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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 262. 



The other, a shorter one, used when but few re- 

 main to select from : 



" Eggs, butter, cheese, bread. 

 Stick, stock, stone dead ! " 



E. G. R. 



I beg to send you another version of this 

 rhyme, which has remained imprinted on my 

 memory since I first heard it in Aberdeen, when a 

 little boy, about the beginning of this century. 



" Eenery, twaaery, 

 Tuckery, tayven ; 

 Halaba, crackery. 

 Ten or elayven ; 

 Peen, pan. 



Musky, Dam ; 



Feedelam, fadelam. 



Twenty-one." 



Abkedonensis. 



We school-boys used to have some incompre- 

 hensible rhymes by which we cast lots, and which 

 I never heard elsewhere : 



" Ena, mena, mona, mite, 

 Pisca, lara, bara, bite, 



Elga, belga, bore. 

 Eggs, butter, cheese, bread. 

 Stick, stock, stone dead, 

 0— U— T out." 



Anon. 



Spenser's "fairy queen." 

 (Vol. X., p. 143.) 



I have prepared a few answers to the Queries 

 of F. J. C. The castory is given by the Glossary 

 as heaver's oil; in Juvenal (xn. 34.) we have 

 mention made of its being used by the ancients, 

 perhaps for dyeing, though principally for me- 

 dicinal purposes. The reading in Upton's edition 

 of the passage in book ii. c. ii. 44. 4. is, — 

 " In which her roiall presence is enrold," 



which I conceive can mean nothing but enrolled, 

 that is, enclosed. 



In book III. c. v. 48. 9., levin can hardly 

 mean anything but lightening ; and hy art we 

 should, I think, understand naturally, as its 

 custom is. 



The meaning of Overt-gate hy North is evident, 

 if we just consider the context : thus, 



" The Troian Brute did first that citie fownd. 

 And Hygate made the meare thereof by west, 

 And Overt-gate hy north." 



That is, on the west it was bounded by the gate 

 called the Highgate, and on the north by the 

 Overt-gate, or the gate usually kept open for 

 traffic. 



In book IV. c. iv. 29. 6. The reading in Up- 

 ton's edition is cuffing, as F. J. C. supposes ; or, if 

 cuffling be retained, might it not be for scuffling ? 



If hoone does, as F. J. C. conjectures, signify 

 homage in this passage, though it generally means 

 gift, we might well compare its use with the 

 Latin munus ; for, as Andrews says, 



" Munus significat officium quum dicitur quis [ ? ali- 

 quis] raunere fungi. Item domum quum officii causa 

 datur." 



The last line, as given by Upton, is, — 



"0 that great sabbaoth God grant me that sabaoth's 

 sight ! " 



B. H. Alford. 

 Southboro'. 



ANTIQUITIES OP THE EASTERN CHURCHES. 

 •(Vol. X., p. 60.) 



Your correspondent Arterus has been for- 

 tunate if he has seen many copies of the curious 

 book concerning which he makes Inquiry. It is 

 rare, but he does not give the title in full, at 

 least as It runs In my copy. After " Morini," and 

 before the " etc.," occur the additional (not unim- 

 portant) names of " Abr. Ecchellensis, Nic. Pey- 

 rescii, Peta \ Valle, Tho. Comberi, Job. Bux- 

 torfii, H. Hottlngeri." 



This interesting collection was prepared by the 

 famous Pere Simon ; and to him, to the equally 

 celebrated Henri Justel, and to the diligence and 

 zeal of Stilllngfleet, we owe their publication. 



The letters were selected and arranged by 

 Simon, and copied from the originals by his 

 nephew, then living with the uncle ; who, from 

 his uncle's dictation, and the materials furnished 

 by the letters themselves, prepared, as a literary 

 exercise, the Ijfe of Father Morin, which Is pre- 

 fixed to them. (Simon, Critique de la BibliO' 

 theque des Auteurs Ecclesiastiques, publiez par M. 

 Elies Du-PIn, tome ii. p. 450. s.) 



Simon sent the copy and Life to Justel for pub- 

 lication. Justel desired to see the original, which 

 Simon put Into his hands, and both were for- 

 warded to England, where Stilllngfleet committed 

 the work to the press. 



I doubt the existence of a second impression 

 made at Leipsic. The book so entered in 

 Fysher's Catalogue is probably a copy of a portion 

 of the first edition, prepared for sale at Leipsic, 

 by a not uncommon trick of the trade, by furnish- 

 ment with a new title only. 



My reason for so thinking is, that in 1685 

 Simon (who was not often remiss in obtaining in- 

 formation on such points) appears to have known 

 nothing of a second edition. On January 20th of 

 that year, writing to an unnamed correspondent, 

 he complains strongly of the carelessness and bad 

 faith shown in the first Impression, and expresses 

 his hope of getting back the original from Stil- 

 llngfleet, through Justel. 



In that letter (the twenty-sixth of the first 



