Aug. 5. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



101 



at Margate," is equivalent to " I was at Dover 

 during the time during which you were at Mar- 

 gate." 



School Libraries — Salisbury, — In the adver- 

 tisement to Hele's Offices of Daily Devotion 

 (edition printed for the Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge, 18mo., Lond., no date), 

 containing " a short notice of the author," it is 

 stated that Mr. Hele — 



"Bequeathed his Hebrew Bible, and certain other 

 books, to the Close School ; and as some volumes belong- 

 ing to the school library had become intermixed with his 

 own, he specially desired that his sons should take care 

 to restore such volumes to their proper place." 



J. Macrat. 



Oxford. 



Cherries. — Have you anywhere chronicled the 

 origin of cherries, and their name also ? 



" From Keresoun, in the Black Sea, whence they Ave re 

 first introduced to Europe by Lucullus." 



I do not know the date.* A. L. 



caucrtfjS. 



"he that fights, etc. 



" He that fights and runs away, 

 May live to fight another day." 



The above lines, constantly quoted as in Hudi- 

 bras, as constantly cited as being in the Musarum 

 Delicics, by Sir John Mennis, apparently on the 

 authority of Lowndes, are still, notwithstanding 

 "N. & Q." correspondence, Vol. i., p. 210., open, 

 I submit, for verification. 



Observe, I have before me the first edition, 

 London, 18mo., Henry Herringman, 1655, in 

 which a former possessor has written, " It has 

 been often said, by Lowndes among others, these 

 lines, which have been generally supposed to be in 

 Hudibras, are in this volume. This is a mistake. 

 There are no lines bearing the least resemblance 

 to them here." 



But the second edition, 1656, has been cited as 

 containing them. This edition has been examined 

 for me, and I am assured the lines are not in that, 

 as Lowndes states. 



Now the reprint of 1817 was printed from the 

 second edition of 1656, and in the preface, p. 12. 

 (1817), it is said the first edition of 1665 differs 

 only from the present 1656 in several select pieces 

 of sportive wit standing in the title-page, instead 

 of several pieces of poetique wit, and in the pub- 

 lisher's address to the ingenious reader. 



The lines, therefore, are not likely to be in the 

 second edition of the reprint. 



[* About 70 B.C.] 



I observe, however, the first edition has only 

 87 pages; the second, Lowndes says, has 101 : the 

 reprint closes with page 100, but ends with the 

 same lines as the first. 



I am,-however, assured these lines do occur in 

 some edition of this work ; or rather, as it does not 

 appear they do in the Musarum DelicicB, first and 

 second editions, are they to be found in the Wits 

 Recreations, 1640, 1641, 1654, or 1663 ? 



Some of your correspondents probably will 

 settle this question, which will be of great use if 

 it correct only what appears to be an error on 

 the authority of Lowndes. S. H. 



LOUIS »E BEAUFOET. 



Since the publication of Niebuhr's work, and 

 the increased interest which it has awakened re- 

 specting the early Roman history, attention has 

 been attracted to the researches of Beaufort, who 

 was the first to make a systematic investigation 

 of the evidences for the history of the first five 

 centuries of Rome. The first edition of his work 

 (a copy of which is lying before me) was pub- 

 lished at Utrecht in 1738, in one volume 12mo., 

 consisting of a short preface and 348 pages. The 

 title-page is. Dissertation sur Vincertitude des cinq 

 premiers siecles de Vhistoire romuine, par Mons. 

 L. D. B. An English translation of this edition 

 is stated by Hooke, in his " Dissertation on the 

 Credibility of the First 500 Years of Rome" (in 

 his History), to have been published in 1740. A 

 second edition of this work, revised, corrected, 

 and considerably augmented, was published at 

 the Hague in 1750. Copies of the first edition 

 may occasionally be met with, but I have never 

 been able to see a copy of the second edition, and 

 should be much obliged to any of your corre- 

 spondents who would inform me of a library 

 where a copy exists. The British Museum library 

 does not appear to possess a copy either of the 

 first or second edition, or of the English trans- 

 lation.* In the Preliminary Discourse to the 

 Republique Romaine (Paris, 1767, 6 vols. 12mo.), 

 published with M. de Beaufort's name, his author- 

 ship of the Dissertation is acknowledged. 



The account of M. de Beaufort, which is givea 

 in the Biographic Universelle, and other French 

 biographical dictionaries, is extremely meagre. 

 Niebuhr {Lect. on Roman History, vol. i. p. Ixxvii. 

 edit. Schmitz) says that he was a refugee (i. e. a 

 Protestant refugee), who had lived for a long 

 time in England. He was a member of the Royd 

 Society of London ; he afterwards became pre- 

 ceptor of the Prince of Hesse Homburg, and 



[* The English translation is in the King's Library, 

 British Museum, s. v. Dissertation ; press-mark, 293. 

 b. 11.] 



