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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 291. 



let me aay that this cool mode of deciding tlie con- 

 troversy, and of classinj; the whole Anglican com- 

 munion under the genus heretic^ however suitable 

 tD the pajres of the Tablet, ought not to be adopted, 

 when writing for "N. & Q." 



With respect to the assertion that the Church 

 of England does not prohibit the celebration of 

 marriage during seasons of fast or festival, there 

 is, I believe, no law (i. e. no act of parliament) 

 or canon of the Church absolutely prescribing 

 such prohibition. But the practice of the Church 

 has been to observe such seasons. Lyndwood has 

 a gloss on the constitution of Syraon Mephara, Ds' 

 clandest: Despons. c. Quiw ex, in v. SolBoinationetn;, 

 in which he says : 



"Non potest fieri a prima dominica adventns usque ad' 

 octavas epipluinia inclusive. Et a dominica Ixx. usque ad 

 primam dominicam post pascha itidusive ; et a prima die 

 ragationum usf[ue a(l septimum diem testi pentecostes in- 

 clusive ; licet quoad vinculum his diebus contrahi possit." 



So that even then this prohibition was not en- 

 joined by any law or canon, but was a godly cus- 

 tom of th'i Church ; and so I believe it has re- 

 mained to this day in England, as no law tending 

 to alter the ancient usages of the Church on this 

 subject has ever been passed. But in Ireland the 

 49th canon (1G39, still in force), after prescribing 

 the restriction as to canonical hours, adds : 



"Neither in the time of Lent, nor of any publick fast, 

 nor of the solemn festivities of the Nativity, Resurrection, 

 and As(!ension of our Lord, or of the De'scension of the 

 Holy Ghost." 



And, accordingly, in Ireland (I know not what 

 the case may be in England), the ordinary form of 

 a marriage license, addressed by the Bishop to the 

 oiEuiating clergyman, contains this clause : 



" We therefore do grant our license and whole autho- 

 ritj' to you, in whose fidelity we confide, to solemnize the 

 said marriage, in the canonical hours, time, and place, be- 

 tween the said," &c. 



I hope therefore that K. P. D. E. will allow that 

 ia Ireland, at least, we are the Catholic Church. 



J. H. TouD. 

 TrinityCollege, Dublin. 



EPIGEAM ON THE LAUREATESHIP., 



(Vol. xi., p. 263.) 



I am not aware of the work, the BooU of the 

 Court, to which H, G. refers, or whether the 

 epigram, of which he has given you two readings,, 

 is there ascribed to Porson ; but 1 have good reason 

 for sayiu'i that it is not the production of that dis- 

 tinguished scholar. 



I had not only long heard- it attributed to Mr., 

 John Reeves, but on one occasion I was present 

 when he was cbargjd with the authorship, and 

 though he did not actually "glow celestial rosy 



redy" he did not deny the impeachment. Mr., 

 Reeves was educated at Eton, and particularly 

 prided himself upon his Latin verses. He was the 

 author of several works, amongst which was one 

 entitled Thoughts on the English Government, ad- 

 dressed to the quiet Sense of the People of England, 

 printed anonymously, 1795. For one passage in 

 this work Mr. Reeves was prosecuted, but that 

 prosecution yielded an abundant harvest in sundry 

 good appointments. The following is the sub- 

 stance of the passage in question : 



"The author compared the English government to a 

 tree of which the Monarchy was a trunk, and the leaves 

 and branches the Lords and Commons. The leaves and 

 branches of the tree might be cut down, and yet the 

 vitalitj' of the trunk remain, though shorn of its honours ; 

 so the kingly government would remain entire, though, 

 the Lords and Commons should be lopt away." 



From this ultra-loyal metaphor he adopted a tree 

 for his armorial bearings. 



Had Porson been the author of this epigram, 

 there can be no question but that it would have 

 been included amongst his " Levities," given by 

 Beloe in tlie second volume of the Sexagenarian. 

 Or would not Beloe, when speaking of the " bland 

 author," have availed himself of that fitting op- 

 portunity to introduce this epigram ? Again». 

 might it not have followed the dialogue between 

 Mr. Hayley and Miss Seward ? which, by the 

 way, I iiave seen attributed, not to Porson, but to 

 Dr. Maiisel. 



My lamented friend. Sir Robert Inglis, informed^ 

 rae^ only last month, that he had "a floating recol- 

 lection he had heard these lines attributed to owr 

 John Reeves ; " that gentleman being a member 

 of the Literary Society of which Sir Robert was 

 long the admirable president. 



I annex other readings of the epigram: 



1. " Poetis nos laetamur tribus, 



Pye, Petrus Pindar, Parvus Pybus *, 



Si ultra hos; amice; pergis. 



Turn quartua sit Sir James Bland Burgess." 



2. " Poetis nos Inetamur tribus, 



Peter Pindar, Pye, et Pybus, 



Si ulter ius- ire pergis, 



Adde his Sir, James Bland Burgess." 



J. H. Mabklanb. 



PHOTOGBAPHIC COBBE9PONDENCB. 



Modification in. the Composition of Collodion to suit 

 dijfferent Temperntures. — La Luiniere, in noticing the 

 treatise upon Photography which has recently been 

 published by M. Van Monkheven, a Belgian amateur, 

 observes that difference of temperature is a frequent 

 cause of failure, and that "M. Van Monkhoven has com- 



* Or Paulua Pybus (from his poem in folio, " The So- 

 vereign" — the Emperor Paul), an antithe.sis to Petrus 

 Pindar. Ferrier alludes to this poem in his Bibliomania : 



" He turns where Pybus rears his Atlas head." 



