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NOTES AND QUERIES. [2-- s. vi. m., Juw 24. '58. 



Lo ! with retinue proud from Lewis race 

 Usher'd by bowing Peers arrives his Grace, 

 With civil pride our homage he receives, 

 And nods from side to side to grinning slaves. 

 There gentle A . . . hb . . . . m familiar Bows, 

 And youthful M . . . ch derlines his laurell'd brows, 

 (Him the proud Laurell of th' Olympic game 

 And Chariot races consecrate to fame.) 



There A y pays his Levee sneer. 



And for one moment quits his Lovely F . . . r, 



There foreign princes, envoys, plenipo's, 



Germans and Russian, Frenchmen, Friends and Foes, 



All crowd to catch the Ministerial look, 



And pay obeisance to th' Almighty D . . . ke. 



But who comes here so gallant and so airy ? 



Oh ! 'tis the pulvill'd and the gay Sir H . . . rr . . y, 



Painted for sight and essenc'd for the smell, 



In spite of nine and forty he looks well. 



Vermillion lends his Cheeks a blushing grace. 



And fills up all the furrows of the Face. 



O Lady K why are you alone ? 



Why were the dear Miss P . . . . ms left in Town ? 



But for amends heie easy L . . . . n swims 



In loose undress and negligence of Limbs ; 



So indolently gracefull you wou'd swear 



'Twas Cleopatra's self that saunter'd there. 



Nor let us pass the little face of Nevill, 



Long since styl'd decent, sensible, and civil, 



And sure that praise was true ; — but why my dear, 



So very intimate, so close with F . . . . r ? 



happy F . . . ! whose husband roams abroad, 



And leaves her eas'd of that ungratefull load, 



Leaves her to Love and A y free. 



Leaves her to Tunbridge Walks and Liberty 1 

 These are the prime — the rest 'twere long to tell. 

 Who in the Wilds of Kent and Yorkshire dwell. 

 Misses and Fops, 'twere tedious to rehearse. 

 Coxcombs below the Dignity of Verse. 

 Peace then B . . . . by, whom his Name describes, 

 A clumsy dunce among the Female tribes : 

 To Joke the awkward heavy Coxcomb tries. 

 And thinks each Woman that beholds him dies. 

 Peace to the stale impertinence of Colley, 

 His old, absurd, and out of fashion'd folly ; 

 Peace to a thousand Girls with idiot faces. 

 Whom yet some fools call Goddesses and Graces ; 

 Peace to the noisy chatt'ring crew who strive 

 To seem the most transported things alive. 

 Yet let us pay a compliment to W .... d. 

 Ripe as the swelling clusters of the Vineyard, 

 Happy she smiles with inoffensive joy, 

 Happy to dance with Monsieur M . . . . poix. 

 More fools appear and more in plenteous crops, 

 But damn the rest, I'm sick of numb'ring Fops." 



EPISTOI.JE OBSCDROKUM VIROEUM. 



(2°'' S. vi. 22. 41.) 



The following so-called epigram on the above 

 work is printed in Schelhorn's Amcenitates Lite- 

 raria (torn. ix. pp. 660, 661.). I will only idd 

 that it is certain that Erasmus had no hand in the 

 satire, — 

 " Dum Monachi Hebrjeam Reuchlini prodere Musam 

 Sacrilegi tentant, Biblia sacra puta: 

 Dumque Sophistarnm gens illiterata Camoenas 



Humanas nostris pellit ubique scholis : 

 Nobilis Hnttenus docto collusit Erasmo, 

 Atque hnnc composnit non sine laade librnm. 



In quo nil Actum est nisi nomina sola virorura. 

 Quorum opera et studia hie verbaque vana notat. 



Utque magistrorum noslrorum barbariera ille 

 Miris perstringens salibus exagitat ; 



Sic tu non lusum, sed inertia ssecula ride, 

 Vel potius defle terapora stulta hominum." 



Among the imitations of the Epistola which 

 have appeared at various times, Schelhorn men- 

 tions one to which Jansenism gave occasion. The 

 title is this : — 



" Epistolae Doctorum et Eloquentorum et Catholicorum 

 Virorum ad vafia membra et supposita S. Facultatis Colo- 

 niensis pro congratulatione et aliis materiis seu subjectis 

 supra declarationem prselibatiB Facultatis circa Constitu- 

 tionem S. D. dementis XI. contra P. Quesnel, autore 

 venerando Domino Joanne Jacobson, Vicario Vlaerdini- 

 ensi, Aquisgrani, 1715." 



William J. Deane. 



Ashen Rectory. 



Mr. Gladstone, in his Homer and the Homeric 

 Age, has put forward at some length a theory that 

 Artemis or Diana is the traditive representative 

 of the Virgin Mary. In a passage quoted by 

 Prof. Db Morgan (2°'» S. vi. 23.) ifrom the Epi- 

 stolce Ohscurorum Virorum, I find an identical 

 theory stated. The passage is, " Diana significat 

 beatissimam Virginem Mariam, ambulans multis 

 virginibus bine inde." 



The coincidence appears to me worth noting ; 

 while the different spirit with which the two 

 writers view the same theory presents a strong 

 contrast. If I might add an undergraduate's 

 opinion of Mr. Gladstone's work, I would say that 

 it appears to me so far to excel all that has been 

 hitherto written on the subject, amounting to an 

 extensive library, as to make it desirable that an 

 auto-da-fe on the Caliph Omar principle should 

 be forthwith made of all the previous commen- 

 taries, Wolff's Prolegomena especially included. 



J.S. 



aaepltc^ ta Minav ^uevieg. 



Amber in the Old Testament (2'"* S. vi. 57.) — 

 The Hebrew word (chashmal), which occurs three 

 times in Ezekiel, i. 4. 27., viii. 2., and which is 

 rendered yXeKrpov in the Septuagint and amber 

 in the authorised version, is considered by biblical 

 critics to be a metallic substance ; namely, either 

 a mixture of gold and silver, or a mixture of gold 

 and brass, or brass simply. See Winer's Bibl. 

 Bealwiirt., art. Metalle. De Wette, in his version 

 of the Old Testament, fenders the word by Gol- 

 derz. G. C. Lewis. 



Blue and Buff (2-' S. v. 304.)— In the No- 

 Popery Riots of 1780, the colour worn by Lord 

 George Gordon and his friends was blue. The 

 leaders of the vast concourse of men who marched 

 from St. George's Fields to the Houses of Parlia- 

 ment wore blue ribands in tbeii' bats ; and each 



