Oct. 28. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



355 



Colloquial Changes of Words (Vol. x., p. 240.). 

 " Then, next day, on to Blenheim, I suppose ? " 

 &c. In addition to the misnomer of Partition 

 (Titian) gallery, I can give you as a fact the fol- 

 lowing amusing instances in the way of colloquial 

 changes : 



A. How did you enjoy your ride in Woodstock 

 Park ? 



B. Oh ! my horse took fright at the basilisk 

 (obelisk), and nearly threw me into the turpentine 

 (serpentine) river. 



I remember also an elderly lady, on being ques- 

 tioned respecting her late husband, replying that 

 he had been the incumbrance of the living for 

 nearly forty years. N. L. T. 



Unregistered Proverb (Vol. x., p. 211.). — Your 

 correspondent H. T. G., of Hull, has not been 

 rightly informed as to the unregistered proverb, 

 " Pity without help is like mustard without beef," 

 it being generally rendered " Pity without relief 

 is like mustard without beef," which comes more 

 pleasantly to the ear. D. M. 



Lines at Jcrpoint Abbey (Vol. x., p. 308.) are 

 noticed in the first edition of A Catalogue of 

 privately -printed Boohs, no author's name. The 

 relations of Mr. Sheffield Grave must know the 

 writer. W. H. 



General Guyon — Kurschid Pacha (Vol. x., 

 p. 165.). — By applying to that eminent physician 

 Dr. Grant, of Richmond, father-in-law of the dis- 

 tinguished officer Major Edwardes (a hero of a 

 very different stamp from Kurschid Pacha), Cg. 

 will learn more than probably he expects or wishes 

 to know of the soi-disant General Guyon. 



Nemesis. 



Picture by Ci'evelli Veneziano (Vol. x., p. 265.). 

 — Perhaps K. P. D. E. may find a clue to the 

 meaning of the picture in the Zambeccari Gallery, 

 by referring to a passage in Didron's " History of 

 Pictures of God the Son," in the Christian Icono- 

 graphy, Bohn's translation, vol. i. pp. 264 — 268. 



Ceyeep. 



Epitaph on a Priest (Vol. x., p. 100.). — May 

 not "Posteris suis" mean his successors in office ? 



J. P. O. 



Pictaveus (Vol.x., p. 162.). — Mossom Meekius 

 is referred to Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. ii. 

 pp. 300. 384. 483, and 484. The arms he is in 

 search of are probably those of Le Poictevin, or 

 Poitevin (Pictaviensis). C. J. 



Celebrated Wagers (Vol. ix., p. 450. ; Vol. x., 

 p. 247.). — It is recorded of Sir John Pakington, 

 called "Lusty Pakington" (Queen Elizabeth called 

 him "her Temperance") that — 

 " He entered into articles to swim against three noble 

 courtiers for 3000^., from the bridge at Westminster to 



the bridge at Greenwich ; but the queen, by her special 



command, prevented the putting it into execution." 



English Baronetage, vol. i. p. 389. 



B. H. C. 



Luke ii. 14. (Vol. x., pp. 185. 254.). — Keble, 



in his Christian Year, in the poem on " Christmas 



Day," has this couplet as the song of the angels: 



" Glory to God on high, on earth be peace, 



And love towards men of love, — salvation and release." 



In a note he says, " I have ventured to adopt 

 the reading of the Vulgate, as being generally 

 known through Pergolesi's beautiful composition, 

 ' Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terra pax hominibus 

 bonce voluntatis ! ' " H. Martin. 



Halifax. 



HI Luck averted (Vol. x., p. 224.). — We may 

 go back a long way, as far as Pisthetserus, per- 

 haps, for this. He tells us — 



'"iKTivoi S' ovv TMV 'EAXij^coi/ ripx*'' Tore Ki.^a<ri\eve, 

 Epops. Tiov "EWriVMv ; 



Pisth. Kal KareSei^ev y oCtos vpuiroi /Sao'iAevcoi' 

 JlpoKvX.ii'StlarBai, tois IktCvoi^." 



Aristophanes, Aves, 498 — 500. 



Thence, perhaps, the magpies inherit it. 



William Fbaser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. x., p. 253.). — 

 Over the doorway of the great Cistertian monas- 

 tery of Furstenfeld, situated between Augsburg 

 and Munich, was placed the following inscription : 



" Ad Hospites. 

 Conjugis innocuse fusi monumenta cruoris, 

 Pro culpa pretium claustra sacrata vides." 



It alludes to the fact that when Mary of Brabant, 

 daughter of Henry the Magnanimous, and wife of 

 Louis the Severe, Count Palatine of the Rhine, 

 had been put to death by her husband through 

 jealousy and the error of the messenger ; he af- 

 terwards, to make some atonement, and for the 

 sake of her soul, founded this monastery. 



Cetrep. 



Nought and Naught (Vol. ix., p. 419. ; Vol.x., 

 p. 173.). — The word nought occurs thirty-six 

 times in the Bible, always with the sense of no- 

 thing ; but in 2 Kings ii. 19. we find "the city 

 is pleasant, but the water is naught," i. e. bad. I 

 believe in the original the two words are distinct ; 

 and in the passage I have quoted the same word 

 is used as in Jeremiah xxiv. 2., " the other basket 

 had very naughty figs." H. C. Malden. 



Did the Greek Physicians extract Teeth ? (Vol. x., 

 p. 242.). — If Mr. Hayes has not already consulted 

 the index to Galen, and to the Medicos Artis 

 Principes, he will probably find there some in- 

 formation that will be useful to him. He will find 

 in Paulas JEgineta (vi. 28.) a chapter " on the 

 extraction of teeth," where the commentary of 



