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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 64. 



meaning, can at present be little better than an 

 ingenious speculation." 



'J'here is a passage in Lucian De Dea Sy7-ia, 

 §. 13., whicli may serve to elucidate tliis feature 

 in the Nineveh marbles. He is referring to the 

 temple of Hierapolis and a ceremony which Deu- 

 calion was said to have introduced, as a memorial 

 of the great flood and the escaping of the waters : 



" Ais (icatnov ereos ex &a\acr<r7js vSap es tov vrjof 

 airiKvefTaf <p€povcn 5e ovK ipees jxovvov aWa iraaa 2vpiri 

 Kai ApaSirj. Kai irepridev tov f.v^pr]T(w, iroKKoi apdpunroi 

 fs da\a(T<7av epxavrai, koi irafTts vSuiii (p(povoai, to, 

 irpoiTO fi€y (V TO) CTja; iKxpovai," &c. 



" Twice every year water is brought from the 

 sea to the temple. Not only the priests, but " all 

 Syria and Arabia, " and many from the country 

 beyon<l the Euphrates come to the sea, and all 

 bring away water, which they first ]iour out in the 

 temple," and then into a chasm wliich Lucian had 

 previously expl.ained had suddenly opened and 

 swallowed uptiie flood of waters which liad threat- 

 ened to destroy the world. Tyndale, in his re- 

 cent book on Sardinia, refers to tliis passage in 

 support of a similar utensil appeiU'ing in the Sarde 

 paganism. 



It may be interesting to refer to another pas- 

 sage in the Dea Syria, in which Lucian is de- 

 scribing the splendour of the temple of Hierapolis ; 

 he says that the deities themselves are really 

 present : — 



" Koi 0€O( Se Kapra avroiai eficpaveis' iSpwa yap St] 

 uv irapa a<piat to ^oaya," 



When the very images sweat, and he adds, are 

 moved and lUtt-r oracles. It is probable Milton 

 had this in recollection when, in his noble Nativity 

 Ode, he sings of the approach of the true Deity, at 

 whose coming 



" . . . . the cliil! marble seems to sweat, 

 While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.'i 



1. 1. M. 



Gaudentio di Lucca. — Sir James IMackintosh, 

 in his Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical 

 Philosophy, adverts to the belief that Bishop 

 Berkeley was the author of Gaudentio di Lucca, 

 but without adopting it. 



" A roma!'.ce," he says, " of which a journey to an 

 Utopia, in the centre of Africa, forms the chief part, 

 called Tlie Adventures of Signor Gnudentio di Lucca, has 

 been commonly a'icribed to him ; prol)ably on no other 

 ground than its union of plea-slng invention with bene- 

 volence and elegance." — Jforks,\o\. i. p. 132. ed. I8-16. 



Sir J. Mackintosh, like most other modern 

 writers who mention the book, seems not to have 

 been aware of the decisive denial of this report, 

 by Bishop Berkeley's son, insertetl in tlie third 

 volume of Kippis's Biographia Britannica. L. 



George Wither, the Poet, a Piinter (Vol. ii., 

 p. 390.). — In addition to Dr. RiMBAtiLx's extract 

 from Withers BritahCs liememhrancer, showing 

 that he printed (or rather composed) every sheet 

 thereof with his own hand, I tind, in a note to Mr. 

 R. A. Willmott's volume of the Liia^s of the En- 

 glish Sacred Poets, m that interesting one of George 

 W ither, the following corroboration of this singular 

 labour of his : the poem, independent of the ad- 

 dress to the King and the pra?monition, consisting 

 of between nine and ten thousand lines, many of 

 which, I doubt not, were the production of his 

 brain while he stood at the printing-ease. A MS. 

 note of JMr. Park's, in one of the many volumes 

 of Wither which I possess, confirms me in this 

 opinion. 



" Ben Jonson, in Tf'nie Vindicated, has satirized the 

 custom, then very prevalent among the pamphleteers 

 of the day, of providnig themselves with a portable 

 press, whicl) they moved from ime hiding-place to 

 another with great facility. He insinuates that Chro- 

 nomastix, under whom he intended to represent 

 Witlier, employed one of these presses. Thus, upon 

 the entrance of the Mutes, — 

 " Fame. What are this pair? 

 Eyes. The ragged rascals? 

 Fame. Yes. 



Eyes. These rogues ; you'd think them rogues. 

 But they are friends; 

 One is his printer in disguise, and keeps 

 His press in a hollow tree." 



From this extract it should seem that Wither 

 not only composed the poem at case (the printer's 

 phrase), but worked it off at press with his own 

 hands. J. M. G. 



Worcester. 



" Preached as a dying Man to dying Men " (Vol. i., 

 p. 415.; Vol. ii., p. 28.). — Some time ago there 

 appeared in this series (Vol. i., p. 415.) a question 

 respecting a pulpit-phrase which has occasionally 

 been used by preachers, delivering their messages 

 as " dying men to dying men." This was rightly 

 traced (V^ol. ii., p. 28.) to a couplet of the cele- 

 brated Kichanl Baxter, who, in one of his latest 

 works, speaking of his ministerial exercises, says, — 



" I preach'd as never sure to preach again. 

 And as a dying man to dying men." 



The passage occurs in one of his " Poetical Frag- 

 ments," entitled " Love breathing Thanks and 

 Praise." 



Tliis small volume of devotional verse is further 

 entitled. Heart Imployment ivith God and Itself; 

 the concordant Discord of a Brohen-healed Heart; 

 Sorrowing, Bejoiciiig, Fearirig, Hoping, Dying, 

 Living : puhlishedfor the Use of the Abided. The 

 Introduction is dated " London : at the Door of 

 Eternity, Aug. 7. 1681." 



He yet survived ten years, in the course of 

 which he was twice imprisoned and fined under 



