Feb. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the whole passage ought to be embalmed in your 

 pages amongst the other memorials of Wolfe : 



" Time was when it was praise and boast enough 

 In every clime, and travel where we might, 

 That we were born her children : praise enough 

 To fill the ambition of a private man. 

 That Chatham's language was his mother tongue, 

 And Wolfe's great name compatriot with his own. 

 Farewell those honours, and farewell with them 

 The hope of such hereafter. They have fallen 

 Each in his field of glory : one in arms, 

 And one in council. Wolfe upon the lap 

 Of smiling victory, that moment won, 

 And Chatham, heart-sick of his country's shame. 

 They made us many soldiers. Chatham still 

 Consulting England's happiness at home, 

 Secured it by an unforgiving frown. 

 If any wrong'd her. Wolfe, where'er he fought, 

 Put so much of his heart into his act, 

 That his example had a magnet's force. 

 And all were swift to follow whom all lov'd." 



Southey adds, in a note : 



" Cowper wrote from his own recollection here. In 

 one of his letters, he says : ' Nothing could express my 

 rapture when Wolfe made the conquest of Quebec' " 



C. W. B. 



Shakspeare Headings : " Love's Labour^ s Lost" 

 Act V. Sc. 2. (Vol. vi., pp. 268. 296.).— 



" That sport best pleases which the least knows how : 

 Where zeal strives to content, and the contents 

 Dies in the zeal of that which it presents." 



The difficulty, as Mr. Knightly says, is in the 

 word dies, which is unintelligible ; for the meaning 

 is, obviously the reverse oi dies, namely, that the 

 contents, that is, " the satisfaction of the audience, 

 arises from accepting the well-meant zeal of the 

 poor performers." This sense will be produced by 

 the smallest possible tvpographical correction — L 

 for D. 



" The contents 



Lies (i.e. exists) in the zeal," &c. 



This at least Is intelligible, which no other read- 

 ing seems to be ; and I need not point out that 

 there are no two letters so easily confounded, 

 either in MS. or type, as L and D. Most edi- 

 tions now read die, to agree with the plural con- 

 tents; that question however, does not affect my 

 emendation, which seems to me very like some of 

 the best in Mr. Collier's folio. C. 



Inscriptions in Boohs (Vol. vii., p. 127.). — The 

 following lines are often written in Bibles, and 

 other works of a devotional nature : 

 " This is Giles Wilkinson his book. 

 God give him grace therein to look : 

 Nor yet to look, but understand. 

 That learning's better than house and land : 

 For when both house and land are spent. 

 Then learning is most excellent." 



I find that the following formula Is much used 

 among the poor in country villages : 



" John Stiles is my name, 

 England is my nation, 



is my dwelling-place. 



But Christ is my salvation. 

 And when I'm dead and in the grave, 

 And all my bones are rotten ; 

 This when you see, remember me, 

 Though I am long forgotten." 



Another I am acquainted with is of as menacing 

 a description as some of the last quoted by Bal- 

 LioLENSis. It is, however, so common as hardly 

 to be worth the notice of " N. & Q." : 



" Gideon Snooks, 



Ejus liber. 

 Si quis fiiretur ; 

 Per collum pendetur, 

 Similis huic pauperi animali." 



Here follows a figure of an unfortunate individual 

 suspended " in malam crucem." F. M. M. 



The Note of Balliolensis has reminded me of 

 Garrick's book-plate, which I found in a book pur- 

 chased by me some years ago. The name David 

 Garrick, in capital letters, is surrounded by some 

 fancy scroll-work, above which is a small bust of 

 Shakspeare ; below, and on the sides, a mask, and 

 various musical instruments ; and beneath the 

 whole, the following sentence from Menage : 



" La premiere chose qu'on doit faire quand on a 

 emprunte un livre, c'est de le lire afin de pouvoir le 

 rendre pliitot. — Menagiana, vol. iv. 



The following admonition to book-stealers is 

 probably not unknown to Balliolensis : 

 " Quisquis in hunc librum furtivos verterit ungues, 

 n sibi pro merito littera Graeca manet." 



S. D. 



Anagrams (Vol. iv., p. 226.). — The following 

 royal anagrams are worth adding to your list. It 

 is said that Charles I., on looking at a portrait of 

 himself the day before his execution, made this 

 anagram on the Carolus Rex inscribed on it, Cras 

 ero lux. Again, Henry IV. of France is said to 

 have made the anagram Je charnie tout, on the 

 famous and beautiful Marie Touchet. 



W. Fbasee. 



Tor-Mohun. 



Dipping for Bite of Mad Dog, §-c. (Vol. vi., 

 p. 483.). — When I was a boy, probably therefore 

 about thirty-five years ago, a mad dog appeared 

 in Brightwell, near Wallingford, which bit several 

 other animals and some human beings. I well re- 

 member seeing some pigs which became perfectly 

 mad in consequence of being so bitten. A horse, 

 too, showed symptoms of madness, and was imme- 

 diately destroyed. All I can say of the persons 



