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A.C.

What is the meaning of this proverb?

As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says, page 59., of the Dutch tongue,--

"Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue."

"When, dearest, I but think of thee,"

is printed among those in the volume I have, with the same remark, that it had been printed as Sir John Suckling's.

E.N.W.

"Quo nihil majus meliusve terris Fata donavere, borique divi Nee dabunt, quamvis redeant in aurum Tempora priscum."

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"London, printed for H. Brome and H. March, at the Gun, in Ivy Lane, and at the Princes' Arms, in Chancery Lane, neer Fleet Street, 1660."

The cover has "C.R." under a crown. What is the history of this volume. Is it scarce, or worth nothing?

A.C.

--Whence comes the sentence--

"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?"

E.N.W.

JARLTZBERG.

C.F.

A.C.

W. DOWNING BRUCE.

JARLTZBERG.

W.L.M.

I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an obstinate doubt that has long possessed my mind: Is the figure of the knight in Durer's well-known print of "The Knight, Death, and the Devil," a portrait? If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von Sickingen, as Kugler supposes? The print is said to bear the date 1513. I have it, but have failed to discover any date at all.

H.J.H.

Sheffield.

JARLTZBERG.

I have inquired of one of the oldest benchers of Gray's Inn, now resident in the city from which I write, for an explanation of the origin or meaning of the phrase "pension," neither of which was he acquainted with; informing me at the same time that the Query had often been a subject discussed among the learned on the dais, but that no definite solution had been elicited.

Had the celebrated etymologist and antiquary, Mr. Ritson, formerly a member of the Society, been living, he might have solved the difficulty. But I have little doubt that there are many of the erudite, and, I am delighted to find, willing readers of your valuable publication who will be able to furnish a solution.

J.M.G.

Worcester.

JARLTZBERG.

TREBOR.

King's College, London.

"Come when you're called, Do what you're bid, Shut the door after you, Never be chid?"--Ed. 1754.

He will come when you call him, go when you bid him, and shut the door after him.

J.E.B. MAYOR.

SPERANS.

T.S. LAWRENCE.

T.S. LAWRENCE.

W.W.

"They speak the tongue that Shakspeare spoke, The faith and morals hold that Milton held," &c.?

and was it applied to the early settlers of New England?

On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many crescents.

On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, as many lioncels rampant.

C.R.M.

I shall feel much obliged if you or your readers will inform me, 1. Whether there is any mention of Parsons in contemporary, or other works? 2. Whether the portrait is in existence? if so, where? Has it been engraved?

C.H.B.

Westbromwich.

E.C.

"There was a little frog, lived in the river swim-o, And there was an old crow lived in the wood of Ennow, Come on shore, come on shore, said the crow to the frog again-o; Thank you, sir, thank you, sir, said the frog to the crow of Ennow,

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But there is sweet music under yonder green willow, And there are the dancers, the dancers, in yellow."

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