the late Lord 

 Braybrooke. See Edinburgh Review, vol. Ixxiv. pp. 111. 

 125.— Ed.] 



Dr. Moor and JRohert Burns. — A considerable 

 similarity of sentiment, though scarcely to be 

 reckoned as parallel passages, occurs in two poets, 

 both of celebrity : — 



" Or may I think when toss'd in trouble, 

 This world at best is but a bubble ; 

 A water film with air blown up, 

 Compose the Liquor and the Cup, 

 A moment hence you saw it there, 

 Now burst and banish'd into air." 



(From a MS. piece of Dr. Moor, Professor of 

 Greek in the University of Glasgow. Died 

 17th Sept. 1779.) 



" But pleasures are like poppies spread, 

 You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; 

 Or like the snow-falls, in tiie river, 

 A moment white — then melts for ever." 



(Tam O'Shanter; a Tale by Robert Burns, 

 Dr. Carrie, edit, 1825, p. 68.) 



G.N. 



Index to Periodicals. — Your columns have fre- 

 quently contained, suggestions for books that 

 ought to be written, compiled, or reprinted. 

 Permit me to name one, of which I, living far 

 away from libraries, daily feel the want. I mean 

 an index of the subjects of all the articles in the 

 English quarterly reviews and first-class maga- 

 zines arranged under subjects. There is an 

 American publication that partly supplies this 

 want. It only notices, however, some of our 

 quarterlies, and those but imperfectly. 



K. P. D. E. 



A Quotation Applied. — Italy now might quote 

 against France the words of Charles Gaspar 



Bachet, Sieur de Meziriac, published in 1626 "k 

 Bourg en Brcsse (reprinted a la Haye, chez 

 Henri de Sauzet, 1716 — who adopted an ex- 

 quisite motto for a printer, "Vitam Mortuis 

 reddo.") As our editor has followed " dans cette 

 nouvelle edition I'ortographe de I'ancienne, sans 

 faire aucune changement, et on a voulu par Ik 

 prevenir les plaintes que font bien des gens, de ce 

 que sous pretexte de corriger I'ortographe on fait 

 souvent d'autres changemens essentiels " (Preface, 

 p. xxxj.), I cannot do better than follow so good 

 an example : — 



" Suppose que desia tu sois en Italic, 

 Comme sous ton pouuoir penses tu la ranger? 

 Crois-tu ce peuple atteint d'vne telle folie 

 Qu'il recoiue d'abord vn Seigneur estranger? " 



" Et grand tout aduiendroit comme te le figure 

 L'espoir ambitieux d'vne vaine grandeur, 

 Ou penses-tu trouuer, et par quelle auanture 

 Vne femme t'aymant d'vne pareille ardeur? " 



(^Commentaires sur les Epistres d'Ovide, 

 tome ii. 129.) 



E. W. 



International Communication Tivo hundred Years 

 Ago. — King Charles II. wrote to Philip IV., King 

 of Spain, in May, 1662, complaining of Ihe Baron 

 de Batteville, his Catholic Majesty's ambassador 

 in England. The letter, which is in H. M. State 

 Paper Office, was folded and directed, but was 

 " not sent " — hear it, O Rowland Hill ! — " for 

 want of a conveyance." Secretary Nicholas has 

 assigned this reason for its non-transmission in an 

 endorsement on the original letter. W. N. S. 



uSiMtxiti, 



OLD BOOK-NOTE BY A MARTYK. 



T?he following exhortation and verses are writ- 

 ten on the fly-leaf of a copy of Tyridale's Testa- 

 ment (by John Daye and Wm. Seres, 1548) in 

 the Library of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. 

 They are interesting and worthy of preservation 

 as being, in all probability, among the last words 

 of a martyr;. 



The date attached to them is 1556, but appa- 

 rently in another handwriting. 



" Jesus Emanuell. 



" Unto the oft redinge and diligent studye of this booke 

 deare brother Thorn' S. there is manye swete blessings 

 and promysis anexd w^' owght to provoke and alure the 

 Christian harte to have all his felicite and pleasure in the 

 contvnuall meditacen herin : as in the daylye breade of 

 the sowle : w«i>owte the w'> it can no more lyve then the 

 bodye w"^owte corporall foode : Therfore he y' wolde have 

 his soule strong and lustye as well to do the will of God 

 as allso to resysf the assaultes of Satan must often feede 

 the same w*'' thys heavenly manna; w^^ whoso truly 

 eateth therof w* a lyvely faythe : shall never taste of 

 eternall deathe. Unto the oft 'redinge of thys booke joyn 

 contvnuall hartye prayer : And ever remebre Y' as when 

 you praye you speake unto Gtod : so when you reede God 



