Sud S. VIII. Nov. 5. '590 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



373 



" Bat the younger god grew merrioe, and raised a joyw^ia 

 carol — 

 And tlie elder rubbed hia ej'es and yawned, and made 

 a sudden burst, 

 Crying, * Hang it, you young vagabond, be ofif from 



that there barrel ! ' 

 . Then he finished it himself, uith his customary thirst. 



" Had they both together drunk, two hours less it would 

 have taken. 

 And Bacchus would have had just half he left Silenus 

 there ; 

 And now you're to discover (if your intellect's not 

 shaken) 

 How long each alone would take to drink that cask 

 of nectar bare. 



" Which if you do— and verify — quod erat demonstran- 

 dum. 

 This problem picturesque about the juices of the 

 grape — 

 I'll say that you are worthy to be driven in a tandem 

 With your ancient friend, Colenso, who is Bishop at 

 the Cape. 



" John Mauleverer." 

 [For the original prose of this equation, vide Colenso's 

 Algebra, Part II., St. John's College Equation Papers.] 



INSCRIPTIONS AND EPITAPHS. 



Inscriptions on Old Houses. — Over the door of 

 an old house in Lisburn not long since was the 

 following inscription : — 

 "H 



I I. 1708. 



"The year above this house erected. 

 This town was burnt y^ j'ear before. 

 People therein by law ejected, 

 God hath judgement still in store. 

 And that they do not Him provoke 

 To give to them a second stroke. 

 The Builder also doth desire, 

 At expiration of his lease. 

 The landlord living at that time 

 May think upon the builder's case." 



At the time the town was bui-nt (which hap- 

 pened on a Sunday through a girl throwing out 

 lighted cinders) the houses were covered with 

 shingles, and only two houses in Castle Street 

 escaped the conflagration. These houses were 



standing in 1827. Alfbed T. Lee. 



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Gateway Inscription. — The Perigord motto of 

 the Talleyrand family, Rien que Dieu, brings to 

 mind another no less remarkable, which was to be 

 seen up to the time of the Revolution over the 

 gateway of the Chateau de Lusignan in the Age- 

 nais : — 



" Lous Lusignan soun tan audessus des autres gens. 

 Que I'ore est audessus de I'argent." 



Thoinas Raikes's Journal, vol. iii, p. 267. 

 K. P. D. E. 



Sepulchral Inscription. — 



" In the nave is an interesting incised slab to an Eng- 

 lishman, like those common in Florence, of inlaid black 

 and white marble. The legend is as follows : — 



" ' Hie jacet egregius legum doctor magister Thomas 



Weston Anglicus qui obiit anno domini m cccc viij die 

 29 mensis Augustl cujus anima in pace requiescat.' 



" The arms are given argent a saltire sable. The tinc- 

 tures may be inaccurate, as tiiere are only two colours of 

 marble used in the slab." — Continental Ecclesioloqy, by 

 Rev. B. Webb, p. 392. 



K. P. D. E. 



Epitaph on a Dog at Irongate Stairs, Tower, 

 London. — I copied the following epitaph a few 

 days ago from the wall leading to the stairs, and, 

 if you think it worthy of a corner in " N. & Q.," 

 you are welcome to it : — 



" In Memory of Egj'pt, a favourite Dog, which belonged 

 to the Irongate Watermen. He was killed on 

 the 4th August, 1841. 

 Aged 10 j-ears. 

 " Here lies interred, beneath this spot, 

 A faithful dog who should not be forgot : 

 Full 15 years he watched here with care. 

 Contented with hard bed, and harder fare. 

 Around the Tower he daily used to roam. 

 In search of bits so savory, or a bone. 

 A military pet he was, and in the Docks 

 His rounds he always went at 12 o'clock, — 

 Supplied with cash, which held between his jaws, — 

 The reason's plain,— he had no hands but paws — 

 He'd trot over Tower Hill to a favorite shop, 

 There -eat his meal, and down his money drop. 

 To club he went on each successive night, — 

 Where dressed in jacket gay he took his pipe; 

 With spectacles on nose he plaj'ed his tricks. 

 And paw'd the paper, not the politics : 

 Going his usual round, near traitors' gate. 

 Infirm and almost blind he met his fate. 

 By ruthless kicic hurled from the wharf, below 

 The stones o'er which the gentle Thames do flow,^ 

 Mortally injured, soon resigned his breath. 

 Thus left his friends who here record his death. 

 Alas, poor Egypt ! " 



I give it to you verbatim et literatim, and I have 

 no doubt the watermen would be highly pleased 

 to see the epitaph in " black and white," and were 

 quite gratified at my notice of it. 



I have been assured from various sources of the 

 truthfulness of the Memoriam, and the watermen 

 themselves talk of him to the present day with 

 very warm expressions of regret. Geoege Lloyd. 



Curious Epitaph. — I think the following curious 

 epitaph, which is upon a stone monument on the 

 north wall of the chancel of the parish church of 

 Thurltqu in the co. of Norfolk, worthy of pre- 

 servation iu " N". & Q." : — 



^ Here lyeth in tearred the 



body of Ann Deney one of the 



eight daughters & coheires of 



William Sj'dnor. Esq'", and wife of 



Glover Denny, Gent, who departed 



this life the" 9ti^ of March in the 



yeare of our Lord 1665. 



"Reader stay and 5-ou shall heare. 

 With your eye, who 'tis lies here 

 For when stones doe silence brake 

 Th' voice is seene not heard to speake." 



G. W. M. 



