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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 295. 



more for Queen Anne ; but William III. prevailed. It 

 was set up in 1736, at the expense of the Chamber, and is 

 thus described by H. Jones in his poem, Clifton and its 

 Environs : 



" What grand magnificence on virtue grows, 

 What squares, what palaces, of late arose ! 

 How wealth, how taste, in every pile appear 

 With still improving grace, from j'ear to year! 

 Lo, Queen's — enrich'd by Rysbrach's Roman hand; 

 See William's fiaish'd form majestic stand: 

 His martial form, express'd with attic force, 

 Erect, like Antonine's, his warlike horse : 

 With lofty elegance and Grecian air. 

 To feast the well-pleas'd eye and fill the square."] 



" Good temper better than good spnse" — A ladj 

 once quoted to me a senti'iieiit which she said was 

 Addison's, that " Good temper was better than 

 good sense." As I dispute the proposition, I have 

 searched for it in Addison's works, but can no- 

 where find it. Can any of your correspondents 

 direct me to it, or remove my doubt ? P. G. 



Paddington. 



[A maxim similar to the above occurs in The Specta- 

 tor, No. 437. The writer says, "I could name crowds 

 who lead miserable lives for want of knowledge in their 

 parents of this maxim, that good sense and good nature 

 always go together."] 



" Old Poulter." — In a note to " Playhouse 

 Musings," by S. T. C, In the Rejected Addresses, 

 is an extract from the Quarterly/, referring to the 

 *' affecting story of Old Poulter's mare." Perhaps 

 a correspondent can tell one something about 

 "Old Poulter?" Chuel. 



Leamington. 



["Old Poulter's Mare" is an ancient ballad, and will 

 be found in a note to Southey's "Thalaba the Destrover" 

 {Poetical (Forks, edit. 18,30, p. 218.)- Mr. Southey says, 

 "I have never seen the ballad in print, and with some 

 trouble have procured only an imperfeyit copy from me- 

 mory."] 



iaepItcS. 



PARALLEL PASSAGES. 



(Vol, xl., p. 406.) 



Comparing the last paragraph of Mb. Sansom's 

 Query with the preceding, it is not clear whether 

 he wishes to be informed as to the existence of a 

 parallel to Matt, xxiii. 34 — 38., or only to Luke 

 xi. 49, 50. in some canonical book of the Old Test. 

 Any such inquiry may be solved by consulting 

 Bagster's Coaconlance of Parallel Passages ; and 

 as his desideratum is something closer than Deut. 

 xxxii. II, 12., or than Psalm xci. 4.," he might 

 have ascertained that there was no such parallel, 

 by simply looking into any marginal Bible. 



It is also not quite clear whether Mr. Sansom 

 supposes our Lord to have used the words " Wis- 

 dom of God," in Luke xi. 49., as the title of a 

 book commonly deemed apocryphal, or to affirm 



the inspiration of language found in the Second 

 book of Esdras, as though that book was then in 

 existence. Perhaps, however, he will not be 

 offended by my informing him that, as any one 

 may see in Poole's Synopsis, the soundest com- 

 mentators understand the expression to be only 

 equivalent to " God hath saiil in his wisdom" ; and 

 that the parallelism in 2 Esdras i. 30 — 33. to the 

 texts in the <rospels, is but one amongst many 

 other parellelisnis noticed by critics, as proofs 

 that this apocryphal book was written after the 

 completion of the N^ew Testament. It is probable, 

 however, that verses 28, 29, of ch. vii. have alone 

 sufficed to prevent any theologians of fine repute 

 or good sense, from regarding the Second book of 

 Esdras as really written by Ezra, or by any one 

 prior to the publication of the gospel. For an 

 anirel is here made to say to the pretended Ezra : 

 " My son Jesus shall be revealed with those that 

 be with him ; and they that remain shall rejoice, 

 within four hundred years. After these years 

 shall my son Christ die, and all men that have 

 life." To suppose such words written four hundred 

 years before the coming of the Lord, is to suppose 

 the writer enabled to speak of his names with a 

 precision not given to Isaiah ; and that yet neither 

 the Lord nor his apostles took any notice of such 

 an existing prophecy, when He opened the scrip- 

 tures to them, or they to the people. I need not 

 remark upon the theological unfitness of the 

 lanjjuage ascribed to an angel. 



Having this occasion to advert to " Wisdom," 

 as sometimes the brief title given to either of two 

 apocryphal books, let me add, that I have before 

 me a copy of the Homilies, which issued from the 

 Clarendon press in 1802, where (p. 416.) sapience 

 begins with a small letter, as though the editor 

 was ignorant of its being employed for an appel- 

 lative. Indeed that edition is full of evidence of 

 the incompetence of the party entrusted by the 

 University of Oxford with its production. The 

 Italics, intended to distinguish the texts of scrip- 

 ture, are repeatedly so placed as to include the 

 language of the homilist. Henry Walter. 



There is no parallel passage to the text cited 

 from St. Luke xi. 49, 50. in the canonical books 

 of the Old or New Testament, except the one also 

 quoted from St. Matt, xxiii. 34—38. But when 

 our blessed Saviour prefaced the former with the 

 words : Aia rovro kuI i) ffocpia tou @€ou eJirev. There- 

 fore also the wisdom of God said, it is not neces- 

 sary to suppose that he was introducing a quotation 

 from an apocryphal book, as if inspired by the 

 wisdom of God. He meant himself, his own wis- 

 dom being the wisdom of God. It is much more 

 probable that the fourth book of Esdras was 

 written after the Gospels, and that the writer was 

 in this place quoting from them. For in the next 



