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NOTES:-- Page Latin Drinking Song by Richard Braithwait, by S. W. Singer 297 Strange Appearances in the Sky, by Rev. A. Gatty 298 "After me the Deluge," by Douglas Jerrold 299 Bishop Thornborough's Monument 299

QUERIES:-- Portraits of Spenser 301 The Vendace 301

Minor Queries:--Ex Pede Herculem--"To-day we purpose"--"God takes those soonest whom He loves the best"--Quakers' Attempt to convert the Pope --Whychcote of St. John's--Meaning of Rechibus-- Family of Queen Katherine Parr--Skort--Religious Teaching in the German Universities--Epigram by Dunbar--Endymion Porter--Sathaniel--The Scoute Generall--Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 302

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Civil War Tract--Trisection of the Circle--Wolsey's Son--Cardinals and Abbots in the English Church 303

REPLIES:-- Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley 304 The Travels of Baron Munchausen 305

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 310 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 311 Notices to Correspondents 311 Advertisements 311

Notes.

LATIN DRINKING SONG BY RICHARD BRAITHWAIT.

"Erant ambae virgines et ambae reginae Phyllis coma libera Flora comto crine, Non sunt formae virginum sed formae divinae, Et respondent facies luci matutinae.

Nec stirpe, nec facie, nec ornatu viles, Et annos et animos habent juveniles Sed sunt parum inpares, et parum hostiles Nam hinc placet clericus illi vero miles."

Love is called in to decide the dispute, and it causes no surprise to find, after due ventilation of the cause, the judgment of the court to be:

"Secundum scientiam et secundum morem, AD AMOREM CLERICUM DICUNT APTIOREM."

Your readers who are not already acquainted with this interesting picture of ancient manners will, I think, be pleased with having it pointed out to their notice.

Should the following song not be already in print, I can also furnish from the same source a version of the ballad on "Robin Goodfellow" by the same hand, should it be acceptable.

S. W. SINGER.

"CANTIO.

"O Pampine! quo venisti? Cur me spectas fronte tristi? Tolle caput, sis jucundus, Tolle poculum exue fundus, Et salutem jam bibamus, Ad sodales quos amamus; O Pampine! tibi primum Haustum summus hunc ad imum.

Ecce de christallo factum Purum vas, et hoc intactum, Lympha nunc et succo plenum, Nec includit hoc venenum; Medicamen quod repellit Omnes malos, nec fefellit, O Pampine! invito Momo, Tibi, tu es meus homo.

Hic est sacer fons et flumen, Quod qui potant vocant numen, Iras pellit, demit lites, Et superbos facit mites; Et post flumen hoc te amoenum Annos reparare senum: O Pampine! tibi habe, Bibe si sis dignus tabe.

Hoc si tu gustabit nectar, Si sis Paris fies Hector, Iras demit inquietas, In memento facit laetas; Pro doloribus est solamen, Pro pulicibus medicamen; O Pampine! habe tibi, Bibe tu cum ego bibi.

Hic est aqua vera fortis, Vincula quae solvet mortis, Aut, si placet, aqua vitae, Roborans ab atra Dite: Hinc sunt uti qui potestis Omnia, cibus, potis, vestis; O Pampine! tibi cito Bibe, aut ab hinc abito.

Si frigistis, sine joco, Solo hoc utare foco, Si esuries hic sunt oves, Pulli, vituli, et boves; Quod si sitis ecce montem, Quem si scandes habet fontem; O Pampine! bibe rursus, Bibe, tu nam venit cursus.

Si aegrotas sume potum, Vis ut valeas tolle totum, Cape potum hunc paratum, Sanus eris,--est probatum; Si in corpore aut in mente Dolebant in quavis dente; O Pampine! tibi statim Sume potum hinc gradatim.

Bacche jam et jam Silene, Pocula impleatis plene, Ope jam adiutus vestra Domum, feram e fenestra. AEdes vertunt jam rotundae, Et succedant res secundae: O Pampine! tibi bibo, Bibe, vale! ego abibo."

STRANGE APPEARANCES IN THE SKY.

