July 3. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Querist, I should say that the spirit of the thing 

 (a sort of verbal magic square) seems to require 

 the repetition of the same words in all three pairs 

 of parallel columns. Therefore the last two 

 columns might have consisted of precisely the same 

 words as the two middle ones (excepting of course 

 the bottom row), without injury to the sense : a 

 circumstance that appears to have been lost sight 

 of by whoever framed the Latin version. At all 

 events, the fifth and sixth words in the top line 

 ought to be dicit and scit, instead of audit and 

 expedit. These, and some others, are perhaps mis- 

 <juotations. 



The key consists in taking the words of the bot- 

 tom row alternately with those of any of the upper 



rows in the same pair of columns : — Thus, the 

 first sentence is, "Non dicas quoddamque scis, 

 nam qui dicit quodcunque scit, saepe dicit quod non 

 «ci/." I trust your correspondent did not intend 

 this as a sly hit at contributors, its meaning being, 

 " Thou must not talk of all that thou knowest, for 

 he who talks of everything he knows, often talks 

 of what he knoweth not." 



The following English version — in which the 

 bottom line is transposed to the top, for the sake 

 of clearness — will give some idea of the arrange- 

 ment. The last word sees, in the last column, 

 must be understood as sees into or comprehends. 



A. E. B. 



Leeds. 



This enigmatical inscription seems capable of a 

 simple solution. It appears to consist of five Arab 

 maxims inculcating prudence in thought, word, 

 and deed. Each line is to be read with the addi- 

 tion of the words of the last line, e. g. : 



" Non dicas quoddamque scis, nam qui dicit quod- 

 cunque scit, saepe audit quod non expedit." 



The original appears to have suffered in the 

 translation. H. C. K. 



[We are also indebted to Sc. — R. M'C T. J. B. — 



JuvKNis — J. Eastwood — Sevarg — W. S. Simpson — 

 B. II. J — L. X. R., &c., for similar Replies.] 



" MONODY ON THE DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOOBE." 



(Vol. i., pp. 320. 445.) 



As I have always coincided in the common 

 opinion that this beautiful poem was, unquestion- 

 ably, written by Wolfe, and hoped that Mr. 

 Cooper's communication in Vol. i., p. 445. of 

 ** 2Sr. & Q." had settled any doubt that miglit still 

 Knger in sceptical minds, I was not a little sur- 

 prised, a few days ago, on accidentally glancing 

 over The Courier newspaper for Wednesday, 



Nov. 3, 1824 (No. 10,288), to find the authorship 

 claimed by Dr. Marshall of Durham. I am not 

 aware that his letter received any reply, either at 

 the time or subsequently ; but as it might possibly 

 escape the attention of those who could have 

 vindicated Wolfe's claim, and the "incontestable 

 evidence" to which it alludes may yet be capable 

 of production, I trust you will not think this copy 

 unworthy of being noted in your widely circulated 

 and useful publication. J. R. Walbran. 



Fall Croft, RIpon. 



"ode on the BCRIAL of sib JOHN MOOKfc: 



To the Editor of the Courier. 



Sir, — Permit me through the medium of your 

 highly respectable journal (which I have chosen as the 

 channel of this communication, from my having been 

 a subscriber to It for the last fifteen years) to observe, 

 that the statement lately published in the Morning 

 Chronicle, the writer of which ascribes the lines on the 

 burial of Sir John Moore to Woolf, is false, and as 

 barefaced a fabrication as ever was foisted on the 

 public. The lines In question were not written by 

 Woolf, nor by Hailey, nor Is Deacoll the author, but 

 they were composed by me. I published them origin- 

 ally some years ago in the Durham County Advertigert 



