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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 110. 



of Livy's preface, and to the "variorum" com- 

 msntators on the first line of U'acitiis' Annals 

 (" Urbem Romanum ad principio reges habuere"), 

 for a collection of examples of the occurrence of 

 verse in prose compositions. 



Theodore Alois Buckley. 



Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (Vol. iv., 

 p. 257.). — Probably the melodramatic spectacle 

 mentioned by Mr. H.vskins was derived fi-oui a 

 Spanisli book, of which I possess an English 

 translation, bearinij the foUowins; title : — 



'• A Relation of tho First Voyages and Discoveries 

 made by the Spaniards in America, with an Account 

 of their unparalleled Cruelties on the Indians, in the 

 destruction of above Forty Millions of People. To- 

 gether with the Propositions offered to the King of 

 Spain, to prevtint the further ruin of the West Indies. 

 By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, 

 who was an Eye-witnsss of their Cruelties. Illustrated 

 with Cuts. London, printed for Daniel Brown at the 

 Black Sw;m and Bible without Temple Bar, and 

 Andrew Bell at the Cross Keys and Bible in CornhiU, 

 near Stocks Market, 1699." 8vo. pp. 248. 



The " cuts" are twenty-two in number, on two 

 fly-sheets, and represent torturing deatli in the 

 most horrible variety. 



A MS. note on a fly-leaf, in the handwritinp; of 

 Mr. Bowdlei- of Bath, says, " This book is taken 

 out of the fourth part of Purchas's Pilqrims, fol. 

 1569." E. Waring. 



Hotwells, Clifton. 



Nolo JEpiscopari (Vol. Iv., p. 346.). — Bishop 

 Jeremy Taylor seems to ascribe the above oft- 

 quoted words to the Roman Pontifical : — 



" It is lawful to desire a Bishoprick ; neither can 

 the unwillingness to accept it be, in a prudent account, 

 adjudged the aptest disposition to receive it (especially if 

 done in ceremony — (in Pontifical. Rjm.) — just in the 

 instant of their entertainment of it, and possibly after 

 a long ambition.)" — Life of Christ, Ad Sect. IX. 

 Part I. 2. ; Considerations upon the Baptism of Jesus, 

 p. 93. Lend. 1702. Fol. 



On more occasions than one I have hunted 

 Roman Pontificals in vain, but I may have been 

 unfortunate in the editions to which 1 had access. 



It cannot at all events have descended from 

 remote antiquity, for "episcopari" is a compara- 

 tively modern word. 



St. Bernard uses it in his 272nd Epistle; but 

 the Benedictine editors speak of it as an " e.\otic." 



PtT. 



Warmington. 



Hougoumont (Vol. iv., p. 313.). — The assertion 

 of your correspondent A. B. II. I have met with 

 before, but forget where : viz. that the proper de- 

 signation of the chateau in question is Goumont, 

 and that Hougoumont is only a corruption of 

 Chateau Goumont. 



This may be the case; but the Duke must not 



be charged with the corruption, for I have now be- 

 fore me a map of the Departement de la Dyle, 

 published "I'An 8 de la Ilepublique Fran9aise, k 

 Bru.xelles, &c., par Ph. J. Maillart et Soeur," &c., 

 in whicli tlie place is distinctly called Hougoumo7ct. 



A. C. M. 

 Exeter. 



Cull a Spade, a Spade (Vol. iv., p. 274.). — I 

 have found two early, but unautheiiticated, in- 

 stances of the use of tliis saying, in a note by 

 J. Scaliger on the Priapeia, sice Diversorum Poe- 

 tarum i7i Priapum Liisus : — 



" Siinplicius multo est, , latine 



Dicere, quid faciain? crassa IMinervje mea est." 



Carmen, ii. 9, 10. 



"'A7p!)iKJt 6(|Ur t))v (TKiip-q'J (TKap-qv f^4yw :" Aris- 

 tophanes. — Unde jocus maximi Principis, Philippi 

 MacL'donis. Qunm ii, qui prodiderant Olynthum 

 Philippo, conquestum et expostiilatum ad ipsuin ve- 

 nlssent, quod itijuriose nimis vocarentur proditores 

 ab aliis Macedonibus : ol Mo/ttSwes, inquit, ttjuaSeTj koI 

 &ypoiKOi (i(Ti' T^v oKaipiiv aiia.pi)v\iyovai." — J. Scaliger. 



For which note see the "Priapeia," &c., at the 

 end of an edition of Petronius Arbiter, entitled, 

 Titi Petronii Arhitri Equitis Itomani Satyricon. 

 Coucinnante Michaelc Hadrianide. Amstelodami. 

 Typis loannis Blaeu. M.DC.LXIX. 



As I cannot at this moment refer to any good 

 verbal inde.x to Aristophanes, I cannot ascertain 

 in what part of his works Scaligur's quotation is 

 to be found. Burton, in his preface to the Ana- 

 tomy of Melancholy (" Deinocritus Junior to the 

 Reader"), repeats the saying twice, i.e. in Latin 

 and English, and presents it, moreover, in an en- 

 tirely new form : 



" I am aquiL potor, drink no wine at all, which so 

 much improves our modern wits ; a loose, plain, rude 

 writer, Jicuin voco Jicum, et ligonem ligonem, and as free 

 as loose ; idem calamo quod in mente : I call a spade a 

 spade ; unimis licec seribo, non aiiribus, 1 respect matter, 

 not words," &c. — Democritus Jr. to the Reader, Bur- 

 ton's Anutomii of Melancholy, Blake, JiDcccxxxvi. one 

 vol. Svo. p. 1 1. 



C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



" Tace is Latin for a Candle" (Vol. i., p. 385. ; 

 Vol. ii., p. 45.). — Your correspondent II. B. C. 

 states that the earliest use he has met with of this 

 plirase is in Dean Swift's Polite Conversation, 

 written, as appears by the preface, about 1731 ; 

 but he will find, in Dampier's Voyages, the same 

 phrase in use in 1686, or perhaps earlier: not 

 having the work itself at hand, I cannot refer him 

 to the passage, but he will find it quoted in the 

 United Service Journal for 1837, Part III. p. 11. 



J. S. Warden. 



Balica, Oct. 1851. 



Collars of SS. (Vol. iv., pp. 147. 236.).— With 

 reference to the difierent notices that have ap- 



