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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 236. 



in fear for our old servant aught, who surely has 

 done nought worthy of excommunication, from ob- 

 serving that such a writer as the Rev. Chevenix 

 Trench has substituted ought for aught to express 

 " anything." If convenience is allowed to justify 

 our having nought and naught, it surely claims that 

 we should keep aught and ought each for its ap- 

 propriate signification in writing, impossible as it 

 is to distinguish one from the other in speech. 



T. 

 Nilbud. 



Walton. — The following note is written on the 

 fly-leaf at the end of Hieron's Sermons, 1620 : 



" Mr. Gillamour. — I pray you be entreated to lend 

 my wife what silver you think fittest upon this or other 

 bookes to supplie our present wants, soe as I may have 

 them againe when I restore it to you ; you shall doo 

 mee a greate curtesie, and I shall be very thankfull to 

 you. 



Yours to his power to be cornanded, 



Johs' Walton, Cler." 



I have no information as to either party, and no 

 date is affixed to the request. E. D. 



Salutations. — The parting salutations of various 

 nations are strikingly alike. The vale of the Latins 

 corresponds with the x a ~ L P e °f tne Greeks ; and 

 though Deity is not expressed distinctly in either, it 

 was doubtless understood : for who can be kept in 

 health without, as the ancients would say, the will 

 of the gods ? The Greek word perhaps has a higher 

 signification than the Latin ; for it was not a mere 

 complimentary salutation, says Macknight : " St. 

 John forbids it to be given to heretical teachers, 

 Eph. ii. 10, 11." The French, on taking leave, say 

 "Adieu," thus distinctly recognising the pro- 

 vidential power of the Creator; and the same 

 meaning is indeed conveyed in our English word, 

 " good-bye," which is a corruption of "God be 

 with you." The Irish, in their warmth of manner 

 and love of words, often extend the expression. 

 A well-known guide, upon my leaving one of the 

 loveliest spots in Wicklow, shook hands with me 

 heartily, and said, in a voice somewhat more 

 tremulous through age than it was when Tom 

 Moore loved to listen to it : " God Almighty bless 

 you, be with you, and guide you safely to your 

 journey's end ! " This salutation, when used 

 thoughtfully and aright, has not only a pleasant 

 sound, but deep meaning. E. W. J. 



Crawley. 



Good Times for Equity Suitors. — Having 

 lately met with the following particulars in Bishop 

 Goodman's Diary, I send them for insertion, if 

 you think fit, in " N. & Q. : " 



" Then was the chancery so empty of causes, that 

 Sir Thomas More could live in Chelsea, and yet very 

 sufficiently discharge that office ; and coming one day 



home by ten of the clock, whereas he was wont to stay 

 until eleven or twelve, his lady came down to see 

 whether he was sick or not ; to whom Sir Thomas 

 More said, • Let your gentlewoman fetch me a cup of 

 wine, and then I will tell you the occasion of my 

 coming; ' and when the wine came, he drank to his 

 lady, and told her that he thanked God for it he had 

 not one cause in chancery, and therefore came home 

 for want of business and employment there. The 

 gentlewoman who fetched the wine told this to a 

 bishop, who did inform me." 



Abhba. 



The Emperor of Russia and the Order of the 

 Garter. — The Emperor of Russia is a knight of 

 the Order of the Garter. Now, according to the 

 statutes of the Order, no knight ought to take up 

 arms against another, or in any way assist any- 

 body so to do. 



In illustration of this, we find it stated in 

 Anstis' Register of the Most Noble Order of the 

 Garter, who quotes from Caligula, L. 6., in Bib. 

 Cott., that when the French king wished to bor- 

 row a sum of money from Henry VII., to employ 

 in the war with the King of Naples, the answer 

 was : 



" Que le Roy ne povoit avec son honneur bailler 

 aide et assistence a icelluy son bon frere et cousin a 

 l'encontre du Roy de Naples, qui estoit son confrere et 

 allye, veu et considere qu'il avoit prise et recue l'ordre 

 de la garretiere. Et si le roi autrement faisoit, ce 

 seroit contrevenir au serment qu'il a fait par les status 

 du dit ordre." 



Will the Emperor of Russia be deprived of his 

 ill-deserved honours, or what is the course now 

 pursued ? It was not unusual formerly for kings 

 to exchange orders, and to return them in case of 

 war. Oscar Browning. 



eauerioJ. 



SIR HENRY WOTTON S VERSES, "THE CHARACTER 

 OF A HAPPY LIFE." 



Owing to the almost perfect identity of these 

 verses with some by a German poet, George Ru- 

 dolph Weckerlin, a doubt has been expressed in a 

 German work as to whether they are to be con- 

 sidered the production of Sir Henry Wotton, or a 

 translation from the Geistliche unci weltliche Ge- 

 dichte of Weckerlin, a lyrical poet of considerable 

 eminence and popularity in his day, and who died 

 in London in 1651. Weckerlin was employed in 

 important affairs connected with the Protestants in 

 Germany during the Thirty Years' War, as secre- 

 tary to an embassy in London from that country ; 

 and was also employed on several occasions by 

 James I. and Charles I. An edition of Wecker- 

 lin's Poems was edited by him while he resided in 

 London, and was printed at Amsterdam in 1641,. 

 and again in 1648. A previous collection had ap- 