Strange appearances in the sky have not been without their ominous signification from the time that the greater and lesser lights were placed there at the creation, to the rainbow after the Deluge; and onward to the "star in the east" which announced our Saviour's birth, and the "light from heaven" which accompanied St. Paul's conversion. But the question is, whether there has since been any meaning in other like celestial illuminations? Some historical credit is claimed for the fiery sword, and armies fighting in the air, which preceded the siege of Jerusalem: for the cross of the Emperor Constantine: for the bow about the sun seen by Augustus Caesar, when he took possession of the Roman empire: and for stars, or other heavenly lights, which have seemed to herald the births or deaths of illustrious personages. But are these stories to be believed? and, if they are, where is the line of credibility to be drawn? People cannot come together, and talk either on this subject, or on that of ghosts, but every one "hath a revelation, hath an interpretation." The poet, walking on the mountains, looked into the sky, and

"The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city--boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far, And self-withdrawn, into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendour--without end?"

The two following extracts are from private letters now before me. The first account was written in 1825 by a physician, still alive, and who at the time read an account of what he had seen at a meeting of the Plinian Society. He says,

"I last evening read a paper upon an extraordinary appearance of letters, formed by the clouds, seen by a Mr. T. and myself. We had also with us two little boys, one nine, the other eleven years of age, who were able to make out each letter equally with ourselves. These children were at the time walking some distance behind us: but, upon their coming up, and being shown the letters, they read them without having heard any observation of ours respecting them. We saw them for about two minutes, when they gradually changed their form--each letter changing its perpendicular for a horizontal position, and at length the whole becoming converted into that form of cloud denominated cirro-stratus. I will endeavour to give you a faint idea of the appearance, by forming the letters as well as my memory will enable me. I make no comment upon the words themselves, as they are too extraordinary for observation of any kind. It was upon the 12th of last month: several showers had fallen in the course of the day, but the afternoon was fine. The time seven in the evening. The letters were formed upon a fine blue surface, having no other clouds near them, except very small ones, which tended much to heighten the effect of the whole.

"You will observe several deficiencies in the letters of the first word, viz. in the first 'E;' also in the 'N,' the second part being short; and a slight defect in the letter 'A.' With respect to the second word, the first six letters were very perfect: the others, with the exception of the 'M,' mere strokes; but in number sufficient to make up the word: and they had the appearance of having been perfect. I can assure you they were anything but obscure, and required very little stretch of the imagination. In the first word the letters were equidistant and beautifully uniform. The second word was not quite straight, being curved towards its termination. This appeared to me to arise from the change of position which the letters were undergoing, as before stated."

ALFRED GATTY.

Ecclesfield.

"AFTER ME THE DELUGE."

If stolen wisdom could be returned to its rightful authors, great, indeed, would be the transfer of property. Prince Metternich is said to be the sayer of "After me the Deluge." And yet the Prince took the saying from the mouth of Madame Pompadour; and she took it--from whom? It may be reasonably doubted that her brain originated it; for it was not an order of brain that packs wisdom in few syllables.

"'After me the Deluge,' said Prince Metternich; a fine saying, but a false prophecy we trust."

"Madame de Pompadour, dans l'ivresse de la prosp?rit?, r?pondit ? toutes les menaces de l'avenir par ces trois mots, "APR?S NOUS, LE D?LUGE," qu'elle r?p?tait souvent."

DOUGLAS JERROLD.

West Lodge, Putney Common.

BISHOP THORNBOROUGH'S MONUMENT.

"Denarius Philosophorum, Dum Spiro, Spero."

on the other,

The latter letters are now effaced.

It is well known that the Pythagoreans found all the modes of space in the relations of numbers.

Such is probably the meaning of his pious conceit, and I offer it as a solution of what has long served for a riddle to the visitors of our cathedral. Beyond this, your readers and myself may be equally indifferent to such cabalistical quaintness. But let us treat it with charity, as the devout consummation of an aged alchymist.

O. F.

College Green, Worcester, March, 1851.

Minor Notes.

A. L.

"A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind."

This oft-quoted line is from Garrick's Epilogue on quitting the stage.

The earliest date of its colloquial use as yet recorded in "NOTES AND QUERIES," is A.D. 1513: on the other hand, the word, so far as I am aware, is nowhere used by Chaucer, although his near approach to it in the following lines is very remarkable:

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