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Notes : — Page 
Passage in Hudibras, by E. F. Rimbault - - 177 
Field of the Brothers’ Footsteps - - 178 
Notes om Books and Authors, by Bolton Corney - 178 
Receipts of the Beggar’s Opera = - 178 
Notes on Cunningham’ 's London, by E. = Rimbault - 180 
Sewerage in Etruria - - - 180 
Andrew Frusius = - - - - - 180 
Opinions respecting Burnet - - - - I8l 
Queries : — 
St. Thomas of Laneaster, by R. Monckton Milnes - 18! 
Shield of the Black Prinee, &e., by J. R. —— = 183 
Fraternitye of Vagabondes, &c. - - = 183 
The name of Shylock, by M. A. Lower - - - 184 
Transposition of Letters, Py B. Williams ~ - 184 
Pictures in Churehes - - - 184 
Flaying in Punishment of Saerilege - 185 
Minor Queries : — Pokership or Parkership — Boduc or 
Boduoe — Origin of Snob — Mertens the Printer — 
Queen’s Messengers— Bishop of Ross’ Epitaph. &c.,— 
Origin of Cannibal — Sir W. Rider — Origin of word 
Poghele, &c. - - - - - - 185 
Mrsce_tanies —including ANSWERS To MINOR QUERIES : — 
Darkness at the Crucifixion — High Doctrine — Wife of 
King Robert Bruce — The Talisman of Charlemagne 
— Sayers the Caricaturist—May~Day—Dr. Dee's Peti« 
tion — Limes quoted by Goethe — Queen Mary’s Ex- 
pectations—Ken’s Hymns—Etymology of Daysman,&c. 186 
- MISCELLANEOUS : — 
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 189 
Books and Odd Volumes wanted -. - - - 190 
Notices to Correspondents - - - « - 190 
_ Advertisements - - - - - - 191 
ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS, 
The often-quoted lines — 
“ For he that fights and runs, away 
May live to fight another day,” 
_generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras, are 
to be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, at 
p- 602. of his Hundbook for London), in the Mu- 
sarum Delicieg, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of 
“witty trifles,” by Sir John Mennis and Dr, James 
Smith. 
The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras 
(book iii. canto iii. verse 243.), is as follows : — 
“ For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he ean never do that’s slain.” 
-But there is a much earlier authority for these 
lines than the Musarum Delicie; a fact which I 
learn from a volume now open before me, the great 
rarity of which will excuse my tr anscribing the 
title-page in full : — 
Ti Apophthegmes, that is to saie, prompte, quicke, 
_wittie, and sentencious saiynges, of certain Emperours, 
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Kynges, Capitaines, Philosophiers, and Oratours, as 
well Grekes as Romaines, bothe veraye pleasaunt and 
| profitable to reade, partely for all maner of persones, 
and especially Gentlemen. First gathered and com- 
piled in Latine by the right famous clerke, Maister 
Erasmus, of Roteradame. And now translated into 
Englyshe by Nicolas Udall. Eaeusam typis Ricardi 
Grafton, 1542. 8vo.” 
A second edition was printed by John King-~ 
ston, in 1564, with no other variation, I believe, 
than in the orthography. Haslewood, in a note 
on the fly-leaf of my copy, says :— 
“ Notwithstanding the fame of Erasmus, and the 
reputation of his translator, this volume has not ob- 
tained that notice which, either from its date or value, 
might be justly expected. Were its claim only founded 
on the colloquial notes of Udall, it is entitled to con- 
sideration, as therein may be traced several of the fa- 
miliar phrases and commvon-place idioms, which have 
occasioned many eonjeetural speculations among the 
annotators upon our early drama.” 
The work consists of only two books of the 
original, comprising the apophthegms of Soerates, 
Ar istippus, Diogenes, Philippus, Alexander, An- 
tigonus, Augustus Cesar, Julius Cesar, Pompey, 
Phocian, Cie ‘ero, and Demosthenes. 
On folio 239. occurs the following apophthegm, 
which is the one relating to the subject before 
Ue 
“ Fhat same man, that renneth awaie, 
Maie again fight, an other daie. 
“q Judgeyng that it is more for the benefite of 
one’s countree to renne awaie in battaile, then to lese 
his life. For a ded man can fight no more; but who 
hath saved hymself alive, by rennyng awaie, may, in 
many battailles mo, doe good service to his countree. 
“§ At lest wise, if it be a poinct of good service, to 
renne awaie at all times, when the countree hath most 
neede of his helpe to sticke to it.” 
Thus we are enabled to throw back more than 
a century these famous Hudibrastic lines, whieh 
have occasioned so many inquiries for their origin. 
I take this opportunity of noticing a mistake 
which has frequently been made concerning the 
French translation of Butler’s Hudibras. Tytler, 
in his Essay on Translation; Nichols, in his Bio- 
graphical Anecdotes of Hogarth ; and Ray, in his 
