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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 155. 



toung, parlement, &c., for people^ treasure, tongue, 

 parliament, &c. He adds : 



" The new Academy of Wits call'd L'Academie de 

 heaux esprits, which the late Cardinal de Richelieu 

 founded in Paris, is now in hand to reform the French 

 language in this particular, and to weed it of all su- 

 perfluous Letters, which makes the Tovng differ so 

 much from the Pen that they have expos'd themselves 

 to this contumelious Proverb, The Frenchman doth 

 neither pronounce as he writes, nor speak as he thinks, nor 

 einff as he pricks." 



And he quotes a " topic axiom " of Aristotle as 

 applicable to phonetics, " Frustra fit per plura, 

 quod fieri potest per pauciora." 



Can your many and learned correspondents 

 refer me to any advocate of phonetic spelling of 

 jin earlier period than Howell ? 



W. Spareow Simpson, B.A. 



EPITAPH ON THE BBV. JOHN MORTON, M.A. 



In my possession is a copy of Morton's Natural 

 History of Northamptonshire, containing the fol- 

 lowing MS. notes by the Rev. Thomas Baker : 



>« John Morton, Coll. Eman. Art. Bac. an, 1691 (Regr, 



Acad. ). 

 John Morton, Coll. Eman. Art. Mr. an. 1695. Ibid. 

 Joh. Morton, Coll. Eman. Quadr. admissusin Matric. 



Acad. Cant. Dec. 17. 1688. 



" Epitaphium. 



Juxta depositum jacet 



Quicquid mortale fuit 



JoHAKNis Morton, A.M. et R. S.S. 



Mariti, Patris, Amici, Proximique 



Indulgentissimi et perquam human! 



Ob exquisitam Plantarum, Fossiliumque peritlam, 



Naturalem hujusce comitatus Historiam, 



Limato ipsius calamo conscriptam, 



In morbis explorandis Sagaeitatem, 



Nee minus in eorundem Remediis 



Fausto omine adhibendls Judicium, 



In munere denique Pastoral! 



Obeundo Studium indefessum 



Rei publicse non parum benefici : 



Post quam huic Ecclesiae per annos novendecim curatus, 



Per Sedecim Rector operam impenderat. 

 Animam exhalavit Julii die [18. 1726J anno .^tat. 



sua {^55'] 



Quern prope slta, vel in Tumulo coraitatur uxor Susanna, 



Amans, parique cum ardore redamata 



Hanc insignivit Pietas, et prisca Fides, 



Insolita rerum utilissimarum Scientia 



Officiosa Seduiitas, mira Suavitas, comitasque, 



Virtutum omnium, quotquot pulcherrimo exemplo 



Indigitavit Maritus, feliciter semulam. 



En Par ccelesti choro dignissimum. 



In vita amabile ! sola morte divulsum." 



* From Dr. Rawlinson, with the following account : 



•* I send you an Epitaph on Mr. Morton, Author of 



y* Natural History of Northaraptonsh. It was wrote 



by the Rev^ Mr. Tho. Tooly, M.A., and sometime 

 Fellow of St. Joh. Coll. Oxon., and is on a Monument 

 in Oxendon Church Com. Northton., erected at the 

 expence of 20 lib. given by Dr. Sloan, for his collection 

 of naturall Curiosities, The Date is wanting." 



H. T, Wake. 

 Stepney. 



LINES ON THE MIRACLE OF TURNING THE WATER 

 INTO WINE. 



Some schoolboy and collegiate myths respecting 

 a line or two on the first miracles in Cana of 

 Galilee have gained considerable celebrity. Camp- 

 bell, however (Essay on English Poetry, Sfc, 

 p. 224., London, 1848), traces the matter to its 

 source by producing the following from an epigram 

 by Richard Crashaw, the friend and intimate of 

 Cowley : 



" Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit. " 

 " The modest water saw its God, and blush'd." j 

 So Aaron Hill : 



" When Christ, at Cana's feast, by pow'r divine, 

 Inspir'd cold water with the warmth of wine. 

 See ! cry'd they, while in red'ning tide it gush'd. 

 The bashful stream hath seen its God, and blush'd. " 

 Works, vol. iii. p. 241. : London, 1754. 



In Vida's Christiad, which no less competent a 

 judge than Milton himself pronounced the best 

 poem extant upon a sacred subject, these lines 

 occur : 



" Sex, ut erant ibi tot numero, carchesia lymphis 

 Impleri jubet actutum, mensisque reponi, 

 Quas simul aspexit propius Deus, omnibus ecce! 

 Mutatus subito nigrescere cernitur humor, 

 Vinaque pro pura mirantes hausimus unda." 



Lib. iii. 9984. 



Vida had before written : 



"... Canam hi liquere modo atra 

 Miratam puras in vina rubescere lymphas." 



Lib. ii. 431. 



The beautiful hymn of St. Ambrose is commonly 

 known : 



^ " Vel Hydriis plenis aqua 

 Vini saporem infuderis : 

 Hausit minister conscius, 

 Quod ipse non impleverat. 



Aquas colorari videns, 

 Inebriare flumina ; 

 Mutata elementa stupent 

 Transire in usus alteros," 



After all, may not Crashaw have been indebted 

 to Psalm Ixxvii, 16, : 



" The waters saw Thee, O God ! the waters saw 

 Thee; they wereafraid ; the depths also were troubled." 



This last quotation has carried me insensibly 

 away to a very forcible version of Psalm cxiv. by 

 Cowley, whom I am old-fashioned enough to 



