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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 116. 



the 4tli day of October, 1535, — probably at Co- 

 logne, because other books printed there about 

 that time have tlie same initials, wood-cuts, and 

 type. A copy, with the original title-page, is in 

 the Holkhaiii library, having, on the reverse, part 

 of the list of books, showing that originally it was 

 without a dedication ; this has the words, "Douche 

 and Latyn," When the dedication was printed, 

 this title was cancelled and a new one printed, 

 still with the words " Douche and Latyn," with 

 the reverse blank. A fine copy of this is in the pos- 

 session of Earl Jersey, and one with the title-page 

 repaired is in the British Museum. Perfect copies 

 have a map of Palestine. In 1537, this book was 

 reprinted, both in folio and quarto, probably at 

 Antwerp, and in these the words " from the 

 Douche and Latyn" were very properly omitted, 

 Coverdale being still living to see them through 

 the press ; these are ornamented with large initial 

 letters with a dance of death, and are the rarest 

 volumes in the English language. In these the 

 dedication is altered from Queen Anne to Queen 

 Jane, as the wife of Henry VIII. They were all 

 dedicated to the king and to the queen ; the two 

 latter are all in Old English type. These were 

 followed by an edition dedicated to Edward VI. 

 in a Swiss type, 4to., printed at Zurich by Chr. 

 Froschover, and published under three titles — 

 1st, as the translation of Thos. Matthewe; 2nd, as 

 the translation of Myles Coverdale, London, by 

 Andrew Hester, 1550; and 3rd, London, by Jugge, 

 1553. These are books of great rarity, and may 

 be all seen in my library by any of your readers, 

 sanctioned by a note from you or any minister of 

 religion. My first edition has several uncut leaves. 



The introduction of the words "from the Douche 

 (meaning Luther's German) and Latyn " has never 

 been accounted for ; they probably were inserted 

 by the German printer to make the volume more 

 popular, so as to interest reformers by the German 

 of Luther, and Romanists by the Vulgate Latin, 

 The translation is certainly from the Hebrew and 

 Greek, compared with Luther's and the Vulgate. 



George Offob. 



Grove Street, Victoria Park. 



Age of the Oak. — The late Queries respecting 

 the age of trees, remind me of some lines of which 

 I have been long in search — 



" The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, 

 Shoots risinf^ up, and spreads by slow degrees: 

 Three centuries he grows, and three he stays 

 Supreme in state ; and in three more decays." 

 I think it probable that they are from a play of 

 Dryden or Otway; but some of your readers may 

 probably be able to answer this Query. T. C. 



Durham. 



[In Richardson's Dictionary, as well as in the En- 

 cyclopmdia Metropolitana, these lines are quoted under 

 the word Patriarch, as from The Cock and the Fox, by 



Dryden ; whereas Bysshe, in his Jrt of English Poetry ^ 

 under the word Oak, refers us to Dryden's Ovid. In 

 neither of these pieces do they occur ; our correspon- 

 dent, however, will find them in Dryden's Palamon and- 

 Arcite, or the Knight's Tale, line 2334.] 



Olivarius. — Can any of your readers inform me 

 what is the title of a book written by Olivarius, a. 

 French astrologer, 1542, in which there is a pro- 

 phecy relative to France, and somewhat similar to 

 that of St. Caasarius (p. 471.) ? What was his" 

 christian name, and in what library is the work to 

 be found ? Clericus D. 



Dublin. 



[Maittaire, in his Annales Typograph., torn. v. pt. li. 

 p. 102., notices the following work : " Olivarius ( Petrus 

 Joannes) Valentinus de Prophetia. Basileas ex officina 

 Joannis Oporini, 1543, mense Augusto." From the 

 catalogues of the British Museum and the Bodleian, it. 

 does not appear to be in eitlier of these libraries.] 



Vincent Bourne's Epilogiis in £unuchum Te- 

 rentii. — W^ill any of your readers inform ma 

 whether an Epilogue to the Eunuch of Terence, 

 written by V. Bourne, and spoken in 1746, has 

 ever been printed in any, and what, edition of 

 Bourne's Poems ? Gnatho appears on the stage, 

 dressed as a recruiting sergeant, with several re- 

 cruits, and thus begins : 

 " Siste — tace — Gnatho sum Miles, cum gloria elves. 



Evocat ad Martem, quis parasitus erit? 

 Aut quis venari ccenas et prandia malit, 



Nobile cui stimulet pectus honoris amor?'* 

 And the concluding lines are : 

 " Arma viros facicnt — Vosmet simul arma geratis, 

 Scribatis, jubeo, protinus armigeros : 



Hac lege, ut conclametis. Rex Vivat ; idemque 

 Tu repetas, Stentor noster, utriique manu." 



This epilogue is in my possession in MS., the 

 handwriting of my father, who was, in 1746, a 

 scholar of Westminster College. It should seem, 

 from a letter written to the Gentleman s Magazine 

 by the late Archdeacon Nares, in April, 1«26, 

 and reprinted in Nichols's Illustrations, vol. vii. 

 p. 656., that he was in possession of a copy, 

 as he there tenders it to the editor of the sixtk 

 edition o^ Bourne, which had then (1826) recently 

 issued from the Oxford press. W. S- 



Richmond, Surrey. 



[The Epilogue referred to will be found in the 

 beautiful edition of Vinny Bourne's Poems, published 

 by Pickering in 1840, and in the Ge.ntlenian''s Maga- 

 zine, May, 1826, p. 450, where, however, the first line 

 reads — 

 ' Siste, tace; Gnatho sum Miles, ciuu gloria pa/c/tra,'&c.] 



Burton, Bp., Founder of Schools, &j-c., at 

 Loughborough, co. Leicester. — Can any of your 

 genealogical readers give a clue to his family, and 

 their armorial bearings ? J. K. 



[Thomas Burton was a French merchant, not a pre- 

 late. A short notice of him and his gifts will be found 



