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Hey, is still to be found in the church at Moret, 
in France, I can give no answer; but I suspect 
that such a version never existed there at all. 
His second Query contains in reality three 
questions : 
1. What are the two Prayer-Books mentioned 
by Dr. Hey? 
2. Are they two, or two copies of the Livre | 
@Eglise .... de Reims ? 
3. What is this Livre d’Eglise de Reims ? 
To these I answer: 
1. I gather from the text, that the Livre 
d'Eglise ....de Reims is what Dr. Hey describes 
as the “large” Prayer-Book, “ containing all the 
three creeds.” ‘The other French Prayer-Book 
in his possession was, I suppose, a smaller one, 
with a different title, which he does not give. 
2. It follows that the books were not two copies 
of one book, but two different books. It could 
not have been worth while to refer to two copies 
of the same Prayer-Book. ° 
8. The Livre d'Eeglise de Reims is the usual 
Prayer-Book containing the offices of the church 
according to the usage of Rheims. ‘There are 
others for other dioceses, such as Paris, Rouen, 
Tours, &c. 
The third Query is whether Dr. Hey’s state- 
ment is correct. I suspect it is much otherwise. 
The inscription at Moret is not likely to differ 
from the common and well-known versified form 
of the Commandments, used all over France, 
which is as follows: 
«© Les Commandemens de Dieu. 
“1. Un seul Dieu tu adoreras, 
Et aimeras parfaitement. 
Dieu en vain tu ne jureras, 
Ni autre chose pareillement. 
Les Dimanches tu garderas, 
En servant Dieu devotement. 
Tes pere et mere honoreras, 
Afin de vivre longuement. 
Homicide point ne feras, 
De fait ni volontairement. 
Luxurieux point ne seras, 
De corps ni de consentement. 
Le bien d’autrui tu ne prendras, 
Ni retiendras & ton escient. 
Faux temoignage ne diras, 
Ni mentiras aucunement. 
L’ceuvre de chair ne desireras, 
Qu’en mariage seulement. 
10. Biens d’autrui ne convoiteras, 
~ Pour les avoir injustement.” 
Senna pw 
The second Commandment is not here left*out, 
but reckoned as part of the first; for when it is 
commanded to adore only one God, it ig equiva- 
lently forbidden to adore any idols or images, or 
give to any creature whomsoever, or whatsoever, 
the honour due to God. It appears pretty evi- 
dent that Dr. Hey relied on the MS. travels of 
some friend who had miscopied or misunderstood 
the inscription very strangely. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
379 
I may remark that the above French jingle was 
contrived of course to enable the children and 
common people to learn and repeat the Decalogue 
more easily. But in most French Prayer-Books, 
Commandments are given also at length in prose, 
and then the first is thus expressed : 
“Je suis le Seigneur votre Dieu, qui vous ai tiré de la 
terre d’Egypte, de la maison de servitude. Vous n’aurez 
point d’autres dieux devant moi. Vous ne vous ferez 
point @image taillée, ni aucune figure pour l’adorer, ni 
pour la servir.” 
F.C5H. 
DOOR-HEAD AND OTHER INSCRIPTIONS. 
(24 S. i. 10. 103.) 
The following inscriptions are extracted from 
that valuable but ill-assorted store-house of new 
things and old, Compitum, book i. pp. 231. 336. 
371. 401.: 
At Rouen, over the staircase of a house in the 
Rue des Arpens: 
“ Cui domus est, victusque decens et patria dulcis 
Sunt satis hxc, vite cetera cura, labor.” 
At Verneuil, over a house staircase : 
“Velut ascendenti descendendum, ita et viventi mori- 
endum.” 
At Abbeville, over a house in the Rue de 
Vérone: 
“Fais le bien pour le mal, car Dieu te lle commande.” 
At Moulins, over a house in the Rue des Gre- 
nouilles : 
“ Ut nos junxit amor, nostro sic parta labore 
Unanimos animos operit una domus.” 
And again: 
“ Fac bene, dictisque ne cures.” 
At Viltré, on a house in the Rue d’En-bas: 
“ Pax huic domui et habitantibus in ea.” 
At Beauvais, on the gate of a house : 
“ Hee dicit Dominus I. H. S. 
Quamcunque domum intraveritis 
Primum dicite: Pax huic domui.” 
In the same place, on a turret at the corner of 
two streets, under a carved flower called pensée : 
“Plus penser que dire.” 
At Bourges, in a curious old house : 
“A yaillans coours rien impossible.” 
Also near it: 
“Bouche close, neutre. Entendre dire. Faire. Faire.” 
The physician to three German emperors, John 
of Crato, being raised to high hereditary honours, 
placed these lines on his house : 
que tibi leta videntur, 
ristia posse putes.” 
“Tu quoque fac timeas ; 
Dum legis hee, fier: 
