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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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press of John Hayes, a 12mo. volume in three 

 parts, containing the Latin Poems of Peter Du 

 Moulin, the younger, Prebendary of Canterbury, 

 and Chaplain to Charles II. The first part, in 68 

 pp., is entitled "Poematum Libellus Primus," and 

 contains thirteen Hymns on the Apostles' Creed. 

 The second book (pp. 48.) is entitled " Ecclesise 

 Gemitus proximo post piaculare Regicidium 

 mense, Londini primum editi." Of this and the 

 following book my copy bears on the title-page 

 the date 1669. The third book (pp. 151.) has the 

 title " Sylva Variorum." Then follows (pp. 54.) 

 " Petri Molinaei P. F. nAPEPrxiN Incrementum." 

 The lines concerning which Ithubiel inquires 

 are to be found (pp. 36-42.) in the second book. 

 They are entitled " In impurissimum Nebulonem 

 Joannem Miltonum," &c. (not Miltonem), and con- 

 tain, not 24, but 246 lines. Of this coarse and 

 discreditable production, the following lines are a 

 sufficient sample : — 



" Ten' sterquilinium, ten' cucurbitae caput 

 Ausuni Monarchas rodere et Salmasios ! 

 Nunc bufo pardum, bubalum mus verberet, 

 Opicus leonis vellicet sorex jubas. 

 Insultet urso eruca, milvio culex : 

 Scarabaei amicam concacent avem Jovi 

 Ipsumque raerdis inquinent albis Jovem." 



In the third book (pp. 141, 142.) Du Moulin 

 gives a curious note on this Satire, in which he re- 

 lates how he had sent the MS. of his book entitled 

 " Clamor Regii Sanguinis " to Salmasius, and 

 how Salmasius entrusted it to the editorial care 

 of Alexander* More. Milton, learning from his 

 correspondents in Holland the part Alex. More 

 had taken in conducting the work through the 

 press, supposed him to be its author, and attacked 

 him with great bitterness in his Defensio Secunda 

 pro Populo Anglicano. Du Moulin tells us how, 

 in silence, and with no little amusement, he be- 

 held the progress of the controversy, and watched 

 Milton, blind and full of fury, fighting and strik- 

 ing the air like the Andabata3 (i. e. Gladiators 

 who fought in the dark, being blinded by helmets 

 without any opening for the eyes), knowing neither 

 whom he struck at, nor by whom he was hit. But 

 More, growing cold in the royal cause, and un- 

 equal to the burthen of republican hatred, dis- 

 claimed the authorship of the " Clamor Regii 

 Sanguinis," and called two witnesses who knew the 

 real author. Du Moulin now supposed himself 

 in great danger, but says he was saved by Mil- 

 ton's pride, who, having reviled More as the au- 

 thor of the book, did not choose to expose himself 

 to ridicule by confessing his mistake, but conti- 

 nued to treat More as the author. The members 

 of his party were thus, by regard to consistency, 

 prevented from proceeding against Du Moulin, 

 who, however, felt no gratitude for the protection 

 he thus unexpectedly received through one whom 

 he had most contumeliously attacked. Ithuriel 

 will find in Todd's Life of Milton (pp. 160, 161.) 



some curious particulars of Du Moulin. Aubrey 

 mentions that Milton was assured through the am- 

 bassador (from Holland) that More was not, but 

 that Du Moulin was, the writer of the " Clamor ;" 

 but Milton, who had by that time completed his 

 Defensio Secunda, replied that as he had written 

 the book, it should go forth, and that More was 

 as bad as Du Moulin. 



Du Moulin's poems contain references to his 

 friends as well as his enemies ; i. e. the Hon. 

 Henry Clifford and Richard Boyle, Dr. Peter 

 Gunning, Wm. Barker, Thomas Fotherby, Nicho- 

 las Brett, and Thomas Watson, a Fellow of St. 

 John's College ; Castillo, Archbishop Juxon, and 

 George Oxinden. A prose composition entitled 

 " Villa Cambrica " shows that Du Moulin had no 

 perception of the beauty of wild mountainous 

 scenery ; and a poem on tobacco eloquently ex- 

 presses his abhorrence of that seducing weed. I 

 have only to add, that if Ithueiel has any diffi- 

 culty in obtaining this curious volume, I shall be 

 happy to give him the opportunity of seeing my 

 copy. R. Bbook Aspland. 



1. Frampton Villas, South Hackney. 



THE GROTESQUE IN CHURCHES, ETC. 



(2'"i S. viii. 130. 196. 236.) 



This very interesting subject is a very compli- 

 cate and difficult one ; one, too (it seems to me), 

 which cannot be settled in an off-hand way, or 

 explained by any one theory alone. 



I. Much of it may be explained by the intense 

 Realism of the Mind of the Middle Ages, and the 

 vivid sense of the Unseen World which then pre- 

 vailed. The ceaseless Conflict between the Powers 

 of Good and Evil, which rages around and within 

 the Church, was an ever-present reality. Thus 

 the Scorn and Hate, the Masques and Mockeries 

 of Evil Spirits and Heretics (as Arius) ; Human 

 Nature, fallen and distorted, showing itself in 

 Evil Passions and False Teachers, &c. &c., — all 

 these were symbolically sculptured on the outside 

 of Churches, and sometimes, though not so often, 

 within. 



III. The anthropopathic policy of the Church 

 in the Middle Ages must doubtless be taken into 

 consideration ; the Church, absorbing the evils she 

 could not expel, and hoping to catch corrupt 

 Human Nature or Paganism by apparent compro- 

 mise and indulgence, cries Populus vult decipi, et 

 I decipiatw, and — catches a Tartar. 

 ! III. Much of it is assigned to the disgraceful 

 { contests between the Regular and the Secular 



Clergy ; but I have never seen this proved. 

 - Take any view or views we believe true, and yet 

 j we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the many 

 i Scandals and Eccentricities we sum up in this case 

 I under the word Grotesque, testify to the gross 



