Oct. 21. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



327 



^^ Cur moriatur homo" ^c. — Where is the 

 well-known hexameter, — 



" Car moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto," 

 to be found ? I have searched every work, 

 botanical, medical, and classical, I can think of, or 

 get my hands on, and although all unite in praise 

 of sage as one of the most wholesome of herbs, the 

 only one I have as yet found who makes any direct 

 reference to it is Loudon, in his Arboretum et Fruti- 

 cetum, and he only alludes to " an old Latin poet" 

 as the author of it. Loudon is generally so precise 

 in all his references, that I am convinced he would 

 have named the author had he known him. I 

 have put the question to many of our best Latin- 

 ists and antiquaries in this town, and though all 

 have heard of the line, and it is familiar to them, 

 they cannot name the author. 



Ray, in his Historia Plantarum, refers to the 

 " common Latin versicle," — 



" Salvia cum ruta faciunt tibi pocula tuta." 

 but does not make any allusion to the verse I ask 

 for information about, which, however, was a 

 common versicle in Elizabeth's reign. G. S. 



Belfast. 



[In Rees' Ci/dopczdia this verse is quoted as an axiom 

 of the school of Salernum, which recommended sage as an 

 antidote in all diseases : 



" Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto ? 

 Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis." 



"Why should a man die, while he has sage in his 

 garden ? " 



Again : 



" Salvia salvatrix, naturse conciliatrix, 

 Salvia cum ruta faciunt tibi pocula tuta."] 



LoVs Tound. — Who was Lob, and where- 

 abouts was his pound ? An Anxious Inquiker, 



[Who Lob was is as little known as the site of " Lips- 

 bury pinfold " in King Lear, and seems to have baffled 

 our antiquaries from the time of that redoubtable knight 

 Hudibras to that of the renowned Captain Francis Grose. 

 The phrase occurs in Massinger's Duke of Milan, 1623 ; 

 and Dr. Grey, in one of his notes on Hudibras, makes a 

 humorous application of it in the case of one Lob, a dis- 

 senting preacher. Me. Thoms, in his Folk Lore of 

 Shakspearc, contends, on the authority of the Fairy's 

 address to Puck, " Thou Lob of Spirits," and on passages 

 from Grimm's JDeutsche Mythologie, that Lob is a well - 

 established fairy epithet. Lob's pound is, however, a 

 jocular term for a prison, the stocks, or any place of con- 

 finement : hence in an old Canting Dictionary we read, 

 " To be laid in Lob's pound, is to be laid by the heels, or 

 clapped up in jail."] 



Volkre's Chamber, Kingsland Church, Hereford- 

 shire. — A small building on the left side of the 

 entrance porch to this church is called " Volkre's 

 Chamber," and being unable to discover from 

 whence it obtained the name, any of your cor- 

 respondents would confer a favour by unravelling 



the secret. There is a large field, or common 

 meadow, at Broadward, near Leominster, called 

 " Volka Meadow : " will the similarity in name be 

 any assistance in elucidation of the above ? 



J. B. Whitboknb. 



[This chamber or chapel is noticed in Price's History 

 of Leominster, p. 30. He says, " On the left hand of the 

 north door of Kingsland Church is a little apartment, 

 vulgarly said to be built by one Vaulker, who built the 

 church, as a tomb for himself, and so goes by that name ; 

 but more probably was designed as a place for penitents, 

 where they might look into the church and hear prayers, 

 but were not to be admitted into communion, till after 

 they had shown signs and proofs of their amendment and 

 repentance." This place is also noticed in the Harleian 

 MS. 6726. fol. 186. b. : " At the north door of the church 

 is a small chappie opening into the porch, very ancient, 

 having had a window into the church, in which is an 

 arch in the church wall, where stands a raised tomb with 

 a plain stone over it, neither inscription nor figure, which 

 was the ancient Saxon way of burial. At the upper end 

 the remains of an altar." A side-note states that it was 

 " viewed June 4, 1656," and that " this tradition delivers 

 to be a chantrj' founded for one Howgate, who had his 

 name from a place not far distant. — Mr. Woodroffe."'] 



Baxter's " Horace." — What is the meaning of 

 Baxter's note on Horat. Carmin.^ liber iii. ode 8. 

 1.18. 



" Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.] Cotison nomen Regis 

 Dacorum. Yet. schol. h. e. vernacula nostra God His Son." 



? 



[This is simply Baxter's conjecture as to the etymology 

 of Cotison. See also Littleton's Dictionary : " Cotiso vel 

 Cotison, Hor. qu. Gotes son, i. e. Dei filius. Dacorum rex."] 



DAKETNE MOTTO. 

 (Vol. X., p. 223.) 



I beg to submit to your correspondent C. de D. 

 the following explanation of the Dakeyne motto. 

 It is taken from Slogans of the North of England^ 

 by Michael Aislabie Denham, Newcastle-upon- 

 Tyne, G. B. Richardson, 1851 : 



" The strangest of all northern mottoes, * ^trtitC, 



JBaitEjjnc, t\)t jBc&ir^ in t^c IScmjje,* which is 



noticed as a 'curiosity of heraldry' by Mark Antony 

 Lower, is, I believe, first found in a grant of new arms by 

 Flower in 1563, to Arthur Dakyns, Esq., of Linton and 

 Hackness in Holdemess. . . . ... 



Arthur Dakyns was a general in the army, but as two or 

 three centuries ago generals commanded on sea as well as 

 land, I imagine that he had distinguished himself in some 

 gallant fight, perhaps against the Spaniards, wherein all 

 the turning part of the victory consisted in cutting soma 

 portion of a ship's hempen sail or cordage. 

 The crest always consorted with the motto. Out of a 

 naval coronet springs an arm brandishing a hatchet, and 

 preparing to strike." 



CiD. 



