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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 155. 



B. V. V. are the initials of the line but one preced- 

 ing, and, with what goes before, make out the 

 lines quoted by R. F. L. A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



Sir W. Geli (Pompeiana, vol. i. p. 83.) tells us 

 that this epigram is a translation of an inscription, 

 referred to by Athenaeus as having been carved on 

 a stone or marble at the entrance of a bath. He, 

 however, gives it as follows : 



" Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora sana, 

 Corpora sana dabunt balnea, vina, Venus." 



Can any one furnish us with the original, and its 

 authorship ? Meanwhile — 



" Nil agit esemplum quod litem lite resolvit." 



BOEOTICUS. 



Edgmond, Salop. 



Civilation (Vol. vi., p. 199.). — Civilation is used 

 in the sense ascribed to it by J. T). W. in Dr. 

 Magin's poem of " Daniel O'Rourke " iv. 35., 

 JBlackwood's Magazine, April, 1821, p. 84. Dan 

 is in difficulties, and on the moon : 



" Said he ' 'Tis certain that I was not right 

 To get into this state of civilation." 



The word is italicised, and explained in a note : 



" A cant phrase in Cork for a state of intoxication. 

 A worthy orator of ours, who had taken a glass or 

 two too much, was haranguing at a debating society 

 on the state of Ireland before the English invasion, 

 and the whole harangue was this : ' Sir, the Irish had 

 no civilation, civization, civilation I mean.' Finding, 

 however, his efforts to get civilization out impracticable, 

 he sat down with the satisfaction of having added a 

 ■new word to our language. Every drunken man ever 

 since is here said to be in a state oi civilation." 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Dutensiana (Vol. vi., p. 292.). — Lewis Dutens, 

 A.M. and F.R.S., died in London, 23rd May, 

 1812, aged eiiihty-three. He was rector of the 

 parish of the Elsdon, Northumberland, from 1765 

 to his death; he was also a canon of Windsor, 

 historiographer to the king, and a member of the 

 French Academy of Belles Lettres. In 1768 he 

 published at Geneva, in six volumes 4to., with 

 prefaces, the entire works of Leibnitz ; and in the 

 following year, in English, his Discoveries of the 

 Ancients attributed to the Moderns, which was 

 originally written in French, and published at 

 Paris in 1766 : this is a very curious and elaborate 

 performance. His last work. Memoirs of a Tra- 

 veller now in Retirement, to which your corre*- 

 spondent alludes, was written at an advanced 

 period of life. He was probably the last spiritual 

 person employed in a lay office. He resided little 

 at Elsdon, where he was esteemed a good, kind- 

 hearted man, although somewhat eccentric in his 

 manner and habits ; when there, he occupied the 



second floor of the little border tower of which 

 the parsonage house consists. Was he not also 

 the author of Correspondence interceptee ? * W. 



" Bis dat qui cito dat" (Vol. i., p. 330.). — This 

 Italian proverb will be found in Ray's Collection, 

 edit. 1768 ; 



" He giveth twice that gives in a trice." 

 " Qui cito dat, bis dat." 



" Dono molto aspettato, e venduto, non donato." 

 " A gift long waited for, is sold, not given." 



It is also thus recorded in Ward's Collection, p. 43., 

 London edition of 1842 : 



" He gives twice that gives in a trice." 

 " Qui donne tot, donne deux fois." 

 ' " Chi da presto, da il doppio." 

 " Quien da luego, da dos veces." 

 " Doppelt giebt, wer bald giebt." 



The Italians have other proverbs of a totally 

 diffijrent sense. From those we have met with 

 we quote the following : 



" Who gives away his goods before he is dead. 

 Take a beetle, and knock him on the head." 

 " Chi da il suo inanzi morire, il s'apparecchia assai 

 patire." 



The Spaniards have a proverb of similar import, 

 which we have seen in a collection of Spanish 

 proverbs, published in London in 1658 : 



" Quien da la suyo 'antes de raorir aparejese a bien 



sufrir." 

 " Who parts with his own before his death, let him 



prepare for patience." 



w. w. 



La Valetta, Malta. I 



Adrian Scrope the Regicide (Vol. vl., p. 290.). — 

 Very full pedigrees of the family of Scrope of 

 Bolton Castle, Yorkshire, from whom the regicide 

 was descended, appear in Blore's History of Rut- 

 land, pp. 7 — 10. Adrian Scrope and his children 

 may be found in Pedigree IV., and short biogra- 

 phical notices of him and his son in the notes, 

 p. 9. J. P. Jun. 



Was Penn ever a Slaveholder ? (Vol. vi., p. 150.). 

 — Mr. CROsriELD asks, " Did William Penn ever 

 make use of Negro slaves?" As this question is 

 put, I should think he did ; and for my authority 

 in thus believing would refer Mb. Ckosfield to 

 Hepworth Dixon's recent Life of Penn, published 

 in London in 1851, p. 389. : 



" Many years after this he (Penn) spoke of slavery 

 as a matter of course, and though he refrained from the 

 actual purchase of negroes, so as in strict fact never to 



[♦ This work is placed under Dutens' name in the 

 Grenville Catalogue ; and is attributed to him on the 

 fly-leaf of William Seward's copy in the British Mu- 

 seum. — Ed.] 



