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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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toninus Bossi," and underneath the bearded bust 

 " VENE : " Keverse, " Nunquam niorior ; " full- 

 length winged figure of Fame. Had it not been 

 for the letters under the bust, signifying, I presume, 

 "Venetus " (as they will not stand for the name of 

 any medallic artist), I should take it to be that of 

 the author of i?o»ia Sotteranea, 1632: but he was 

 a Milanese, and I am also inclined to think that 

 the medal is of earlier date. 



2. How must the following thaler and one- 

 third thaler be read : — Obverse, " Wolf Georg. 

 Co. In. Stolb. Ko. 1624 : " Reverse, " Wern. et Ho. 

 Do. In. Ep. Min. B. Lor. E. C." Obverse, 

 " Christ. Ludewig U. Fried. Botho. Gr. 5. Stolb. 

 K. R. W. U. H. 1747 : " Reverse, " Gott seegne 

 und erhalte unsere Bergwercke." I presume them 

 to belong respectively to Wolf George and Chris- 

 topher Louis, Counts of Weringerode, Stolberg : 

 and the Reverse of the second one is plain enough, 

 with the exception of the last word, of which I am 

 not quite certain ; but I am desirous of an ex- 

 planation of the contractions and initial letters. 



3. The meaning of the legend on the ducat 

 issued by the Provisional Government of Hungary 

 in 1848, and which reads on the Obverse, "Kiralya 

 Erd. U. Fejed. V. Ferd. Magy. H.T. Orsz :" and 

 on the Reverse, " Sz. Maria 1st Annya Magy. or. 

 Vedoge," — and which, having no knowledge of the 

 Magyar language, I am unable to explain. 



John J. A. Boase. 



Berkeley's Sublime System. — The following note 

 is appended to Coleridge's poem entitled Religious 

 Musings : 



" This paragraph is intelligible to those who, like 

 the author, believe and feel the sublime system of 

 Berkeley, and the doctrine of the final happiness of all 

 men." 



I suppose Bishop Berkeley is meant : if so, where 

 is the " sublime system " to be found ? L. G. 



Name of Martyn. — Did this name, so common 

 in the district allotted at the Conquest to the Earl 

 of Mortaigne, thence originate ? S. R. P. 



Launceston. 



Passage in Milton. — I have seen a reprint of a 

 poem alleged to have been written by Milton in 

 Lis old age, one stanza of which is as follows : 

 " It is nothing now, 

 When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, 

 When airs from Paradise refresh my brow, 

 The Earth in darkness lies." 



I have no means of referring to the last Oxford 

 edition of his works, from whence it was taken ; 

 but, presuming it to be correct, does not the force 

 of the antithesis require the substitution of that 

 for the in the last line ? H. J. C. 



Emhlems. — I have a book of emblems, enriched 

 with some good manuscript notes in an old hand. 

 I have found most of the references correct, and 

 very useful ; but there is one author, Floridan, 

 whom I cannot trace. The title of his book is 

 generally given Bet. Pegu.; but in one instance it 

 is fuller. The emblem is a brig with both masts 

 broken : " Bis fracta relinquor." In the margin 

 is written, " Melius in Floridan : Betrub. Pegues. 

 240." Another of a chessboard, " Per tot dis- 

 criminus : " " Idem in Florid., Bet. Pegu, xiv." 

 Can any of your readers direct me to the book, or 

 give any account of its author ? H. J. 



Rhymivg Bats to Death. — Sir William Temple, 

 in his Essay on Poetry, says, speaking of the old 

 Runic : 



" The remainders are woven into our very lan- 

 guage. Mara, in old Runic, was a goblin that seized 

 upon men asleep in their beds, and took from them all 

 speech and motion. Old Nicka was a spirit that came 

 to strangle people who fell into the water. ]3o was a 

 fierce Gothic captain, son of Odin, whose name was 

 used by his soldiers when they would fight or surprise 

 their enemies : and the proverb of ' rhyming rats to 

 death ' came, I suppose, from the same root." 



Can you, or any of your correspondents, inform 

 me what is the proverb to which the last words 

 allude ? M. M. 



Trin. Coll. Camb. 



Catcalls, — Addison has a paper on the catcall 

 {Spectator, 341.), and Boswell tells us that on the 

 first night of Irene some alarm was caused by the 

 catcalls. I cannot find any one who has heard or 

 seen the instrument, and it seems to be unknown 

 at the toy-shops. If the Spectator is not mere 

 banter, its use was not confined to the galleries ; 

 yet it is strange that gentlemen, even then, should 

 have used such a thing in a theatre. Can you, or 

 your correspondents enlighten me on this subject? 



M. M. E. 



" For 'tis God only" Sfc. — What is the situs of 

 the following passage, which I am anxious to know ? 



" For 'tis God only who can find 

 All nature to His mind." 



T. B. H. 



Edward Polhill. — Can any of your readers 

 afford me information in reference to the author 

 of the following book? — Specidum Theologies in 

 Christo, or, A View of some Divine Truths which 

 are either practically exemplified in Jesus Christ 

 set forth in the Gospel: or may be reasonably de- 

 duced from them, by Edward Polhill, of Burwash, 

 in Sussex, Esq. : small quarto, pp. 450, 1678. 

 Mr. Polhill was the author of several other theolo- 

 gical treatises, but I cannot collect more particu- 

 lars relating to him than these, viz. : 



