June 26. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the passions or imagination. It is to be lamented that 

 the part of the Poeticks in which he has given pre- 

 cepts for comedy did not likewise descend to posterity." 



A considerable number of notes, iu the same 

 handwriting, are also in the volume. J. M. 



Oxford. 



Misappropriated Quotation. — I have heard the 

 following passage of Lord Bacon's, Essay Vlil., 

 and by a Cambridge D.D. too, so far as the word 

 " fortune," attributed to Paley : 



« He that hath a wife and children hatli given hos- 

 tages to fortune, for they are impediments to great 

 enterprises. The best works of the greatest merit for 

 the public have proceeded from unmarried *nd child- 

 less men." 



B. B. 



The God Arciacon. — In a Descriptive Account 

 of the Antiquities in the Grounds and in the Museum 

 of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, drawn up 

 by the learned Curator of the antiquities, at 

 page 20. I find the following inscription and ex- 

 planation : — 



" N. III. An altar recently discovered in the rubble 

 foundation, under one of the pillars of the church of 

 St. Dionis, Walmgate, York. It is inscribed : 



DEO 



ARCIACON 



ET N. AVG. SI 



MAT. VITA LIS 



CRD V. S. LM. 



"Which may be read thus: deo Arciacon et Numini 

 Augusti Simatius Vitalis Ordovix Votum solvit llbens 

 merito, i.e. To the God Arciacon and to the Divinity 

 of Augustus, Simatius Vitalis, one of the Ordovices, 

 discharges his vow willingly, deservedly — namely, by 

 dedicating this altar. There is nothing in this in- 

 scription to indicate its date, or the Emperor to whose 

 divinity, in part, the altar is dedicated. The god 

 Arciacon, whose name occurs in no other inscription, 

 was probably one of those local deities to whom the 

 Roman legions were so prone to pay religious reve- 

 rence, especially if in the attributes ascribed to them 

 they bore any resemblance to the gods of their own 

 country. If the reading and interpretation of ord be 

 right, Vitalis was a Briton ; and Arciacon may have 

 been a deity acknowledged by the Ordovices, who 

 occupied the northern parts of Wales." 



In the name arciacon I fancy that I see in a 

 Latinized form the British words arch iachawr, 

 i.e. the Supreme Healer. Arch has the same mean- 

 ing in Welsh as it has in the English and several 

 other languages. In combination it is shortened 

 to Ar, as in Yr Arglwdd Dduw, the Lord God. 

 My conjecture Is, that the Britons may have wor- 

 shipped a God whose attributes resembled those 

 of the -3iisculapius of the Greeks. I hope that 

 some of the contributors to " N. & Q." will be so 

 kind as to give some information on this subject. 



Gat-tothed. — I do not know whether this mys- 

 terious word in the description of the " Wife of 



Both," has been satisfactorily explained since the 

 time of Tyrwhitt ; but perhaps the following pas- 

 sage may suggest a new reading in addition to 

 " cat-tothed " and " gap-tothed," which he gives in 

 his note on Canterbury Tales, p. 470. : 



" The Doctor deriveth his pedigree from Grono ap 

 Heylyn, who descended from Brocknel Skythrac, one 

 of the princes of Powis-land, in whose family was 

 ever observed that one of them had a gag-iooth, and 

 the same was a notable omen of good fortune." — 

 Barnard's Life of Heylyn, p. 75., reprinted in Heyl, 

 Hist. Ref. Eccl. Hist. Soc, i. xxxii. 



Query, What was a gag-tooth f The "Wife" 

 herself says, 



" Gat-tothed I was, and that became me wele, 

 I hold the print of Sciinte Venus sele." — 6185-6. 



J. C. R. 



Goujere. — The usage of this word by Shak- 

 speare (In the Second Part of Henry IV.) is 

 another proof that he took refuge In Cornwall, 

 when he fled from the scene of his deerstalking 

 danger. The Goujere Is the old Cornish name of 

 the Fiend, or the Devil ; and is still in use among 

 the folk words of the West. 



C. E. H. MOKWENSTOW. 



The Ten Commandments in Ten Lines. — In 

 looking over the Registers of the Parish of Lane- 

 ham, Notts, last April, 1 discovered on one of the 

 leaves the Commandments with the above title 

 It Is signed " Richard Christian, 1689:" he was 

 vicar at that time. 



" Have thou no other Gods Butt me. 

 Unto no Image bow thy knee 

 Take not the name of God in vain 

 Doe not thy Sabboth day profaine 

 Honour thy ffather and INlother too 

 And see y' thou no murder doo 

 ffrom vile Adultry keep the cleane 

 And Steale not tho thy slate lie meane 

 Bear no fFalse Witness, shun y* Blott 

 What is thy neighbour's Couet not. 



Whrite these thy Laws Lord in my heart 

 And Lett me not from them depart." 



S. Wiswori.i>. 



Vellum-bound Books. — In a list of thirty books 

 printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, and Issued 

 in 1773, I find the phrase two volumes bound in one 

 in the vellum manner in seven instances ; also, four 

 volumes bound in two in the vellum manner; and, 

 six volumes bound in three in the vellum manner. 

 In other cases we have only the word bound or 

 sewed. I have a suspicion that the phrase in the 

 vellum manner may have some obsolete meaning ; 

 and submit this note to the consideration of those 

 who are in search of a vellum-bouvd Junius. 



Bolton Coknby, 



