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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 22. 
Respecting the lines referred to in the Chorus» 
Dr. Donaldson makes the following remarks, in 
his critical edition of the Antigone, published in 
1848 : — 
“The parallel passages for this adage are fully given 
by Ruhnken on Velleius Paterculus, ii. 57. (265, 
266.), and by Wyttenbach on Plutarch, De Audiendis 
Poetis, p. 17. B. (pp. 190, 191.)” 
“ Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, 
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak,” 
Congreve’s Mourning Bride, acti, se. i. 1.1. 
« L’appetit vient en mangeant.” 
Rabelais, Gargantua ; Livy. i. chap. 5. (vol. i. p. 136, 
ed. Variorum. Paris, 1823. 8vo.) 
This proverb had been previously used by 
Amyot, and probably also by Jerome le (or de) 
Hangest, who was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and 
adversary of Luther, and who died in 1538. — 
Ibid. p. 136 (note 49.). 
I know not how old may be “to put the cart 
before the horse.” Rabelais (i. 227.) has — 
“ Tl mettoyt la charrette devant les beufz.” 
“If the sky falls, we shall catch larks,” 
Rabelais (i. 229, 230.) : — 
“« Si les nues tomboyent, esperoyt prendre alouettes.” 
«“ Good nature and good sense must ever join ; 
To err is human, to forgive divine.” 
Pope’s Essay on Criticism, pp. 524, 525. 
“ Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead; 
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” 
Ib. pp. 624, 625, 
The Emperor Alexander of Russia is said to 
have declared himself ‘un accident heureux.” 
The expression occurs in Mad. de Staél’s Alle- 
magne, § xvi. : — 
«Mais quand dans un état social le bonheur Iui- 
méme n’est, pour ainsi dire, qu'un accident heureux.. . 
le patriotisme a peu de persévérance.” 
Gibbon, Deel. and Fall (Lond. 1888. 8vo.), i. 
134. :— 
“ His (T. Antoninus Pius’) reign is marked by the 
rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for his- 
tory; which is indeed little more than the register of 
the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” 
Gibbon’s first volume was published in 1776, 
and Voltaire’s Zngenii in 1767. In the latter we 
find — 
* Kn effet, histoire n’est que le tableau des crimes 
et des malheurs.” — (uvres de Voltaire (ed. Beuchot. 
Paris, 1834, 8vo.), tom, xxxiil. p, 497. 
Gibbon, vol. ix. p.94.:— 
“In every deed of mischief, he (Andronicus Com- 
nenus) had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and 
a hand to execute.” 
Cf. Voltaire, “ Siecle de Louis XV.” (Giuvres, 
xxi. p. 67.) :— 
“Tl (le Chevalier de Belle-Isle) était capable de 
tout imaginer, de tout arranger, et de tout faire.” 
* Guerre aux chateaux, paix a la chaumiére,” 
ascribed to Condorcet, in Edin. Rev. April, 1800. 
p. 240. (note *) 
By Thiers (Hist. de la Rév. Frang. Par. 1846. 
8vo. ii. 283.), these words are attributed to Cam- 
bon; while, in Lamartine’s Hist. des Girondins 
(Par 1847. 8vo.), Merlin is represented to have 
exclaimed in the Assembly, “ Déclarez la guerre 
aux rois et la paix aux nations.” 
Macaulay’s Hist. of England (1st ed.), ii. 
476. : — 
“ But the iron stoicism of William never gave way ; 
and he stood among his weeping friends calm and 
austere, as if he had been about to leave them only for 
a short visit to his hunting-grounds at Loo,” 
“,. . .. non alitér tamen 
Dimovit obstantes propinquos, 
Et populum reditus morantem, 
Quam si clientum longa negotia 
Dijudicata lite relinqueret, 
Tendens Venafranos in agros, 
Aut Lacedemonium Tarentum.’’ 
Hor. Od. iii. v. 50—56. 
«“ De meretrice puta quod sit sua filia puta, 
Nam sequitur leviter filia matris iter.” 
These lines are said by Ménage (Menagiana, 
Amstm. 1713. 18mo., iii. 12mo.) to exist in a Com- 
mentary “In composita verborum Joannis de 
Galandia.” F.C. B. 
WILLIAM BASSE AND HIS POEMS. 
Your correspondent, the Rev. T. Corser, in his 
note on William Basse, says, that he has been in- 
formed that there are, in Winchester College 
Library, in a 4to. volume, some poems of that 
writer. I have the pleasure of assuring him that 
his information is correct, and that they are the 
“Three Pastoral Elegies” mentioned by Ritson. 
The title-page runs thus :— 
“Three Pastoral Elegies of Anander, Anetor, and 
Muridella, by William Bas, Printed by V. S. for J.B., 
and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet Street, at the 
sign of the Great Turk’s Head, 1602.” 
Then follows a dedication, ‘‘ To the Honourable 
