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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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he ought to have done), he would have seen that 

 it is expressly mentioned (p. 51.) that Slieridan, 

 havinct become part proprietor of Drury Lane 

 Theat'l-e — 



" His first commencement as a manager was not of 

 that brilliant kind to give any promise of great im- 

 provement in tlie conduct of the theatre. An ulieratiun 

 of Vanbrugh's play the ijp/a/)se was the first production, 

 under the name of a I'lip to Scarhormigh. It was 

 brought out on February 24, 1777. i'his was an un- 

 fortunate commencement : neither the public nor the 

 actors were satisfied." 



Further, it is printed at the end of Sheridan's 

 Dramatic V/oj-ks, followed by Pizarro, printed in 

 smaller type, so as to make them ap|>ear like an 

 appendix ; and hence it could hardly be expected 

 that any one would think of attributing; the Trip 

 to Scarborough, altered from Vanbrugh's JRelapsc, 

 to Sheridan, any more than it coulil be considered 

 as intended to call him the author of Pizarro, bo- 

 cause he altered Kotzebue's Spaniards in Peru, 

 and adapted it to, and had it represented on, the 

 stage. A Hekmit at Hampstead. 



" Fdix quem facixint aliena pericida caiitum " 

 (Vol. iii., p. 482.). — This line of Plautns is fol- 

 lowed by parallel quotations from other writers. 

 To these I may add the French version : 



" Heureux celul qui pour devenir sage, 

 Du mal d'autrui fait son apprentisage." 



J. R. 



" AUeriiis Orbis Papa'' (Vol. iii., p. 497.; 

 Vol. iv., p. II.). — Fuller, in liis Worthies of 

 England, edit. London, 1GG2, " Staffordshire," 

 p. 41., uses this expression, writing of Cardinal 

 Pole. It is as follows : 



" Yet afterwards he ( Pole) hecame ' Allerius Orbis 

 Papa,' when made Archbishop of Canterbury by Queen 

 Mary." 



J. ]sr. B. 



West Bromwich, June 2S. 1851. 



Umbrella (Vol. iii., pp. 37. GO. 126. 482.). — In 

 Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, " printed by John 

 Beale, 1617, part iii. booke i. chap. ii. p. 21.," is 

 the following passage : 



" In hot regions, to auoide the beames of the sunne, 

 in some places (as in Italy) they carry Vnibrels, or 

 things like a little canopy, over their heads; but a 

 learned Physician told me, that the use of them was 

 dangerous, because they gather the heate into a pyra- 

 midal] point, and thenee cast it down perpendicularly 

 vpou the head, exc^'pt they know how to carry them 

 for auoyding that danger." 



C. DE D. 



To learn b;/ Heart, "Apprendre par Cienr" 

 (Vol. iii., pp. 42-5. 483.). — Quitard, a French writer 

 on Proverbs, says, — 



" On a regirdc le cocur comme le sidgc de la Me- 

 moirc. De la Ics mots recorder, se recorder, rC'cor- 



diince, recordiitioH, en Latin reaordari, recordatio ; de 

 la aussi I'expression apprcndre par cceur. Rivarol 

 dit que cette expression, si ordinaire et si energique, 

 vient du plaisir que nous prenons a ce qui nous 

 touclie et nous fiatte. La memolre, en effet, est 

 toujours aux ordres du coeur." 



J. M. 

 Oxford. 



'■^Suiim cuique trihuere" (Vol. iii., p. 518.). — I beg 

 to refer your correspondent M. D. to Cicero's 

 De Claris Oratoribiis, which is the nearest parallel 

 passage I can find : viz. 



" Erat omnius turn mos, ut in reliquis rebus melior, 

 sic in hoc ipso humanior: ut faciles essent in suum 

 cuique tribuendo." 



In a note, an allusion to Justice is made : but my 

 Cicero is a very old edition, and is divided into 

 four tomes. The above is from tome i. p. 305. 

 letter F. 



The only other parallel passage is from Liber II., 

 " Ad Ilereunium," thus : 



" Justitia est habitus animi, communi utilitate con- 

 servata, suain cuique tribuens dignitatem." 



J. N. C. 



King's Lynn, June 28. 18.51. 



Frogs in Ireland — Pound Toiceis (Vol. iii., 

 pp. 353. 428. 490 ). — I must take leave to doubt 

 the fact, mentioned in Vol. iii., p. 490., of the in- 

 troduction of frogs into Ireland first in the year 

 1G96. They are much too jilentiful in the country 

 districts, leaving out their abundance in the county 

 Dublin, to warrant any such supposition. In the 

 Queen's County, particularly, I have seen them in 

 myriads. Wit;h regard to those gentlemen who 

 are pleased to import snakes into Ireland, I caa 

 only ".vidli them some worthier occui)ation. 



There are two birds, the occurrence of which 

 about Dublin I do not find noticed by naturalists. 

 One is the common skylark, the other is the 

 Royston crow, which, strange to say, is not a 

 migratory visitor, but is found there the whole 

 year round. 



Concerning Round Towers, mentioned at pages 

 3j3. and 428.'^ I beg to refer W. R. JNI. to the works 

 of Wilkinson, J\Ir. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, and Moore's 

 History of Ireland, in addition to I'etrie, Keating, 

 &c. ^Vhen in Galway, in January, 1850, I no- 

 ticed some remarkable instances of resemblance to 

 S[)aniards amongst the peasant women and girls. 

 It was, however, by no means general ; but only 

 observable here and there, in a few particular in- 

 stances. Retween Galway and Oughterard I 

 passed a giil walking barefooted along the dirty 

 roail, whose features were strikingly beautiful, set 

 off with long raven tresses and large dark eyes, 

 signs apparently of her Spanish origin. The town 

 of Galway is lull of interesting memorials of its 

 connexion with Spain, and well repays a visit. 

 Its ancient i)rosperity will now be probably re- 



