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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 222. 



concluding lines of each side by side, and would 

 ask if the American poet has the slightest claim to 

 the authorship of that version, to which he has 

 affixed the sanction of his name. 



Conybeare's Translation. 



" For thee was a house built 

 Ere thou wert born, 

 For thee was a mould shapen 

 Ere thou of mother earnest. 



" Who shall ever open 

 For thee the door 

 And seek thee, 



For soon thou becomest loathly, 

 And hateful to look upon." 



L.ongfelloio's Translation. 



" For thee was a house built 

 Ere thou wast born, 

 For thee was a mould meant 

 Ere thou of mother earnest. 



" Who will ever open 

 The door for thee 

 And descend after thee, 

 For soon thou art loathsome, 

 And hateful to see." 



Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. '".J: 



QUEEN ELIZABETH AND QUEEN ANNE S MOTTO. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 174. 255. 440.) 



I was not aware that the Query at page 174. 

 was not fully answered by me in page 255., but 

 the following may be more satisfactory. 



Camden, in his Life of Queen Elizabeth (Annals 

 of Queen Elizabeth, p. 32.), says her first and 

 chiefest care was for the most constant defence of 

 the Protestant religion as established by the au- 

 thority of parliament. " Her second care to hold 

 an even course in her whole life and in all her 

 actions, whereupon she took for her motto (1559), 

 Semper eadem (Always the same)." 



In his Remains (p. 347. 4to. 1637), Camden 

 says, "Queen Elizabeth upon occasions used so 

 many heroical devices as would require a volume : 

 but most commonly a sive without a motte for 

 her words Video, Taceo, and Semper eadem, which 

 she as truly and constantly performed." 



Sandford is silent as to her motto. 



Leake says this motto, Semper eadem, was only 

 a personal motto ; as queen, the old motto, Dieu et 

 mon Droit, was used, and is so given in Segar's 

 Honour, Military and Civil, dedicated to her ma- 

 jesty in 1602, and which is also on her tomb. In 

 some churches where there are arms put up to 

 her memory, it is probable the motto Semper 

 eadem may sometimes have been seen as being a 

 personal motto to distinguish it from her brothers. 

 Queen Anne, before the union with Scotland, bore 



the same arms, crest, and supporters as her father 

 King James II., but discontinued the use of the 

 old motto, Dieu et mon Droit, and instead thereof 

 used Semper eadem. The motto ascribed to Queen 

 Elizabeth she took for the same reason to express 

 her constancy ; but this, which was personal as to 

 Queen Elizabeth, was then made the motto of the 

 royal achievement, and seems the first instance 

 of discontinuing the old motto of Dieu et mon 

 Droit, from the first assumption of it by King 

 Edward III. ; for as to the different ones attri- 

 buted to Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and 

 King James L, they were personal only. 



The motto is indeed no part of the arms but 

 personal, and therefore is frequently varied ac- 

 cording to the fancy of the bearer ; nevertheless, 

 when particular mottoes have been taken to per- 

 petuate the memory of great events, either in 

 families or kingdoms, and have been established 

 by long usage, such should be esteemed as family 

 or national mottoes, and it is honourable to con- 

 tinue them. 



In 1702 (Gazette, No. 3874) Queen Anne com- 

 manded the Earl Marshal to signify her pleasure 

 that wheresoever her royal arms were to be used 

 with a motto, that of Semper eadem should be 

 used; and upon the union with Scotland in 1707, 

 by her order in council it was ordered to be con- 

 tinued. 



King George I., upon his accession, thought 

 proper to discontinue it, and restored the old 

 motto, Dieu et mon Droit. G. 



BOOKS BURNT BY THE COMMON HANGMAN. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 272. 346.) 



The Histoires of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne 

 were condemned, by an arret of the parliament of 

 Paris, to be burnt by the common hangman. The 

 charge against the works was, that D'Aubigne had 

 spoken too freelybf princes ; and it may be added, 

 too freely also of the Jesuits, which was probably 

 the greatest crime. D'Aubigne said upon the oc- 

 casion, that he could not be offended at the treat- 

 ment given to his book, after having seen the Holy 

 Bible ignominiously hanged upon a gibbet (for 

 thus some fiery zealots used the Bible which they 

 had taken from the Huguenots, to show their pious 

 hatred to all translations of that book into their 

 native tongue), and fourscore thousand innocent 

 persons massacred without provocation. 



The Histoire of James Augustus de Thou (a 

 Roman Catholic, though a moderate one) met 

 with the same fate at Rome that D'Aubigne s had 

 at Paris, and it was even debated in council 

 whether the like sentence should not pass against 

 it in France. D'Aubigne, however, spoke strongly 

 in its favour, affirming that no Frenchman had 

 ever before given such evident proofs of solid 



