July 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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tributors since Tasked the question above referred 

 to, and as it has as yet received no answer, I hope 

 you will allow me to repeat it, in the hope that 

 some of your new correspondents may be able to 

 tell me what satirical " Imitation of Horace " can 

 Lave been, so early as 1716, attributed to Pope? 



I would also, on the same grounds, beg leave to 

 repeat another question, formerly proposed by 

 P. C. S. S. and by myself (Vol. i., pp. 201. 246.) : 

 What is the precise meaning of the last couplet of 

 these lines of Pope : 

 " The hero William, and the martyr Charle<;, 



One knighted Blackmoreand one pensioned Quarles, 



Which made old Ben and surly Dennis sweai; 



'No Lords anointed, but a Russian bear.'" 



That Pope had a precise meaning cannot be 

 doubted ; but I have never heard a reasonable 

 guess at what it might be. C. 



36. John Bodley. — Among the Parker ^ISS. in 

 Corpus Library at Cambridge is a patent of Queen 

 Elizabeth to John Bodeleigh to print the English 

 Bible for seven years. 



In the list of translators of the Bible in 1611, 

 as given in the Introduction to Jameson's Glos- 

 sartj of the Holy So'iptnres, appears the name 

 "Burleigh, M.A.," but without any biographical 

 notice, as in the other instances. 



In Burn's Livi'e dss Anglois a Geneve, it is 

 stated that John Bodleigh, the father of the cele- 

 brated Sir Thomas Bodley, was one of the trans- 

 lators of the Bible. 



Can any of your readers throw light on the 

 history of either of these men, or kindly point to 

 any sources of information respecting them ? 



o. o. o. 



37. Dr. Thomas Johnson. — Can your readers 

 give me any particulars of Dr. Thomas Johnson, 

 the editor of Gerardes Herbal f I do not require 

 such information as I can obtain concerning him 

 in Wood's Athenee Oxonienses, or Pulteney's 

 Sketches of Botany; but I especially wish for 

 some information relative to his place of burial, 

 and whether there is any monumental or other 

 record of its whereabout. lie died from a wound 

 he received during a sortie from Basing House on 

 the 14th of September, 1644. Gamma. 



38. " Yon Friend drink to me Friend." — Can you 

 inform me in what collection of glees I shall find 

 an old one, the burden or chorus of which is — 



" The more we love good liquor, the menier we 

 (hall be?" 



I think the first line is — 



" You friend drink to me friend, and I friend drink 

 to thee." 



An M. D. 



39. The Latin Termination " aster." — Can any of 

 your correspondents tell me why the ternunalion 

 aster is used in a depreciatory sense in Latin, as 



poetaster, a bad poet ; oleaster, the wild olive ; 

 pinaster, the wild pine ? With regard to this latter 

 substantive, I have seen the mistake made in a 

 descriptive catalogue of the pine species, of calling 

 this the star pine ; but I have no doubt that it 

 was naniQA pinaster, as inferior to the stone pine, 

 or Pinus pinea, which embellishes the Italian 

 gardens, while the pinaster flourishes on the 

 mountains and the sea-coast. 



Probably other examples may be found where 

 the terminal aster is used in a similar sense. 



A Borderer. 



40. Portrait of Dryden.— Can any of your corre- 

 spondents or readers inform me where any un- 

 douhted original portrait of John Dryden is to be 

 found ? Malone, Dryden's biographer, enume- 

 rates seven or eight portiaits, and he states where 

 they were in 1800. I am aware that two are in 

 the Bodleian Gallery at O.xford, the one stated by 

 Malone "painter unknown;" and the other al- 

 leged to be by Kneller ; but I do not consider the 

 { latter to be an original. I wish more particularly 

 to know who has a half-length original portrait. 

 Dryden was painted by Kneller, Closterman, and 

 Riley. BEVII.LE. 



I 41. Inscription on a Claymore out in 174.5. — On 



. the retreat of the Highland army from England 



j in 1746, Prince Charles Edward and his stafi" 



passed through Dumfiies, and slept in a house 



now known as the Commercial Inn. 



After their departure there was found a light 

 claymore, apparently the property of an ofiicer; 

 and as it was never claimed, it remained in the 

 house for some years, and ultimately came into 

 my possession It is formed of the finest tem- 

 pered steel, and bears the following very curious 

 inscription on one side, 



X GOTT BEWAR DE; 

 and on the other, 



xVERECriTE SCHOTTEN. 

 Some of your learned correspondents will oblige 

 by giving a translation, and a reason for sucli au 

 inscription on a Scottish sword. T. M. W. 



Liverpool. 



iUjjltr^. 



DE REBUS SEPTENTRIOJiALlBUS. 



At page 371. of Vol. iii. I addressed a Query as 

 I to the best mode of reaching Iceland. I have 

 ' since ascertained that the principal coumiunication 

 witli Iceland is from Copenhagen; whence during 

 the season sail a monthly packet, sundry trading- 

 vessels, and sometimes a Danish frigate. L>nnish 

 vessels also call at Hull and Liverpool to load 

 with salt for Iceland. The Norwegian trade 

 thither has ceased since 1814, and it has now 

 scarcely any intercourse except with Denmark. 



