Sept. 14. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



245 



name, about four miles to the south-east of Maid- 

 stone, and once the residence of the Lejbournes and 

 other families, well-known ia Kentish history, has 

 long existed only in name, having been disparked 

 prior to 1570 ; but the " pytte," or stream, whose 

 wondrous qualities are so quaintly described by 

 Warkworth, still flows at inlervuls. It is scarcely 

 necessary to add, that it belongs to the class 

 known as interiaitling springs, the phenomena 

 displayed by which are easily explained by the 

 sy[)hon-like construction of the natural reservoirs 

 whence they are supplied. 



I have never heard that any remnant of this 

 curious superstition can now be traced in the 

 neighbourhood, but persons long acquainted with 

 the spot have told me that the state of the stream 

 was formerly looked upon as a good index of the 

 j)robable future price of corn. The same causes, 

 which regulated the sujiply or deficiency of water, 

 would doubtless also affect the fertility of the soil. 



Edward K. J. Howe. 



Chancery Lane, Aug. 1850. 



Minax ^oU^. 



Poem by Malherbe (Vol. ii., p. 104). —Pos- 

 sibly your correspondent Mr. Singer may not 

 be aware of the fact that the beauty of the 

 fourth stanza of Malherbe's Ode on the Death of 

 Rosette Duperrier is owing to a typographical 

 error. The poet had written in his MS. — 



" Et Rosette a vecu ce que viveiit les roses," &c., 



omitting to cross his Vs, which the compositor 

 took for Ts, and set up Roselle. On receiving 

 the proof-sheet, at the passage in question a 

 sudden light burst upon Malherbe ; of Roselle 

 he made two words, and put in two beautiful 

 Hues — 



" Et Hose, elle a vecu ce que vivent los roses, 

 L'espace d'un matin." 



(See Franqais paints par eux-mcines, vol. ii., 

 p. 270.) P. S. King. 



Kenniiigton. 



Travels of Two English Pilgrims. — 

 " A True and Strange Discourse of tlie Travalles of 

 Two Englisli l'ilj;riines : what adiniiable Accidents 

 befell them in their Journey to Jerusalem, Gaza, Grand 

 Cayro, Alexandria, and other places. Also, wh;it rare 

 Antiquities, Monuments, and notalile Memories (con- 

 cording with the Ancient Renienihrances in t!ie Iloly 

 Scriptures), they sawe in the Terra .S nicta ; with a per- 

 fect Description of the Old and New Jerusalem, and 

 Situation of the Countries ahoiit them. A Discourse of 

 no lesse Aiitniration, then well worth the regarding; 

 written hy one of them on the heh life of llim^elfe and 

 hisfellowe I'ilgrime. Imprinted at London for Thomas 

 Archer, and are to be soide at his Slioppe by the Hoyall 

 Exchange. 160:J." 



A copy of this 4to. tract, formerly in the hands 

 of Francis Mei'es, the author of WiCs Coinmon- 

 weullh, has the following MS. note : — 



" Timberley, dwellinge on Tower Hill, a maister of 

 a ship, made this booke, as iMr. Anthony Mundye 

 tould me. Thomas, at Mrs. Gosson's, sent my wyfe 

 this booke for a token, February 15. a. d. 1G02." 



P. B. 



(Queried. 



QUOTATIONS IN BISHOP ANDREWEs' TORTUEA TORTI. 



Can any of your contributors help me to as- 

 certain the following quotations which occur in 

 Bishop Andrewes' Tortura Tuj'ti f 



P. 49. : 



" Si clavera potestatis non prscedat clavis discre- 

 tionis." 



P. 58.: 

 •' Dispensationes nihil allud esse quam legum vulnera." 



P. 58.: 



" Non dispensatio est, sed dlssipatio." 



This, though not marked as a quotation, is, I be- 

 lieve, in S. Bernard. 



P. 183,: 



" Et qufe de septem totum circumspicit orbem 

 Moiitibus, imperii Koma Deumque locus." 



P. 225.: 



" Nemo plus, qui pietatem cavet." 

 P. 185.: 



" Minutuli et patellares Dei." 



I should also be glad to ascertain whence the 

 following passages are derived, which he quotes in 

 his Responsio ad Apologium f 



P. 48.: 



" T^ 7^/) Tp4(poi' fj.e tout' iyoi Ka\oi dihv." 



P. 145.: 



" Vanae sine viribus Ira?." 



P. 119. occurs the " versiculus," 



" Perdere quos vult hos dementat ; " 



the source of which some of your contributors 

 have endeavoured to ascertain. James Beiss. 



Oirbourne St. Andrew. 



ifHtuor «aurrtc!». 



The Spider and the Fli/. — Can any of your 

 readers, gentle or simple, senile or juvenile, inliirni 

 me, tlirongli the medium of your useful and agree- 

 able periodical, in wliat collection of nursery 

 rhymes a poem called, I think, "The Spider and 

 Fly," occurs, and if procurable, where ? The lines 

 I allude to consisted, to the best of my recollection, 

 of a dialogue between a Uy and a spider, and began 

 thus : — 



