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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 95. 



91. Aldus Genius' Description of a Dimple. — The 

 poet Gray, writing to bis friend Mr. West, asks 

 him to guess wiiere tlie following description of a 

 dimple is found : 



" Sigilla in mento impressa Amoris digitulo 

 Vestigio demonstrant moUitudinem." 



Lett. viii. sect. iii. vol. i. p. 261. Mason's 

 edition. London, 1807. 

 Mr. West replies in the following letter : 

 " Your fragment is Aulus Gellius ; and both it and 

 your Greek delicious." 



I have never met with it in Aulus Gellius, and 

 should be glad to find it. E,t. 



92. Forgotten Authors of the Seventeenth Cen- 

 tury. — Can any of your correspondents point out 

 any biographical particulars relative to the fol- 

 lowing authors of the seventeenth century ? 



1. William Parkes, Gentleman, and some- 

 times student in Barnard's Inne ; author of The 

 Cii7-taine-drawer of the World, 1612. 



2. Peter Woodhouse, author of The Flea ; 

 sic parva componere magnis, 1605. 



3. Rowland Watkyns, a native of Hereford- 

 shire ; author of Flamma si7ie Fumo, or Poems 

 without Fictions, 1662. 



4. Richard West, author of The Court of 

 Conscience, or Dick Whipper's Sessions, 1607. 



Edward F. Rimbault, 



Sundays, on what Days of the Month ? — Is 

 there any printed book which tells on what days 

 of the several months the Sundays in each year 

 occurred, during the last three or four centuries ? 



If there be more such books than one, which of 

 them is the best and the most accessible ? II. C. 



[The most accessible works are Sir Harris Nicolas' 

 Chronology of History, and Companion to the Almanack 

 for 1830, pp. 32, 33. Consult also L'Jrt de Verifier 

 les Dates ; and, above all, Professor De Morgan's 

 Book of Almanacks.^ 



John Lilburne. — A list of the pamphlets published 

 by, or relating to, John Lilburne, or any facts re- 

 specting his life or works, will be of service to one 

 who is collecting for a biography of " Free-born 

 John." Edward Peacock, Jun, 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton in Liudsey. 



[Watt's Bihliotheca Britannica contains a list of 

 Lilbiirne's pamphlets, which would occupy two pagci 

 of "Notes and Queries!" A collection of tracts 

 relating to Lilburne, 1G46, 4to., 2 vols., will be foimd 

 in the Tovvneley Catalogue, Part I. p. 6^6. Sold for 

 i;. 13i. Truth's Victory over Tyrants, leiny the Trial 

 of John Lilburne, London, 1649, 4to., contains a por- 

 trait of him standing at the bar. Butler, in Hudibrus, 

 Part IIL, Canto ii., has vividly drawn his character in 

 the paragraph commencing at line 421. : — 



" To match this saint, there was another, 



As busy and perverse a brother. 



An haberdasher of small wares, 



In politics and state-affairs," &c. 

 " This character," says Dr. Grey, " exactly suits 

 John Lilburne and no other. For it was said of him, 

 when living, by Judge Jenkins, ' That if the world was 

 emptied of all but himself, Lilburne Avould quarrel 

 with John, and John with I^ilburne ; ' which part of 

 his character gave occasion for the following lines at 

 his death : — 



' Is John departed, and is Lilburne gone ? 

 Farewell to both, to Lilburne and to John. 

 Yet, being dead, take this advice from me. 

 Let them not both in one grave buried be : 

 Lay John here, and Lilburne thereabout, 

 For, if they both should meet, they would fall out.' 

 Lilburne died a Quaker, August 28, 1657. See 

 Mercurivs Politicus, No. 379. p. 1597.; Mr. Peck's 

 Desiderata Curiosa, from Mr. Smith's Obituary, vol. ii. 

 lib. xiv. p. 30. Also a character of Lilburne, in 

 Thurloe's Slate Papers, vol. iii. p. 512. ; and an ac- 

 count of his obstinacy, in his Trial, reprinted in the 

 State Trials."! 



"lay of the last minstrel." 

 (Vol. iii., p. 464.) 



f I am obliged to ]\[. for his notice of my paper 

 upon this poem, and gratified by his concurrence 

 with my remarks. 



Very likely M. may be right in his explanation 

 of the '■'■ incuria" imputed by me to the great 

 author ; and I may have made a mistake, without 

 pleading guilty to the same charge : but if M. will 

 refer to the 4th and two following Sections of the 

 sixth canto of the Lay, he will find it thus written : 



" Me lists not at this tide declare 

 The splendour o( the spousal rite," &c. 



Again, Sec. V. : 



" Some bards have sung, the Ladye high 

 Chapel or altar came not nigh ; 

 Nor durst the rites of spousal grace 

 So much she feared each holy place," &c. 



Again, Sec. VI. : 



" The spousal rites were ended soon." 

 And again, in Sect. VIII. are these words : 

 " To quit thein, on the English side. 

 Red Roland Forster loudly cried, 

 ' A deep carouse to yon fair bride!'" 



Now, in the ordinary acceptation of these words, 

 the spousal rite means nuptials, and a bride means 

 a newly married wife ; and as the ceremony of the 

 spousal rite is described as taking place with much 

 pomp in the chapel, and at the altar, it looks very 

 like a wedding indeed. But if, after all, it were 

 only a betrothal, I willingly withdraw the charge 

 of " incuria," and subscribe to the propriety of the 



