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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 42. 



crock of the sixteenth century, used to prepare 

 "sunkits" for the retainers; and the fork a mili- 

 tary fork temp. Hen. VHI. 



The so called " Roman swords" are " anelaces," 

 and a couteau de chasse of the sixteenth and seven- 

 teenth centuries. 



The '■ British weapon" is a hammer at arms 

 temp. Hen. VHL, and " the halbert" a black bill 

 temp. Hen. VII. The only weapons correctly 

 described are the Spanish rapiers. 



The shield with the "sight" is very curious; it 

 weighs thirty pounds, and is of the temp, of 

 Henry VIII. 



It is impossible to describe the horror of the old 

 lady at our doubting her version ; she seemed to 

 wonder the earth did not open and swallow us for 

 our heresy. Naso. 



" Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest" 

 (Vol. ii., p. 134.).— 



" VVelcoras the coming, speed the parting giisst," 



is from Pope (^Imitations of Horace, book ii. 



sat. ii.). 



Popj's distich, whence the line is taken, runs, — 

 " For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, 

 Welcome the coining, spjeJ the going guest." 



Query. Where is "sage Homer's rule" to be 

 found ? KusTicus. 



[The following addhional reply furnishes a solution 

 of the Query of llusTicus : — 



" True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd. 

 Welcome the coming, spi-ed the parting guest." 



These lines are from Pope's Homer, the Odyssey, 

 Book XV., lines 83 and 84. E. H.] 



" A Chri/so^tom to smoothe his Band in " (Vol. ii., 

 p. 126. ). — This Query by liev. Alfred Gatti' is 

 answered by referring him to the Happy Life of a 

 Country Parson, by Swift, beginning with — 

 " Parson, these things in thy possessing, 

 Are worthy of a bishop's blessing." 



And enumerating amonsrst them 



" A large Concordance bound long since. 

 Sermons to Charles the First when prince, 

 A chronicle of ancient standing, 

 A ehrysostoni to smoothe thy band in ; 

 The polyglott — three parts — my text, 

 Howbeit — likewise — to my next." 



T. H. Q. 



[C. I. R. (to whom we are indebted for a similar 

 reference) adds the concluding line — 



" And shake his head at Doctor Swift." 

 which would show that the verses were written not ear- 

 lier tlian 1701. as Swift, the author, took his D. D. 

 degree iu that year. ] 



William of Wykeham (Vol. ii., p. 89.). — 

 " Historica descriptio complecteiis vitam ac res gestas 

 beatissimi viri Guilnii Wicanii quondam Vintoniensis 



episcopi et Anglice Cancellarii et fiindatoris duorutn 

 collegiorum Oxonia; et Vintonis." 



is the title of a biography of William of Wykeham 

 attributed to Thomas Martin, published iu 4to. 

 Oxford, 1597. 



There is also a little work which may come 

 under the head of biographies, viz. : 



" Uvedale (Robert) Examination of Lowth's ob- 

 jections to the account given by Leland of the pa- 

 rentage of William of Wykeham," 8vo. 1801. 



Vide Oettinger's Bihliographie Biographigue. 



S. W. 



Dutch Language (Vol. ii., p. 77.). — H. B. C. re- 

 commends, among other works, Hendrik Con- 

 science's novels. These are in Flemish, not 

 Dutch. The difference may not be great between 

 the two ; but one would hardly recommend to a 

 learner of English, Burns's Poems as a reading- 

 book. In 1829 Dr. Bo wring wrote an article, 

 being a sketch of Dutch literature, in the Foreign' 

 Quarterly Revieiu ; which article was reprinted in 

 Amsterdam in the form of an 18mo. volume, and 

 which I believe is still to be got, and is a very 

 useful guide to Dutch literature. S. W. 



"A frog he would," S)-c. (Vol. ii., p. 43. and else- 

 where). — I remember, when a boy, to have heard 

 an old aunt repeatedly sing this song; but the 

 chorus was very strange. 



" A frog he would a-wooing ride. 



With a rifjdum buUydimy kymy ; 

 With sword and buckler by his side. 

 With a rigdum buUydlmy kymy. 

 Kymyary kelta cary kymyary kymy, 



Strmistram paradlddle larrabona ringting, 

 Rigdum bullydimy kymy." 



A. 



City Sanitary Laws (Vol. ii., p. 99.). — The act 

 of parliament prohibiting the slaughter of cattle 

 within the city, referred to in the passage from 

 Arnold's Chronicle, extracted by your corre- 

 spondent T.S.D., is the 4 Hen. VII. c. 3., which 

 enacts that — 



" No butcher shall kill any flesh within his scalding- 

 house, or within the walls of London, in pain to for- 

 feit for every ox so killed 12t/. and for every other 

 beast Sd., to be divided between the king and the pro- 

 secutor." — Bohun's Privilegia Londini, 1723, p. 480. 



Brydall, in his Camera Regis (Lond. 1666, p. 

 114.)', quotes the statute of 11 Hen. VII. c. 21, as 

 the authority for the "singularity" attaching to 

 the city, that "butchers shall kill no beasts in 

 London." I believe, however, Bohun's reference 

 will be found to be the correct one. The statute 

 in question has, I think, never been repealed ; but 

 in the absence of abbatoirs, or other proper pro- 

 vision for the slauirhterins of cattle without the 

 walls of the city, it seems doubtful whether the 



