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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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light is rather a strange expression; and "jour- 

 neying" and "burning," "of" and "love," "be- 

 fore thee" and "glory," are hardly such rhymes 

 as the fine-eared poet was in the habit of using. 



Jaydee. 



English-Latin (2""* S. iv. 90.) — Is it universally 

 admitted that our pronunciation is corrupt ? It 

 is certainly different from that of the rest of the 

 world, because we pronounce our vowels diffe- 

 rently ; but where all are wrong, and there is 

 really no data upon which to argue, who is to call 

 another corrupt? A German, Frenchman, and 

 Italian, pronounce Latin each in his own way, and 

 so does an Englishman ; but as the last differs 

 most in his pronunciation of vowels, he is in a 

 minority of one, and so is called a corrupt pro- 

 nouncer ; this, I believe, is the real English of the 

 matter. There is not, and cannot be, any really 

 correct mode of pronouncing Latin, inasmuch as 

 it is dead ; if we were to knock under, and pro- 

 nounce it like Italian, it would only be a sacrifice 

 to expediency, because then more foreigners could 

 understand us. J. C. J. 



^^ Keeping the wolf from the door" (2"*^ S. iv. 

 51.) — "The wolf" is hunger; and the expression 

 " keeping the wolf from the door " is used of per- 

 sons in humble circumstances who are barely able 

 to preserve themselves from utter destitution, 

 '•'•famem a foribus pellere." 



We say of a ravenous eater that " he has got a 

 wolf" in his stomach, or more briefly, that "he has 

 got a wolf." The French use the expression, " man- 

 ger comme un loup." In Germany " wolfsmagen " 

 (the maw of a wolf) is a hungry, voracious appe- 

 tite ; and, similarly, " wolfhunger," " wolfshun- 

 ger" (wolf's hunger), is in that language a hunger 

 inordinately keen and rabid. Of this wolfish 

 hunger, with which pleasing acquaintance may 

 be made either, 1. at Cintra ; 2. on board ship ; 

 or, above all, 3. in campaigning, some account 

 may be found in Blackwood's Magazine^ June, 

 1850, p. 666, &c., and July, 1850, p. 23, &c. 



While, in these days of progress, education is 

 working its way downwards, destitution, alas ! is 

 working its way upwards. And, it is to be feared, 

 there are now many cultivated, highly cultivated, 

 households, that find considerable difficulty in 

 " keeping the wolf from the door." 



Thomas Boys. 



ShanKs Nag (2"'^ S. iv. 86.) — A derivation of 

 this proverbial expression brought from Spain, in 

 the phrase ride on St. Francis' mule, seems to me 

 to be unnecessarily far-fetched, especially as the 

 meaning of the English term is, as Mr. Keight- 

 LEY acknowledges, " obvious enough." Many of 

 your readers will no doubt have heard the equi- 

 valent saying, to ride in the marroio-hone stage 

 (a ludicrous corruption of Mary-le-bone), as ex- 

 pressing the same mode of travelling. Mr. 



Keightley says that mules were little used for 

 riding in England. Is he not aware that the 

 Judges used to proceed to Westminster on the 

 first day of Term mounted on mules ; and that 

 Mr. Justice Whyddon, in the reign of Queen 

 Mary, excited the surprise of the lawyers by 

 riding on a horse, being the first time that that 

 noble animal had appeared in the judicial proces- 

 sion ? Edward Foss. 



Rudhalls, the Bell-founders, &c. (2"^ S. iii. 76. ; 

 iv. 76.) — Seeing the name of " y" late ingenious 

 M' Rich"^ Phelps" mentioned in Mr. Macray's 

 notice on the above, I am reminded that amongst 

 our peal of five bells at Maiden Bradley Church, 

 two have the initials R. P., and between the letters 

 a small bell. But I will give a list of the bells, 

 and perhaps some correspondent of " N. & Q." 

 may, from the initials on each, be able to tell the 

 founders : 



No. 1. " Give Alms. a.d. 1614. J. W." 



No. 2. " A.D. 1656. J. L." (John Ludlow? Did he give 



it?) 

 No. 3. On this bell is the Prince of Wales' coat of arms, 



with C. P. in it. "a.d. 1619. R. [bell] P." 

 No. 4. «A,D. 1619. R. [bell] P." 

 No. 5. (The largest.) " Fear God, Love thy Nabor. a.d. 



1613. J. \V." 



The inscription on the last seems to show that 

 the feeling against royalty was at that date rife, or 

 why was not " Honour the King " used instead of 

 " Love thy Nabor ?" Any further information on 

 the above will much oblige Henri. 



Inscriptions on Bells (passim). — At St. Mary's 

 Bexhill the old peal was thus designated : 



1. "Edmund Giles, bell founder. Thomas Perscie and 



John Smith, Churchwardens, Bexhill. 1595." 



2. "Maria." 



3. " Habeo nomen Michaelis missi de coelis." 



4. Post Te, Clarior sethere, trahe devotos Tibi. J. A.'' 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



P.S. At SS. Mary's and Peter's, Pett, is this 

 inscription on a brass : 



"^dibus his moriens campanam sponte dedisti, 

 Laudes pulsandte sunt, Theobalde, tuse." 

 " Here lies George Theobald, a lover of bells, 

 And of this House, as that epitaph tells ; 

 He gave a bell freely to grace the new stipple, 

 Ering ddt his prayse, therefore, ye good people." 

 "Obiit 10 Martii, A" Dom. 1641. 



Brickwork, its Bond (2°^ S. iii. 149. 199. 236. 

 318.) — There is an inquiry respecting brickwork, 

 the manner of laying same, &c., which has not been 

 answered satisfactorily. I have ventured to give 

 you an explanation. The same kind of work was 

 formerly in use in Manchester and the neighbour- 

 hood about the middle of last century, as may be 

 seen by examination of dates attached to old 

 buildings in Marsden Square, St. James's Square, 

 Cannon Street, opposite St. Mary's Church, &c. 



