Mar. 19. 1853.] 



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for a long time in the East, adopting the dress 

 and custo°ns of the people they have mingled with. 

 Such persons acquire an Eastern tone of counte- 

 nance, and many have been mistaken by their 

 friends for veritable Turks or Arabs, the coun- 

 tenance having acquired the expression of the 

 people with whom they have mingled most freely. 

 The same fact is illustrated in the countenances of 

 aged couples, especially in country places. Fre- 

 quently these, though widely distinct in appear- 

 ance when first married, grow at last exactly like 

 each other, and in old age are sometimes scarcely 

 to be distinguished by the features. 



If not quite to the purpose, these instances illus- 

 trate the correspondence of the life and the looks, 

 which is the philosophy of the Query on Jewish 

 lineaments. Shiblet Hibbebd. 



SotacUc Verses (Vol. vi., pp. 209. 352. 445.).— 

 There is an English example of this kind of line, 

 attributed, I think, to Taylor the Water Poet : 

 "Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel." 



To make tliis perfect, however, " and " must not 

 be written at full length, and " dwell " must be 

 content with half its usual amount of liquid. 



It is difficult to make sense of any of the Latin 

 Sotadics quoted in " N. & Q.," except that begin- 

 ning " Signa te," &c. Even the clue given by the 

 mention of the legend in p. 209. does not enable 

 one to find a meaning in "Roma tibi," &c. 



Can any of your readers tell me whence comes 

 the following Sotadic Elegiac poem, and construe it 

 for me ? 



" Salta, tu levis es ; summus se si velut Atlas, 



(Omiiia ne sinimus,) suminis es animo. 

 Sin, oro, caret arcana cratera coronis 



Uiiam areas, animes semina sacra manu. 

 Angere regnato, mutatuin, o tangere regna, 



Sana tero, tauris si ruat oret anas : 

 Milo subi rivis, summus si viribus olim, 



Muta sedes ; animal lamina sede satum. 

 Tangeret, i videas, illisae divite regnat ; 



Aut atros ubinam manibus orta tua 1 

 O tu casurus, rem non mersurus acuto 



Telo, sis-ne, tenet ? non tenet ensis, olet." 



Habry Lebot Temple. 



Bells at Funerals (Vol. li., p. 478.).— The follow- 

 ing extract will doubtless be interesting to Mr. 

 Gatty, if it has hitherto escaped his notice : 



"June 27 (1648).— The visitors ordered that the 

 bellman of the university should not go about in such 

 manner as was heretofore used at the funeral of any 

 member of the university. This was purposely to pre- 

 vent the solemnity that was to be performed at the 

 funeral of Dr. RadclifF, Principal of B. N. C, lately 

 dead. For it must be known that it hath been the 

 custom, time out of mind, that when head of house, 

 doctor, or master of considerable degree was to be 

 buried, the university bellman was to put on the gown 



and the formalities of the person defunct, and with his 

 bell go into every college and liall, and there make open 

 proclamation, after two rings with his bell, that foras- , 

 much as God had been pleased to take out of the 

 world such a person, he was to give notice to all per- 

 sons of the university, that on such a day, and at such 

 an hour, he was solemnly to be buried, &c. But the 

 visitors did not only forbid this, but the bellman's going 

 before the corpse, from the house or college, to the church 

 or chapel," — A Wood, quoted in Oxoniana, vol. iv. 

 p. 206. 



E. H. A. 



Collar of SS. (Vol. vi., pp. 1 82. 352.). — There 

 is, in the church of Fanfield, Yorkshire, among 

 other tombs and effigies of the Marmions, the ori- 

 ginal lords of the place, a magnificent tomb of 

 alabaster, on which are the recumbent figures of a 

 knight and his lady, in excellent preservation. 

 These are probably effigies of Robert Marmion and 

 his wife Lota, second daughter of Herbert de 

 St. Quintin, who died in the latter part of the 

 fourteenth, or early in the fifteenth century. The 

 armour of the knight is of this period, and he is 

 furnished with the SS. collar of Lancaster, which 

 is developed in a remarkably fine manner. His 

 juppon is furnished with the vaire, the bearing of 

 the Marmion, whilst the chevronels of St. Quintin 

 are evident on the mantle of the lady. Over the 

 tomb is placed a herse of iron, furnished with 

 stands for holding lighted candles or torches. 



Wm. Procter. 



York. 



Dr. Marshall (Vol. vii., p. 83.). — I beg to in- 

 form U. I. S. that the King's chaplain and Dean 

 of Gloucester in 1682 was not Anthony, but Thomas 

 Marshall, D.D., Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, 

 a great benefactor to his college and the university, 

 and highly distinguished for his knowledge of the 

 Oriental and Teutonic languages. E. H. A. 



Shelton Oak (Vol. vii., p. 193.). — Shelton Oak 

 is a remarkable fine tree, and is still standing. It 

 is apparently in a healthy state. The grounds and 

 mansion (I believe) are in the possession of two 

 maiden ladies, who allow visitors free access to 

 this interesting object. In summer time its owners 

 and their friends frequently tea within its vener- 

 able trunk. 



The acorns are dealt out to those who may wish 

 them at a trifling sum, and the money devoted 

 towards the building of a church in the neigh- 

 bouring locality. It is to be hoped that no inno- 

 vation or local improvement will ever necessitate 

 its removal. H. M. Bealby. 



North Brixton. 



''God and the world" (Vol. vii., p. 134.).— 

 Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, was the author of 

 the lines quoted by W. H., but he has not given 

 them correctly. They may be found in the i-xvi. 



