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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 128. 



The master work on the subject is, I believe, that 

 entitled Disquisitiones Magica, by MartinusDelrio. 

 Let me particularly refer your correspondent 

 R. S. F. to Lib. ii. of said volume, Qu^st. 4. 

 pp. 99., &c., and to Lib. v. sect. xvi. pp. 759., &c. 

 {Colonics Agrippince, 1633, 4to.) 



In turning over the leaves fortuitously, I stum- 

 bled upon the name of Catherine de Medicis, and 

 perhaps in a connexion that will render the legend 

 of the steel box not incredible : 



" Sic ille ipse, Bodino non ignotus, faciebat Italus 

 Parisiis, tam carus Catliarinas Medices, qui chirothecis, 

 globulis, vel pulveribus suave fragrantibus, alios solo 

 necabat odore illaesus ipse, et hoc pacto a se interfectam 

 Navarrre Reginam Albretham, veneni vi per nares in 

 cerebrum penetrante, gloriabatur. Vera causa est, haec 

 ex pacto fieri per dsmonem," &c. — Lib. iii. pars i, 

 queest, 3. sect. 2. p. 394. 



Rt. 



Warmington. 



The Word "shunt" (Vol. iii., p. 204.). — I can 

 confirm what Mr. Way says on this word. I have 

 looked for the word in all the dictionaries and 

 glossaries I could lay my hands upon, both in this 

 country and abroad, but in vain. Singular enough, 

 however, I have found it in the small edition of 

 Bailey, and in Dr. Ash's Dictionary. 



In reading the other day Victor Hugo's Notre 

 Dame, I met with the word Pignoii, which has 

 exactly the same signification as the Welsh word 

 Piniwn, the gable or pine end of a house. Is the 

 French word derived from the Welsh, or the 

 Welsh from the French ? or is the coincidence in 

 sound and sense purely accidental ? Perhaps 

 some of your Welsh correspondents can explain 

 this. E. Jones. 



Aberayron, Cardiganshire. 



*S'^. PauVs Quotation of Heathen Writei's (Vol. v., 

 p. 278.). — Acts xiv. 17. 'Teros does not occur, 

 according to the Indexes, in Sophocles, Euripides, 

 or Pindar, 



The style of the Hellenizing Jews was some- 

 times very poetical, as in the Wisdom of Solomon : 

 but in one of the most inflated passages in that 

 book, it does not go so far as ohpav6bev. It says 

 only ttTr' ovpavw. Nor does Wetstein quote ovpai/6- 

 bev from any author but Homer. Hesiod might 

 have been added (Passow), but that is the same 

 thing. It seems a word unfit for prose. 



Yi-aiphs Kapirofpopos is quoted by Wetstein from 

 Achmet. C. B. 



Hex Lucifer. — It would be a most horrid bar- 

 barism to impute to such a Latin poet as Milton 

 the use of this word for the devil ; although in 

 his theological poem he may have adopted that 

 popular and discreditable gloss upon Isaiah xiv. 

 The palace of the light-bringing king is no other 

 than that known to our earliest school-days, in 

 Ovid I. ad fin. 2. ad init. Phaethon passes the 



" posltos sub ignibus Indos," and then " patrlos 

 adit impiger ortus," where 



" Regia Soils erat sublimibus alta columnls," &c. 



Milton uses the word as an adjective, as in Ovid, 

 " luciferos, Luna regebat equos." Otherwise it 

 would necessarily signify the planet Venus, or 

 morning star. A. N. 



Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative (Vol. v., 

 p. 185.). — Miss Porter's letter speaks of the 

 piety and domestic concord of the Seawards. 

 Your readers may be amused to know that this 

 piety affords one proof of the fiction of the nar- 

 rative. They sometimes give the dates both of the 

 day of month and week, and derive together much 

 comfort from the singular applicability of passages 

 in the lessons for the day. When I was reading 

 the book, the days of the month and week fell the 

 same as in the narrative, and as it happened to be 

 at the same time of year too, I made the unpa- 

 latable discovery, that, however suitable the pas- 

 sages might be, they were not as they professed to 

 be, at least not always, from the lesson of the day. 



P. P. 



Spanish Verses on the Invasion of England 

 (Vol. v., p. 294.). — L. H. J. T. will find the 

 Spanish verses which form the subject of his 

 Query in Southey's Quarlerhj Review article on 

 Lord Holland's Life and Writings of Lope de 

 Vega (Quarterly Revieiv, vol. xviii. p. 6.), together 

 with the following lively version : 

 " My brother Don John 



To England is gone, 



To kill the Drake, 



And the Queen to take, 

 And the heretics all to destroy ; 



And he will give me, 



Wlien he comes back, 



A Lutheran boy 



With a chain round his neck ; 



And Grandmamma 



From Ills share shall have 



A Lutheran maid 



To be her slave." 



Southey's reference is, Romancero General. Me- 

 dina del Campo, 1602, ff. 35. The lines form part 

 of " a child's poem, or, more properly, a poem 

 written in the character of a child (a species of 

 playful composition at that time popular among the 

 Spaniards)," and are quoted by Southey, together 

 with an Ode by Luis de Gongora, to show the 

 exultant anticipation with which the success of the 

 Armada, in which expedition Lope de Vega had 

 entered himself as a volunteer, was expected by 

 the Spaniards. E. V. 



In the second volume of Mr. Ticknor's ad- 

 mirable History of Spanish Literature will be found 

 an English translation of the Spanish ballad re- 

 ferred to by your correspondent L.H. J.T. I am 



