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de Castro, who from the age of twelve to fifty-two 

 years was deaf, dumb, and blind." 



After relating the sudden restoration of his 

 faculties, " Fitz-Adam" proceeds : 



" But, as if the blessings of this life were only given 

 us for afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the 

 relish of his enjoyments, and to repine at the possession 

 of those faculties, which served only to discover to him 

 the follies and disorders of his neighbours, and to teach 

 him tliat the intent of speech teas too often to deceive." 



It may serve to probe the matter of age to ask, 

 Who was " the old Spanish author " alluded to ? 

 Also, where may be found the hexameter line — 



" OS x' fTepov filv Kevdfi ivl (ppealv aWo 5e $d^ei." 



equivalent to the common expression, " He says 

 one thing and means another," and of which the 

 maxim attributed to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, the 

 Morning Chronicle, and South, seems only a 

 stronger form? Furvds. 



St. James's. 



Inscription on Penni/ of George III. (Vol. vii., 

 p. 65.). — " Stabit quocunque jeceris" (it will stand 

 in whatever way you throw it) is the well-known 

 motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to 

 the arms of the island, which are — Gules, three 

 armed legs argent, Hexed in triangle, garnished 

 and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that 

 the three legs of Mann were also on the penny 

 J. M. A. mentioned. 



Some curious lines about this motto are to be 

 found in The Isle of Mann Guide, by James 

 Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850) : one 

 verse is — 



*• With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look 



neat, 

 ' He rigg'd out the legs ; then to make them complete, 

 He surrounded the whole with four fine Roman feet. 

 They were ' Quocunque jeceris stabit,' 

 A thorough-paced Roman Iamb." 



The fore-mentioned work also contains a song 

 entitled " The Copper Row," referring to the dis- 

 turbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840. 



Thompson Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



This is, I suppose, a Manx penny, with the re- 

 verse of three legs, and the motto, which is usually 

 read "Quocunque jeceris stabit." C. 



"iVine Tailors make a Man" (Vol.vi., pp.390. 

 563.). — I extract the following humorous account 

 of the origin of this saying from The British 

 Apollo (12mo., reprint of 1726, voL i. p. 236.) : 



" It happen 'd ('tis no great matter in what year) that 

 eight taylors, having finish'd considerable pieces of 

 work at a certain person of quality's liouse (whose 

 name authors have thought fit to conceal), and receiv- 

 ing all the money due for the same, a virago servant 



maid of the house observing them to be but slender- 

 built animals, and in their mathematical postures on 

 their shop-board appearing but so many pieces of men, 

 resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the road. 

 The better to compass her design, she procured a very 

 terrible great black-pudding, which (having waylaid 

 them) she presented at the breast of the foremost : 

 they, mistaking this prop of life for an instrument of 

 death, at least a blunder-buss, readily yielded up their 

 money ; but she, not contented with that, severely 

 disciplin'd them with a cudgel she carry'd in the other 

 hand, all which they bore with a philosophical resigna- 

 tion. Thus, eight not being able to deal with one 

 woman, by consequence could not make a man, on 

 which account a ninth is added. 'Tis the opinion of 

 our curious virtuosos, that this want of courage ariseth 

 from their immoderate eating of cucumbers, which too 

 much refrigerates their blood. However, to their 

 eternal honour be it spoke, they have been often known 

 to encounter a sort of cannibals, to whose assaults they 

 are often subject, not fictitious, but real man-eaters, 

 and that with a lance but two inches long ; nay, and 

 although they go arm'd no further than their middle- 

 finger." 



SlQMA. 

 Sunderland. 



On Quotations (Vol. vi., p. 408.). — There can 

 be no doubt that quotations have frequently been 

 altered, to make them more apt to the quoter's 

 purpose, of which I believe the following to be an 

 mstance. We frequently meet with the quotation, 

 " Nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia," with a re- 

 ference to Juvenal. I have not been able to find 

 the passage in this shape, and presume it is an 

 alteration from the address to Fortune, which 

 occurs twice in his Satires, Sat. x. v. 305, 366., 

 and Sat. xiv. v. 315, 316. : 



" Nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia : nos te 

 Nos tacimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus." 



The alteration is evidently not a mere verbal one, 

 but changes entirely the meaning and allusion of 

 the passage. J. S. Warden. 



Rhymes on Places (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.). 

 — In addition to the local rhymes given in your 

 pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in 

 Grose. They are peculiar to the Xorth of Eng- 

 land : 



" Rothbury for goats' milk, 



And the Cheviots for mutton ; 

 Cheswick for its cheese and bread, 

 And Tynemouth for a glutton." 



" Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless, 

 And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw ; 

 Capheaton was a wee bonny place. 

 But Wallington bang'd them a'." 



The craw, in the second rhyme, alludes to the 

 Crasters, anciently Crancester, an old family in the 

 parish of Hartburn, who succeeded to the estates 

 of the Shaftoe family. Edward F. Eimbault. 



