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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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adopted. They also prepared a document " con- 

 taining the whole system of the law," which was 

 read to the House on January 20 and 21, 1652 ; 

 and it was resolved " That three hundred copies 

 of the said book be forthwith printed, to be deli- 

 vered to members of the Parliament only." 



Is anything known of this work at the present 

 day ? A Leguleian. 



[It appears doubtful whether this work was ever 

 printed, for in a pamphlet pul)lished April 27, 1653, 

 entitled A Supply to a Draught of an Act or System 

 proposed (as is reported) by the Committee for Regula-^ 

 tions concerning the Law, &c., the writer thus notices 



it : " Having lately heard of some propositions called 



* The System of the Law,' which are said to be in- 

 tended preparatives to several Acts of Parliament 

 touching the regulation of the law, we cannot but with 

 thankfulness acknowledge the care and industry of 

 those worthy persons who contrived the same, it con- 

 taining many good and wholesome provisions for the 



future perpetual good and quiet of the nation 



We know not, at present, wherein we could give a 

 more visible testimony of our affections to the peace- 

 able government of the free people here, than by offer- 

 ing to them and the supreme authority, what we 

 humbly conceive prejudicial and inconvenient to well- 

 government, in case that System (as it is said to be now 

 prepared) should take effect." A week before the 

 publication of this work, the Long Parliament had 

 been turned out of doors by Cromwell. ] 



Saint MalacJiy on the Popes. — Saint Malachy, 

 Archbishop of Armagh, who flourished in the first 

 half of the twelfth century, is said to be the author 

 of a curious prophecy respecting the Popes. Some 

 years ago I met with this prophecy in an old 

 French almanack, and was particularly struck 

 with its applicability to the life and character of 

 the present Pope ; but I omitted to make a Note. 



Can you Inform me where I may find a copy of 

 this prophecy ? Henry H. Breen. 



[St. Malachy's hieroglyphical descriptions or pro- 

 phecy on the succession of Roman Pontiffs will be 

 found in Flosculi Historici delibati nunc delibatiores red- 

 diti, sive Historia Universalis ; Auctore Joanne de 

 Bussieres, Societatis Jesu Sacerdote, Oxon. 1668. An 

 explanation of each prophecy is given from the pontifi- 

 cate of Celestus IL a.d. 1143, to that of Innocent X, 

 A.I). 1644. The present Pope being the nineteenth 

 from Innocent X., the following prophecy relates to 

 him, " Crux de Cruce." We subjoin the remainder : 

 20. Lumen in coelo. 21. Ignis ardens. 22. Religio 

 depopulata. 23. Fides intrepida. 24. Pastor an- 

 gelicus. 25. Pastor et nauta. 26. Flos florum. 

 27. De medietate lunae. 28. De labore solis. 29. 

 Gloria Olivse. St. Malachy concludes his prophecy 

 with the following prediction of the downfall of the 

 Roman Church : " In persecutione extrema Sacrae llo- 

 manae Ecclesiaj sedebit Petrus Romanus, qui pascet 

 oves in multistribulationibus ; quibus transactis civitas 

 septicoliis diruetur, et Judex tremendus judicabit po- 

 pulum."] 



Work on the Human Figure. — A few years 

 ago there was a little work published on Dress 

 and the Art of improving the Human Figure, by 

 (I believe) a nobleman's valet : I wish to consult 

 this for a literary purpose, and should be much 

 obliged to any of your readers who can favour 

 me with the exact title and date. 



Charles Dematne. 



[The following two works on dress appear in the 

 London\ Catalogue: — The Whole Art of Dress; by a 

 Country Officer, 12mo. Lond. 1830 ; and The Art of 

 Dress, or a Guide to the Toilette, fcp. 8vo., Lond. 1839. J 



"namby-pamby," and other words or the 



SAME FORM. 



(Vol. viii., p. 318.) 



The origin of the word namby-pamby is ex- 

 plained in the following passage of Johnson's Life 

 of Ambrose Philips : 



" The pieces that please best are those which from 

 Pope and Pope's adherents procured him the name 

 of namby-pamby, the poems of short lines, by which 

 he paid his court to all ages and characters — from 

 Walpole, 'the steerer of the realm,' to Miss Pulteney 

 in the nursery. The numbers are smooth and sprightly, 

 and the diction is seldom faulty. They are not loaded 

 with much thought, yet, if they had been written by 

 Addison, they would have had admirers. Little things 

 are not valued but when they are done by those who 

 can do greater." 



In the Treatise on the Bathos, the infantine style 

 is exclusively exemplified by passages from Am- 

 brose Philips : 



" This [says Pope] is when a poet grows so very 

 simple as to think and talk like a child. I shall take 

 my examples from the greatest master in this way : 

 hear how he fondles like a mere stammerer : 



' Little charm of placid mien. 



Miniature of Beauty's queen, 



Hither, British Muse of mine. 



Hither, all ye Grecian nine. 



With the lovely Graces three. 



And your pretty nursling see. 



When the meadows next are seen, 



Sweet enamel, white and green ; 



When again the lambkins play. 



Pretty sportlings full of May, 



Then the neck so white and round, 



(Little neck with brilliants bound) 



And thy gentleness of mind, 



(Gentle from a gentle kind), &c. 



Happy thrice, and thrice again. 



Happiest he of happy men,' &c. 

 And the rest of those excellent lullabies of his com- 

 position." — C xi. 



These verses are stated by Warburton, in his 

 note on the passage, to be taken from a poem to 



