April 16. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



379 



Jackson's emendations are invariably bad ; but 

 whatever may be thought of the sense of Florizel 

 being so worn (instead of his dress), it is but fair 

 to give a certain person his due. The passage has 

 long seemed to me to have this meaning : 



" But that we are acquiescing in a custom, I should 

 blush to see you, who are a prince, attired like a swain ; 

 and still more should I blush to look at myself in the 

 glass, and see a peasant girl pranked up like a princess." 



8f more, in MS., might very easily have been 

 mistaken for sworn by the compositor. Accord- 

 ingly, I would read the complete passage thus : 



" . . . . But that our feasts 



In every mess have folly, and the feeders 

 Digest it witli a custom, I should blush 

 To see you so attir'd, and more, I think, 

 To show myself a glass." 



C. MaNSFIEID iNGIiEBT. 

 Birmingham. 



Minav ^ateS, 



Alleged Cure for HydrophoMa. — From time to 

 time articles have appeared in " N. & Q." as to the 

 cure of hydrophobia, a specific for which seems 

 still to be a desideratum. 



In the Miscellanea Curiosa (vol. iii. p. 346.) is a 

 paper on Virginia, from the Rev. John Clayton, 

 rector of Crofton in Wakefield, in which he states 

 the particulars of several cures which he had ef- 

 fected of persons bitten by mad dogs. His prin- 

 cipal remedy seems to have been the "volatile 

 salt of amber " every four hours, and in the in- 

 tervals, " Spec. Pleres Archonticon and Rue pow- 

 dered ana gr. 15." I am not learned enough to 

 understand what these drugs are called in the 

 modern nomenclature of druggists. C. T. W. 



Epitaph at Mickleton. — The following in- 

 scription is copied from a monument on the north 

 wall of the chancel of Mickleton Church, co. 

 Gloucester : 



" The Ephitath of John Bonner. 



Heare lyeth in tomed John Bonner by name, 



Sonne of Bonner of Pebworth, from thence he came. 



The : 17 : of October he ended his daies, 



Pray God that wee leveing may follow his wayes. 



1618 by the yeare. 



Scarce ar« such Men to be found in this shere. 



Made and set up by his loveing frend 



Evens his kindesman and [so I] doe end. 



John Bonner, Senior. Thomas Evens, Junior. 



1618." 



The words in brackets are conjectural, the stone 



at that point being much corroded. 



Bauliolensis. 



Charade attributed to Sheridan. — You have 

 given a place to enigmas in " N. & Q..," and there- 

 fore the following, which has been attributed to 



R. B. Sheridan, may be acceptable. Was he the 

 author ? 



" There is a spot, say, Traveller, where it lies, 

 And mark the clime, the limits, and the size. 

 Where grows no grass, nor springs the yellow grain, 

 Nor hill nor dale diversify the plain ; 

 Perpetual green, without the farmer's toil. 

 Through all the seasons clothes the favor'd soil, 

 Pair pools, in which the finny race abound. 

 By human art prepar'd, enrich the ground. 

 Not India's lands produce a richer store, 

 Pearl, ivory, gold and silver ore. 



Yet, Britons, envy not these boasted climes, 

 Incessant war distracts, and endless crimes 

 Pollute the soil : — Pale Avarice triumphs there, 

 Hate, Envy, Rage, and heart-corroding Care, 

 With Fraud and Fear, and comfortless Despair. 

 There government not long remains the same. 

 Nor they, like us, revere a monarch's name. 

 Britons, beware ! Let avarice tempt no more ; 

 Spite of the wealth, avoid the tempting shore ; 

 The daily bread which Providence has given, 

 Eat with content, and leave the rest to heaven." 



Balliolensis* 



Suggested Reprint of Heafne. — It has often 

 occurred to me to inquire whether an association 

 might not be formed for the republication of the 

 works edited by Tom Hearne ? An attempt was' 

 made some years ago by a bookseller ; and, as only 

 Robert of Gloucester and Peter Langtoft ap- 

 peared, "Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the 

 Strand, 1810," we must infer that the spirited 

 publisher was too far in advance of the age, and 

 that the attempt did not pay. Probably it never 

 would as a bookseller s speculation. But might not 

 a society like the Camden be formed for the 

 purpose with some probability, in these altered 

 times and by such an improved method of pro- 

 ceeding, of placing these curious and valuable 

 volumes once more within reach of men of or- 

 dinary means ? At present the works edited by 

 Hearne are rarely to be met with in catalogues, 

 and when they do occur, the prices are almost 

 fabulous, quite on the scale of those affixed to 

 ancient MSS. BAiiLioLENsis. 



Suggestions of Boohs worthy of being reprinted. 

 — Fabricius, Bibliotheca Latina Medice et InfinuB 

 JEtatis, 6 vols. 8vo. (Recommended in The 

 Guardian newspaper.) J. M.' 



Epigram all the way from Belgium. — Should 

 you thinly the following epigram, written in the 

 travellers' book at Hans-sur-Lesse, in Belgium, 

 worth preserving, it is at your service : 



" Old Euclid may go to the wall. 



For we've solved what he never could guess. 

 How the fish in the river are small, 

 But the river they live in is Lesse." 



H.A B. 



