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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
143 
In a dialogue of proverbs (a work yet to be 
written), the one under consideration would meet 
with this rejoinder: “If marriages are made in 
heaven, you had but few friends there” (Bohn’s 
Proverbs, p.416.). This is earth versus heaven ; 
the proverb against the verb. J.P. 
Had not this saying an astrological foundation? 
Sir Kenelm Digby says of his own marriage: 
“Tn the first place, it giveth me occasion to acknow- 
ledge and admire the high and transcendent operations 
of the celestial bodies, which, containing and moving 
about the universe, send their influence every way and to 
all things; and who, although they take not away the 
liberty of free agents, yet do so strongly, though at the 
first secretly and insensibly, work upon their spiritual 
part by means of the corporeal, that they get the mastery 
before they be perceived; and then it is too late to make 
any resistance. For from what other cause could proceed 
this strong knot of affection, which, being tied in tender 
years, before any mutual obligations could help to con- 
firm it, could not be torn asunder by long absence, the 
austerity of parents, other pretenders, false rumours, and 
other the greatest difficulties and oppositions that could 
come to blast the budding blossoms of an infant love, that 
hath since brought forth so fair flowers and so mature 
fruit? Certainiy the stars were at the least the first 
movers,” &c. — Private Memoirs of Sir K, Digby, 1827, 
pp. 10, 11. 
The stars have been said to be the cause, not | : : f : 
| and arrange themselves in a line on their knees in 
only of matrimonial engagements, but also of 
their breach : 
« + * When weak women go astray, 
The stars are more in fault than they.” 
_ Query, the author of these lines ? iD 
- Wine for Easter Communion (1* S. xii. 363. 
477.; 2°" S. i. 58-9.) — I cannot bow to the cor- 
rection administered by Wixt1am Denton, in the 
following passage: “I’. C. H., in bis communica- 
tion, says, that ‘the practice of receiving the Holy 
Communion under one kind only, did not begin 
till the twelfth century.’ He shculd have said the 
thirteenth.” No one denies the accuracy of Car- 
dinal Bona in all liturgical matters. 
words : 
“Semper enim et ubique ab Ecclesie primordiis 
usque ad szeculum XII. sub specie panis et vini commu- 
nicarunt Fideles, ccepitque paulatim ejus sxculi initid 
usus calicis obsolescere, plerisque E-piscopis eum populo in- 
terdicentibus ob periculum irreverentiz et effusionis, quod 
inevitabile erat aucta fidelium multidudine, in qua deesse 
non poterant minus cauti et attenti, ac parum religiosi.” 
C. H. 
Book-Worms (1% 8, xii. 427. 474.) —As a 
proof that book-worms are not of such extreme 
rarity as your correspondents appear to suppose, 
I may mention, that upon purchasing a few years 
since a fine copy of Erasmus’ edition of \S. Au- 
tine (Froben, 1529), in ten volumes, which had 
in for some time on the floor of a damp and neg- 
lected garret, I found therein upwards of eighty 
fat and hearty maggots, which, having completely 
These are his | 
pulverized the oak boards, were commencing their 
attack upon the more edible mass within. Fortu- 
| nately their progress was thus arrested before, in 
most of the volumes, much mischief had been 
done; but it may well be conceived that before 
such a devastating army (which probably was 
proved by the binder’s subsequent search to 
number more nearly one hundred than eighty), 
the ten ponderous tomes would speedily have dis- 
appeared. On other occasions I have met alto- 
gether with perhaps seven or eight living speci- 
mens, W. D. Macray. 
New College. 
“ Gloria in Excelsis” (1* 8. xii. 496.) —-From 
| time immemorial this has been sung in Exeter 
Cathedral every Sunday, and on Christmas Day 
and Ascension Day. 
The ten chorister boys are arranged outside the 
outermost altar-rail—for there are two, one near 
the table, the other at some distance,—and within 
these the communicants are assembled. And the 
sacred elements are administered to each by the 
officiating priests going to them. After the ser- 
| vice, the boys close the procession of clergymen, 
each party filing off to their respective vestries. 
But when the bishop is present, the boys precede, 
one of the side aisles where the bishop passes on 
his way out of the cathedral, and each receives the 
bishop’s blessing. 
Query, Does this custom prevail in any other 
cathedral ? H. T. Evuacomse. 
Rectory, Clyst St. George. 
Titular Bishop of Orkney (2°° S. i. 76.) —In 
| the copious lists of episcopal sees by Barbosa and 
Graveson, with the additions of Ferraris, the see 
of Orkney (Orcadensis) is placed among the suf- 
fragans of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, while 
no other sees are under Drontheim but Bergen 
and Staffanger united, Hammer, Hola, and Shal- 
hot, the last two being in Iceland. F.C. H. 
Etymology of Caterpillar (274 §. i. 65.) — Please 
inform Mr. Kereutrey, that caterpillar is called 
by the common people in Devonshire, mascel, or 
mashel. W. Cortyns, M.R.C.S. 
Drewsteignton. 
Lava (1* §. xi. 426.) — The following “ note,” 
made on reading thé Marquis of Ormonde’s Au- 
tumn in Sicily, 1850, may possibly be acceptable 
to Bagna CAvALto: 
“ Eruption of Actna. — Stream of lava 1000 paces 
broad — advance gradual, slow, steady thirty to forty 
feet deep; some notion of its aspect and progress may 
be formed by imagining a hill of loose stones of all sizes, 
the summit or brow of which is continually falling to the 
| base, and as constantly renewed by unseen pressure from 
behind.” — P. 243. 
Prior Ropert oF SAbop. 
