Jan. 21. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



59 



TRANSLATION FROM SHERIDAN, ETC. 



(Vol. viii., p. 563.) 



I cannot furnish Balliolensis with the trans- 

 lation from Sheridan he requires, but I am ac- 

 quainted with that from Goldsmith. It is to be 

 found somewhere in Valpy's Classical Journal. 

 As that work is in forty volumes, and not at hand, 

 I am not able to give a more precise reference. 

 I recollect, however, a few of the lines at the 

 beginning : 

 " Incola deserti, gressus refer, atque precanti 

 Sis mihi noctivagas dux, bone amice, viae ; 

 Dirige qua lampas solatia luce benigna 

 Praebet, et hospitii munera grata sui. 

 Solus enim tristisque puer deserta per agro, 



iEgre membra trahens deficiente pede, 

 Qua, spatiis circum immensis porrecta, patescunt 

 Me visa augeri progrediente, loca." 

 " Ulterius ne perge," senex, "jam mitte vagari, 

 Teque iterum noctis, credere, amice, dolis : 

 Luce trahit species certa in discrimina fati, 

 Ah nimium nescis quo malefida trahat ! 

 Hie inopi domus, hie requies datur usque vaganti, 



Parvaque quantumvis dona, libente manu. 

 Ergo verte pedes, caliginis imminet hora, 



Sume libens quidquid parvula cella tenet . . ." 



No doubt there is a copy of the Classical Journal 



in the Bodleian ; and if Balliolensis can give me 



volume and page, I in turn shall be much obliged 



to him. Htpatia. 



The lines to which your correspondent Ballio- 

 lensis refers — 



" Conscia ni dextram dextera pressa premat." 



are a translation of the song in Sheridan's Duenna, 

 Act I. Sc. 2., beginning — 



" I ne'er could any lustre see," &c. 

 They were done by Marmaduke Lawson, of St. 

 John's College, Cambridge, for the Pitt Scholar- 

 ship in 1814, for which he was successful : 

 " Phyllidis effugiunt nos lumina. Dulcia sunto. 

 Pulcra licet, nobis haud ea pulcra micant. 

 Nectar erat labiis, dum spes erat ista tenendi, 



Spes perit, isque simul, qui erat ante, decor. 

 Votis me Galatea petit. Caret arte puella, 



Parque rosis tenero vernat in ore color : 

 Sed nihil ista juvant. Forsan tamen ista juvabunt. 



Si jaceant, victa marte, rubore genae : 

 Pura manus mollisque fluit. Neque credere possum. 



Ut sit vera fides, ista premenda mihi est. 

 Nee bene credit amor (nam res est plena timoris), 



Conscia ni dextram dextera pressa premat. 

 Ecce movet pectus suspiria. Pectora nostris 



Ista legenda oculis, si meus urat amor. 

 Et, nostri modo cura memor nostrique caloris 



Tangat earn, facere id non pudor ullus erit." 

 I have not sent the English, as it can be easily 

 got at. The other translation I am not acquainted 

 with. B_ 



IXORINS AND THE ROYAL ARMS. 



(Vol. viii., p. 621.) 



The placing of the royal arms in four separate 

 shields in the form of a cross first occurred upon 

 the medals struck upon the nativity of King 

 Charles II., anno 1630 ; and adopted upon the 

 reverse of the coins for the first time in 1662, 

 upon the issue of what was then termed the im- 

 proved milled coin, where the arms are so placed, 

 having the star of the Garter in the centre ; the 

 crowns intersecting the legend, and two crowns 

 interlaced in each quarter. The shields, as here 

 marshalled, are each surmounted by a crown ; 

 having in the top and bottom shield France and 

 England quarterly, Ireland on the dexter side 

 (which is the second place), and on the sinister 

 Scotland.* But on the milled money which fol- 

 lowed, France and England being borne separately, 

 that of France, which had been constantly borne 

 in the first quarter singly until James I., and after- 

 wards in the first place quarterly with England, 

 is placed in the bottom shield or fourth quarter. 

 Mr. Leake, in his Historical Account of English 

 Money 'f, after remarking that this irregular bear- 

 ing first appeared upon the nativity medals of 

 Charles II. in 1630, where the shields are placed 

 in this manner, adds, that this was no doubt 

 originally owing to the ignorance of the graver, 

 who knew no other way to place the arms circu- 

 larly than following each other, like the titles, 

 unless (as I have heard, says he) that the arms of 

 each kingdom might fall under the respective title 

 in the legend; and this witty conceit has ever 

 since prevailed upon the coin, except in some of 

 King William and Queen Mary's money, where the 

 arms are rightly marshalled in one shield. That 

 this was owing to the ignorance of the workman, 

 and not with any design to alter the disposition 

 of the arms, is evident from the arms upon the 

 great seal, where France is borne quarterly with 

 England, in the first and fourth quarters, as it was 

 likewise used upon all other occasions, until the 

 alteration occasioned by the union with Scotland 

 in 1707. 



In reference to the arrangement consequent 

 upon the union with Scotland, he observes that, 

 how proper soever the impaling the arms of the 

 two kingdoms was in other respects, it appeared 

 with great impropriety upon the money. The four 

 escocheons in cross had hitherto been marshalled 

 in their circular order from the left, whereby 

 the dexter escocheon was the fourth ; accord- 

 ing to which order the united arms, being quar- 

 tered first and fourth, would have fallen together ; 

 therefore they were placed at the top and bottom, 



* Evelyn's Discourse, edit. 1696, p. 121. 

 f London, 8vo., 1745, 2nd edit., then Clarenceux 

 King of Arms, and afterwards Garter. 



