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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 43. 



" What are you," (a philosopher was once asked), 

 " in consequence of your admiration of these abstruse 

 speculations ? " He answered ; " What I am, it does 

 not become me to say ; but what thousands are, who 

 despise them, and even pride themselves on their igno- 

 rance, 1 see, and tremble." 



is a quotation from Schiller (^Werke,voL i., p. 414. 

 1838; 



" AN DIE MUSE. 



" Was ich ohne dich ware, ich weiss es nicht : aber mir 

 grauet, 

 Seh' ich, was ohne dich Hundert und Tausende sind." 



In Appendix (B.) to Coleridge's first Lay Sa-- 

 mon (p. "276.), we read, — 



" An age or nation may become free from certain 

 prejudices, beliefs, and superstitious practices, in two 

 ways. It may have really risen above them ; or it 

 may have fallen below them, and become t<jo bad for 

 their continuance." 



Though not given as a quotation, this passage is 

 no doubt borrowed from Baader, as quoted by 

 Archdeacon Hare in a note to his Sermons on 

 the Mission of the Comforter, — 



" Nations, like individuals, may get free and rid of 

 certain prejudices, beliefs, customs, abuses, &c., in two 

 ways. They may really have risen above them, or 

 they may have fallen below them and become too bad 

 for them." 



In a volume of tracts (Class mark Gg. 5. 27.) in 

 St. John's College Library, Cambridge, is a copy 

 of Nicolas Carr's edition of the Olynthiacs and 

 Philippics of Demostlienes, (4to. London, Henry 

 Denham, 1571.). As Carr died befjre the work 

 was published, his friends wrote a number of com- 

 memorative pieces in Greek and Latin, prose and 

 verse, which are annexed to the volume. Amongst 

 the rest, Barth. Dodyngton wrote a copy of Greek 

 elegiacs, and a Latin prose ejjistle. On Dodyng- 

 ton. Baker has written the following note : — 



" Barthol. Dodyngtunus in Com. Middlesex. n.itus, 

 admissus fuit Disjipulus Coll. Jo. pro Fundatrice an. 



1548 Idem admissus Socius, Apr. 8, an. 1552. — Idem 



admissus Socius Senior, an. 1558. — Idem admissus 

 Socius Major Coll. Trin. Oct. 29, an. 1580." 



In the same volume is a note on Cheke : — 

 " Joan. Chcke admissus Socius Coll. Jo. Cant., 

 Mar. 26, an. 21. Henrici 8"'." 



Another tract in the same volume is " Exodus, 

 &c., a Sermon Preach't Sej)t. 12, 1675. By occa- 

 sion of the much lamented Death of tiiat Learned 

 and lleverend Minister of Clu'ist, Dr. Lazarus 

 Seaman." — By William Jenkyn. After Dr. Sea- 

 man's name Baker adds, " some time Master of 

 Peter House." Of Jenkyn he says : " Gul. Jenkin 

 Coll. Jo. admissus in Matriculam Academiaj (de- 

 signatus Joannensis), Jul. 3, an. 1628." 



J.E.B.Matok. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



PARALLEL PASSAGES. 



I believe the following have not been hitherto 

 noticed in " Notes and Queries." 



" Nee mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars 

 humana sedificavit urbes." — Varro, R. R. iii. 1. 



" God made the country and man made the town. 

 What wonder then," &c. — The Task, i. 



"'O Se KpiTiaj . . . (KaKftro lZ\iliTr\s fiiv if (pi\o(T6(pois, 

 (pi\o(ru(p s Se tV iSiunais." — Sc/iol. in Timmum Platonis. 



" Sparsuni memini hominem inter scholasticos in- 

 sanum, inter sanos scholasUcum."— Seneca, Cuntrov. i. 7., 

 Excerpt, ex Controv. ii. ' 



" Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a 

 Lord among Wits." — Johnsoniana. 



" "Oarij ttfi iyd ; MeVav, 

 "Ov olStv 'E\Aas x'^ Ki)\.wi'6s." 



Aristophanes, Ttie Birds, 997. 



Under the Tropics is our language spoke, 

 And part of Flanders hath received our yoke." 

 Martiiius Scriblerus, Ch. xi. 



" Pandite, atque aperite propere januam banc Orci, 

 obseero : 

 Nam equidem baud aliter esse duco : quippe quo 



nemo advenit 

 Nisi quern spes reliquere onines." 



Plautus, Bucchirhs, Act iii. Sc. 1. 



" Per me si va nella citta doiente 



***** 



Lasciate ogni speranza, voi die iiitrate." 



Dante, Inferno, iii. 1 — 9. 



W. B. D. 



FOLK LORE. 



Power of Prophecy. — Mr. Aug. Guest (Vol. ii., 

 p. 116.) will perhaps accept — as a small tribute 

 to his interesting connnuiiicution on the subject of 

 that "power of prophecy" which I apprehend to 

 be still believed by many to exist during certain 

 lucid intervals before death — a reference to Sir 

 Henry Halford's Essay on the Kavaos of Aretceus. 

 (See Sir H. Halford's Essays and Orations read 

 and delivered at the Boyal College of Physicians, 

 Lond. 1831, pp. 93. et seq.) J. Sansom. 



Bay Leaves at Funerals. — In some parts of 

 Wales it is customary for funerals to be preceded 

 by a female carrying bays, the leaves of which she 

 sprinkles at intervals in the road which the corpse 

 will traverse. 



Query, Is this custom practised elsewhere; and 

 what is the meaning and origin of the use of the 

 bay ? N. n. 



Shoes (old) throivn for Luck. — Brand, in his 

 Popular Antiquities, observes, that it is accounted 



