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souls. They might have supposed that the man 

 was born blind as a punishment for sins which the 

 Almighty foresaw he would commit. This of 

 course would have been as great an error as the 

 other, or greater ; but I only wish to point out 

 the possibility of their having been led by such a 

 false notion to put the question. Either way 

 they were seriously in error. F. C. H. 



" The Case is Altered'' (2"'' S. iv. 188. 235.) — 

 Is not this inn- sign connected with the old pro- 

 verb, "The case is altered, quoth Ployden," of 

 which Ray says {Eng. Prov., 2nd edit., 1678, 

 p. 225.) : — 



" Edmund Plowden was an eminent common lawyer in 

 Queen Elizabeth's time, born at Plowden in Shropshire . . . 

 Some make this the occasion of the Proverb : Flowden 

 being asked by a neighbour of his, what remedy there 

 was in Law against his neighbour for some hogs that 

 had trespassed his ground, answered, he might have very 

 good remedy ; but the other replj'ing, that they were his 

 hogs, ' Nay then, neighbour, (quoth he) the case is altered.' 

 Others, more probably, make this the original of it. 

 Flowden being a Roman Catholick, some neighbours of his 

 who bare him no good will, intending to entrap him and 

 bring him under the lash of the Law, had taken care to 

 dress up an Altar in a certain place, and provided a Lay- 

 man in a Priest's habit, who should do Mass there at 

 such a time. And withall notice thereof was ' given 

 privateh' to Mr. Plowden, who thereupon went and was 

 present at the Mass. For this he was presently accused 

 and indicted. He at first stands upon his defence, and 

 would not acknowledge the thing. Witnesses are pro- 

 duced, and among the rest, one who deposed that he 

 himself performed the Mass, and saw Mr. Plowden there. 

 &a\ih. Plowden to him, ' Art thou a Priest then?' The 

 fellow replied, ' No.' * Why then. Gentlemen (quoth he), 

 the case is altered : No Priest, no Mass.' Which came to 

 be a Proverb, and continues still in Shropshire with this 

 addition — ' The case is altered (c^uoth Ployden), No Priest, 

 no Mass.' " 



Ache. 



Signs painted hy eminent Artists (2"'' S. iii. 8. 

 359.) — In the Museum, Basle, are two representa- 

 tions of a school painted by Holbein at the age of 

 fourteen, and which were hung up as a sign over a 

 schoolmaster's door in that town. 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Purchase (2""^ S. iv. 125.) — An additional ex- 

 ample of the use of the word purchase to that 

 given by P. is seen in the metrical version of 

 the Psalms used by the church of Scotland, Psalm 

 Ixxxiv. 3. : 



" Behold the sparrow findeth out 



An house wlierein to rest. 

 The swallow also for herself 



Hath purchased a nest : 

 Even thine own altars, where she safe 



Her j'oung ones forth may bring," &c., 



purchase intended to correspond, as in the prose 

 text, with the meaning "found.'' The version was 

 authorised by the General Assembly of the Church 

 of Scotland in 1650, thus fixing the date when 

 the word was so understood. By the law of Scot- 



land, conquest is a name given to those heritable 

 or real rights which one does not succeed to as 

 the heir of another, but acquires in his own life- 

 time by purchase, donation, or other singular title 



— legally speaking, therefore, purchase and con- 

 quest are synonymous. G. N. 



Aneroid (2"'> S. iv. 239.) — If H. W. has not 

 helped us much by his conjectural etymology, he 

 has done us good service by mentioning Mr. 

 Dent's name. I have applied to Mr. Dent, but at 

 present he can only give me the conjectural ety- 

 mology of a friend (which therefore I do not think 

 worth mentioning). I have, however, written to 

 him again, suggesting that he will be able to settle 

 the question for ever, either by consulting the 

 original memoir in which the instrument was first 

 described, or (if necessary) by applying to the in- 

 ventor, M. Vidi, himself. M. D. 



A Regal Crown (2"'i S. iv. 189.) — Perhaps the 

 following passage from Pai-adise Regained con- 

 tains the line sought for by your correspondent 

 J. C. E. : 



" What if with like aversion I reject 

 Riches and realms? yet not, for that a crown, 

 Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns," &c. 



Mercator, A.B. 



Pegnitz-Shepherds (I" S. vii. 16.) — 



" Vers 1644 Jean Clay, dit le Jeune, fonda a Nurem- 

 berg, de concert avec Philippe Harzdorf, I'Ordre des 

 Bergers et des Fleurs de la Pegnitz, soci^t^ dont le but 

 ^tait le perfectionnement de la langue Allemande. Cents 

 ans plus tard, Herdegen, qui en faisait partie, sous le nom 

 d'Amarante, publia sur elle une notice historique, 1744 in 

 8vo. Au milieu du dix-septieme sifecle, Philippe de 

 Zesen avait institu^, a Hambourg, une Soci^te des Beaux 

 Esprits AUemands." — Lalanne, Curiosites Litteraires, 

 p. 358. Paris, 1857. 



M. A. 



"Lover'' (2"'> S. iv. 107. 218.) — To the in- 

 stances which have been given from the poets, of 

 the use of the word lover in a feminine sense, the 

 following passage from one of our greatest prose 

 writers may be added : — 



" This exercise [the practice of the presence of God] is 

 apt, also, to enkindle holy desires of the enjoj'ment of 

 God, because it produces joy, when we do enjoy him ; the 

 same desires that a weak man hath for a defender; the 

 sick man, for a physician; the poor, for a patron; the 

 child, for his father ; the espoused lover, for her betrothed." 



— Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, ch. i. sect. iii. 

 p. 26., ed. Bohn. 



F. H. n. 



Rev. Richard Graves (2"'^ S. iv. 170.) — If the 

 Rev. Ricl). Graves, author of the Spiritual Quixote, 

 Sfc, be the person referred to, he was about a 

 century ago incumbent of Aldworth, Berks ; and 

 a notice of him may be found in Hewett's History 

 of Compton, at p. 96.) W. H. Lammin. 



Fulham. 



