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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 111. 



of your coin-espondents who will inform me of re- 

 markable ones in their own neighbourhood. 



There are four — one in English, one in Latin, 

 one in Greek, anil one in Hebrew — on the keep 

 of Carlisle Castle ; but though I possess the three 

 former, I have not the last, and should be very 

 glad to obtain it, if possible. 



There is a motto at Bonneville in Switzerland, 

 as I have been told : 



'■■ Soli Soli Soli." 



AVhat can be the interpretation thereof? 



Of course I am acquainted with Leadbetter's 

 Art of Diallings and the curious list of mottoes he 

 gives, together with the still more curious transla- 

 tions of the same ; as e. g. 



" Aut CsEsar, aut niillus." 

 (I shine, or shroud ! ) 



Or — 



" Slf transit gloria mundi : " 



(So marches the god of day ! ! ) 



But what I want is, mottoes from dials actually in 



existence. Hermes. 



SUPPRESSED EPILOGUE BT DRTDEN. 



Mr. Payne Collier communicates to the Athenwmn 

 of the 22nd November, 1851, an interesting letter 

 relative to an unspoken epilogue to Dryden, and 

 Nat Lee's famous tragedy of The Duke of Guise. 

 This rare composition, entitled " Another Epilogue 

 intended to have been spoken to the Play before 

 it was forbidden last Summer, written by Mr. 

 Dryden," occurs in conjunction with the Prologue 

 and Epilogue which were actually spoken, ujion a 

 separate sheet of foolscap; in which shape, as 

 Mr. Collier informs us, they were often printed 

 for sale at the playhouse doors. Mr. Collier's ac- 

 ceptable communication suggests a Query or two. 

 At the end of my copy of this play, the 4to. edit. 

 of 1687, is the following 



" AnVEllTISEME.VT. 



" There was a Preface intended to this play, in 

 vindication of it, against two scurrilous libels lately 

 printed. But it was judged, that a defence of tins 

 nature would require more room tlian a preface would 

 reasonably allow. For this cause, and for the impor- 

 tunity of the stationers, who hastened their impression, 

 'tis deferred for some little time, and will be printed by 

 itself. Most men are already of opinion that neither 

 of the pam])hlets deserve an answer, because they are 

 stufF,.'d with open falsities, and sometimes contradict 

 each other ; but, for once, they shall have a day or two 

 thrown away upon them, tho' I break an old custom 

 for their sakes, which was to scorn them," 



AVas this threatened preface ever issued ? Are 

 the "two s<;urrilous libels" here spoken of so 

 scornfully, known to be in existence ? 



The new-found Epilogue belongs as much to 

 the political as to the dramatic history of those 



troublous times ; and let us hope, marigrc the un- 

 fortunate coarseness of the school to which it 

 belongs, that Mr, Collier will some day present us 

 with a reprint of it in toto, accompanied by the 

 above noted preface, if it e.xist. There is ample 

 matter, as the pages of " Notks and QunaiEs" 

 have lately shown, for a new volume of Dryden 

 Miscellanies. Henry Campkin. 



d3tltiiar OucrtcS. 



3-32. Barrister. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents refer me to the etymon of this name, 

 given to a vocation attached to our Englisli courts 

 of law? I can find none even in the comprehen- 

 sive Elymological Dictiunnrij of Nat. Bailey, unless, 

 indeed, by dividing the word into two portions, 

 viz. " bar" and " rister," and then, with a little of 

 the critic's license, assuming that the latter half 

 might originally have been written " roister." But 

 as this analysis would render it so little character- 

 istic of the class so named, and would strongly im- 

 ply that some portion at least of that distinguished 

 body was once viewed as the "roisters," i.e. 

 " bullies and blusterers," of that division of our 

 courts called "the Bar," it is evident that we 

 cannot reasonably look for the derivation of the 

 latter part of the word from that source. But 

 still, as there may be those who are inclined, in 

 spite of these cogent objections, to doubt whether 

 this may not be its true etymon ; and it is fit that 

 any such lurking and slanderous suspicion should 

 be dispelled from every sceptic mind, some one 

 of your curious and learned correspondents, 

 anxious to effect it, will, perhaps, tax his etymo- 

 logical skill to the suggestion of a less offensive, 

 and more just and aptpropriate derivation, than 

 " Bar-roister." W. Y. 



333. Indian Jugglers. — Can any of your readers 

 favour me with references to any works containing 

 an account of the trick practised by jugglers in 

 the East Lidies, and known there by the name of 

 "growing a mango?" In performing this trick a 

 seed is planted in a pot or ba.sket of earth, which 

 is then covered up from the sight by a cloth or 

 other wire ; in a little time this is removed, and 

 the seed is seen to have germinated, and its growth 

 is similarly shown in successive stages, the last of 

 which exhibits the plant in fruit. Hundreds of 

 Europeans have seen the trick, but I have never 

 heard of any one who was able to detect the suc- 

 cessive substitutions in which it obviously consists. 

 T do not at present recollect the name of any au- 

 thor who takes any notice of it, N, 



334. Priory of Hertford. —The Priory of Hert- 

 ford was founded by Halph de Limesey and his 

 wife Hadewise, some time after the Conquest. Can 

 any of your anti(juarian correspondents inform me 

 in what year this took place ? 



