2»d S. No 81., July 18. '57.3 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



57 



Also Cic, Philippic xir. 2. 



"Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores 

 Solent esse." 



Other confirmatory quotations may be added. 



J. B. S. 

 Collumpton. 



William Collins, Ord. Freed. (2"'' S. iv. 8.)— A 

 short notice of this Dominican Father is given by 

 the Rev. Dr. Oliver, in his valuable Collections 

 illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in 

 the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, 

 Wilts, and Gloucester, lately published. At the 

 end are some notices of the English Dominican 

 Province, and there the learned and indefatigable 

 author informs us that — 



" William Collins, S. T. M., was third prior of Born- 

 hem, from 1685 to 1688. Subsequently he was confessor 

 to the Dominicanesses of Brussels" (now at Atherstone), 

 "where he ended his days 17th of November, 1699." 



F. C. H. 



Harvest Dates (2°'' S. iv. 8.) — The owner and 

 occupier of a small farm in East Suffolk, four 

 miles from the sea, made the following yearly 

 notes of the days on which he " began harvest :" — 



1813, 

 1814, 

 1815, 

 1816, 

 1817, 

 1818, 

 1819, 

 1820, 

 1821, 

 1822, 

 1823, 

 1824, 

 1825, 

 1826, 

 1827, 



Beccles, 



August 3 

 „ 24 

 » 14 

 „ 28 

 „ 21 



July 31 

 „ 2« 



August 14 

 „ 21 



July 24 



August 21 

 „ 20 

 „ 3 



July 31 



August 2 



Men of the Merse (2"'' S. iii. 467.) — If your 

 correspondent signed " Mentanthes " will apply 

 to Mr. Edgar Farmer, Harcarse Hill, Berwick- 

 shire, he will obtain a copy of the " Men of the 

 Merse." M. E. F. 



Dunse. 



Venetian Coin (2"'^ S. iv. 29.) — John Corne- 

 lius was Doge of Venice from about a.b. 1625 to 

 1630. The coin described by E. K. was struck 

 for currency in the islands of Corfu, Cephalonia, 

 Zante, &c., on the coast of Greece, which at that 

 period, and long after, were subject to the state of 

 Venice. It is a coin of rather unusual occurrence. 



J. C. WiTTON. 



Bath, 



The Quadrature of the Circle (2"'^ S. iii. 11. 

 274.) — When Pr. De Morgan tells us that " by 

 the geometrical quadrature is meant the deter- 

 mination of a square equal to the circle, using 



only Euclid's allowance of means," are we to infer 

 that the circle can be squared geometrically by 

 other means ? Can a geometrical square be found 

 that is exactly equal to a given circle, by the em- 

 ployment of any means ? If the learned Pe. 

 would answer this question, I for one should be 

 much obliged. C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



" RoUn a Rie " (2"'> S. iv. 8.) is a Galloway 

 ballad, — not a very old one. I have written it 

 down, and think it is correct, but I have not got 

 it with me, and am obliged to write from memory. 



"I dinna like the meg-o'mony-feet*. 

 Nor the brawnet f Conocht-Worm 

 Quoth Mary Lee, as she sat and did greet, 

 Fechtin' wi' the Storm. 



" Neither like I the j'ellow-wamed Ask 

 'Neath the root o' the auld aik Tree ; 

 Nor the yellow Lizards in the Fog J that bask, 

 But waur I like Robin a Rie. 



" Hateful it is, to hear the Wut-throat Chark 

 From aff the auld Feal-Dyke, § 

 And wha likes the e'ening-singing Lark, 

 Or the auld Mune-bowing Tyke ? || 



" I hate them, — and the ghaist at e'en 

 That points at me, puir Mary Lee ; 

 But muckle waur, hate I, I ween. 

 That Vile Chield, Robin a Rie I 



"Bitterer than the green Bullister^ 

 Is the heart o' Robin a Rie ; 

 The milk on the Taed's back I wad prefer 

 To the poisons in his words that be. 



" Oh ance I lived happy by j'on bonnie burn. 

 The warld was in love wi' me. 

 But noo I maun sit in the cauld drift and mourn. 

 And curse black Robin a Rie ! 



" Oh whudder awa thou bitter, biting blast 

 That soughs through the scrunty Tree; 

 And smoor me up in the snaw fa' fast, 

 And never l«t the Sun me see. 



" And ne%'er melt awa, thou wreath o' snaw 

 That's sae kind in graving me. 

 But hide me aye frae the Scorn and the Guffaw ** 

 0' Villains lik« Robin a Rie ! " 



L. M. M. R. 



Jerusalem Letters (2"'' S. iv. 31.) — Yoyr cor- 

 respondent, C. Forbes, inquires what were the 

 " Jerusalem Letters " alluded to in Brooke's Fool 

 of Quality, as being so indelible that they might 

 serve as marks whereby to fix the identity of a 

 man's ofispring. There exists at Jerusalem to 

 the present day a class of artists who offer their 

 services to visitors to the holy sepulchre, and 

 tattoo on their arms, with a needle dipped in 

 moistened gunpowder (as sailors do), the emblem 



• Meg- o-mony- Feet — Wood Louse. 



f Brawnet — brown and brindled. 



J Fog — moss. 



§ Feal-Dyke^ turf wall. 



£ Tyke — dog. 



^ Green Bullister — itnripe wild plum. 



** Guffaw — rude, mocking laughter. 



