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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 276. 



cough. But between the whiffs you must take a 

 drop of wine ! Verbum sapienti sat. 



This passage is clearly the original of that from 

 Dodoens, in my former communication on this 

 subject. I cannot lay my hands upon the refer- 

 ence. B. H. C. 



" What I spent," Sfc. (Vol. xi., p. 47.). — The 

 epitaph alluded to was in Tiverton Church, on the 

 tomb of Edward Couitenay, third Earl of Devon, 

 commonly called " the blind and good earl ;" who 

 died 1419, and his countess Maud, daughter of 

 Lord Camois. The following was the true in- 

 scription : 



" Hoe, hoe ! who lies here ? 

 I, tlie goode Krle of Devonshere ; 

 With Maud, my wife, to mee full dere, 

 We lyved togeather fyfty-fj've yere. 

 What wee gave, wee have ; 

 What wee spent, wee had ; 

 What wee lefte, wee loste." 



J. R. W. 



Bristol. 



" Doncaster, in Yorkshire, 



" Howe ! howe ! who is heare ? 

 I, Kobin of Doncastere, 

 And Margaret my feare. 



That I spent, that I had, 



That I gave, that I have. 



That I left, that I lost. 



A.D. 1579. Quoth Robertus Byrkes, who in this world 

 did reigne threescore j-ears and seven, yet liv'd not one." 



This man gave Rossington Wood to the public. 

 I have found two or three inscriptions like this : 

 one in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey ; another 

 in St. Olave Church, Hart Street, in Southwark ; 

 and a third in the church of St. Faith, as part of 

 the epitaph of one William Lamb. But the oldest, 

 and that from which the others may h;ive been 

 taken, is in tiie choir of St. Peter's Church at 

 St. Alban's. There was to be seen in Scotland, 

 some years ago, upon a very old stone, the same 

 thought thus expressed : 



« It that I gife, I haif, 

 It that I len, I craif, 

 It that I spend, is mvne. 

 It that I leif, I tyne." 



This is an extract from Hackett's Epitaphs, vol. i. 

 p. 37. edit. 1757. J. R. M., M.A. 



In reply to W. (1), the following is the original 

 of the lines he quoted : 



" Quod expendi habui, 

 Quod donavi habeo. 

 Quod negavi punior, 

 Quod servavi perdidi." 



Bristoliensis. 



[We must remind our correspondents that this epitaph 

 has already been discussed in "N. &Q. ;" the one on 

 Eobin of Doncaster, in Vol. v., p. 179. ; and the lines 

 quoted by Bkistoliensis, at p. Abi. of the same volume, 

 from the brass of Johu Kellynworth, 1412. Mu. J. S. 



Warden (Vol. viii., p. 30.) has also noticed that it has 

 been anticipated, if not imitated from. Martial, book vi. 

 epig. 42. Quarles, in his Divine Fancies, lib. iv. art. 70., 

 lt)3o, has made the following riddle upon it : 



" The goods we spend we keep; and what we save 

 We lose; and only what we lose we have.^''] 



"Star of the twilight grey" (Vol. x,, p 445.). 

 — In a volume bearing the Utle Jacobite Melodies, 

 a Collection of the most popular Legends, Ballads, 

 and Songs of the Adherents to the House of Stuart, 

 Edinburgh, printed by William Aitchison, 1823, 

 " Star of the twilight grey," given at p. 260., is 

 ascribed to J. H. Allen, Esq. E. D. R. 



Quintus Calaber (Vol. x., p. 345.). — I am not 

 aware of any complete translation, but I have 

 before me Select Translations from the Greek of 

 Quintus SmyrncRus, by Alexander Dyce, A.B. of 

 Exeter College, Oxford, &c., 8vo, Oxford, 1821, 

 pp. vi. 123. Mr. Dyce, now so well known for his 

 editions of early dramatists, states in the preface 

 that nothing is known of the author: that be re- 

 ceived the one name Q. Smyniieus, — "because 

 Tzetzes {Chiliad, ii. 489.) a|)plies it to him ; and 

 because he himself, in his xii books, says that the 

 muses inspired him wliile he was feeding sheep 

 near Smyrna;" the other (Q. Calaber), "from 

 his poem having been discovered by Cardinal 

 Bessarion in a monastery of Calabria." 



Mr. Dyce goes on to say : 



" His ' Supplement to the Iliad' consists of xiv books, 

 of which no translation has appeared in our language : it is 

 generally supposed tiiat he borrowed largely from the 

 Cyclic poets, chiefly from Lesches." 



quoting " Heyne, Excurs I. (de rerum Trojanorum 

 Auctoribus) ad JEneid. II." Balliolensis. 



Oriel (Vol. x , pp 391. 535.). — Your correspon- 

 dent Ovris tiiinks that I come so near the deri- 

 vation of this word, that, in school-boy phrase, 

 " I burn." By his own admission, I think I may 

 say that I am not only so near the hidden object 

 of search, but that, in Buonaparte phrase, Je le 

 tiens! I iiave already said tliat it is the Norman- 

 French oreil " with a dilFerence," and classes with 

 the majority of the figurative appellations of ar- 

 chitecture derived from that language. Amongst 

 the many figurative uses of the word oreille, re- 

 ferred to by Boiste in liis excellent Pan-Lexique, 

 we find several to imply a partie saillaide, and 

 amongst them the oreillons or oi-illons of fortifi- 

 cation, as remarked by Jacob Bryant. M. (2) 



Weather Rules (Vol. viii., pp. 50. 535. ; Vol. ix., 

 pp. 9. 277. 307. 585.). — 



" Portuguese Weather and Season Rules. — A wet Ja- 

 nuarv is not so good for corn, but not so bad for cattle. 

 Januarj^ blossoms till no mans cellar. If February is dry, 

 there is neither good corn nor gootl hay. VV'hen March 

 tlmnders, tools and arms get rusty. He who freely lops 

 in March will get his lap full of fruit. A cold April 



