Sept. 30. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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to have been written by John Hughes, the author 

 of The Siege of Damascus ? E. West. 



[Mr. Duncombe, in his preface to the Letters by John 

 Hughes, Esq., Sfc, 3 vols., 1773, page v., thus notices 

 this tragedy : " At the age of nineteen Mr. Hughes wrote 

 a tragedy, entitled Amalasont, Queen of the Goths, which 

 displays a fertile genius and masterly invention ; but as 

 it was not revised and corrected by the author in his 

 riper age, it was never brought on the stage, and still 

 remains in manuscript." And Mr. Hughes himself, in a 

 letter to Mr. Samuel Say, dated November 6, 1697, says, 

 " Amalasont is not yet upon the stage, but I suppose will 

 be this winter ; I am glad you continue to think so fa- 

 vourably of it, I mean with respect to its morals, for I 

 am clearly of Mons. Rapin's opinion, that ' the reputation 

 of being an honest man is to be preferred to that of a 

 good poet.' "] 



Edward Lamhe's Mural Tablet. — In the church 

 of East Bergholt in Suffolk is a mural tablet con- 

 taining the following inscription : 



" Edward Lambe, second sonne of Thomas Lambe, of 

 Trymley, Esquire. All his days he lived a Batchelor, well 

 learnedin devyne and common Lawes. With his coun- 

 cell he helped many, yett took fees scarce of any. He 

 dyed the nineteenth of November, 1617. 



Edward Lambe 



Ever Lived 



Envied Laudably 



Evill Lord 



Endured Lett 



Extremities .... Like 



Even Life 



Earnestly Learne 



Expecting Ledede 



Eternal Livers 



Ease Lament." 



The concluding part of the above is unintelligible 

 to those residing In the locality. Perhaps some 

 reader of " N. & Q." will kindly offer an explan- 

 ation. G. Bl.ENCOW£. 



Manningtree. 



[The following reading of this curious epitaph, not the 

 most apposite, was suggested by a correspondent of the 

 Gentleman's Magazine for 1788, p. 972. : — " May we not 

 read the East Bergholt epitaph thus, by the alteration of 

 one word, ledede, into lie died ? * Edward Lambe ever lived 

 envied, laudably evil endured. Lord, let extremities like 

 even life learne. He died expecting eternal ease. Livers 

 lament,' Extremities may either mean youth and age, 

 and eoen life, middle age, or the extremes of prosperity 

 and adversity, distinguished from an uniform even course 

 of life. Learn may be put for teach, as was not unfrequent. 

 Livers, i.e. survivors, lament his death."] 



Aristotle. — Can any of your correspondents 

 refer me exactly to the two following passages in 

 •Aristotle ? — 



1. The notorious one, in which he says, — 



« Nothing is in the understanding which has not been 

 previously in the sense." 



In no book in which this is referred to can I find 

 the quotation strictly verified. It is somewhere 

 in the Second Book of the Posterior Analytics, I 

 believe. 



2. That wherein he briefly mentions the scho> 

 lastic theory of perception, to the effect that — 



" All ideas come from sense, and are sensuous at first. 

 "More refined, the same become objects of the imagin- 

 ation, memory, &c. 

 " Still more refined, the objects of the intellect." 



This is the form in which it is referred to in 

 Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind; but 

 the quotation is not verified. Anon. 



[The second passage isin the last chapter of the Poste- 

 rior Analytics.'] 



Old Ballads. — In the State Papers of the reign 

 of Henry VIII. (vol. i. p. 10.) these words occur : 

 " The sayd Mr. Almoner, in hys sermone, broght 

 in the balates off ' Passe Tyme wyth goode Com- 

 panye,' and ' I love unlovydde.' " I should be 

 glad to be informed where these ballads are to be 

 met with. W. Denton. 



["PasstjTiie with gode Cumpanye" is better known as 

 the " Kinge's Ballade," and will be found among the 

 Add. MSS. 5665., art. 91. foL 1336., and art. 95. fol. 1386., 

 in the British Museum. We have not been able to dis- 

 cover "I love unlovydde."] 



ON THE INDICES OF THE PRESENT CENTUKT. 



(Vol.x., p. 163.) 



In answer to the Inquiry of your correspondent 

 Enivri on this subject, I beg to observe that in 

 my Literary Policy, Sec, and Index of Prohibited 

 Books by Gregory XVI., all the indices known to 

 me are mentioned and described, inclusive of that 

 last cited. Another edition, however, was pub- 

 lished by the same pontiff at Rome in 1841, but 

 with so little alteration as scarcely to deserve 

 notice. It is, however, remarkable, that two years 

 after, namely, in the year 1843, there appeared at 

 Mechlin a reprint, not of the last Roman and pon- 

 tifical edition in 1841, but, as it is expressed in 

 the very title, of the frst Gregorian, in mdcccxxxv. 

 And from examination this appears to be the fact. 

 There is one result of some interest obtained by 

 the early sequence of the second of Gregory's 

 indices, that the silent withdrawal of the names of 

 Galileo Galilei, Copernicus, and Foscarlnl, with 

 the entry, " LIbri omnes docentes mobllitatem 

 Terrse et immobilitatem Soils," did not then and 

 there appear for the first time. I have, however, 

 an additional article to produce, which may have 

 the recommendation of novelty. It is an index 

 from Spain, bearing the date of 1844. Its im- 

 mediate predecessor was the Indice Ultimo, being 

 a summary, and dated " Madrid, 1 790," followed 

 by a Supplemento in 1805. The index which I 

 now announce appeared from Madrid in 1844. 

 It has, however, an appendix, containing Posterior 

 Edicts of the Inquisition and Decrees by the Con- 



