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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 276. 



Unregistered Proverbs (Vol. x., pp. 210. 355.). — 

 To the list, add "As peart as a pearmonger" 

 (costermonger ?), belonging to Lancashire. 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



Old Jokes: "John Chinaman's Pig" (Vol. x., 

 p. 534.). — 



" BeeoUtS. MtfCKoy ya na/cos ovtos. 

 Diceeopolis. 'AAA.' aitav komov," 



Achamenses, 909. 



He might have added pigeon's milk., — 



TUfiaivQV, opvC$<iiV jrope'ico <roi yaAa. 



Garrick Club. 



Aves, 1672. 

 H. B. C. 



Barristers' Gowns (Vol. ix., p. 323.). — I have 

 always understood the piece hanging from the 

 back of barristers' gowns, to represent the hood 

 which formerly formed a part of that robe. 



E. H B. 



Demerara. 



Man-of- War, why a Ship of War so called? 

 (Vol. iv., p. 40.). — May not this term have its 

 origin thus : a ship manned for war — inde, man 

 of war ? Or, because it is a ship which carries 

 men of war ? E. H. B. 



Demerara. 



Sharp Practice (Vol. x., p. 343.). — With re- 

 ference to this notice from Mr. Eras. Brent, I 

 inclose a copy of a song which has been in my 

 family many years (in manuscript), and I know 

 not whether it has been printed. It certainly is 

 identified with the account in the London Chro- 

 nicle of Jan. 11—13, 1781. 



" A lawyer quite famous for making a bill, 



And who in good living delighted : 

 To dinner one day with a hearty good will 



Was by a rich client invited. 

 But he charged six and eight-pence for going to dine, 



Which the client he paid, tho' no ninny ; 

 And in turn charged the law\'er for dinner and wine, 



One a crown, and the other a guinea. 

 But gossips, you know, have a saying in store, 

 He who matches a lawj'er has onl^' one more. 



" The lawyer he paid it and took a receipt. 



While the client stared at him with wonder, 

 With the produce he gave a magnificent treat. 



But the lawyer soon made him knock under. 

 That his client sold wine, information he laid, 



Without licence, and, spite of his storming. 

 The client a good thumping penalty paid. 



And the lawyer got half for informing. 

 But gossips, you know, have a saying in store. 

 He who matches a lawyer has only one more." 



W. D. Haggard. 

 Ballion Office, Bank of England. 



Latinizing Proper Names (Vol. xi., p. 27.). — 

 There is a dictionary of proper names which, I 

 believe, will give your correspondent just the in- 



formation he requires. Unfortunately I cannot 

 find a copy of it, and the only clue which I can 

 give is that the author's name is Pye. It is a very 

 useful book, and any of your readers who possess 

 a copy, and will communicate the exact title, will 

 thereby oblige not only A Plain Man but your 

 obedient servant, Q. 



[The work noticed b}' our correspondent is probably 

 the following : A New Dictionary of Ancient Geographt/, 

 exhibiting the Modern in addition to the Ancient Names 

 of Plaees. Designed for the Use of Schools, and of those 

 who are reading the Classics or other Ancient Authors. 

 By Charles Pye: London, 8vo., 1803.] 



HandeVs Wedding Anthem (Vol. x., p. 445.). — 

 Is the anthem noticed by H. E. different from that 

 composed in 1736 for the wedding of Frederick, 

 Prince of Wales, and the Princess of Saxe Gotha, 

 and which is printed in Dr. Arnold's Collection of 

 HandeVs Works ? The words of this are from 

 Psalm Ixviii. v. 32. ; Psalm cxxviii. v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. ; 

 Psalm xlv. V. 17.; Psalm cxxvii. v. 4, 5, 6.; 

 Psalm cvi. v. 46. ; and it is the only Wedding An- 

 them by Handel I ever met with, either in print 

 or MS. If the anthem referred to by 11. E. be 

 not the same, it is probable that it was a com- 

 pilation from several compositions, an expedient to 

 which Handel had frequent recourse for tem- 



porary occasions. 



AV. H. H. 



Doddridge and Whitejield (Vol. xi., p. 46.). — 

 Your correspondent should have said that the 

 sermon he alludes to is undoubtedly the pro- 

 duction of Dr. Doddridge. This is manifest from 

 the date of its original publication ; the Advertise- 

 ment to the Reader is dated " London, July 29, 

 1735." Now Whitefield's ordination did not take 

 place till Sunday, June 20, 1736, or nearly one 

 year later than the publication of this sermon. 

 Whoever included it in the collection of discourses 

 by Geo. AVhitefield, appears to have made a stupid 

 blunder : — Suum cuique. B. H. C. 



The Crescent (Vol. vii. passim). — You have 

 alreaily inserted several Notes on this subject; 

 will the following add anything to what has ap- 

 peared ? Doubtless originally connected with the 

 worship of Diana, or the Moon, who Is represented 

 " assez souvent avec un croissant sur la tete." 

 But not only Diana, Greek and Roman princesses 

 have frequently attached to themselves the sym- 

 bol of the crescent upon coins and medals, &c. 

 Monaldini, in his Istituzione Antiquario-numisma- 

 tica, p. 91., alludes to this fact in these words : 



"La luna crescente fe spesso adoprata a sostenere il 

 busto delle Principesses che sono negli state, come la luna 

 nel cielo." 



At the end of his work he gives a medal on which 

 the crescent appears eleven times. I would re- 

 mark that the worship of Diana or Arterius pre- 

 vailed very extensively in the Old World. The 



