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[2"'» S. VIII. Oct. 29. '59. 



pays a visit to Pern, where his life is saved by one of the 

 Virgins of the Sun. Previously, however, she imposes 

 an oath : — " Ce que je vais faire me coiitera probable- 

 ment la vie, mais je vais sauver la tiennci Jure-moi par 

 le Dieu que tu portes h ton cou de ne jamais reveler ce 

 que tu verras, et suis-moi " (p. 56.). She then conducts 

 him to a safe retreat in the subterranean treasurj' of the 

 " Ingas." Can this be the "oath of Vargas" ? Certainly 

 the Don did not keep it ; for he proceeds at once to tell 

 us what he saw under-ground.] 



Julitcs Ccpsar's Dispatch. — Where can I find 

 the celebrated dispatch of Julius Csesar to the 

 Senate of Rome, of Veni, Vidi, Vici, for I have 

 not yet been able to find the author who men- 

 tions it, or where it is to be found ? S. R. 



^This celebrated sententious dispatch is mentioned by 

 Plutarch in his Life of Julius Cjesar. He says, "In the 

 account Cresar gave Amintius, one of his friends in Rome, 

 of the rapidity and despatch with which he gained his 

 victory over Pharnaces, he made use only of three words, 

 Veni, Vidi, Vici. Their having all the same form and 

 termination in the Roman language adds grace to their 

 conciseness." Suetonius (^J. CcBsar, xxxviii.) does not 

 mention it as a despatch, but as an inscription upon a 

 banner carried before Caesar, as suggestive of the celerity 

 of the victory.] 



Quarles. — I have before me a volume of 

 Quarles's Poems ; the title-page runs as follows : — 



"Divine Poems; containing the History of Jonah, 

 Esther, Job, Sampson. Together with Sion's Sonnets 

 and Elegies. Written and Augmented by Francis 

 Quarles. Now illustrated with Sculptures to the several 

 Histories, not in the former editions. London, printed 

 for Geo. Sawbridge, at the Three Flower-de-Luces in 

 Little Britain, 1706." 



My object is to inquire whether the sculptures 

 exist anywhere but on the title-page ? My copy 

 is in the original binding, and it is evident that 

 no illustrations have been torn out, yet none are 

 to be found throughout the volume. Could some 

 correspondent kindly inform me if the sculptures 

 exist, and, if so, what are their number and cha- 

 racter? Libya. 



[In the edition of Quarles' Divine Poems above referred 

 to, there should be, as the title-page intimates, " sculp- 

 tures " to each history, namely, six sm. 8vo. pages, each 

 containing /owr illustrations; besides the "effigies" of 

 the author and an engraved title-page, the latter ex- 

 hibiting a man poised upon a human skull, with a crown 

 and sceptre above his head. The entire series of illus- 

 trations is very poor indeed.] 



" Breeches Bible." — A curious old Bible has 

 just come into my hands, and I should like to 

 know whether it is of any value. It is imperfect, 

 having lost first twenty chapters of Genesis. It is 

 bound in oak, covered with leather, and had iron 

 clasps. At the end of the Bible is " Imprinted at 

 London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 

 Printer to the Queene's most excellent Maiestie, 

 1599." Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms are 

 added at the end, together with Venite, Te 

 Deum, Lord's Prayer, Creeds, Ten Command- 

 ments, &c. &c., arranged in metre, and with the 



first verses set to music. Can you tell me who 

 turned these into rhymes, and who composed the 

 music? There is a commentary running round 

 and at the foot of the pages all through the Reve- 

 lation, called on the first page the " Annotations 

 of Francis lunius." Who was he ? In the " Song 

 of S. Ambrose, called Te Deum," in metre, oc- 

 curs " To thee Cherub and Seraphim, to cry they 

 doe not lin." This evidently means to cease, but 

 the derivation I cannot make out. Can anyone 

 assist me ? U. U. U. U. 



[This is the commonest of all the Genevan or Breeches 

 Bibles. (See 1 Cor. vi, 9.) Sternhold and Hopkins first 

 published the Metrical Psalms, and to manj' of them 

 placed the initials of the versifier. Francis Junius was a 

 learned Dutch divine, whose life is to be found in every 

 biographical Dictionary. The word "lin" is from the 

 A.-S. he-Unnen, to cease or stop, to desist. See Richard- 

 son's Dictionary. The music, especially " The Old Hun- " 

 dredth," cannot be traced ; probably it was brought bj- the 

 Marian refugees from Switzerland. — George Offok.] 



Astrological Prediction of Moore's Almanack. — 

 There is an annual publication entitled Vox Stel- 

 larum, or a Loyal Abnanack, professing to tell 

 future events from the position of the heavenly 

 bodies, " by Francis Moore, Physician," with, I 

 rather think, a motto of "Etiam mortuus loquitur," 

 the sagacious Doctor having ceased to exist for at 

 least a century. But I wish to call the attention of 

 the readers of " N. & Q.'' to his Almanack for 

 April, 1807, in which (p. 9.) he prophesied the 

 death of the Turkish emperor, and adds, " if he can 

 save his life let him ; I give him fair warning of 

 it." Now I do not recollect how this prophecy 

 was fulfilled, that is the quomodo, but I remember 

 that the Sultan died upon the promulgation of 

 this prediction, whether from alarm or fright, or 

 whether it was suggestive of the use of the bow- 

 string by which his existence was terminated. 

 Perhaps, as the matter is curious, some reader of 

 " N. & Q." will be able to inform me ? *. 



[Moore, in his Almanack of the following j'ear (April, 

 1808, p. 9.), has the following note : " The Turks and 

 Russians are very shy of each other ; and let the Turks 

 beware, lest they fall like their late Emperor Selim, whose 

 fall I predicted in April last." Our prognosticator seems 

 to have hit the mark for once, for Selim HI. was deposed 

 on May 29, 1807, and murdered July 28, 1808.] 



Eikon Basilica. — Will you kindly inform me 

 by what marks the editio princeps of the Eikcoj' Ba- 

 (tlKikt] may be known ? A copy which has given 

 rise to this question has the following title, "Ej»ca)c 

 BocriAtK^. The Povrtraictvre of His Sacred Ma- 

 iestie in his Solitudes and Svff'erings. Rom. viii. 

 More then Conquerour, &c. Bona agere, et mala 

 pati, Regium est. m dcxlviii." Page 253. is 

 numbered 25., and begins, " which oft happineth 

 as well in clear as clowdy dayes." If 7iot the first 

 edition I shall be glad to know which. B. H. C. 



[The copy of Eikon Basilica described by our corre- 

 spondent is the first edition, published on Feb. 9, 1648-9, 



