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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 166. 



That the most careful printers can misread, and 

 consequently misprint, copy, is evident from the 

 following error in my last Note: — Vol. vi., p. 584., 

 col. 1, for "in the edition which I gave of the 

 part^' read '■'■poet." This mistake, like most of 

 those I have indicated in the first folio Shakspeare, 

 might easily occur if the word was indistinctly 

 written. S. W. Singer. 



Mickleham. 



NOTES ON BACON S ESSAYS. 



As I find that the editor of Bacon's Essays for 

 Bohn's Standard Library has not verified the quo- 

 tations, I venture to send you a few " N. & Q." on 

 them, which I hope to continue from time to time, 

 if they prove acceptable. In compliance with the 

 recommendation of Mr. Sydney Smirke and the 

 Kev. H. T. Ellacombe (Vol. vi., p. 558.), I ap- 

 pend my name and address. 



N.B. The paging and notes of Bohn's edition 

 are followed throughout. 



Preface, p. xiii. note *. " Speech on the Im- 

 peachment of Warren Hastings." See Burke's 

 Works, vol. viii. p. 15. [ed. 1827.] Speech On the 

 first day of reply. 



Ditto, p. XV. Letter to Father Fulgentio. See 

 Montagu's Bacon, vol. xi. pref , p. vii. ; vol. xii. 

 p. 205. 



Ditto, ditto. Spenser's Faery Qucene, Sfc. See 

 preface to Moxon's Spenser (1850), p. xxix., where 

 this story Is refuted, and Montagu, xvi., note x. 



Ditto, p. xvi. " It was like another man's fair 

 ground," &c. See Montagu, xvi. p. xxvii. 



Ditto, ditto. "I shall die," &c. Ditto, xxxiv. 

 and note ww. 



Ditto, p. xvii. note f . Dugald Stewart. Sup- 

 plement to Encycl. Brit, vol. i. p. 54. [ed. 1824.] 



Ditto, ditto. Hatton, not Hwtton, as in Eliza 

 Cook's Journal, vi. 235. 



Ditto, ditto. Love an ignoble passion. Essay x. 

 ad init. 



Ditto, p. xviii. " Says Macanlay." Review of 

 B. Montagu's Bacon Essays, p. 355. [ed. 1851.] 



Ditto, ditto. A pamphlet. Montagu, vi. 299. 



Ditto, p. xix. " A place in the Canticles." 

 Cap. ii. 1. Bacon quotes, from memory it would 

 appear, from the Vulgate, which has " Ego flos 

 campi." By whom is the observation ? See, for 

 the story, Montagu, xvi. p. xcviii. 



Ditto, ditto. " JBooks were announced." What ? 



Ditto, p. XX. " Caesar's compliment to Cicero." 

 Where recorded ? 



Ditto, p. xxi. " The manufacture of particular 

 articles of trade." Montagu, xvi. 306. 



Ditto, p. xxii. " Says Macaulay." Ut supra, 

 p. 407. 



Ditto, ditto. Ben Jonson. See Underwood's, 

 Ixix. Ixxviii. [pp. 711, 713. ed.Moxon, 1851.] 



Ditto, p. XXV. Marcus Lucius. Who is here 

 alluded to ? 



Ditto, p. xxvii. "Which strangely parodies." 

 The opening alluded to Is " Franciscus de Veru- 

 1am sic cogitavit." 



Ditto, p. xxvili. " One solitary line." Where 

 is this to be found ? 



Ditto, ditto. " Ben Jonson after sketching." 

 See Discoveries, p. 749. rit sup. 



Ditto, p. xxix. " Might have censured with 

 Hume." Where ? 



Ditto, ditto. " Hobbes." Where does he 

 praise Bacon? 



Ditto, ditto. "Bayle." In Bayle's Dictionary 

 [English edition, 1710], *. v., we find but four- 

 teen lines on Bacon. 



Ditto, ditto. " Tacitus." Vit. Agric, cap. 44. 



Ditto, p. xxxiii. note. Solomon's House. See 

 p. 296. seqq. of the vol. of the Standard Library. 



Ditto, p. xxxiv. note. Paterculus, i. 17. 6.^ 

 [Burmann.] 



(To be continued.) 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



26. Hill's Road, Cambridge. 



LATIN POEMS IN CONNEXION WITH WATERLOO. 



I send you two copies of Latin verses which 

 have not, to my knowledge, appeared in print. 

 They are however interesting, from the coinci- 

 dence of their both relating to elm-trees, and in 

 some measure belonging to the " Story of Water- 

 loo," about which we never can hear too much. 

 The lines themselves possess considerable merit; 

 and, as their authors were respectively distin- 

 guished alumni of Eton and Winchester, I hope to 

 see both compositions placed in juxtaposition in 

 the columns of " N. & Q." 



The first of these productions was written by 

 Marquis Wellesley, as an inscription for a chair 

 carved from the Wellington Elm (which stood near 

 the centre of the British lines on the field of 

 Waterloo), and presented to his Majesty King 

 George IV., to whom the lines were addressed : 

 Ampla inter spolia, et magni decora alta triumphi, 



Ulmus erit fastis commemoranda tuis, 

 Quam super exoriens fausta tibl gloria penna 



Palmam oleamque uno detulit alma die ; 

 Immortale decus maneat, famaque perenni 



Felicique geras sceptra paterna manu ; 

 Et tua victrices dum cingunt tempera lauri, 



Materies solio digna sit ista tuo. 



For the other verses subjoined, we are indebted 

 to the late Rev. William Crowe, Fellow of New 

 College, Oxford, and many years public orator in 

 that university. It seems that he had planted an 

 elm at his parsonage, on the birth of his son, after- 

 wards killed at Waterloo, which sad event was 



