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return of those present at Ciudad Rodrigo. When 

 Her Majesty gracefully extended the honorary dis- 

 tinctions to all the survivors of the groat war, Lord 

 Beresford received the Peninsular medal, with two 

 clasps, for Egypt and Ciudad Rodrigo." 



The expression should have been " the silver 

 medal," not "Peninsular;" as, among the names 

 of battles engraved on the clasps attached to the 

 silver war-medals, granted in 1 849, will be found 

 the words "Martinique," " Fort Detroit," " Cha- 

 teauguay," " Chrystler's Farm," and " Egypt." 



JlJVERNA. 



D. O. M. (Vol. iii., p. 173.).— I am surprised 

 that there should be the least doubt that the 

 above are the initials of " Datur omnibus mari." 



R. W. D. 



Dr. John Taylor (Vol. viii., p. 299.). — There 

 are several errors in the communication of S. R. 

 He states that " Dr. John Taylor was buriedat 

 Kirkstead, Lancashire, where his tomb is distin- 

 guished by the following simple inscription." 



1. Kirkstead is in Lincolnshire. 



2. Dr. John Taylor lies interred in the burial- 

 ground attached to the Presbyterian Chapel at 

 Chowbent, near Bolton, in Lancashire. 



3. The inscription on the tombstone is as 

 follows : 



" Here is interred the Rev. John Taylor, D.D., of 

 "Warrington, formerly of Norwich, who died March 5, 

 1761, aged 66." 



4. The inscription given by S. R. is on a slab in 

 the chapel at Chowbent. I may add that this 

 inscription was drawn up by Dr. Enfield, 



Thomas Baker. 



Manchester. 



Lines attributed to Iludibras (Vol. i., p. 211.). — 



" For he that fights and runs away, 

 May live to fight another day." 



In so far as I can understand from the various 

 articles in " N. & Q." regarding the above quo- 

 tation, it is to be found in the Musarum Delicia, 

 12mo., 1656. There is a copy of this volume now 

 lying before me, the title-page of which runs thus : 



" Musarum Delicia?, or the Muses' Recreation ; con- 

 taining severall pieces of Poetique Wit. The second 

 edition, by S* J. M. and Ja. S. London : Printed by 

 J. G. for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his 

 Shop, at the Signe of the Anchor in the New Ex- 

 change, 1656." 



This copy seems to have at one time belonged 

 to Longmans, as it is described in the Bib. An. 

 Poetica, having the signatures of " Orator Henly," 

 "Ritson," and "J.Park." I have read this vo- 

 lume over carefully twice, and I must confess my 

 inability to find any such two lines as the above 

 noted, there. As I do not think Mr. Cunningham, 



in his Handbook of London, or Dr. Rimbaultj 

 would mislead any one, I am afraid my copy, 

 being a second edition, may be incomplete ; and as 

 I certainly did not get the volume for nothing, 

 will either of these gentlemen, or any other of the 

 readers of" N. & Q.," who have seen other editions, 

 let me know this ? 



There is a question asked by Melanion re- 

 garding the entire quotation, which I have not yet 

 seen answered, which is, — 



" For he that fights and runs away, 

 May live to fight another day ; 

 But he that is in battle slain, 

 Can never hope to fight again." 



Are these last two lines in the Musarum Delicia? f 

 or are these four lines to be found anywhere in 

 conjunction ? If this could be found, it would in 

 my opinion settle the question. S. Wmson. 



" Corporations have no Soids," frc. (Vol. viii., 

 p. 587). — In Poynder's Literary Extracts, under 

 the title " Corporations," there occurs the follow- 

 ing passage : 



" Lord Chancellor Thurlow said that corporations 

 have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be 

 condemned ; they therefore do as they like." 



There are also two long extracts, one from Cow- 

 per's Task, book iv., and the other from the Life 

 of Wilberforce, vol. ii., Appendix, bearing on the 

 same subject. Arch. Weir. 



Lord Mayor of London a Privy Councillor 

 (Vol. iv. passim). — Mr. Serjeant Merewether, 

 Town Clerk to the Corporation of London, in his 

 examination before the City Corporation Com- 

 mission, said that it had been the practice from 

 time immemorial, to summon the Lord Mayor of 

 London to the fiist Privy Council held after the 

 demise of the crown. (The Standard, Jan. 13, 

 1854, p. i. col. 5.) L. Hartxy. 



Booty's Case (Vol. iii., p. 170.). — A story re- 

 sembling that of " Old Booty " is to be found in 

 St. Gregory the Great's Dialogues, iii. 30., where 

 it is related that a hermit saw Theodoric thrown 

 into the crater of Lipari by two of his victims, 

 Pope John and Symmachus. J. C. R. 



" Sat cito, si sat bene " (Vol. vii., p. 594.). — St. 

 Jerome (Ep. lxvi. § 9., ed. Vallars) quotes this as 

 a maxim of Cato's. J. C. R. 



Celtic and Latin Languages (Vol. ix., p. 14.). — 

 Allow me to suggest to T. H. T. that the word 

 Gallus, a Gaul, is not, of course, the same as the 

 Irish Gal, a stranger. Is it not rather the Latin 

 form of Gaoithil (pronounced Gael or Gaul), the 

 generic appellation of our Erse population ? la 

 Welsh it is Gwydyl, to this day their term for an 

 Irishman. 



