Mar. 22. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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have it thus in tho racy old Saxon Laine Doc- 

 trinal : 



" Men schal leven, unde darumnie sorgen, 

 Alse men Stairven sliolde niorgen, 

 Uiide leren ernst liken, 

 Alse men leven sholde ewigliken." 



WherS the author of the Voyage antour de ma 

 Chatnhre, Jean Xavier Maitro, stumbled' upon it, 

 or whether it was a spontaneous thought, does not 

 appear; but in his pleasing tittle book, Lettres siir 

 la Vieiliesse, we have it thus verbatim : 



" II font vivre-comme si I'on avoit a mourir demain, 

 nrais s'arrairger en meme temps sa vie, autant qiie cet 

 arrangement pent dependre de notre pvevoyance, 

 commc si Ton avoit devant sji quclcjues sieclos, et 

 memo une eternite d'existence." 



Some of your correspondents may possibly be 

 able to indicate other repetitions of this tinily 

 "golden sentence," which cannot be too often 

 repeated, for we all know that 



" A verse may reach hnn who a sermon flies." 



S. W. Singer. 



lUpIiES to iHinor «auEn'c;g. 

 Tennyson s In Memoriam (Vol. ili., p. 142.). — 



" 15efore tlie crimson-circled star 

 Had fallen into her fatlier's grave.'* 



means " before the planet Venus had sunk into 

 the sea." 



In Smith's Dictioiuiry of Greek and Roman 

 Biography and Mythology, under the word Aphro- 

 dite or Venus, we find that — 



" Some traditions stated tliat she had sprung from the 

 foam (cuppoj) of the sea which had gathered around the 

 mutilated parts of Uranus, that had been thrown into 

 the si-a by Kronos. after he had unmanned his father." 

 — Hesiod. Tlieog. 190. 



The allusion in the first stanza of /« Memoriam 

 is, I think, to Shelley. Tiie doctrine referred to 

 is common to him and many other poets ; but he 

 perhaps inculcates it more i'requenlly tlian any 

 citheir. (Sec Queen Mub sub fineui. Revolt of 

 Islam, canto xii. st. 17. Adonais, stanzas 39. 41. 

 et ptwsim.) Besides this, the phr;ise " clear harp" 

 Boems peculiarly applicable to Shelley, who is re- 

 markable for the simplicity of his language. 



X. Zi. 



Tennyson's In Memoriam. — The word star ap- 

 plies in poetry to all the heavenly bodies ; and, 

 therefore, to the crescent moon, which is often near 

 cnougii to the sun to be within, or to be encircled 

 by, the crimson colour of the sky aliout sunset ; 

 nnd the sun may, figuratively, be called father of 

 the moon, because he dispenses to her all the light 

 with which she sliiiics ; and, moreover, because 

 new, or waxing inooiis, must set nearly in the same 

 point of the horizon as the sun ; and because that 



point of the horizon in which a heavenly body 

 sets, may, figuratively, be called its grave ; there- 

 fore, I believe the last two lines of the stanza of 

 the poem numbered Ixxxvii., or 87, in Tennyson's 

 In Memoriam, quoted by W. B. II., to mean 

 simply — 



We returned home between the hour of sunset 

 and the setting of the moon, then not so much an a 

 week old. Hobekx Snow. 



Bishop Hooper s Godly Confession, ^-c. (Vol. iii., 

 p. 169.). — The llev. Cuables Nevinson may be 

 infin-med that there are two copies of the edition 

 of the above work fi)r which he inquires, in the 

 library of Trinity College-, Dublin. Tybo. 



Dublin. 



3Iacheirs MS. Collections for Westmoreland and 

 Cumberland (Vol. iii., p. 118.). — 'In reply to the 

 inquiry of Edward F. Rimbault, that gentleman 

 may learn the extent to which the Machell MS. 

 collections of the Rev. Thotnas Machell, who teas 

 chaplain to King Charles II., have been examined, 

 and published, by referririg to Burn and Nichol- 

 son's Histor!/ of Westmoreland and Cumberland, 

 edit. 1778. A great part of the MS. is taken up 

 with an account of the antiquary's own iamilj', the 

 "Mali Catuli," or ilachell's Lords of Craken- 

 thorpe in Westmoreland. The papers in the li- 

 brary of Carlisle contain only copies and references 

 to the original papers, which are carefully preserved 

 by the present representatives of the family. There 

 are above one thousand deeds, charters, and other 

 documents which I have carefully translated and 

 collated with a view to their being printed pri- 

 vately for the use of the family, and I shall i'eel 

 pleasure in replying to any inquiry on the sub- 

 ject. Address : 



Gr.V. at the Post Office, Barrow upon Ilumber, 

 Lincolnshire. 



Two impressions of the seal of the Abbey of 

 Shapp (anciently IIcpp), said not to be attainable 

 by the editors of the late splendid edition of the 

 Monasticon, are preserved in the Machell MSS. 



Oration against Demosthenes (Vol. iii., p. 141.). — 

 For the information of your correspondent Ken- 

 KETH R. H. ]\Iackenzie, I transcribe the title of the 

 oration against Demosthenes, for which he makes 

 inquiry, which was not "privately ])rinted" as he 

 supposes, but published last year by Mr. J. W. 

 Parker. 



" The Oration of Hyperidcs against Demosthenes, 

 respecting tlie Treasure of Ilarpalus. The Kragnienls 

 of the Greek Text, now first edited from the Fac-simile 

 of the M.S. discovered at Kgyptian Thebes iu 1847; 

 together with other Fragments of tlie same t)ration 

 cited in Ancient Writers. With a Preliminary Dis- 

 sertation and Notes, and a Fae-siniile of a I'ortion of 

 the ftlS. liy CluirchiU Bahington, ;\I..V. London: 

 J. W. I'arker, 1850." 



Tlie discovery of the SIS. was made by Mr. 



