July 23. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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will be found In the Adagia of Erasmus, under the 

 head " Festina lente," p. 588., edit. 1599. That it 

 was a favourite proverb of the Emperor Augustus 

 is also stated by Gellius, Noct. Att. x. 11., and 

 Macrob.j Saturn, vi. 8. The verse, — 



" dtT(pa\iis ydp tcTT* ofiuvwv ^ dpaavs ffTpaTr>\drr)S,'" 

 is from the PhoenisscB of Euripides, v. 599. L. 



*' Sat cito, si sat bene" (Vol. v., p. 594 ; Vol. viii., 

 p. 18.). — Your correspondent C. thinks that F. 

 W. J. is mistaken in calling it a favourite maxim 

 of Lord Eldon. Few persons are more apt to 

 make mistakes than F. W. J. He therefore sends 

 the following extract from Twlss's Life of Lord 

 C. Eldon, vol. i. p. 49. Tliey are Lord Eldon's 

 own words, after having narrated the anecdote to 

 which C. refers : 



" In short, in all that I have had to do in future life, 

 professional and judicial, I have always felt the effect 

 of this early admonition on the pannels of the vehicle 

 which conveyed me from school, ' Sat cito, si sat bene.' 

 It was the impression of this which made me that de- 

 liberative judge — as some have said, too deliberative ; 

 and reflection on all that is past will not authorise me 

 to deny, that whilst I have been thinking ' Sat cito, 

 si sat bene,' I may not sufficiently have recollected 

 whether ' Sat bene, si sat cito' has had its influence." 



The anecdote, and this observation upon it, are 

 taken by Twiss from a book of anecdotes in Lord 

 Eldon's own handwriting. F. W. J. 



Council of Laodicea, Canon 25, (Vol. viii., p. 7.). 

 — Cjlericus (D.) will find Angelas in the text, 

 without Angulos in the margin, in any volume 

 which contains the version by Dionysius Exiguus, 

 or that by Gentianus Hervetus ; the former printed 

 Mogunt. 1525 ; Paris, 1609, 1661, and 1687 : the 

 latter, Paris, 1561 and 1618 ; and sufficiently sup- 

 plied by Beverege and Howel. Both translations 

 are given by Crabbe, Surius, Binius, and others. 



The corrupt reading Angidos, derived from 

 Isldorus Mercatoi', appears in the text, and without 

 a marginal correction, in James Merlin's edition 

 of the Councils, Colon. 1530 ; in Carranzu's Summa, 

 Salmant. 1551, Lugd. 1601, Lovan. 1668 (in 

 which last impression, the twelfth, the true head- 

 ing of the Canon, according to Dionysius and 

 Crisconius, viz. " De his qui Angelos colunt," is 

 restored) ; and in the Sanctiones Ecclesiasticcc of 

 Joverius, Paris, 1555. 



For Angelos in the text, with a courageous 

 "forte legendum" Angidos in the margin, in Pope 

 Adrian's Epitome Canonum, we are deeply in- 

 debted to Canisius {Thesaur. Monum., ii. 271. ed. 

 Basnage); and this is the method adopted by 

 Longus a Coriolano and Ball. R. G. 



Anna Lightfoot (Vol. vii., p. 595.). — I have 

 heard my mother speak of Anna Lightfoot : her 

 fanuly belonged to the religious community called 



Friends or Quakers. My mother was born 1751, 

 and died in the year 1836. The aunt of Anna 

 Eleanor Lightfoot was next-door-neighbour to my 

 grandfather, who lived in Sir Wm. Warren's 

 Square, Wapping. The family were from York- 

 shire, and the father of Anna was a shoemaker, 

 and kept a shop near Execution Dock, in the same 

 district. He had a brother who was a linendraper, 

 living in the neighbourhood of St. James's, at the 

 west end of the town ; and Anna was frequently 

 his visitor, and here it was that she became ac- 

 quainted with the great man of the day. She was 

 missing, and advertised for by her friends : and, 

 after some time had elapsed, they obtained some 

 information as to her retreat, stating that she 

 was well provided for; and her condition became 

 known to them. She had a son who was a corn- 

 merchant, but, from some circumstance, became 

 deranged in his intellects, and it Is said committed 

 suicide. But whether she had a daughter, I never 

 heard. A retreat was provided for Anna in one 

 of those large houses surrounded with a high wall 

 and garden, in the district of Cat-and-Mutton 

 Fields, on the east side of Hackney Road, leading 

 from Mile End Road ; where she lived, and it is 

 said died, but in what year I cannot say. All this 

 I have heard my mother tell when I was a young 

 lad ; furthermore your deponent knoweth not. 



J. M. C. 



Jack and Gill (Vol. vii., p. 572.). — A some- 

 what earlier instance of the occurrence of the ex- 

 pression " Jack and Gill " is to be found (with a 

 slight difference) in John Heywood's Dialogue of 

 Wit and Folly, page 11. of the Percy Society's 

 reprint : 



" No more bathe he in mynde, ether payne or care, 

 Than bathe other Cock my hors, or Gyll my mare !'* 



This is probably not more than twenty years 

 earlier than your correspondent's quotation from 

 Tusser. H. C. K. 



Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle 

 (Vol. vi. passim ; Vol. vii., p. 508.). — Southey, in 

 his Omniana (vol. I. p. 210.), cites a passage from 

 the Partidas, in which the magnetic needle is used 

 in illustration. It is as follows : 



" E bien assi como los marineros se guian en la 

 noche escura por el aguja, que les es medianera entre 

 la piedra e la estrella, e les muestra por de vayan, tam- 

 bien en los malos tiempos, como en los buenos ; otrosi 

 los que ban de consejar al Key, se deven siempre guiar 

 por la justicia ; que es medianera entre Dios e el 

 mundo, en todo tiempo, para dar guardalon a los 

 buenos, e pena a los malos, a cada uno segund su me- 

 rescimiento." — 2 Partida, tit. ix. ley 28. 



This passage is especially worthy of attention, 

 as having been written half a century before the 

 supposed invention of the mariner's compass by 

 Flavius Giolas at Amalfi; and, as Southey re- 



