Fer. 2. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
211 
‘Avnp 6 pevyav kal méAw pmaxjoeTat, 
of which the lines are almost a literal translation.” 
While on the subject of quotations, let me ask 
whether any of your correspondents can tell me 
where the passage, “‘ Providence tempers the wind 
to the shorn lamb,” is to be found ? 
Among a few of the many floating quotable 
passages universally known, without any trace of 
the authors, among general readers and writers, 
are the following : — 
“When wild in woods the noble savage ran.” 
Dryven’s Conquest of Grenada. 
“ And whistled as he went for want of thought.” 
Dayven’s Cymon and Iphigenia. 
“ Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.” 
Dryven’s Absalom and Achitophel, st. i. 1. 163. 
“ The tenth transmitter of a foolish face.”—SavaceE. 
““ When Greek meets Greek thei comes the tug of war.” 
Nar. Ler. 
The real line in Lee is — 
“ When Greeks join Greeks then was the tug of war.” 
Ler’s Alexunder the Great. 
J. W. G. Gutcu. 
I wish to ask a few questions, referring to these 
lines, if you do not think the subject already ex- 
hausted by Mr. Rimbault’s curious and interesting 
communication. 
1. Does not the entire quotation run somewhat 
thus : — 
“ For he that fights and runs away 
May live to fight another day ; 
But he that is in battel slain 
Can never hope to fight again” ? 
2. Are the two last lines in the Musarum De- 
licie ? 
3. May not the idea suggesting the two first 
lines be traced to some passage in one of the 
orations of Demosthenes, and, east him, to the 
“aynp 6 pevyav Kal médw paxhoera” of some co- 
temporary, if not still older writer ? 
4. Whose Apothegms [qy., those of Demo- 
sthenes?] are under consideration on folio 239., 
from which Mr. Rimbault quotes ? 
Queries 1. 2. 3. have long stood in A/S. in my 
note-book, and I should much like to see them in 
print, while the subject to which they refer is still 
fresh in the minds of your readers. | Mexanion. 
The lines — 
“ For he that fights and runs away 
May live to fight another day,” 
resemble the following quatrain in the Satyre 
_ Menippée, being one of several verses appended to 
the tapestry on which was wrought the battle of 
Senlis : — 
“ Souvent celuy qui demeure. 
Est cause de son meschef; 
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure 
Peut combattre de rechef.” 
A. J. Hi. 
NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO, 5. 
In the library of St. John’s College are some 
hundreds of volumes bequeathed to it by Thomas 
Baker; most of these have little notices on the 
fly-leaves, some thirty or forty of which seem 
worth printing. One (Strype’s Life of Parker) has 
marginal notes throughout the book, the value of 
which will be duly appreciated by those who have 
read Baker’s notes on Burnet’s Reformation, (See 
the British Magazine for last year.) 
Hereafter, if you do not object, I hope to send 
larger extracts from Baker’s MSS. ; at present I 
confine myself to a single specimen, taken trom 
the fly-leaf of a copy of Noy’s Compleat Lawyer, 
London, 1665. (St. John’s Library, Class mark, 
I. 10. 49.) 
“Gul. Noye de S. Buriens. Com. Cornub. Armig. 
unus Magistrorum de Banco fieri fecit, 1626. On a 
window in Lincoln Inn’s Chapell. See Stow’s Survey, 
&e. vol. ii. lib. ii. p. 73. 
“ This book has a former edition, London, 1661; 
but not so fair a print, and without the Author’s Life. 
“ See Fuller’s Worthies in Cornwall, p. 200. 
“See Mr. Garrard’s Letter to Lord Strafford, dated 
Jan. 3. 1634, Mr. Noy continues ill, & is retired to his 
house at Brentford; I saw him, much fallen away in his 
Face § Body, but as yellow as Gold —with the Jaundice 
— his bloody waters continue, wch drain his Body. 
“See Lloyd’s State Worthies, p. 892, 893, &e. 
“ Aug. 9. [1634] W™ Noy Esq the King’s At- 
torney died at Brainford. — M* Rie, Smith’s Obituary. 
“See W™ Noy’s Will (very remarkable) MS. vol. 
Xxx. p. 309. 
“16. Dee. 1631. Cone Ornatissimo viro Gulielmo 
Noye, ut sit de Consilio Universitatis —et annuatim 
40% recipiat, &c. — Regr. Acad. Cant. 
“ See Howell’s Letters, sect. 6. pp. 30, 31. 
“Rex 27. Octobr. 1632 constituit Willielmum 
Noye Arm. Attornatum suum Generalem, durante 
beneplacito. — Rymer, tom, 19. p. 347. 
“See his (W. N.) will, very pious except the last 
clause, w? is next to impious. vol. xxxvi. MS. p. 379. 
“Young Noy, the dissipanding Noy, is kill’d in 
France in a Duell, by a Brother of St John Biron; so 
now the younger Brother is Heir and Ward to the 
King. — A Letter to Lord Deputy Wentworth, vol. ii. 
p.2. dat. Apr. 5. 1636.” 
It may be as well to add, that the references to 
vols. xxx. and xxxvi. of MS. are to two different 
copies of the will in two volumes of Baker’s MSS., 
in the University library. The word “ dissipand- 
ing,” in the last quotation, doubtless is an allusion 
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