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froide ; elles sont si peu eloign^es I'une de I'autre qu'un 

 meme homme peut en mesme temps remplir deux 

 cruches, I'une d'eau chaude et I'autre d'eau froide ; mais 

 ce qui surprend le plus, c'est de voir des poissons vivans 

 nager au fond de cette eau bouillante, d'oii il ne paroit 

 pas possible de les pouvoir tirer autrement que cuits." — 

 Reference to Wagenseil, Synops, Geo., p. 653. 



R. S. Chabnock. 

 Gray's Inn. 



Common Place Books (1" S. xii. 478. ; 2°'' S. i. 

 486.) — Your correspondent F. C. H. will find an 

 excellent common-place book, paged and ruled, 

 ■with index, and with a short printed instruction 

 for use, published in 1820, entitled an Aid to 

 Memory, by J. A. Sargent ; sold by Wetton & 

 Jervis, publishers and stationers, Paternoster Row. 

 It is a thick quarto, and contains 574 pages, and 

 has a brass lock. I purchased mine in 1823, and 

 have found it of the greatest use. W. Colltns. 



Coffer (2'"> S. ii. 69.) — If Socius Dunelm will 

 refer to AVeale's excellent Dictionary of Terms in 

 Ai'cMtecture, Sfc, he will find that one meaning of 

 coffer is " a deep panel in a ceiling," and will pro- 

 bably be satisfied with the explanation thus 

 afforded of the passage quoted by him. Jeastes 

 of course means joists or beams. M. H. R. 



Merry England (2"<> S. ii. 3.) — Let me call 

 Mr. Keightley's attention to the following* note 

 to Jiiniieson's Kcempe Viser (I quote from the 

 note to canto iv. of Scott's Lady of the Lake) : 



"Jl/erry (Old Teut. mer«), famous, renowned; answer- 

 ing in its etymological meaning exactly to the Latin 

 inactus. Hence merry-men, as the address of a chief to his 

 followers, meaning not men of mirth but of renown. The 

 term is found in its original sense in the Gael, mara, and 

 the Welsh mnwr, great ; and in the oldest Teut. romances, 

 mar, mer, and mere, have sometimes the same significa- 

 tion." 



E. G. R. 



Pence a piece (2"-^ S. ii. 66. 99. 118.) — Evelyn 

 in his Acetaria, says of artichokes : 



" 'Tis not very long since this noble thistle came first 

 into Italy, improv'd to this magnitude \>y culture ; and 

 so rare in England that they were commonly sold for 

 crowns a piece." — Evelyn's Misc. Writ'mgs, by William 

 Upcott. 4to. Lond., 1825. p. 735. 



Zeus. 



BothwelVs last Place of Confinement (2"'' S. ii. 

 141.) — See Pieces et Documents relatifs au Comte 

 de Bothwell, privately printed by Prince Lebanoff, 

 St. Petersburg, 1856, royal 8vo. ; and relative 

 Notice sur la Collection des Portraits de Marie 

 Stuart appartenant au Prince Alexandre Lebanoff, 

 also privately printed in royal 8vo., same place 

 and date. These may, perhaps, be obtained from 

 Mr. Dolman, 61. New Bond Street. M. L. 



''Think of me'' (2">» S. ii. 109.) — Although 

 unable to inform X. H. where the poem may 



be found, I can, I think, assign the date of its 

 first publication as 1828-29, from the following 

 circumstance. The late Thomas Hood com- 

 menced the publication of his Comic Annuals in 

 1830, and the first of them (written in 1829) con- 

 tains many parodies on songs and poems which 

 were then popular. One of these parodies is 

 headed " Lines to a Lady, on her Departure for 

 India," and consists often verses, of which I send 

 the first, the similarity of which to the verse sent 

 by X. H. is apparent : 



" Go where the waves run rather Holborn-hilly, 

 And tempests make a soda-water sea ; 

 Almost as rough as our own Piccadilly, 

 And think of me!" 



JUVERNA. 



The lines in question will be found in a volume 

 entitled The Garden of Florence ; and other 

 Poems, by John Hamilton (a writer who deserves 

 to be better known), published by John Warren, 

 Old Bond Street, London, in 1821. 



H. E. Carbington. 



Bath. 



Posies on simple heavy Gold Rings (2"^ S. ii. 

 58.) — The following additions to the collection 

 already preserved in your pages have been made 

 since my communication. 



1. " Joye sans cesse. — B. L." 



2. " Loue alway, by night and day." 



3. " Filz ou fille. — Anthonj' Bacon, 1596." 



4. " To enjoy is to obey." 



5. " Loue for Loue." 



6. " Post spinas palma." 



7. " Liue to loue, loue to Hue." 



8. « All for all." 



9. " Mutuall forbearance. — 1742." 



10. " In loue's delight, spend day and night." 



11. " Love's sweetest proofe." 



12. " En bon foye." 



13. " Truth trieth Troth." 



14. " Beare and forbeare." 



15. " Lett nuptiall joye, our time employe." 



E. D. 



Husbands authorized to beat their Wives (2"'' S. 

 ii. 108.) — Your correspondent Henpecked may 

 be informed that, according to Blackstone, the 

 power of moderately correcting the wife, by the 

 old common law, belonged to the husband. The 

 civil law allowed him for some misdemeanours, 

 flagellis et fustibus acriter verberare uxorem, 

 for others only modicam castigationem adhibere. 

 This right began to be doubted in the reign of 

 Charles II., and latterly fell into disuse, except 

 among " the lower rank of people, who still claim 

 and exert their ancient privilege." I am sorry to 

 say that the same class in our day show as much 

 fondness for their ancient privilege as in Black- 

 stone's. This information, given almost exactly 

 in Blackstone's words, may be found in Commen- 

 taries, vol. i. p. 444., London, 1836, ed. Hovenden. 



Ebalc Lahii. 



