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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 188. 



Shall in the second and the third does threat ; 

 IFill simply then foretells the coming feat." 



(See T. K. Arnold's Eng. Oram, for Classical 

 Schools, 3rd edit., p. 41.; Mitford, Harmony of 

 Language ; and note 5. in Rev. R. Twopeny's Dis- 

 sertations on the Old and New Testament.) 



The inconsistency in the use of shall and will 

 is best explained by a doctrine of Mr. Hare's 

 (J. C. H.), the usus ethicus of the future. (See 

 Cambridge Philological Museum, vol. ii. p. 203., 

 where the subject is mentioned incidentally, and 

 in illustration ; and Latham's English Language, 

 2nd edit., p. 498., where Mr. Hare's hypothesis is 

 given at len<i;th. Indeed, from Latham and T. K. 

 Arnold my Note has been framed.) F. S., I3.A. 



Lee. 



INSCRfPTIONS IN BOOKS. 



(Vol. vii., p. 127.) 



Tour correspondent Balliolensis, at p. 127. of 

 the current volume of " N. & Q.," gives several 

 forms of Inscriptions in books. The following may 

 prove interesting to him, if not to the generality of 

 your readers. 



A MS. preserved in the Bibliotheque Sainte 

 Genevieve — it appears to have been the cellarer's 

 book of the ancient abbey of that name, and to 

 ^have been written about the beginning of the six- 

 teenth century — bears on the fly-sheet the name 

 of " Mathieu Monton, religieux et celerier de 

 I'eglise de ceans," with the following verses : 

 " Qui ce livre cy emblera, 



Propter suam maliciam 



Au gibet pendu sera, 



Repugnando superbiam 



Au gibet sera sa maison, 



Sive suis parentibus, 



Car ce sera bien raison, 



Exemplum datum omnibus." 



An Ovid, printed in 1501, belonging to the 

 Bibliotheque de Chinon, has the following verses : 

 " Ce present livre est a Jehan Theblereau. 

 " Qui le trouvera sy lui rende : 

 II lui poyra bien le vin 

 Le jour et feste Sainct Martin, 

 Et une mesenge a la Sainct Jean, 

 Sy la pent prendre. 

 " Tesmoin mon synet manuel, cy mis le x' jour de 

 avril mil v'= trente et cyns, apres Pasque." 

 Here follows the paraphe. 

 School-boys in France write the following lines 

 in their books after their names, and generally ac- 

 company them with a drawing of a man hanging 

 on a gibbet : 



" Aspice Pierrot pendu, 



Quod librum n'a pas rendu ; 

 Pierrot pendu non fuisset, 

 Si librum reddidisset." 



English school-boys use these forms : 



" Hie liber est meus 

 Testis est Deus. 

 Si quis furetur 

 A collo pendetur 

 Ad hunc modura." 



This is always followed by a drawing of a gibbet. 

 " John Smith, his book. 

 •God give him grace therein to look ; 

 Not only look but understand. 

 For learning is better than house or land. 

 When house and land are gone and spent. 

 Then learning is most excellent." 



" John Smith is my name, 

 England is my nation, 

 London is my dwelling-place, 

 And Christ is my salvation. 

 AVhen I am dead and in my grave. 

 And all my bones are rotten, 

 When this you see, remember me, 

 When I am 'most forgotten." 



" Steal not this book, my honest friend, 

 For fear the gallows should be your end, 

 And when you're dead the Lord should say. 

 Where is the book you stole away?" 



" Steal not this book for fear of shame, 

 For under lies the owner's name : 

 The first is John, in letters bright. 

 The second Smith, to all men's sight ; 

 And if you dare to steal this book, 

 The devil will take you with his hook." 



HONOBE I>£ MaBBVILLE. 



Guernsey. 



I forward you the following inscription, which I 

 met with in an old copy of Caesar's Commentaries 

 (if I remember rightly) at Pontefract, Yorkshire : 



" Si quis hunc librum rapiat scelestus 

 Atque scelestis manibus reservet 

 Ibit ad nigras Acherontis undas 

 Non reditu rus." 



F. F. G. (Oxford). 



BACONS "ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 



(Vol. vii., p. 493.) 



I have to thank L. for his notice of my edition 

 of the Advancement of Learning, as well as for the 

 information which he has given me, of which I 

 hope to have an early opportunity of availing my- 

 self. As he expresses a hope that it may be fol- 

 lowed by similar editions of other of Bacon's works, 

 I may state that the Essays, with the Colours of 

 Good and Evil, are already printed, and will be 

 issued very shortly. I am quite conscious that the 

 references In the margin are by no means complete : 

 Indeed, as I had only horce subsecivce to give to 

 the work, I did not attempt to make them so. 



