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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No, 213. 



- « I own I like not;' Src. (Vol. viii., p. 366.)- — 

 The lines — 



« I own I like not Johnson's turgid style," &c. 



are by Peter Pindar, whose wox-ks I have not, 

 and so cannot give an exact reference. The 

 extract containing them will be found in Chambers' 

 Cyclopadia of English Literature, vol. ii. p. 298. 

 P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



'■\Topsy Turvy'" (Vol. vlli., p. 385.). — This is 

 ludicrously derived, in Roland Cashel, p. 104., 

 from top side t'other way. 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 



" When the Maggot bites " (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 

 304. 353.). — Another illustration of this phrase 

 mav be found in Swift (Introduction to Tale of a 

 Tub) : 



" The two principal qualifications (says he) of a 

 fanatic preacher are, his inward light, and his head full 

 of maggots ; and the two different fates of his writings 

 are to be burnt or worm-eaten." 



The word maggot is sometimes used for the 

 whim or crotchet itself; thus Butler : 



*' To reconcile our late dissenters. 

 Our brethren though by different venters ; 

 Unite them and their different maggots, 

 As long and short sticks are in faggots." 



Hudibras, part iii. canto 2. 



So also it Is used by Samuel Wesley (father of 

 the founder of the Methodists) in his rare and 

 facetious volume entitled Maggots, or Poems on 

 several Subjects never before handled, 12mo., 1685. 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



"Solus populi," §-c. (Vol. viii., p. 410.). — The 

 saying " Salus populi suprema lex " is borrowed 

 from the model law of Cicero, in his treatise de 

 Legibus, in. 3. It is made one of the duties of the 

 consuls, the supreme magistrates, to regard the 

 safety of the state as their highest rule of conduct : 



" Regio imperio duo sunto ; iique pr»eundo, judi- 

 cando, consulendo Prastores, Judices, Consules appel- 

 Jantor. Militias summum jus habento, nemini parento : 

 ollis salus populi suprema lex esto." 



The allusion appears to be to the formula used 

 by the senate for conferring supreme power on 

 the consuls In cases of emergency : " Dare operam, 

 ne quid respublica detrlmenti caperet." (See 

 SaUust, Bell. Cat. c. 29.) L. 



Aristotle regards the safety of the citizens as 

 the great end of law (see his Ethics, b. i. ch. 4.) ; 

 and Cleero (de Finibus, lib. Ii. c. 5.) lays down a 

 similar principle. B. H. C. 



■_ Theodora Paleologus (Vol. viii., p. 408.). — The 

 inscription referred to was printed in Archceologia, 

 vol. xviii., and with some account of the Paleologi 



to which a Querist was referred in " N". & Q.,'* 

 Vol. v., p. 280. (see also pp. 173. 357.). It is 

 astonisliing how much will be found in that 

 " Californian mine," If the most excellent indices 

 of the several volumes are only consulted. Your 

 correspondent could in the present case have 

 pointed out the errors of the inscription already 

 In print had the indices to " N. & Q." attracted 

 him. J» 



Worm in Books (Vol. viii., p. 412.). — In reply 

 to Alethes I beg to acquaint him that I have 

 tried various means for destroying the worm In 

 old books and MSS., and the most effectual has 

 been the chips of Russia leather ; indeed, in but 

 one instance have I known them fail. 



Newburiensis. 



The Porter Family (Vol. viii., p.364.). — 1. The 

 reason of the word Agincourt being placed above 

 the inscription in Bristol Cathedral is, that the 

 Porter family were descendants of Sir William 

 Porter who fought at Agincourt. 



2. Charles Lempriere Porter was the son of 

 Dr. Porter. 



3. This family was descended from Endymion 

 Porter of classic and loyal memory.* J . K. W. 



Bristol, 



Buckle (Vol. viii., p. 304.). — This word is in 

 common use by the artizans who work upon sheet- 

 iron, to denote the curl which a sheet of Iron 

 acquires in passing through a pair of rollers. The 

 word has been derived from the French boucle, a 

 curl. The shoe-buckle has got its name from its 

 curved form. In the days In which every man in 

 this country, who was in easy circumstances, wore 

 a wig, It was well known that to put a wig in 

 buckle, meant to arrange its curls in due form. 

 " When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend 

 The wretch, who living sav'd a candle's end: 

 Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands, 

 Belies his features, nay, extends his hands ; 

 Tliat live-long wig which Gorgon's self might own, 

 Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone." 



Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle in. 



N. W. a 



The ^^ Forlorn Hope" (Vol. viii., p. 411.).-— 

 This is no quotation ; but the expression arose in 

 the army from its leader or captain, who, being 

 often a disappointed man, or one indifferent to 

 consequences, now ran the " forlorn hope " either 

 of ending his days or obtaining a tomb In West- 

 minster Abbey. From the captain, after a time, 

 the term descended to all the little gallant band. 

 In no part of our community will you find such 



[* The biographical notices of Endymion Porter are 

 extremely scanty. Can our correspondent furnish any 

 particulars respecting him ? — Ed.] 



