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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 266. 



Aristotle (Vol. x., p. 267.). — Your correspon- 

 dent Anon, will find that Dutens, in his curious 

 but not very common work Oa the Discoveries 

 attributed to the Moderns, endeavours to trace the 

 origin of the principle, — 



" That there is nothing in the understanding, which 

 has not entered into it by the senses." — Part I. ch. i. 



If Anon, is not acquainted with the book, it 

 ■will be worth his while to refer to it. It is no 

 doubt in the British Museum. Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



^'•Nought" and ^^ Naught'' (Vol. ix., p. 419. ; 

 Vol. X., pp. 173. 355.). — I venture on an ad- 

 ditional waste of your space on this (as I think it) 

 very idle question, in the hope of stopping it, and 

 perhaps preventing others of the same character, 

 by quoting Johnson's decisive authority : 



" Custom has irreversibly prevailed of using naught for 

 bad, and nought for nothing." 



Ought for aught, anything, is certainly a mere 

 carelessness. C. 



^'■Cur moriatur homo"" (Vol. x., p. 327.). — In 

 the Haven of Health, by Thomas Cogan, Maister 

 of Artes and Bacheler of Phisicke, imprinted at 

 London by Richard Field, for Bonham ITorton, 

 1596, the hexameter inquired for is quoted as 

 from Schola Salerni, in the following account of 

 Sage, p. 32. : 



" Of all garden herbes none is of greater vertue than 

 sage, insomuch that in Schola Salerni it is demannded, — 



* Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto ? ' 



As who should say, such is the vertue of sage, that if it 

 were possible, it would make a man imraortall. It is hot 

 and dry in the third degree, and hath three speciall pro- 

 perties contained in these verses following : 



* Salvia confortat nervos, manuumq. tremores 

 ToUit, et ejus ope febris acuta fugit.' " 



And after some other accounts of the virtues of 

 sage, the author concludes his article as follows : 



" Moreover, sage is used otherwise to be put in drinke 

 overnight close covered, or two or three houres before we 

 drinke it, for so it is good against infection, especially if 

 rew be added thereto, as witnesseth Schola Salerni : 



* Salvia cum ruta faciunt tibi pocula tuta.' " 



The same author, in his article on " Cinnamon," 



says: 



" I have read in an old author of phisicke this meeter 

 following : 



* Cur moriatur homo, qui sumit de cinamomo ? ' " 



J.G. 



Exon. 



To the question of G. S., " where is the well- 

 known hexameter, 



' Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia nescit in horto? ' 

 to be found?" it has been answered, that it is 

 quoted in Rees' Cyclopcedia as an axiom of the 



school of Salernum. It is the 177th line of the 

 Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, a poem written 

 towards the end of the eleventh century by the 

 doctors of tlie medical school of Salerno, and ad- 

 dressed to a King of England, " Anglorum Kege 

 scripsit schola tota Salerni," though the royal 

 name is never mentioned. Giannone conjectures 

 it to have been Robert of Normandy (de jure the 

 successor of William Rufus), who, by lingering 

 too long at Salerno on his homeward journey 

 from Palestine in 1099, lost England to his 

 younger brother. N. L. 



In addition to the notice taken in " N. & Q." of 

 this by no means uninteresting Query, I can give 

 your correspondent the reference for the line. 

 It is line 177. in the Regimen Sanitatis Salerni- 

 tanum : 



" Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto ? 

 Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis." 



By which disappointing reply It would seem that 

 the reputation of sage had induced some enthu- 

 siastic person to make the query before the writing 

 of the poem. The poet goes on, — 



" Salvia confortat nervos, manuumque tremores 

 ToUit, et ejus ope febris acuta fugit. 

 Salvia, castoreum, lavendula, premula veris 

 Nastur : athanasia, sanant paralytica membra. 

 Salvia salvatrix, naturse consiliatrix." 



The whole poem, with an old English rhyming 

 translation, was republished and illustrated with 

 learned notes by Sir Alexander Croke in 1830. 

 It was printed by Talboys at Oxford ; and as it 

 is so easily accessible, I will not occupy valuable 

 space by merely quoting the learned editor. 



Begbrook. 



Shdkspeare Queries (Vol. vi., p. 221.). — The 

 book Mr. Halliwell inquires for is entitled : 



" An Historical Dictionary of England and Wales : in 

 Three Parts. I. Geographical. Of the most Memorable 

 Places, &c., in E. and VV. II. Historical. Of the most 

 Memorable Persons, Nobles, Scholars, Ladies, Soldiers, 

 Seamen, &c., of England. III. Political. Of the Chief 

 Offices in the Government, &c. London : printed for 

 Abel Roper, at the Blitre iu Fleet Street, near Temple 

 Bar, 1G92." 



The second part is a Biographical Dictionary, 

 and includes the following short notice of — 



" Shakespear (Will,.), B. at Stratford in Warwick- 

 shire, was in some sort a compound of three eminent 

 poets, Martial, Ovid, Plautus the comedian. His learn- 

 ing being very little, Nature seems to have practised her 

 best rules in his production. The genius of this our poet 

 was jocular, by the quickness of his wit and invention ; so 

 that Heraclitus himself might afford a smile at his come- 

 dies. Many were the witty combats between him and Ben 

 Jonson. He died 1616, and buried at Stratford." 



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