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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 24. 
And the note upon it is as follows ;— 
“Dicitur de iis, qui pleno ore vanas suas laudes 
ebuccinant. Eleganter Lacon quidam de _ luscinia 
dixit, — 
Sova Th Tis Zoot Kad oddev GAAO, 
Vox tu quidem es et aliud nihil.” 
This must be the phrase quoted by Burton. 
Hermes. 
Supposed Etymology of Havior (No. 15. p. 230., 
and No. 17. p. 269.).— The following etymology 
of “heaviers” will probably be considered as not 
satisfactory, but this extract will show that the 
term itself is in use amongst the Scotch deer- 
stalkers in the neighbourhood of Loch Lomond. 
* Ox-deer, or ‘heaviers,’ as the foresters call them 
(most likely a corruption from the French ‘hiver’), are 
wilder than either hart or hind. They often take post 
upon a height, that gives a look-out all round, which 
makes them very difficult to stalk. Although not so 
good when December is past, still they are in season 
all the winter; hence their French designation ”"— 
Colquhoun’s Rocks and Rivers, p. 137. (London, 8vo. 
1849.) 
C.L Rh. 
Havior.— Without offering an opinion as to the 
relative probability of the etymology of this word, 
offered by your various correspondents (No. 17. 
p. 269.), I think it right that the use of the word 
in Scotland should not be overlooked. 
In Jamieson’s admirable Dictionary, the follow- 
ing varieties of spelling and meaning (all evidently 
of the same word) occur : — 
“ Aver or Aiver, a horse used for labour ; commonly 
an old horse; as in Burns— 
“ «Yet aft a ragged cowte’s been kenn’d 
To mak a noble azver.’ 
““¢ This man wyl not obey. . . . Nochtheles T sall 
gar hym draw lik an avir in ane cart ’— Bellend. Chron. 
“ Aiver, a he-goat after he has been gelded: till 
then he is denominated a buck. 
“ Haiver, huivrel, haverel, a gelded goat ( Kast Lothian, 
Lanarkshire, Sutherland). 
“ Hebrun, heburn, are also synonymes. 
“ Averie, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c. 
“ ¢ Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their 
Majesties’ house and averie.’— Keith's Hist. 
“ Averia, averit, ‘equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque 
animalia que agriculture inserviunt.’””— Ducange. 
Skene traces this word to the low Latin, averia, 
“ quhilk signifies ane beast.” According to Spel- 
man, the Northumbrians call a horse aver or afer. 
See much more learned disquisition on the origin 
of these evidently congenerous words under the 
term Arage, in Jamieson. EMDEE. 
Mowbray Coheirs (No 14. p.213.).—Your cor- 
respondent “G.” may obtain a clue to his researches 
ou reference to the private act of parliament of 
the 19th Henry VIL, No. 7., intituled, “ An Act 
for Confirmation of a Partition of Lands made be- 
tween William Marquis Barkley and ‘Thomas Earl 
of Surrey.”—Vide Statutes at Large. 
W.H. Lami. 
Spurious Letter of Sir R. Walpole (No.19. p. 304.) 
—“Pp. C. 8. 8.” (No. 20. p. 321.) and “ Lorp 
Braysrooxe” (No. 21. p. 336.) will find their 
opinion of the letter being spurious confirmed by 
the appendix to Lord Hervey’s Memoirs, (vol. ii. 
p- 582.), and the editor’s note, which proves the 
inaccuracy of the circumstances on which the in- 
ventor of the letter founded his fabrication. In 
addition to Lord Braybrooke’s proofs that Sir 
Robert was not disabled by the stone, for some 
days previous to the 24th, from waiting on the 
king, let me add also, from Horace Walpole’s au- 
thority, two conclusive facts; the first is, that it 
was not till Sunday night, the 31st January (a week 
after the date of the letter) that Sir Robert made 
up his mind to resign ; and, secondly, that he had 
at least two personal interviews with the king on 
that subject. C. 
Line quoted by De Quincey. —“S.P.S.” (No. 22. 
p- 351.) is informed that 
“ With battlements that on their restless fronts 
Bore stars” . 
is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of 
“Cloudland” by Wordsworth, which occurs near 
the end of the second book of the Excursion. The 
opium-eater gives a long extract, as “S. P. 8.” 
probably remembers. A. G. 
Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850. 
Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat. — 
Malone, in a note in Boswell’s Johnson (p. 718., 
Croker’s last edition), says, that a gentleman of 
Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition 
of Euripides (not named) as a translation of an 
iambic. 
“ Ov Odos Séret droAdoa Mpa’ amoppévor.” 
The Latin translation the Cambridge gentle- 
man might have found in Barnes; but where is 
the Greek, so different from that of Barnes, to be 
found? It is much nearer to the Latin. . 
Bernicia.—In answer to the inquiry of “‘GomER” 
(No. 21. p. 335.), “P. C. 8.8.” begs leave to refer 
him to Camden’s Britannia (Philemon Holland’s 
translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, 
at p. 797., the following passage :— 
“ But these ancient names were quite worn out of 
use in the English Saxon War; and all the countries 
lying north or the other side of the arme of the sea 
called Humber, began, by a Saxon name, to be called 
Nop}an-})umbpa-pic, that is, the Kingdome of North- 
umberland; which name, notwithstanding being now 
cleane gone in the rest of the shires, remayneth still, 
