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NOTES AND QUEKIES. [^^-^ s. No iic, map. 20. '58. 



old eJition (lacking title-page, date, and imprint, 

 certainly very old, probably the first,) of Samuel 

 Butler's prose Characters. It is taken from the 

 twenty-first character in my edition, entitled " An 

 Haranguer " : — 



" If he happen at any time to be at a Stand, and any 

 Man else begins to speak, he presently drowns him with 

 his Noise, as a Water-Dog makes a Duck dive : for when 

 you think he has done he falls on, and lets fl3' again, like 

 a Gun that will discharge nine Times with one Loading." 



W. J. o. 



Climacterics (2°* S. iv. 148.) — Seeing a Query 

 a short time since, regarding the time at which we 

 enter the different " climacterics " of life, I think 

 the following extract from the Gentleman's Mag. 

 (xxii. 192.) may be of service to confirm (or other- 

 wise) the answers of your correspondents ; it oc- 

 curs among the list of deaths for 1752 : — 



" April 11. Sam' Remnant, Esq'', at his seat at Brent- 

 ford, Essex, worth near 100,000/. He was always appre- 

 hensive that he should die in his grand climacteric, or 

 GS'^'i vear, and so it happened." 



# J. B. S. 



Swallowing Lice Frogs (2"^ S. iv. 145.). — This is 

 practised in parts of Wilts, but not on human 

 subjects. It is a remedy administered to cows 

 ■when afflicted with a cessation of " chewing the 

 quid," or, as the more polite term it, " chewing 

 the cud," the term quid being now-a-days mono- 

 polised by tobacco masticators. 



Another old Saxon word retaining a lingering 

 hold in the villages under the Plain from Potterne 

 to Westbury (in Wilts), and which is not given in 

 any glossary to which I have present access, is 

 Sylla for plough. Hence the piece of guiding 

 wood near the share is called the syllafoot, ver- 

 nacularly " zyllavut." Hence also the surname 

 Silliman manifestly means ploughman. This for 

 Me. Lowek. J. W. 



" For when a reason's aptly chosen" ^c. (2"'' S. 

 iv. 208.) — The reaMInes are : — 



" For when one's proofs are aptly chosen, 

 Four are as valid as four dozen." 



P. H. P. will find them at the conclusion of the 

 first canto of Prior's Alma. 1. K. 



''Call a spade a spade" (P' S. iv. 274. 456.) — 

 Similar sayings are to be found in that storehouse 

 of idioms, the Colloquies of Erasmus. At the end 

 of the colloquy, "Philetymus et Pseudocheus," 

 Phil, says : "At istam artem, nos crassiores, sole- 

 mus vocare furtum, qui ^cum vocamus ficum, et 

 scapham scapham." And in the dialogue " Dilu- 

 calum Philypnus": "Dicam igitur explanate, nee 

 aliud dicam ficum, quam ficum." A. B. 



Hamilton Terrace. 



CordelVs Translation of the Missal (2"'^ S. iii. 

 213.) — Tour correspondent F. C. H., in a reply 

 to an inquiry (W. C.) as to when the Missal was 



first translated into the English for the use of the 

 laity ? states that the entire Missal was first trans- 

 lated into English by the Rev. Mr. Cordell of 

 Newcastle- on-Tyne. 



This- statement at the time interested me very 

 much, and I endeavoured, but without success, to 

 procure the book for examination and comparison 

 with more modern translations. Will F. C. H. 

 kindly inform me if it was published with any 

 approbation and where, and also whether the word 

 " entire " means a translation of the Missal with 

 all its rubrics, or only of such portions as consti- 

 tute the public service, omitting the general ru- 

 brics, &c. Enivri. 



Five Miletown, Co. Tyrone. 



The English Militia (2"'^ S. v. 177.) — From 

 the correspondence of my uncle, who was a Lieu- 

 tenant in the First West York Militia, I find that 

 it was one of those which volunteered to serve in 

 Ireland about the time of the rebellion. In a let- 

 ter dated Dublin, July 5, 1799, he writes — 



" On Saturday last the Lord-Lieut, reviewed all tlic 

 English regiments of militia (four), and the 5th Dragoon 

 Guards. The militia regiments were ourselves, the Cam- 

 bridge, Worcester, and Lincoln. Such another sight was 

 never seen in the Phcenix Park before — all the nobility 



and mobility of Dublin attended There is no time 



fixed for our return, nor do I know at all when it will be. 

 The Act only is in force one month after Pariiamcnt 

 meets, and then they require a fresh offer of service, which 

 whether our men will give or not I do not know. The 

 country is as quiet as anything can possibly be ; a few 

 robberies committed now and then by individuals who 

 are almost sure of being taken, and those who were most 

 active in the rebellion arc daily brought in from their 

 lurking places and tried by a court-martial which is 

 always sitting, composed of officers of the Irish regiments 

 of the line and Irish militia. The 2nd West York are 

 expected in Ireland almost every day, as they were wait- 

 ing at Portsmouth for vessels to bring them. The Gla- 

 morgaiishire have got to Cork, and have not left one man 

 behind them. I believe that is more than any regiment 

 has done." 



The next letter, dated July 23, coumiences 

 thus — 



" We yesterday received an order for the reduction of 

 our regiment, and also an offer of the Duke of Y"ork, if 

 any subaltern would bring sixty men with him into one 

 regiment, he would recommend him to His Majesty for 

 an ensigncy in the army," &c. 



My uncle embraced this opportunity, and hav- 

 ing obtained an ensigncy in the thirty-first regi- 

 ment, was immediately dispatched to the Helder, 

 where he was present in the actions with the 

 enemy on the 2nd and 6 th of October. E. H. A. 



Bell Lite7-ature (2°'> S. v. 152.) — De Carnpanis 

 Commentarius a Fr. Angela Roccha, Romas, 1612, 

 and 1719, with plates. Roccha was a cardinal 

 and librarian of the Vatican, during the pope- 

 dom of Sixtus V. In his Bibliotheca ApostoUcn 

 Vaticana, Roma;, 1591, there is a very interesting 

 account of Sixtus's labours, in preparing his edi- . 



