Oct. 12. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



317 



1. A Trip to Holland, 1801. 



2. Socrates, a dramatic poem, 8vo. 1806. 



3. Lucianus Hedivivus, or Dialogues concerning 

 Men, Manners, and Opinions, 8vo. 181i3. 



4. Shakspeare's Himself, or the Language of the 

 Poet asserted ; being a full but dispassionate Examin 

 of the Readings and Interpretations of the several 

 Editors, 2 vols. Svo. 1815. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Passage in Vida (Vol. i., p. 384.). — Your cor- 

 respondent A. W. asks for some light on the lines 

 of Vida, Christiad, i. 67. : 

 " Quin age, te incolumi potius . 



Perficias quodcumque tibi nunc instat agendum." 



He cannot construe " te incolumi." No wonder. 

 Will not all be set right by reading " Quin age, 

 et incolumi," &c.? J. S. \V. 



Stockwell, Sept. 7. 



" Quern Deus vult perdere " (Vol.i., p. 347., &c.). 



— To the illustrations of the saying " Quein Deus 

 vult perdere prias demented" which have been given, 

 may be added the following from the Fragments of 

 Cunstantinus Manasses (edited with Nicet. Eugen., 

 by Boissonade. Paris, 1819), book viii. line 40.: — 



" 'O yap debs avru/ievos avSpitrov Siavoias 

 'HviKa r<f SuuSainovi KipfTjai irevdovs ir6fj.a, 

 Oiii'iv iroAAciKis uvyx^p^^ liouKtvaaadai aviicpepov." 



J. E. B. Mayoe. 



Marlborough College. 



Countess of Desmond (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 186.). — 

 R. is referred to Smith's History of Cork, and 

 European Magazine, vol. viii., for particulars re- 

 specting the Countess of Desmond. They show 

 her picture at Knowle House, Kent, or Penshurst 

 (I forget wiiich) ; and tell the story of the fall 

 from the cherry (or plum) tree, adiling that she 

 cut three sets of teeth ! Wedsecnarf. 



Confession (Vol. ii., p. 296.). — The name asked 

 for by U. J. B. of the Catliolic priest, who, sooner 

 than break the seal of confession, suffered death, 

 is .John of Nepomiic, Canon of Prague. My order 

 of tlie Em[)eror Wenceslas, he was thrown off a 

 bridge into tlie Muldaw, because he would not 

 tell that prolligate ])rince the confession of his 

 religious empress. Tiiis holy man is honoured as 

 St. John Nepomucen, on the 16th of May, in the 

 kalundar of S;dnts. D. Rock.. 



[U. J. I}., if desirous of further p irticulars respecting 

 St. Jolin Ni'poinuc, may consult .Mrs. Jameson's inter- 

 esting Liycnda uf llic Monastic Orders, pp. 214. 217. 



— Ed.] 



Cavell, meaning of (Yo\.\., p. 473.). — I concur 

 entirely with the etymology of tlie word cavell 

 given at J). 47.'J. A lake liaving been drained in 

 my country, tlie land is slill divided into Kaoe- 

 liiigen ; as lots of land were f(jrmerly measured by 



strings of cord, havel, kabcl, cable. Vide Tuinman, 

 Trakkel, d. n. t. p. 165. Kavelloten is to receive 

 a cavell by lot. cf Idem, Verrolg, p. 97. 



Janus Docsa. 



Lord KingshorougK s Antiquities of Mexico. — 

 Has Lord Kingsborough's splendid work on Mexi- 

 can hieroglyphics ever been completed or not ? 



J. A. Glles. 



[This magnificent work has been recently completed 

 by the publication of the eighth volume, which may, 

 we believe, be procured from Mr. Henry Bohn. — Ed.] 



Aerostation (Vol. ii., p. 199.). — The article 

 Balloon, in the Penny Cyclopadia, would give 

 C. B. M. a good many references. The early 

 works there mentioned are those of Faujas de St. 

 Fond, Bourgeois, and Cavallo ; to which I add the 

 following : Thomas Baldwin, Airopaidia, containing 

 the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion from Chester, 

 Sept. 8.1785. Ciiester, 1786, 8vo. (pp.360.). 



Vincent Lunardi publisiied the account of his 

 voyage (the first made in England) in a series of 

 letters to a friend. The title is torn out in my 

 copy. The first page begins, " An Account of the 

 First Aerial Voyage in England. Letter L 

 London, July 15. 1784." (Svo. pp. 66-|-ii., with a 

 plate.) It ends with a poetical epistle to Lunardi 

 by "a gentleman well known in the literary world" 

 (query, the same who is thus cited in our day ?) 

 li'ora which the following extracts are taken as a 

 specimen of the original balloon jokes : — 



" The multitude scarcely believed that a man. 

 With his senses about him could form such a plan, 

 And thought that as Bedlam was so very nigh. 

 You had better been there than turned loose in the 



sky. 



" In their own way of thinking, all felt and all reasoned, 

 Greedy aldermen judged that your flight was ill- 

 seasoned. 

 That you'd better have taken a good dinner first. 

 Nor have pinched your poor stomach by hunger or 

 thirst. 



" In perfect indifference the beau yawned a blessing. 

 And feared before night that your hair would want 



dressing ; 

 But the ladies, all zeal, sent their wishes in air, 

 Eor a man of such spirit is ever their care. 



" Attornies were puzzled how now they could sue you. 

 Underwriters, what premium they'd now take to do 



you ; 

 While the sallow-faced Jew, of his monies so fond, 

 Thanked Moses he never had taken your bond." 



Mr. Baldwin ascended in Lunardi's balloon, the 

 latter being present at the start, though not taking 

 part in the voyage. M. 



Concolinel (Vol. ii., p. 217.). — I have been 

 many years engaged in researches connected with 



