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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 76. 



"iaws tun non tua Fram" §-c. (Vol. i., p. 416. )• 

 Verse Lyon. — Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie, 

 published in 1.589, contains an earlier allusion to 

 this epigram tlian any of those mentioned by your 

 correspondents at "Vol. ii., ]). 77., and assigns to 

 Pope Alexander [Qy. VI.] the doubtful honour of 

 being the subject of it. The passage is at p. 11., 

 and is as follows : — 



" Another of their pretie itnientions was to make a 

 verse of such wordes as by tlieir nature and manner of 

 construction and situation might be turned backward 

 word by word, and make another perfit verse, but of 

 quite contrary scnce, as tlie gibing monke that wrote 

 of Pope Alexander these two verses : 



' Laus tua non tua fraits, virtus non copia reruni, 

 Scandere te faciunt lioc decus eximium : ' 

 which if ye will turne backward, they make two other 

 good verses, but. of a contrary sence, thus : 



' Eximium decus hoc faciunt te scandere, rerum 

 Copia, non virtus, fraus tua, non tua laus; ' 

 and they call it Verse Lyon." 



Query, Why? and where else is Verse Lyon 

 alluded to ? 



J. F. M. 



[Is not " Verse Lyon " Puttenham's translation of 

 Leonine Verse ?] 



Passage from Cymheline (Vol. ii., p. 135.). — 



" Some jay of Italy, 



Whose mother was her painting., hath betrayed him." 



Act III. Sc. 4. 



The word pninting (your correspondent's stnra- 

 bllug-block) evidently means resemblance — re- 

 semblance of character, and as such exactly cor- 

 responds to the German word Ehenhild, an image 

 or painting, which is used in tiie same sense; e.g. 

 Sie hat das Ehenbild Hires Mutters, " Siie is the 

 very image of Ler mother." Ckanmoke. 



Rue de Cerf, 6. Brussels. 



Engraved Warming-pans (Vol. iii., pp. 84. 115.). 

 — As an earlier instance of this custom, it m.iy be 

 worth notice that I have one which was pur- 

 chased sonic years ago at the village of Whatcote 

 in "Warwickshire; it is engraved with a dragon, and 

 the date 1601. I think it probable that it ori- 

 ginally came from Compton Wyniatt, liie ancient 

 seat of the Earls [now Marquis] of Northampton ; 

 the supporters of the Compton family being dragons, 

 and Whatcote being the next village to Compton 

 Wyniatt. Spes. 



Syniholi.im of the Fir-cone (Vol. i., p. 247.). — 

 The Fir-cone on the 'J'liyraus — a practice very 

 general throughout Greece, but which is very 

 prevalent at Athens, may perhaps, in some degree, 

 account for the connexion of the Fir-cone (sur- 

 mounting the Thyrsus) with the worship of Bac- 

 chus. Incisions are made in the fir-frees for tlie 

 purpose of obtaining the turpentine, wliich dis- 

 tils copiously from the wound. This juice is 



mixed with the new wine in large quantities ; the 

 Greeks supposing that it would be impossible to 

 keep it any length of time without this mixture. 

 The wine has in consequence a very peculiar tasle, 

 but is by no means unpleasant after a little use. 

 This, as we learn from Plutarch, was an ancient 

 custom (^Sympos. Quest, iii. and iv. p. 528. edn. 

 Wytten); the Athenians, therefore, might naturally 

 have placed the Fir-cone in the hands of Bacchus. 

 ('■ Lord Aberdeen's Journals," Appendix to Wal- 

 pole's Memoirs of I'urhey, Sfc, vol. i. p. 605.) 



F. B. Rklton. 



Dr. Bohert Thomlinson (Vol. i., p. 350.). — 

 The gentleman who is very anxious for the com- 

 munication of any matter illustrative of the life of 

 the doctor, his family, &c., will find considerable 

 useful and interestinfj information relating to him, 

 his widow, and brother, by referring to the under- 

 mentioned Reports from the Comnus.$ioners for 

 inquiring concerning Charities : 



5th lleport, pages 67. 69. ; 23rd Report, pages 

 56. 450. ; 31st Report, pages 754. 757. 



Tiiere is a slight allusion to the doctor in the 

 Returns of Corporate Offices and Charitable Funds, 

 §-c., p. 375. II. Edwards. 



Touching for the Evil (Vol. iii., p. 93.). — St. 

 Thomas Aquinas refers the practice of touching 

 for the evil by French kings to Clovis. See a 

 work published in 1633, by Simon Favoul, entitled, 

 Du Pouvoir que les Rois de France ont de guerir les 

 Ecrouelles ; also a work by Du Laurens, entitled, 

 De Mirabili Strumas sanandi vi, 7'rgibiLS Galliarum 

 Christianis divinitus concessa, libri duo, Paris, 

 1609, in 8vo. 



Edward the Confessor is said to have been the 

 first English king who touched for the evil. Con- 

 sequently the English can hardly be said to have 

 owed their supposed power to their pretensions to 

 the crown of France. E. J. R. 



[We are indebted to Mr. J. B. DiTCHFiEi-nand Mr. 

 Joseph Siji-lev for very elaborate notices of the custom 

 of the p'rench kings touching for the evil ; but the prin- 

 cipal facts contained in those communications have 

 already been laid before our readers by Ma. CoorEii 

 (Vide No. 69. p. 148. et seq.)] 



Drax Free School (Vol. ii., p. 199.). — It appears 

 by the will of Charles Read, dated July 30, 1669, 

 that that gentleman had at his own charge erected 

 a school-house at Drax, which he designed for a 

 free school, and for the habitation of a schoolmaster, 

 to instruct the children of the inh.abitants of that 

 parish gratis, to read, write, and cast accounts, 

 and in Latin, Greelc, and Hebrew, as occasion 

 should require ; and that he had erected six 

 almshouses at Drax, for six aged and impotent 

 people at that parish, and the lodgment of si.x 

 poor boys ; and for the support and maintenance 

 of the said school, master, alms people, and poor 

 boys, he directed his executors to lay out 2000/. in 



