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362 NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 23. 
many a one, through extremity of suffering, while 
others perished under the lashes of the overseers.” 
(Bibl. Hist. 1. v. c. 38.) 
-R. T. Hampson, 
POPE VINDICATED. 
“P.C.S. 8S.” is too great an admirer of Pope 
not to seek to vindicate him from one, at least, of 
the blunders attributed to him by Mr. D. Stevens, 
at p. 331. of the ““NorEs anp QuERIEs.” 
“ Singed are his brows, the scorching lids grow black.” 
Now, if Mr. S. will refer to Homer, he will find 
that the original fully justifies the use of “ brows” 
and “lids” in the plural. It runs thus (Od. ix. 
v. 389.) :— 
“Tldyra d& of BAEPap’ aud) Kai dppbas cboev GiTMH.” 
“P.C. S. 8.” wishes that he could equally re- 
move from Pope the charge of inaccuracy respect- 
ing the three cannibal meals of Polyphemus. He 
fears that nothing can be alleged to impugn Mr. 
Stevens's perfectly just criticism. 
While on the subject of Pope, “P. C. S. 8.” 
would wish to advert to a communication (No. 16. 
p- 246.) in which it is insinuated that Pope was 
probably indebted to Petronius Arbiter for the 
well-known passage — 
“ Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; 
The rest is all but leather and prunella.” 
With all respect for the ingenious author of 
that communication, “P. C. S. 8S.” confesses that 
he is unable to discover such a similitude of ex- 
pression as might warrant the notion that Pope 
had been a borrower from Petronius. He cannot 
suppose that Mr. F. could have been led away by 
any supposed analogy between corium and cori- 
cillum. The latter, Mr. F. must know, is nothing 
more than a diminutive of a diminutive (coricillum, 
not corcillum, from corculum); and the word is 
coined by Petronius to ridicule one of the affecta- 
tions of Trimalchio (Nero), who was wont to in- 
dulge, to an absurd extent, in the use of such 
diminutives (vide Burmann, in loco). “ P.C.S. 8.” 
will now subjoin such translations of the passage 
in question as he has hitherto had opportunities 
of referring to, The first is from The Works of 
Petronius Arbiter, translated by several hands, 
Lond. 8vo. 4th edit. 1714. At the beginning of 
the translation itself there is this heading — “Made 
English by Mr. Wilson, of the Middle Temple, 
and several others.” The passage in question is 
thus rendered : — 
“Come, my friends, let us see how merry you can 
be! for, in my time, I have been no better than your- 
selves; but, by my own industry, I am what I am. 
> Tis the heart makes the man; all the rest is but stuff!” 
In another translation, which, with Grub- 
Street audacity, the publisher, in his title-passage, 
presumes to attribute to Addison! and which ap- 
peared in 1736 (Lond. 8vo.), the passage is as 
follows : — 
“J was once as you are; but now, thanks to my in- 
dustry, [am what Iam. Jt ts the heart that makes the 
man ; all the rest is but stuff!” 
Be the translator who he may, this version, so 
impudently ascribed to the moral Addison, is 
written with much spirit and power, and with a 
remarkable comprehension of the author’s mean- 
ing. Some of the poetical fragments at the end 
are, indeed, singularly well done. 
Of the two French versions which “ P. C.S. 8.” 
has examined, the one by Levaur (Paris, 8vo. 
1726) thus translates the passage : — 
“ Je vous prie, mes amis . . . C'est le ceur qui fait 
les hommes ; je compte le reste pour un fétu.” 
Tn that of Boispreaux (Lond. 1742), it is simply 
rendered — 
“Mon sgavoir faire m’a tiré du pair. C'est le ceur 
qui fait Thomme . . .” 
No attempt is made to translate the quisquilia. 
i ch Oho StS 
“THE SUPPER OF THE LORDE.” 
T shall be glad to find that your correspondent 
“C,H.” (No. 21. p. 333.) receives a satisfactory 
answer to his inquiry, as such a reply would also 
satisfy my earlier query, No. 7. p. 109. I per- 
ceive, however, from his letter, that I can give 
him some information on other points noticed in 
it, though the absence of papers now passing 
through the press with the Parker Society’s re- 
print of a third volume of Tyndale, will prevent 
my replying with such precision as I could wish. 
That ancient tract on “The Supper of the Lorde, 
after the true meanyng of the sixte of John,” &c., 
of which “C. H.” says he possesses a copy, was 
reprinted at different intervals with the same date, 
viz., Mcccccxxx1u, Apryll v., on its title-page. 
The original edition has a final colophon, stating 
that it was “imprinted at Nornberg, by Nielas 
Twonson,” and is so rare, that I have not been 
able to discover the existence of any copy, but 
one recently deposited in the Bodleian. That 
“C. H.’s” copy isnot a specimen of that first edi- 
tion, is apparent from two circumstances. ‘The 
first is, that he has given you a quotation from his 
copy as follows: — “And as for M. More, whom 
the verity most offendeth, and doth but mocke it,” 
whereas the original edition has, “And as for 
M. Mocke,” &c., and Sir Thomas More notices this 
mockage of his name in his reply. The next is, 
that his copy contains “ Crowley’s Epistle to the 
Reader,” which does not appear in any edition of 
an earlier date than 1551. When first attached 
to this treatise, the epistle was anonymous, as may 
be seen in the Lambeth copy ; but Crowley even- 
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