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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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as well in the town as in the church, of Jacobites, 

 and these elections being regarded as a trial of 

 party strength. O. G. 



"iliafa malce malo." — Will any of your corre- 

 spondents be good enough to complete the distich 

 of which the following is the first line ? — 



" Mala malae malo mala pertulit omnia in orbem," 



or something like it. And, as a further favour, 

 finish the hexameter in this epigram ? 



" Roma amor e retro perlecto nomine .... 

 Tendit enim retro Koma in amore Dei." 



This is in the style of Audoenus. The former I 

 have heard attributed to Porson. Balliolensis. 



"Dimidium Scientice." — I should be glad if some 

 one of your Baconian annotators would direct me 

 to that famous maxim which Coleridge ascribes to 

 the great philosopher, "Dimidium scientias, pru- 

 dens quaestio," in the original. 



B. B. WOODWAED. 



Portrait Painters. — I am in possession of some 

 good paintings, portraits, &c., which were taken at 

 the end of the last, and early in the present cen- 

 tury. Some were painted at Bath, and others at 

 Derby : and I should feel obliged if, in your Notes, 

 I could obtain information as to what artists of 

 celebrity were known in those places from fifty to 

 seventy years ago. I have heard that White of 

 Derby was an artist of high repute. J. Knight. 



Aylestone. 



"^w Impartial Inquiry" Sec. — Who was author 

 of— 



" An Impartial Inquiry into the true Nature of the 

 Faith which is required in the Gospel as necessary 

 to Salvation. In which is briefly shown upon liow 

 righteous Terms Unbelievers may become true Chris- 

 tians : and the case of the Deists is reduced to a short 

 Issue, by Philalethes Cestriensis. Svo., Lond. 1 746." 



Y. B. N. J. 



" As poor as JoVs Turkey." — This proverbial 

 expression is used in the United States, sometimes 

 with an addition showing how poor he was, thus : 

 "As poor as Job's turkey, that had but one feather 

 in his tail;" "As poor as Job's turkey, that had 

 to lean against a fence to gobble." Uneda. 



Fuss. — Perhaps some of your correspondents 

 can favour the public with the etymology and date 

 of the word /ms5. W. W. 



Suicide encouraged in Marseilles. — In the Lancet 

 of Nov. 30, 1839, it is stated by De Stone that 

 anciently, in Marseilles, persons having satisfiic- 

 tory reasons for committing suicide were supplied 

 with poison at the public expense. What authority 

 is there for this ? I should also like to be in- 



formed what was the occasion on which a suicidal 

 propensity in the Milesian ladies was corrected by 

 an appeal to their posthumous modesty ? Elsno. 



Fabulous Bird. — Among the many quaint and 

 beautiful conceits in Fuller, there is one pre- 

 eminently fine : in which he likens the life-long 

 remorse of a man who has slain another in a duel 

 to the condition of " a bird I have read of, which 

 hath a face like, and yet will prey upon, a man ; 

 who, coming to the water to drink, and finding 

 there, by reflection, that he had killed one like 

 himself, pineth away by degrees, and never after- 

 wards enjoyeth itself" 



Where did Fuller read this story ? I do not 

 recollect it in Pliny. V. T. Steknbeeg. 



Segantiorum Portus. — Has there been any 

 locality yet found for this port, mentioned by 

 Ptolemy in his History of Britain ? 



Pbestoniensis. 



Stamping on Current Coinage. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me whether the current English 

 coinage may legally be used for stamping adver- 

 tisements on ? Geegory. 



Rhymes : Dry den. — 



" Thou breakst through forms, with as much ease 

 As the French king through articles." 



« To Sir G. Etherege." 

 " Some lazy ages, lost in sleep and ease, 

 No action leave to busy chronicles." 



Astraa Redux, 105, 106. 



And again, in Threnodia Augustalis, " these," 

 ending line 410, and "miracles," ending line 414, 

 are made to rhyme. 



Was it ever the fashion to pronounce these 

 different terminations alike ; or does any other 

 author of repute of that date use such rhymes ? 



Again, "hour" and "traveller" are made to 

 rhyme in Astrcea Redux, 147, 148 ; " stars" and 

 "travellers," in Religio Laid,, 1; "are" and 

 "Lucifer," in The Medal; "men" and "sin," in 

 Religio Laid, 89, 90; "convince" and "sense," 

 in Ibid. 148 ; cum multis aliis. 



Haeby Leboy Temple. 



TTie Cadenham Oak. — Can any of the corre- 

 spondents of " N. & Q." inform me if this famous 

 old tree is still alive ? It flourished for nearly three 

 centuries in Hampshire Forest ; and during this 

 long period was visited by crowds of people, who, 

 it must be confessed, entertained towards it a reli- 

 gious veneration— 5 from its peculiarity of annually 

 shooting forth its buds on old Christmas-day. If 

 dead, as I suppose — for the account which I read 

 some years ago stated that it was fast decaying — 

 then I would like to know if the young tree, one 

 of its progeny, is still flourishing in the forest, and 

 enjoying, from its peculiarity, the same veneration 



