April 1. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIED 



301 



volumes about fifty years since, and now become 

 scarce. Additions and corrections would add to 

 the value and interest of a work which preserves 

 many curious traits of past times and of Oxford 

 Dons. Alpha. 



An Epigram falsely ascribed to George Herbert. 

 — The recent editors of George Herbert have 

 printed as his, among his Latin poems, the last 

 two lines of the 76th epigram of Martial's eighth 

 book : 



" Vero verius ergo quid sit, audi : 

 Verum, Gallice, non libenter audis." 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



Ingitlph : Bohris "Antiquarian Library." — Will 

 you kindly allow me to avail myself of your columns 

 to correct an error in my translation of " Ingulph," 

 in Bonn's Antiquarian Library ? In the note to 

 page 2, the Abbey of Bardney, in Lincolnshire, is 

 confounded with Partney, which was one of its 

 ■cells. The mistake was not observed till, unfor- 

 tunately, the sheet had been printed; and it was 

 accidentally omitted among the errata. My au- 

 thority had, I rather think, been misled by Cam- 

 den. Henry T. Riley. 



31. St. Peter's Square, Hammersmith. 



catteries. 



QUOTATIONS WANTED. 



" 'Quid levius calamo ? Pulvis. Quidpulvere? Ven- 

 tus. 

 Quidvento? Meretrix. Quid meretrice? Nihil." 



" What is lighter than a feather ? 

 Dust. The wind more light than either. 

 What is lighter than the wind ? 

 Airy, fickle, womankind. 

 What than womankind is lighter ? 

 Nothing, nothing — but the writer." X. Y. 



" The knights are dust, 

 Their good swords are rust, 

 Their souls are with the saints, we trust." 



C. M. OCaoimh. 



■" Circles are prized, not that abound 

 In greatness, but the exactly round. 

 Thus men are honoured, who excel, 

 Not in high state, but doing well." 



G. C. H. 



*' 111 habits gather by unseen degrees, 

 As brooks to rivers, rivers run to seas." 



" The clanging trumpet sounds to arms, 

 And calls me forth to battle : 

 Our banners float 'midst war's alarms, 

 The signal cannons rattle." T. W. 



" Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love, 

 Aught to implore were impotence of mind." 



Q. 



*' He no longer shall dwell 

 Upon that ditty ball, 

 But to heaven shall come, 

 And make punch for us all." 



A Septuagenarian, 



" Sometimes, indeed, an acre's breadth half green, 

 And half strewed o'er with rubbish, may be seen. 

 When lo ! a board, with quadrilateral grace, 

 Stands stiff' in the phenomenon of space, 

 Proposing still the neighbourhood's increase, 

 By, ' Ground to let upon a building lease.' " H.W. 



Then what remains, but well our parts to chuse, 

 And keep good humour whatsoe'er we lose." 



F. W. J. 



* Bachelors of every station, 

 Listen to my true relation." 



Also a ballad describing the visit of a countryman 

 and his wife to Oxford. Both of Berkshire origin. L. 



" A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind." W. V. 



" Sir John once said a good thing." 



"EavOos. 



SIR EDMUND PLOWDEN. 



In your publication (Vol. iv., p. 319.), one of 

 your correspondents has given some interesting 

 particulars relative to Sir Edmund Plowdcn, New 

 Albion, &c, and expresses the hope that Ameri- 

 cans will hereafter do justice to the memory of 

 one really deserving their respect. I am desirous 

 of doing something to vindicate his memory and 

 claims ; and to this end should be greatly obliged 

 if your correspondent would favour me with some 

 additional facts. To get at these, I will put some 

 of them in the interrogative form. 



When and where was Sir Edmund born ? 



What is the evidence that he was in America 

 from 1620 to 1630 ? If so, where (in what locali- 

 ties), and what capacity ? 



He says that his sister married a son of Secre- 

 tary Lake, then in office ; but Lake was turned 

 out several years before 1630, and Lord Balti- 

 more took his place, I think. Nor was Wentworth 

 made Earl of Strafford till after the time of the 

 petition. 



He is said to have served five years in Ireland : 

 in what capacity ? 



Who were Viscount Musherry, Lord Monson, 

 Sir Thomas Denby, (Claiborne I know of), Capt. 

 Balls; besides Sir John Laurence, Sir Bowyer 



