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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 193. 



second life the experience lie had acquired in that 

 past. For in the grave there is no room, either 

 for ambition or repentance ; and the degree of our 

 happiness or misery for eternity is proportioned to 

 the state of preparation or unpreparation in which 

 we leave this world. Instead of many a man, I 

 might have said most good men ; and of the others, 

 all who have not passed the rubicon of hope and 

 grace. The vista of the past, however, appears a 

 long and dreary retrospect, and any future is 

 hailed as a relief: yet on second and deeper thought, 

 we would mount again the rugged hill of life, and 

 try for a brighter prospect, a higher eminence. 



Jabltzbebg. 



" Immo Deus mlhi si dederit renovate juventam, 

 Utve iterum in cunis possim vagire ; recusem." 

 Isaac Hawkins Browne, De Animi Jinmor- 

 talitate, lib. i., near the end. 

 (See Selecta Poemata Anglorum Latina, iii. 251.) 



F. W. J. 



Passage of Thucydides on the Oreek Factions 

 (Vol. vii., p. 594.). — The passage alluded to by 

 Sir a. Alison appears to be the celebrated de- 

 scription of the moral effects produced by the con- 

 flicts of the Greek factions, which is subjoined to 

 the account of the Corcyraean sedition, iii. 82. 

 The quotation must, however, have been made 

 from memory, and it is amplified and expanded 

 from the original. The words adverted to seem 

 to be : 



" fji.€Wr)<ns 8^ irpofJLrjOjjs SeiXta euirptiri]?, rh 8e aw(\>pov 

 Tov dvdySpov irpdaxVf^ci} "ai rb irphs aicav ^vvirhv kir\ nuy 

 apySy. " 



Thucydides, however, proceeds to say that the 

 cunning which enabled a man to plot with success 

 against an enemy, or still more to discover his 

 hostile purposes, was highly esteemed. L. 



Archbishop King (Vol. vii., p. 430.). — A few 

 days since I met with the following passage in a 

 brief sketch of Kane O'Hara, in the last number 

 of the L-ish Quarterly Review : 



" In the extremely meagre published notices of 

 O'Hara (the celebrated burletta writer), no reference 

 has been made to his skill as an artist, of which we 

 have a specimen in his etching of Dr. William King, 

 archbishop of Dublin, in a wig and cap, of which por- 

 trait a copy has been made by Richardson." 



This extract is taken from one of a very in- 

 teresting series of papers upon " The Streets of 

 Dublin." Abhba. 



Devonianisms (Vol. vii., p. 544.). — Pilm, For- 

 rell. — Pillom is the full word, of which pilm is a 

 contraction. It appears to have been derived 

 from the British word pylor, dust. Forell is an 

 archaic name for the cover of a book. The Welsh 

 appear to have adopted it from the English, as 



their name for a bookbinder is fforelwr, literally, 

 one who covers books. I. may mention another 

 Devonianism. The cover of a book is called its 

 healing. A man who lays slates on the roof of a 

 house is, in Devonshire, called a hellier. 



N. W. S. (2.) 



Persevera7it, Perseverance (Vol. vii., p. 400.). — 

 Can Mu. Abrowsmith supply any instances of the 

 verb persever (or perceyuer, as it is spelt in the 

 1555 edition of Hawes, M. i. col. 2.), from any 

 other author ? and will he inform us when this 

 *' abortive hog " and his litter became extinct. 



In explaining speare (so strangely misunder- 

 stood by the editor of Dodsley), he should, I 

 think, have added, that it was an old way of 

 writing spar. In Shakspeare's Prologue to Troiltis 

 and Cressida, it is written sperr. Sparred, quoted 

 by Richardson from the Romance of the Rose, and 

 Ti'oilus and Creseide, is in the edition of Chaucer 

 referred to by Tyrwhitt, written in the Romance 

 " spered," and in Troilus " sperred." Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



"The Good Old Cause" (Vol. vi., passim). — 

 Mrs. Behn, who gained some notoriety for her 

 licentious writings even in Charles II.'s days, was 

 the author of a play called The Roundheads, or the 

 Good Old Cause : London, 1682. In the Epilogue 

 she puts into the mouth of the Puritans the fol- 

 lowing lines respecting the lloyalists : 



" Yet then they raiVd against The Good Old Cause ; 

 Itail'd foolishly for loyalty and laws : 

 But when the Saints had put them to a stand, 

 We left them loyalty, and took their land : 

 Yea, and the pious work of Reformation 

 Rewarded was with plunder and sequestration." 



The following lines are quoted by Mr. Teale in 

 his Life of Viscount Falkland, p. 131. : 



*' The wealthiest man among us is the best : 

 No grandeur now in Nature or in book 

 Delights us — repose, avarice, expense, 

 This is the idolatry ; and these we adore : 

 Plain living and high thinking are no more; 

 The homely beauty of 27ie Good Old Cause 

 Is gone : our peace and fearful innocence, 

 And pure religion breathing household laws." 



Whence did Mr. Teale get these lines ? Either 

 The Good Old Cause is here used in a peculiar 

 sense, or Mr. Teale makes an unhappy use of the 

 quotation. Jabltzberg. 



Saying of Pascal (Vol. vii., p. 596.). — In reply 

 to the question of W. Fbaseb, I would refer him 

 to Pascal's sixteenth Provincial Letter, where, in 

 the last paragraph but one, we read, — 



" Mes reverends peres, mes lettres n'avaient pas ac- 

 coutume de se suivre de si pres, ni d'etre si etendues. 

 Le peu de temps que j'ai cm a cte cause de Vun et de 

 I'autre. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque j» 



