April 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



.379 



This edition of the book does not appear to have 

 been known to Sir Alexander Croke : I will there- 

 fore give the general precepts for the twelve 

 months which are prefixed to it. 



Ante cibum vina 



tu sumas pro medicina. 



Non minuas, non balnearis. 



Mala ne patiaris. 



Hie assalure 



tibi sunt balnea quoque cure. 



{Ut vivas sane minuas venam 

 Medicinam. 

 f Carnes arescentes 

 \ non sume sed recentes. 

 r Sanus eris totus 

 \ si fons erit tibi potus. 

 f Ut tua te vita 

 \ non vitas balnea vita. 

 f Potio te lasdit 

 \ te quippe minutio sedat. 



{Tempore Septembris 

 prodest agrimonia membris. 



" Januarius 

 Februarius 

 Marcius 

 ApHlis 

 Mayus 

 Junius 

 Julius 

 Augustus 

 September 



October 



f Sumere que potes 



November 



December 



musti pocula potes. 

 f Hoc tibi scire datur 

 J quod reuma Novembri curatur, 

 I Potio sit Sana 

 |_atque minutio bona. 



{Sit tepidus potus 

 frigori contrarie totus." 



Such were the popular dietetics, and the alma- 

 nacks were made the vehicle of communicating 

 them. As late as the year 1659, Edmund Gay ton, 

 author of the Festivous Notes on Don Quixote, 

 put forth a book in verse entitled The Art of 

 Longevity, or a Dietetical Institution. He had 

 graduated in physic at Oxford, but in his book he 

 plays the part of a Merry Andrew more than that 

 of a physician. The book, however, is curious as 

 well as ^are. S. W. Singer. 



EPIGRAM ON DB. rELL. 



(Vol. v., pp. 296. 333.) 



Your correspondent E. F. may very probably 

 tave been informed, by ladies intimate with the 

 Sheridan family, that Tom Sheridan composed the 

 lines on Dr. Fell, respecting whose author and 

 subject Inquiries were made by a querist in 



Sage 296. ; but it is nevertheless quite untrue. 

 ly _ memory of those lines goes back to a date 

 earlier than Tom Sheridan's capacity for writing 

 an epigram; and this on Dr. Fell may be found, if 

 memory does not deceive me, in the Elegant Ex- 

 tracts in Verse, of a date at least as early as Tom 

 Sheridan's work. The subject of the epigram was 

 Dr. Fell, who held the deanery of Christ Church 

 with the bishopric of Oxford, in the times of 

 Charles ir. and James II. Its author probably 

 put it into circulation anonymously, as is usual 

 with such brief specimens of personal satire. 



As lodged in my memory, the third line was, — 

 " But this I'm sure I know full well." 



That Dr. Fell, with some learning and a cha- 

 racter for loyalty, had somewhat in him which a 

 discerning observer could not like, is become 

 notorious since the publication of his correspond- 

 ence with the obsequious and unprincipled Earl 

 of Sunderland respecting Locke, whom James II. 

 wished the Dean to deprive of the income he re- 

 ceived as a student of Christ Church. (See Ap- 

 pendix to Fox's History of Early Part of Reign of 

 James II.) Dr. Fell there tells the Earl that he 

 had long watched Mr. Locke, and made "strict in- 

 quiries," but that no person had ever heard him 

 speak a word against the government. He adds, 

 that language disparaging Locke's political friends 

 had frequently been used for the treacherous pur- 

 pose of provoking such replies as might have been 

 used to his ruin, but hitherto' all in vain ; and that, 

 as he had withdrawn to the Continent, some other 

 plan must now be adopted. He accordingly pro- 

 poses a mode of ensnaring him, subjoining, that if 

 the King would simply order his expulsion, the 

 mandate should be obeyed, without asking for any 

 proof of his deserving such a sentence. This was 

 accordingly done ; but In two short years the cir- 

 cumstances of all the parties were changed. The 

 Bishop and Dean was gone to appear before Him 

 who has said, " Ye shall do no unrighteousness in 

 judgment ;" the King had withdrawn to the Conti- 

 nent, expelled by his own terrors, and deprived of 

 his Inheritance ; Locke was returning to his native 

 land, to be counted one of its chief ornaments; 

 the Earl of Sunderland had betrayed his master, 

 and was desiring to be allowed to do any dirty 

 work for another. H. W. 



2£lepTie^ to iBinav HSiutvitS. 



Verses in Prose. — I consider the following not 

 to be an instance of casual versification by prose 

 authors : 



" Fides antiquitatis religlone firmatur. Stato tem- 

 pore in sylvam, 



' Auguriis patrura et prisca formldine sacram,' 



omnes ejusdem. sanguinis populi legationibus coe- 

 unt." — Tacit. Germ. cap. 39. 



But I consider it to be a quotation from some lost 

 Roman poet. It is too lofty and sonorous to be 

 casual, tliough such quotations are unusual to 

 the historian. A. N. 



Stops, when first introduced (Vol. v., pp. I. 

 133., &c.). — In order to assist Sir Henry Ellis 

 in his inquiry into the use of stops in the early 

 days of typography, I examined some of the ear- 

 lier specimens of printing which my library 

 afforded, and made the following notes. P. T. had 



