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NOTES AND QUERIES. t^-^ s. k- si., jcly is. '67. 



of tbe cross, and the date of their visit. When I 

 was a boy 1 was taken by my father to Jerusalem, 

 and I bear on my arm the inscription impressed 

 by one of these artists of the well-known Jeru- 

 salem cross with the Arabic name of the city, 

 Kuds el Sheriff, and the date 1844. 



W. W. E. T. 

 Warwick Square. 



Address "Par le Diahle ci la Fortune " (2"'^ S. iii. 



509. — The lines are a translation of: 



*' Has inter sedes Ditis pater extulit ora 

 Bustorum flatnmis, et cana sparsa favillsl : 

 Ac tali volucrem Fortunam voce lacessit. 

 Sors, cui nulla placet nimium secura potestas, 

 Quffi nova semper amas, et mox possessa relinquis, 

 Ecquid Komana sentis te pondere victam ? 

 Nee posse ulterius porituram extollere moletn ? 

 Ipsa suas vires edit Romana juventus, 

 Et, quas struxit opes, male sustinet. Adspice late 

 Luxuriam spoliorum, et censum in damna furentem, 

 .^dificant auro, sedesque ad sidera mittunt. 

 Expelluntur aquae saxis, mare nascitur arvis, 

 Et permutata rerum statione rebellant. 

 En etiam mea regna petunt, perfossa dehiscit, 

 Molibus insanis tellus ; jam montibus haustis, 

 Antra gemunt; et dum varius lapis invenit usum, 

 Inferni manes coelum sperare jubentur." 



J*eironii Arbitri Satyricon, C. cxx. 

 Ed. Barman, t. i. p. 736. 



PI. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



" The Merry Bells of England" (2"'' S. iv. 29.) 

 — Mr. Cox of Poole claims the words in a newly 

 published piece of music (Poole : Sydenham ; 

 London : D'Almaine) to the following effect : 



" Hark ! o'er distant hills resounding, 

 From the moss grown tow'rs sublime, 

 Sweet the Sabbath bells of England 

 Now are pealing forth their chime. 

 "And through distant hamlets ringing 

 O'er the wide-spread village plain, 

 Saying to the weary pilgrims 

 Come to worship once again, 



" Wand'rers waken : why now slumber? 

 Soon again shall peer the star ; ' 

 Then the priests will cease to wrangle. 

 And the people cease to war. 



" Loudly ring, ye bells of England, 

 And the chimes will soon resound 

 Echoing through the sandy desert. 

 Over all the barren ground." 



Sholto Macduff. 

 [This IS not the poem inquired after by "H.," which is 

 in a different measure, and longer.] 



Stone Shot (2"'' S. iv. 37.) —At Sanjac Castle, 

 on a commanding low point of land, at the entrance 

 to the proper harbour of Smyrna, are two enormous 

 cannon, which are placed behind the folding doors 

 of their embrasures, and on the outside of each of 

 them is a small pyramid of stone shot of a size 

 proportionate to the cannon, and I should think 

 they are quite twenty inches in diameter. If my 

 memory does not betray me, there is a supply of 



smaller stone shot for some of the other pieces in 

 this old fortress, now too malarious for occupation, 

 and ungarrisoned in 1855-6. Giaoub. 



Leopold, King of Belgium, Duke of Kendal 

 (2"" S. iv. 29.) — The title was at least talked 

 about, if not intended, in The Royal Courtship, or 

 Ch—tte and C—gh, by Peter Pindar, Esq. ; p. 25., 

 after some coarse allusions to the postponement of 

 the marriage, the writer (? Thomas Agg) says : 



"Although these hopes have yet miscarried. 

 And they're in consequence not married; 

 Though wedding-days have twice been named. 

 Yet how can the poor prince be blamed ? 

 Though bills have passed in both the Houses, 

 As usual when a Prince espouses ; 

 And though our R — t great, to end all. 

 Declares he shall be D — e of K — 1." 



The title-page has no date, but the lines at 

 p. 26., — 



"It is thy month, delightful May, 

 That now will give the wedding day," 



fix it in the spring of 1816. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Watling Street (2"^ S. iii. 390.) — In the Cam- 

 bridge Essays (1856) is one on "English Ethno- 

 graph3\" Dr. Donaldson, after noticing thi! 

 Watling Street, the Foss, the Ickenild, and the 

 Rickenild, alias the Erming Street, writes, 

 " Originally, no doubt, these were all Roman 

 roads." But in the " Commentary on the Iti- 

 nerary," in the description of roads we find, — 



" The British Ways were : 



1. The Watling Street. 



2. The Iknield Street. 



3. The Ryknield Street. 



4. The Ermyn Street. 



5. The Akeman Street. 



6. The Upper Salt War. 



7. The Lower Salt Way. 



8. No name given." 



The Query I submit through you, Mr. Editor, 

 is, were there any, and what, British roads, and 

 what is the origin of the word Watling f 



J. W. Farrer. 



Times prohibiting Marriage (P' S. xii. p. 175.) 

 — On the fly-leaf of the parish register of Ever- 

 ton, Notts : 



" Advent marriage doth deny. 

 But Hilary gives thee liberty ; 

 Septuagesima says thee nay, 

 Eight daj's from Easter says j'ou may ; 

 Rogation bids thee to contain, 

 But Trinity sets thee free again." 



J. S. (3.) 



The Mazer Bowl (P' S. iv. 211.)— was so 

 called from Maeser, the Dutch name for the maple, 

 of which wood these bowls were usually made, 

 though they were afterwards formed of various 

 materials. Du Cange, however, gives a different 



