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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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your tribes ascend in their greatest solemnities ; others 

 appropriated to several Congregations, this the stan- 

 dart in the high rode of gaze; others are more retired, 

 this the mirrour and marke of strangers, other have 

 but their side lookes : finally, this unto you, as S. Peters 

 in the Vatican at Home, 5'. Marks at Venice, and that 

 of Diana at Ephesus, and this at Jerusalem of the 

 Jen-es; or if there be any other of glory and fame in 

 the Christian world, which they most joy in." 



RicuAED JouN King. 



:Pltii0r ^atc^. 



Meaning of Luncheon. — Our familiar name of 

 luncheon is derived from the daily meal of the 

 Spaniards at eleven o'clock, termed once or Tonce 

 (pronounced I'onchey). — From Ford's Gatherings 

 in Spain. A. L. 



Charade upon Nothing translated. — In your 

 No. for July a correspondent asks who was the 

 author of the very quaint charade upon 

 " Nothing : " 



" Me, the contented man desires, 

 The poor man has, the rich requires, 

 The miser gives, the spendthrift saves, 

 And all must carry to their graves." 



Possibly he may not object to read, without 

 troubling himself as to the authorship of, the sub- 

 joined translation : 



" Me, qui sorte sua contontus vixeilt, optat, 

 Kt quum pauper habet, dives habere velit ; 

 Spargit avarus opum, servat sibi prodigus a;ris, 

 Secum post fati funera quisque feret." 



Effigies. 



Giving the Lie. — The great affront of giving the 

 lie arose from the phrase " Thou liest," in the 

 oath taken by the defendant in judicial combats 

 before engaging, when charged with any crime by 

 the plaintiif ; and Francis I. of France, to make 

 current his giving the lie to the Emperor Charles V., 

 first stamped it with infamy by saying, in a solemn 

 assembly, that " he was no honest man that would 

 bear the lie." Blowen. 



Anachronisms of Painters. — An amusing list is 

 given in D' Israeli's Curiosities of Literature (edit. 

 1839, p. 131.). The following are additional : 



At Hagley Park, Worcestershire, the seat of 

 Lord Lyttleton, is a painting by Varotari, a pupil 

 of Paul Veronese, of Christ and the Woman taken 

 in Adultery. One of the Jewish elders present 

 wears spectacles. 



At Kcdleston, Derbyshire, the seat of Lord 

 Scarsdale, is a painting by Rembrandt, Daniel 

 interpreting Belsliazzar's Dream. L>aniel's head 

 is covered with a peruke of considerable magni- 

 tude. J. E. 



Spenser's Faerie Queene. — The following Ijrief 

 notes may perhaps prove interesting : — 



No. 8o! 



L Spenser gives us a hint of the annoyances to 

 which Shakspeare and Burbage may have been 

 subject : — 



" All suddenly they heard a troublous noise, 



That seemed some perilous tumult to design, 

 Confused with women's cries and shouts of boys, 

 Such as the troubled theatres oft-times annoys." 



B. IV. iii. 37. 



2. Spenser's solitary pun occurs in book iv. 

 canto viii. verse 31. : 



" But when the world wox old, it wox war-old. 

 Whereof it hight." 



3. Cleanliness does not appear to have been a 

 virtue much in vogue in the "glorious days of 

 good Queen Bess." Spenser (book iv. canto xi. 

 verse 47.) speaks of 



" Her silver feet, fair washed against this day," 

 i. e. for a special day of rejoicing. 



4. An instance of the compound epithets so 

 much used by Chapman in his translation of 

 Homer, is found in Spenser's description of the 

 sea-nymphs, book iv. canto xi. verse 50. : 



" Eione well-in-age, 

 And seeming-still to-smile Glauconome." 



J. H. C. 

 Adelaide, South Australia. 



Prayer of Mary Queen of Scots. — The incorrect 

 arrangement, in Seward's yinectZofes, of the follow- 

 ing beautiful lines, said to be composed by Mary 

 Queen of Scots, and repeated immediately before 

 her execution, and a dilfuse paraphrase subjoined, 

 in which all their tenderness is lost bydeslroying 

 their brevity and simplicity, may justify another 

 arrangement, and an attempt to preserve their 

 simple and tender character in fewer words and a 

 diflerent measure : — 



O Lord, my God, 



I have trusted in Thee : 

 My Jesu beloved, 

 Me presently free : 

 In cruel chains. 



O Domine Deus, 

 Speravl in Te, 

 O mi care Jesu, 

 Nunc libera me : 

 In dura catena. 



Desidcro Te. 

 Languendo, gemcndo, 

 Et genu flectendo, 

 Adoro, iiiiploro, 



Ut liberes me. 



In penal pains, 

 I long for Tliee, 

 I moan, I groan, 

 I bend my knee ; 

 I adore, I implore. 

 Me presently free." 



Can any of your correspondents inform me where 

 these lines first appear? on what authority they 

 are ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots ? and also 

 who mentions their having been repeated imme- 

 diately before her execution ? 



Alexander Pytts Falconer. 



Bceton-Christchurch, Hants. 



A small Listance of Warren Hastings Magnani- 

 mity.— During the latter years of his life, A\'arren 

 Hastings was in the habit of visiting General 

 D'Oyley in the New Forest ; and thus he became 



