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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 226. 



" One while I think,"' Sfc. (Vol. ix., p. 76.)- — 

 Thes« lines will be found in The Synagogue, p. 41., 

 by Christopher Hervie. M. Zachaby. 



" Spires ' whose silent finger points to heaven" " 

 (Vol. ix., pp. 9. 85.). — F. R. M., M.A., seems not 

 to have observed that Wordsworth marks this line 

 as a quotation ; and in the note upon it (Ex- 

 cursion, 373.) gives the poetical passage in The 

 Friend, whence he took it, thus acknowledging 

 Coleridge to be the author. The passage is not 

 to be found in the modern edition of The Friend, 

 by the reference in Wordsworth's note to " The 

 Friend, No. 14. p. 223." I presume that The 

 Friend was originally published in numbers, and 

 that it is to that publication Wordsworth refers. 

 This is not simply the case, as P. R. M., M.A., 

 suggests, of two authors using the same idea, but 

 of one also honestly acknowledging his debt to 

 the other. The idea is of much older date than 

 the prose of Coleridge, or the verse of Words- 

 worth. Milton, in his Epitaph on Shakspeare, 

 has : 



¥ Under a star y-pointing pyramid." 



Prior has the following line : 



" These pointed spires that wound the ambient sky." 

 Prior's Poems : Power, vol. iii. p. 94., 

 Edin. 1779. 



In Shakspeare we find : 



" Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds." 

 Troilus and Cressida, Act IV. Sc. 5. 



The idea is traceable in Virgil's description of 

 • Fame" or " Rumour" in the 4th JEneid : 



" . . . caput inter nubila condit." 



J. W. Farbeb. 



Dr. Eleazar Duncon (Vol. ix., p. 56.). — D. D. 

 will find some mention of Dr. Duncon in a cor- 

 respondence between Sir Edward Hyde and Bishop 

 Cosin, printed among the Clarendon State Papers 

 (ed. Oxford, vol. iii., append, pp. ci. cii. ciii.), from 

 which it appears that, in 1655, Dr. Duncon was at 

 Saumur ; where also Dr. Monk Duncan, a Scotch 

 physician, was a professor (Conf. note a, p. 375. of 

 Cosin's Works, vol. iv., as published in the Anglo- 

 Catholic Library). I regret that I cannot furnish 

 D. D. with the when and where of Dr. Duncon's 

 death. J. Sansom. 



" Marriage is such a rabble rout " (Vol. iii., 

 p. 263.).— 



" Marriage is such a rabble rout, 

 That those that are out would fain get in, 

 And those that are in would fain get out." 



I do not think it is against the rules of " N. & Q." 

 for any Querist to put a rider on any of his own 

 Queries. In a volume entitled The Poetical 

 Rhapsody, by Francis Davidson, edited, with me- 



moirs and notes, by Nicholas H. Nicolas, London, 

 Pickering, 1826, under the head of "A Contention 

 betwixt a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid," p. 21., 

 occur the following lines : 



" Widow. Marriage is a continual feast. 



Maid. Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been 

 To public feasts, where meet a public rout, 

 Where they that are without would fain go in, 

 And they that are within would fain go out," &c. 



This piece is signed " Sir John Davis." 



S. Wmson. 



Cambridge Mathematical Questions (Vol. ix., 

 p. 35.). — Iota is informed that the questions set 

 at the examination for honours, are annually pub- 

 lished in the Cambridge University Calendar. He 

 should consult the back volumes of that work, 

 which he will probably find in any large pro- 

 vincial library. 



These questions, with solutions at length, are 

 also annually published by the Moderators and 

 Examiners in one quarto volume. All the Senate 

 House examination papers are annually published 

 by the editor of the Cambridge Chronicle, in a 

 supplement to one of the January numbers of 

 that periodical. C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



P. S. — As I write from memory, I may have 

 been guilty of some slight inaccuracy in details. 



I think the Cambridge University Calendar will 

 contain all the mathematical questions proposed 

 in the Senate House for the period mentioned. 

 Those from 1801 to 1820 inclusively were also 

 published by Black and Armstrong (Lond. 1836), 

 to accompany the revised edition of Wright's solu- 

 tions. The problems from 1820 to 1829 inclusive 

 are reprinted in vol. v. of Leybourne's Mathema- 

 tical Repository, new series, and in vol. vi. those 

 for 1830 and 1831 are given. In 1849 the Rev. 

 A. II. Frost arranged and published the questions 

 proposed in 1838 to 1849. Perhaps this may be 

 found satisfactory. T. T. Wilkinson. 



Reversible Masculine Names (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 

 655.). — If you allow Bob, you cannot object to 

 Lot, the short for Laurence. Lord Glenelg and 

 the Hebrew abba will not perhaps be held cases 

 in point, but Nun, Asa, and Gog, and probably 

 many other Scripture names, may be instanced ; 

 and Odo and Otto from profane history, as well as 

 the Peruvian Capac. P- P« 



The Man in the Moon (Vol. vi., pp. 61. 182. 

 232. 424.).— 



" As for the forme of those spots, some of the vulgar 

 thinke they represent a man, and the poets guesse 'tis 

 the hot/ Endymion, whose company shee loves so well, 

 that shee carries him with her ; others will have it 

 onely to be the face of a man as the moone is usually 

 pictured ; but Albertus thinkes rather that it represents 



