Sept. 29. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Book Inscription. — In a manuscript copy-book 

 of the time of Charles II., in my possession, the 

 following curious Latin-English doggrel occupies 

 the first page : 



" Cujus hie liber, if that you would know, 

 In cluobus litteris, I will you show ; 

 Prima est A, splendat see bright, 

 Altera est E, in all men's sight ; 

 Junge has litteras, cunningly, 

 Et scias meum nomen presently. 

 Si meum nomen you chance to miss, 

 Aspice subtu, and there it is. 



" Anthony Eaton, October 12th, 1G73." 



J.K. 



The old Word ^^ wanned.'" — In Tennyson's 

 3Iaud, I. 3., I observe the revival of an old perfect 

 tense, which, in my opinion, deserves to hold its 

 place in our language : 



" Did he iling himself down ? Who knows? for a great 

 • speculation had fail'd. 



And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd 

 with despair." 

 I say the revival of an old perfect tense, because 

 I do not remember to have seen the word wanned 

 used, except in Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2. : 



« Is it not monstrous, that this player here. 

 But in a fiction, in a dream of passion. 

 Could force his soul so to his own conceit. 

 That from her working all his visage wanned." 



It is singular that Johnson, though he quotes 

 the passage from Hamlet, classes this word as an 

 adjective formed from wan. 



Is not wanned the perfect, and wan the past 

 participle of the verb " to wane ?" Erica. 



Warwick. 



Will of Richard Knyvet, temp. Henry VII. — 

 Many years ago my grandfather, Mr. Bradney of 

 Ham, found some wills in a chest in Kingston 

 Church, Surrey. He copied several, one of which 

 I send to "N. & Q.," thinking it might be accept- 

 able : 

 " The Will of Richard Knyvet, Luter, tempore Henry VIL 



" In the name of God, Amen. The viiith day of the 

 moneth of Aprill, the yere of our Lord God 1497, and in 

 the xiith yere of the regno of Kyng Henry the Vllth, I, 

 Richard Knyvet of Southwerk in the countie of Surr', 

 luter, beying in holl mynd and clere memory, thanked be 

 our Lord God, make and ordeyn this my testament and 

 last will in maner ensuyng. I'irst, I bequeth my sowU to 

 Almighty God, my Maker and Savyour, and to the glori- 

 ous Vergeyn our lady Seynt Mary his blesset Moder, and 

 to all the holy company of hevjn, and my body to be 

 buryed in the church hawe of my parysh church of Seynt 

 Mary Magdalene, in Southwerk beforesaid, in such place 

 or buryell that the cross there shall stand on the right 

 syde of my burying. Item, 1 bequeth to the high awter 

 of the said church, for my olFeryngs forgotten, iiiid Item, 

 I bequeth to Willin Wath my servant my hanger and my 

 dager, with all that longeth to theym, my whyt fustian 

 doblet, a lute and the case thereto. Item, I bequeth to 

 the coiuon box of the brethered of Seynt Antony, xiid 

 The residew of all my goods, not bequethed after that my 

 No. 309.] 



debts ben payed, my burying made, and this my will 

 fulfylled, I bequeth holy unto Mawde my wyff, therewith 

 to do and dyspose at her own free will ; and of this my 

 testament I make and ordeyn the said Maude my hole 

 executrix. In witness whereof hereto I have set my 

 seall. Written the day and yer' aforesaid. These wit- 

 nesses, Syr Hugh Newton, prest, and William Camp, 

 notary." 



Julia R. Bockett. 

 Southcote Lodge. 



" Tertium quid." — This expression in the scho- 

 lastic philosophy appears to have originated with 

 the Pythagoreans, who said : 



"'Al/flpcOTTOS StTTOUS 60-TI, KoX opvl'S KoX TplTQV O.W0." 



" Sunt bipes homo et avis et tertium quid." 

 By tertium quid, says Jamblicus (Z)e Vita Py- 

 thag., c. xxvii. p. 133.), was meant Pythagoras; 

 adding, — 



ToiouTO? fiev ovi' Sict ttj;' evcre'jSeiai' ?iv, koX en-l Trji dXrjfletas 

 ivoiJii^eTO Ici/ai." 



" So highly was he distinguished for piety and truth." 

 The disciples herein followed their master, who 

 himself imitated the oracular style in his maxims : 



" 'EyyeTwi' a.Tro<j>9eyiJ.a.Tiai' ioiKvla, Sia. ro apxaC^eiv toJ x^-f^i^' 

 T^pt Kaddnep Koi to, Oela tw ovti koX iru66xpy)<TTa Adyia, Svcr 

 Trapa. KoKov9riTa Trws ical Soaepp.yjvevra <J)aiVeTat rots ek irapipyov 

 XP'ta'Tripia^op.dvoii." , 



Translated by Theodoretus : 



" Apophthegmatum qua3 ab magnis et fortibus homi- 

 nibus producta essent, quod charactere et forma orationis 

 prisca uterentur, quemadmodum et ea, quse vere divina 

 sunt, et ab Deo edita oracula videntur inimitabilia, 

 quasque nemo sequi et interpretari possit lis, qui quasi 

 aliud agendo et obiter responsa petunt." — Id. c. xxxiv, 

 pp. 207, 1598. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



Portrait of Andrew Marvell. — Is it known who 

 painted the portrait of Andrew Marvell ? as I 

 have in my possession a very old and beautiful 

 portrait of that remarkable man, evidently painted 

 by one of the great masters. J. W. 



Dublin. 



'"'' By touch ethereal vmfted into Heaven." — Who 

 is the author of the following line, descriptive of 

 death by lightning ? — 



" By touch ethereal wafted into Heaven." 

 A Descendant or Christopher Smart. 

 Reading. 



International Copyright Law. — I am constantly 

 in "hot water" since the passing of the various 

 copyright laws and international conventions, 

 with respect to translations and adaptations from 

 foreign publications. I should feel much obliged 

 if you could inform me if there is any law book 

 published, explaining the technicalities of the 

 international copyright question. Translator. 



