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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 171. 



a forest, and a bind or fawn in the background 

 approaching from a cavern. It was published 

 some years ago at Darmstadt, and is not common : 

 but beyond a guess that it is meant for St. Gene- 

 vieve, the printsellers can tell me nothing about 

 it ; and I do not find in her history, as given by 

 Alban Butler, any such incident. Silukian. 



Quotation. — In the Miscellaneous Writings of 

 the celebrated Franklin (Chambers's People's 

 Edition) I find the following anecdote, in an article 

 on "The Art of procuring Pleasant Dreams." 

 Franklin says : 



" It is recorded of Metbusalem, who, being the 

 longest liver, may be supposed to have best preserved 

 his health, that he slept always in the open air ; for 

 when he had lived five hundred years, an angel said to 

 him, 'Arise, Methusalem, and build thee aa house; 

 for thou shalt live yet five hundred years longer.' But 

 Methusalem answered and said, ' If I am to live but 

 five hundred years longer, it is not worth wrliile to build 

 me an house : I will sleep in the open air as I have 

 been used to do.' " 



From what source did Franklin derive this in- 

 formation ? Cheistophobos. 



" God and the World.''' — I shall be obliged by 

 being informed from what poet are the following 

 lines: 



" God and the world we worship both together, 

 Draw not our laws to Him, but His to ours ; 

 Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither, 



Th' imperfect will brings forth but barren flowers; 

 Unwise as all distracted interests be, 

 Strangers to God, fools in humanity ; 

 Too good for great things, and too great for good, 

 While still 'I dare not' waits upon ' I would.' " 



W. H. 



*' Solid Men of Boston.''' —Where are the verses to 

 be found of which the following were part ? I have 

 an indistinct recollection that they were quoted in 

 parliament during the American revolution : 



*' Solid men of Boston, make no long orations ; 

 Solid men of Boston, drink no strong potations ; 

 Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown. 

 Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London. 



Bow, wow, wow. 

 " Sit down neighbours all, and I'll tell you a merry 

 story, 

 About a disappointed Whig that wish'd to be a Tory, 

 I had it piping hot from Ebenezer Barber, 

 Who sail'd from Old England, and lies in Boston 

 harbour. 



Bow, wow, wow." 

 Uneda. 



Lost MS. by Alexander Pennecuik. — In the 

 Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, is preserved a 

 MS. in 4to., called The whole Works of Alexander 

 Pennecuik, Gent., vol. ii. It commences at p. 215. 



Upon the boards is written " Edinburgh, January 

 1759. Ex dono viduse J. Graham, Bibliopegi, cum 

 altero volumine." It is not known in what way 

 the Faculty of Advocates became possessed of this 

 volume. Query, Where is the first ? 



Edward F. Rimbatilt. 



" The Percy Anecdotes." — Who were the com- 

 pilers of this excellent collection, published about 

 thirty years ago ? Unbda. 



Norman Song. — In the year 1198 there was a 

 song current in Normandy, which ran that the 

 arrow was being made in Limousin by which 

 Richard Cceur de Lion was to be slain. Can any 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." inform me where the 

 ballad is to be found, or if MS., give me a copy ? 



R.L. 



Gods Marks. — In Roper's Life of More there is 

 an account of Margaret Roper's recovery from an 

 attack of the sweating sickness. The belief of the 

 writer was, that the recovery was miraculous ; and 

 to enforce that opinion he asserts, that the patient 

 did not begin to recover until after " God's marks 

 (an evident undoubted token of death) plainly ap- 

 peared upon her." (Roper's More, p. 29., Singer's 

 edition.) Pray what is meant by " God's marks ? " 



John Bruce. 



The Bronze Statue of Charles I., Charing 

 Cross. — What is known of the life and history of 

 John Rivers*, to whose loyalty the good people 

 of London are now indebted for the preservation 

 of this bust, which the Parliament in the time of 

 Cromwell had ordered to be destroyed ? That he 

 was a brazier, and a handy workman, is all that I 

 know of him. W. W. 



Malta. 



Hviters Polyglott. — Can any one inform me 

 whether the following work was ever completed, 

 or give me any particulars respecting it ? Bihlia 

 Sacra, Ehraice, Chaldaice, Greece, Latine, Ger- 

 manice, Saxonice ; Studio et Lahore Eliae Hutteri, 

 Germani, Noribergae, 1599. Of this work I have 

 the first volume — a splendid book, which recently 

 came from abroad ; but I cannot hear of the other 

 volumes : this includes the Pentateuch. A reply to 

 this Query will be thankfully received. B. H. C. 



[We have an edition before us, printed at Noribergae, 

 1599, to the end of the Book of Ruth, but without the 

 Sclavonic column. According to Ebert ( Bibliog. Diet.) 

 there is " a fourfold edition, diflFering only in the last 

 column, and goes only as far as the Book of Ruth. 

 Scarce, but of no value. The edition with the Scla- 



[■" John Rivett, a brazier living at the Dial, near Hol- 

 born Conduit. See Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting 

 vol. ii. p. 319. — Ed.] 



