Oct. 16. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



359 



admire vastly, notwithstanding his many fanciful 

 vagaries, and very many aberrations from the 

 canon laws of poetical accuracy. 

 I transcribe only a portion : 



•" When Israel was from bondage led. 

 Led by th' Almighty's hand 

 From out a foreign land, 

 The great sea beheld, and fled. 



" What ail'd the mighty sea to flee? 

 Or why did Jordan's tyde 

 Back to his fountain glide ? 

 Jordan's tyde, what ailed thee ? 

 Why leapt the liills? why did the mountains 



shake ? 

 What ail'd them their fixt natures to forsake ? 

 Fly where thou wilt, O Sea ! 

 And Jordan's current cease ; 

 Jordan there is no need of thee. 

 For at God's word, whene'er He please, 

 The rocks shall weep new waters forth instead of these." 

 Davideis, book i. p. 14. : London, 1668. Fol. 



Rt. 



Warmlngton. 



INSCEIPTION ON THE CHURCH AT BAVENNO. 



Some months since, returning from an Italian 

 tour, and staying for an evening at the beautifully 

 situated inn of Bavenno, on the shore of the Lago 

 Magore, I sauntered into the little church adjacent, 

 and there read a modern copy of an ancient inscrip- 

 tion as follows : 



" Trophimus 

 Ti. Claudii Caes. 



August! 



Germanici Ser. 



Dariae et Dianae 



Memorije 



Et Tarpeias sacrum." 



The church was obviously of great antiquity ; 

 but the introduction into this inscription of the 

 names Darice et Diance, would have led to the 

 notion that It had been erected originally on the 

 site of a temple dedicated to some heathen deities : 

 though, how a Daria became connected with a 

 Diana, I could not possibly conjecture. On enter- 

 ing the church, however, I found that the inscrip- 

 tion, as given above, was but a blundering mis- 

 copy of a much older inscription ; and that the 

 fifth line should, instead of Darice et Diance, be 

 Daridinianus, being evidently a patronymic or 

 surname of the Trophimus in the first line : thus, 

 the inscription, correctly, would run thus : 



" Trophimus 

 Ti. Claudii Caes. 



August! 



Germanici Ser. 



Daridinianus 



Memoriae 



Et Tarpeiae sacrum." 



From this reading of the inscription. It would 

 appear that the church in question had been dedi- 

 cated by Trophimus, the servant or freeman of 

 Claudius Caesar. I do not think that chronology 

 will allow us to identify him with the Trophimus 

 mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles and the 

 Epistle to Timothy. I have looked in vain In 

 several Latin and classical dictionaries for the word 

 Daridinianus. Perhaps some of your correspondents 

 would have the kindness to give me some clue to, 

 or explanation of, the word ; as also any note of 

 the erection of a church, which would certainly 

 seem to date from the first century. A. B. K. 



Belmont. 



A MARRIAGE IN HIGH riTE. 



More than fifty years have passed since the fol- 

 lowing narrative was related by an old gentleman, 

 above seventy years of age, as having occurred iu 

 his youth. Its date may therefore be about 1740. 



A nobleman having broken his constitution and 

 injured his estate by a career of dissipation, deter- 

 mined to marry and reform ; and having paid his 

 addresses to an heiress, and been duly accepted, 

 the wedding-day was fixed, and great preparations 

 made for its celebration. In those times news 

 travelled slowly, and the intelligence of the court- 

 ship only reached the lady's aunt (from whom she 

 had large expectations), in a distant county, three 

 or four days before the bridal day. She was, how- 

 ever, an energetic woman of the old school : she 

 posted to London, and made such good use of her 

 time, that she succeeded in setting the match 

 aside. But the letter announcing this was only 

 written by her niece late on the preceding night, 

 and was dispatched very early on the purposed 

 wedding-day, and being taken tb the bridegroom's 

 bedside, was read by him there. A short time after 

 he told his valet to go into the servants' hall, and 

 Inquire if any of the women would be married that 

 morning. The servants, knowing their lord's 

 generosity and fondness for joking, thought that 

 he wished to signalise his own marriage by por- 

 tioning another couple, and laughingly declined. 

 The valet returned, and said, "There Is nobody 

 that can be married to-day, my Lord, but th^ 

 country wench that came up last week, and she 

 says that she has no sweetheart." " Oh ! " he re- 

 plied, " tell her to put on her Sunday dress, and 

 come to me in the blue breakfast-room." He 

 dressed in the suit prepared : they met ; and the 

 result of that interview must be known by Its con-" 

 sequences. A mantle and veil of lace was thrown 

 over the country dress of a modest, handsome, and 

 lively village girl, and she became that morning a 

 peeress of England ! Much sensation was caused; 

 but in the world of fashion it was only a nine days' 

 wonder; for the married pair went Immediately 

 from London. She possessed an excellent disposi- 



