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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. VIII. July 2. '69. 



" Rich men who are full-handed do not understand 

 what a burthen it is for men to hang on every bush." — 

 Burroughs on Rosea. London, 1652, vol. i. 303. 



" If there be no peace in the heart, though you should 

 live to see outward peace, your sins would dog you, would 

 pursue vou, the terrors of the Almighty would he on you," 

 &c. — ib., 427. 



" In that they have staid, and born the brunt." — lb., 457. 



" It was wont to be a phrase, brown bread and the gospel 

 is good fare." — lb., 499. Also, vol. ii. 217. 



"You often tell your lavish wasting servants, they 

 will be glad of a crust before they die." — JR>., 276. 



" These people have Gunpowder spirits, that a little 

 spark of fire can so quickly blow them up." — lb., vol. 

 ii. 22. 



" Those things that one would think were as plain (as 

 we saj') as the nose on a man's face." — Ib. 25. 



" How diametrically cross is the language of Scripture, 

 and the doctrine of Papists ! Ignorance is the mother of 

 devotion, say they : * Ignorance is the mother of destruc- 

 tion,' saith God, * they perish for the waixt of knowledge.' " 



— /'•., 90. 



" Like your Chancellors and Commisaries Courts that 

 were wont to be, they cared not what offences there were, 

 they rejoiced at long presentments, all brought giist to their 

 mill." — lb., lOQ. 



" Ministers were oppressed in their estates, their liber- 

 ties, but especially in their consciences, if they would not 

 be like the fiddler's boy, be ready to dance after every pipe." 



— 76., 466. 



" Wise discerning men can see day at a little hole, as we 

 use to say." — R., 562. 



" You put me to a stand, you even non plus me in this 

 thing." — lb., 568. Also, vol. iii. 263. 



" They boulstered up themselves." — lb., 598. 



" We use to say, ' Well, you shall never be a peny the 

 better for me.' " — Ib., 605. 



" They had a proverb in Germany, that the monks 

 were so wicked, there was nothing so bad which they 

 could think of, but they would dare do it." — lb., 632. 



" They /afAered their errors on me." — J6., 686. 



" Now, their hearts are like to dead beer, all their spirit 

 and life is quite gone." — lb., 128. 



" Many have very fair pretences, they think they have 

 this, and that warrant out of the Scripture for it, but all 

 the while there is a pad in the straw, there is their living 

 and trading, and estates and friends that they have an 

 eye upon, and it is that which byasses their hearts and 

 spirits." • — Vol. iii. 153. 



" If the worst come that can, I hope we may have time 

 enough to get one way or other to make shift to live, and 

 these back doors that their eyes are upon, have made them 

 less solicitous about, and less helpful in the great things 

 that God calls all together to joyn together with al their 

 strength," &c. — lb., 182. 



" No men or women have their hearts sink in despera- 

 tion more than those that, in ruffe of their pride, are the 

 most bold and presumptuous against God, and His ser- 

 vants." — lb., 360. 



" Justice should be like the water in the Thames, that 

 the poorest of all, may have it, for the very fetching ofH0 



— Ib., 374. 



" Oh ! what foul souls many of them have, their beauty 

 is but skin deep." — lb., 434. 



" We use to say, ' it's a woman's reason to say, I will 

 do such a thing because / wil it.' " — Vol. iv. 80. 



" They leave them in the lurch many times." — lb., 172. 



" If those who are the dear Saints of God, that worship 

 Him in truth and sincerity, and have evils among them, 

 but yet they sh nil not escape scot free, Oh! then, what 

 will become of thee." — lb., 215. 



"Ofgoodsillgot, 

 The third heir joyeth not." 

 Burroughs on Hosea. London, 1652, vol. iv. 819. 

 " We call rich men substantial men, such a man (we 

 saj') is a substantial man, for indeed all the substance 

 that the world looks after is riches, they account it sub- 

 stance." — lb., 325. 



" Having got himself warm in the nest," &c. — lb., 423. 

 " As we speak of some, ' Give them line enough, and 

 they will quickly hang themselves." — lb., 517. 



" They are presently upon the merry pin," — lb., iii. 139. 



S. M. S. 

 (Zb he continued.') 



Sqimring the Circle. — Of course you and many 

 of your readers are acquainted with the game of 

 " squaring " a given word, which has of late been 

 current in society. I do not know whether any 

 notice of this ingenious amusement falls within 

 your field. If so, you will perhaps put upon 

 record the " squaring of the circle " which I send 

 you. It is as follows : — 



ESTEEM. 



The condition of this squaring is that every 

 line, horizontal and vertical, shall be a known 

 word. 



There are very probably other ways of " squar- 

 ing the circle :" if so, I should be glad to see them. 



I may remark that the reason why the circle is 

 especially difficult to square in this way is, that 

 in it three consonants come together, r c l ; and 

 these of course, in making the other words, must 

 each be followed by a vowel or a liquid. W. W. 



Oxfordshire Proverb. — In Fuller's Worthies of 

 Oxfordshire, I find the following proverb among 

 the old county sayings, and forward it with a por- 

 tion of the author's comment. Let me add that 

 the large sweeping dress, at present in fashion, 

 has been a subject of reproof and satire whenever 

 It has appeared, from the time of Latimer to this 

 day. Farthingales^ or verdingales, are defined by 

 Johnson as " circles of whalebone used to spread 

 out the petticoat to a wide circumference" : — 

 " Send Verdingales to Broad Gates * in Oxford. 



" This will acquaint us with the female habit of former 

 ages, used not only by the gadding Dinahs of that age, 

 but by most sober Sarahs of the same — so cogent is a 

 common custom. With these verdingales, the gowns of 



* The allusion is to Pembroke College, in Oxford, 

 which at one time " received the name of Broad Gates 

 from the wide form of its entrance, ' Aula cum lata portS.,' 

 or ' Aula latfe portensis.' " 



