2»<» S. N« 96., OcfT. 31. '57.] 



NOTES AND QITEBIES. 



347 



I'iched besides with an essay or review contri- 

 buted by some of the leading savans of the day. 



Anon. 



PASSAGE IN THE " DIABLE BOITETJX. 



In the ninth chapter of the Diahle Boitetix, in 

 the description of the madhouse, Le Sage tells us 

 that Doiia Beatrix postponed the prosecution of a 

 cavalier who had killed her brother, because he 

 intended to fight a certain other cavalier who had 

 preferred another woman to herself. 



"C'est ainsi (he continues) qu'en use Pallas, lorsqu' 

 Ajax a viole Cassandre ; la d^esse no punit point h I'heure 

 nieme le Grec sacrilege qui vient de profaner son temple ; 

 elle veut auparavant qu'il contribue h la venger du juge- 

 ment de Paris. Mais helas ! dona Beatrix, moins heureuse 

 que Minerve, n'a pas gout^ le plaisir de la vengeance." 



It is difficult to understand the meaning of the 

 allusion which Le Sage here makes to the story of 

 Ajax. Ajax, the son of O'ileus, is related to have 

 profaned the temple of Minerva, by dragging 

 Cassandra, though a suppliant, from the altar, 

 and even, according to some accounts, by offering 

 violence to her person within its holy precincts. 

 For this sacrilegious act, he was, on his return 

 from Troy, wrecked by Minerva on the Capharean 

 rock, at the extremity of the island of Eubcea, and 

 struck with lightning. See ^n. i. 39., xi. 260. 

 This punishment is not deferred, but follows 

 speedily after the offence. It seems that Mi- 

 nerva could only have avenged herself upon Paris 

 by causing Ajax to be the instrument of his death; 

 but Paris was killed by Philoctetes at the taking 

 of Troy with one of the arrows of Hercules, and 

 Ajax had no share in the act. See Soph. Phil., 

 1426. 



In the tenth chapter, Le Sage illustrates some 

 of his anecdotes by a reference to Villius, Bolanus, 

 Fufidius and Marsseus, as mentioned in the second 

 and ninth of the first book of Horace's Satires. 

 The word Longarenus has puzzled the printer, 

 who prints it in Italics, without a capital letter, 

 whereas it is a proper name. L. 



Minav HattS, 



MS. Verses in the "■ Eihon Basilike." — The 

 following verses on Charles I., in an old hand, are 

 preserved in a copy of the Eikon Basilike^ for- 

 merly belonging to the library of an ancient 

 Essex family. 



" Thus died this potent Prince and king of ours 

 Beeing too much ouer-awed by Tyrants powers. 

 Such Monsters sure in nature near were bred, 

 Did ere the feete combine against the head. 

 But I forget ; i'le tell you the licke nuse ; 

 I haue red they crusifyed the king o' th' Iwes. 

 Accurst bee hee who gaue that fatall blow. 

 Whence England first receiued its ouer-throw. 



The ages past did ner produce a king 



Whence soe much piety goodnesse zeale did spring : 



His wisdome was of that transcendent height, 



Little inferior to man's first state 



For his diuinity read thou and see 



In's booke enough to saue thy soule may bee. 



Sure nature onely framed him that wee 



Might see by him how perfect man should bee. 



Maruil not at his transmutation then 



Beeing company for Angels not for men." 



" Copied from a MS. on the fly-leaf of a little book 

 entitled EIKON BA2IAIKH. Printed 1649." 



J. c. 



Thomas SarsfelcTs Petition to Bishop Lyon of 

 Cork to present William Ffeld to the Hector y of 

 Tempellosky ats Glenmeyr. — The following docu- 

 ment preserved amongst the numerous MSS. of 

 the Sarsfield family is curious, as exhibiting pro- 

 bably one of the first petitions addressed to an 

 Anglo- Catholic prelate in the south of Ireland 

 after the Reformation. The dignity and import- 

 ance attached to the episcopal office at that period 

 may be inferred from the terms in which a mem- 

 ber of a very aristocratic and wealthy Cork family 

 (existing here from the reign of Edw. I. to the 

 present time) then addressed the first Protestant 

 (born) bishop of Cork. 



" My dutie to yo'' good I'p alwey remembred, Under- 

 standing thatyo'' I'p was to dep't herehense before sunday 

 towards Kosse I thought it my p'te, now having a lytle 

 helth, lesst sicknes might not p'mitt me to do the same 

 hereafter before y'' going, to writ and scale my p'nt'acon 

 of Tamplelosky, w'ch I send yo'" I'p hereinclosed, w'th a 

 blank therein, to n<TIate & appoint whome yo' I'p shall 

 thinke mete, assuring yC I'p if it were a better request 

 myne abilitie serving thereunto it shold be at yo"" I'ps 

 disposicon ; but in trouth I have writen syth the last in- 

 cumbents death to a kinsman of myne in lym'yke named 

 Kichard Sarsfeld, an english man borne, who hath not 

 taken of orders, that if it pleased him, getting yc I'ps 

 good will, I wold willingly bestowe that pore lyving upon 

 him for his better maintenance, syth w'ch tyme 1 under- 

 stand from M'' Philip ffeld that mj' said kinsman will not 

 dep't lym'yke & prayed me to p'ferr thereunto M'' Will'm 

 ffeld, p'sen of Christs Church, who is my kinsman & 

 friend, of whome or any other discrete man yc^ I'p shall 

 appoint I shall very well lyke of. And so referring the 

 same to yC I'ps det'mynacon & good discretion w"" my 

 dutieful comendacon, 1 betake yo" to thalmighty, who 

 graunt yo'' I'p all happines w* health both of body & 

 soule to his glorv, from my chamber in. Cork this xxij, 

 m'ch. 1593. ' _ 



" Yo'' I'ps to caond alway 

 " Thomas Sarsfeld. 



" To the Kev'end father in god 



my verey good 1 the 1 



hyssop of Cork." 



The right of presentation to this living remained 

 in the gift of the Sarsfield family until the close 

 of the last century. R. C. 



English Cemetery at Verdun. — In travelling, 

 if I make a sojourn at a place of two or three days, 

 or even a few hours, and I can spare time, I ge- 

 nerally feel disposed to visit the receptacle of 

 those who once moved in the busy scene ; -^ 



