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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 197. 



BurTie's '■'■Mighty Boar of the Forest" (Vol. iii., 

 p. 493. ; Vol. iv., p. 391.). — It is not, I hope, too 

 late to notice that Burke's description of Junius is 

 an allusion neither to the Iliad, xiii. 471., nor to 

 Psalm Ixxx. 8-13., but to the Iliad, xvii. 280-284. 

 I cannot resist quoting the lines containing the 

 simile, at once for their applicability and their 

 own innate beauty : 



""IQvfftv Se Sja irpofj.dx<>ii', (fvt elKeXos aXK^iv 

 Ka-rrpicfi, ocrr'' 4u opeffcri Kvvas da\fpovs r' d'iQ/]Ovs 

 'PrjTSiais hciSaffcrev, iKi^djJ.ei'os 5ta fi-rjaaas. 

 Cls vihs TeAafxwvos," 



W. FUASER. 



Tor-Mohun. 



" Amentium haud Amantium" (Vol. vii., p. 595.). 

 — The following English translation may be con- 

 sidered a tolerably close approximation to the 

 alliteration of the original : " Of dotards not of the 

 doting." It is found in the Dublin edition of 

 Terence, published by J. A. Phillips, 1845. 



C. T. R. 



Mr. Phillips, in his edition, proposes as a trans- 

 lation of this passage, " Of dotards, not of the 

 doting" Whatever may be its merits in other 

 respects, it is at all events a more pei-fect alliter- 

 ation than the other attempts which have been 

 recorded in "N. & Q." Ekica.. 



Warwick. 



When I was at school I used to translate the 

 phrase " Amentium haud amantium " (Ter. Andr., 

 i. 3. 13.) '^^ Lunatics, not lovers." Perhaps that may 

 satisfy Fidus Intekpres. n. B. 



A friend of mine once rendered this " Lubbers, 

 not lovers." P. J. F. Gantillon, B. A. 



Talleyrand's Maxim (Vol. vi., p. 575. ; Vol. vii., 

 p. 487.). — Young's lines, to which Z. E. K. refers, 

 are: 



" Where Nature's end of language is declined, 

 And men talk only to conceal their mind." 



With less piquancy, but not without the germ of 

 the same idea, Dean Moss (ob. 1729), in his ser- 

 mon Of the Nature and Properties of Christian 

 Humility, says : 



" Gesture is an artificial thing : men may stoop and 

 cringe, and bow popularly low, and yet have ambitious 

 designs in their heads. And speech is not alicays the 

 just interpreter of the mind : men may use a condescend- 

 ing style, and yet swell inwardly with big thoughts of 

 themselves." — Sermons, S^c, 1737, vol. vii. p. 402. 



COWGILL. 



English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth 

 (Vol. vii., pp. 260. 344. 509.).— The following par- 

 ticulars concerning one of the Marian Bishops are 

 at A. S. A.'s service. Cuthbert Scot, D.D., some- 

 time student, and, in 1553, Master of Christ's 

 Church College, Cambridge, was made Vice-Chan- 



cellor of that University in 1554-5 ; and had the 

 temporalities of the See of Chester handed to him 

 by Queen Mary in 1556. Pie was one of Cardinal 

 Pole's delegates to the University of Cambridge, 

 and was concerned in most of the political move- 

 ments of the day. He, and four other bishops, 

 with as many divines, undertook to defend the 

 principles and practices of the Romish Church 

 against an equal number of Reformed divines. On 

 the 4th of April he was confined, either in the 

 Fleet Prison or the Tower, for abusive language 

 towards Queen Elizabeth ; but having by some 

 means or other escaped from durance, he retired 

 to Louvain, where he died, according to Rymer's 

 Fcedera, about 1560. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Gloves at Fairs (Vol. vii., passim.'). — To the list 

 of markets at which a glove was, or is, hung out, 

 may be added Newport, in the Isle of Wight. 

 But a Query naturally springs out of such a note, 

 and I would ask. Why did a glove indicate that 

 parties frequenting the market were exempt from 

 arrest ? What was the glove an emblem of ? 



W. D— N. 



As the following extract from Gorr's Liverpool 

 Directory appears to bear upon the point, and as 

 it does not seem to have yet attracted the atten- 

 tion of any of your correspondents, I beg to for- 

 ward it : — 



" Its (/. e. Liverpool's) fair-days are 25th July and 

 11th Nov. Ten days before and ten days after each 

 fair-day, a hand is exhibited in front of the Town-hall, 

 which denotes protection ; during which time no person 

 coming to or going from the town on business con- 

 nected with the fair can be arrested for debt within its 

 liberty." 



I have myself frequently observed the " hand," 

 although I could not discover any appearance of a 

 fair being held. R- 



>S'^. Dominic (Vol. vii., p. 356.). — Your cor- 

 respondent Bookworm will find in any chronology 

 a very satisfactory reason why Machiavelll could 

 not reply to the summons of Benedict XIV., 

 unless, indeed, the Pope had made use of " the 

 power of the keys," to call him up for a brief 

 space to satisfy his curiosity. J. S. Wardeii. 



Names of Plants (Vol.viii., p. 37.). — Ale-hoof 

 means useful in, or to, ale ; Ground-ivy having 

 been used in brewing laefore the introduction of 

 hops. " The women of our northern parts" (says 

 John Gerard), "especially about Walesor Cheshire, 

 do tunne the herbe Ale-hoof into their ale ... . 

 being tunned up in ale and drunke, it also purgeth 

 the head from rhumaticke humours flowing^ from 

 the brain." From the aforesaid tunning, it was 

 also called Tun-hoof (World of Words) ; and ia 

 Gerard, Tune- hoof. 



