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UNEDA.
Philadelphia.
SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.
"And verily water causeth the wine tempered therewith to doe the lesse harme: in regard whereof, a student ought to use himselfe to drinke twice or thrice every day a draught of sheere water," &c.
The step from this to sheer ale is not very difficult.
It may be remarked that, at present, we apply several arbitrary adjectives, in this sense of sheer, to different liquors. Thus, to spirits we apply "raw," to wines and brandy "neat," to malt drink "stout" or "strong;" and then we reduce to "half and half," until at length we come to the very "small," a term which, like other lowly things, seems to have been permitted to endure from its very weakness.
A. E. B.
Leeds.
"Clamour your tongues, and not a word more."
H. C. K.
Mr. Halliwell, however, in a recent pamphlet, states that--
A. E. B.
Leeds.
J. F. M.
MOTTOS OF THE EMPERORS OF GERMANY.
I was much interested in the lists given in "N. & Q." last year of the mottos adopted by serjeants-at-law on arriving at that dignity; and it then occurred to me, that it would be curious to collect in like manner a complete list of the sentences, which, as is well known to students of history, the Emperors of Germany were accustomed to assume at their coronations. A recent visit to Frankfort has given me an opportunity of making and sending you such a list. The materials are collected from inscriptions on a series of imperial portraits which adorn the principal chamber in the R?mer or town hall of that city. The list, if it have no other interest, will at least serve to remind us that some of the Latin aphorisms and "wise saws" current among us now, have been doing duty in the same capacity for centuries:
Adolphus. 1291.
Wenceslaus. 1378.
I have added, by way of rendering the catalogue more complete, the name of the particular family of German princes, for which each emperor was selected. A glance at these names furnishes a remarkable illustration of an observation of Sismondi:
"That the great evil of an elective monarchy, is the continual struggle on the part of the rulers to make it hereditary."
It is scarcely necessary to remind your readers, that the integrity of Charlemagne's empire was preserved until the deposition of Charles the Fat; that France and Germany did not become separate until after that event; and that Conrad was, therefore, the first of the German sovereigns, as he was certainly the first elected by the confederate princes.
JOSHUA G. FITCH.
POEMS BY MISS DELAVAL.
If the accompanying songs have not been printed before, they may perhaps be worth preserving. They were written and set to music by a highly accomplished lady, the daughter of Edward Hussey Delaval, Esq., the last of his name and race, sometime Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; the cotemporary of Gray and Mason, and well known for his literary and scientific attainments:
"Where the murm'ring streams meander, Where the sportive zephyrs play, Whilst in sylvan shades I wander, Softly steal the hours away. I nor splendor crave nor treasure, Calmer joys my bosom knows; Smiling days of rural pleasure, Peaceful nights of soft repose."
"Oh Music, if thou hast a charm, That may the sense of pain disarm, Be all thy tender tones address'd To soothe to peace my Anna's breast, And bid the magic of thy strain To still the throb of wakeful pain; That, rapt in the delightful measure, Sweet hope again may whisper pleasure, And seem the notes of spring to hear, Prelusive to a happier year. And if thy magic can restore, The shade of days that smile no more, And softer, sweeter colors give To scenes that in remembrance live, Be to her pensive heart a friend; And whilst the tender shadows blend, Recall, ere the brief trace be lost, Each moment that she priz'd the most."
E. H. A.
Minor Notes.
UNEDA.
Philadelphia.
"After my hartie commendac'ons, &c. Whereas in tymes past the bearer hereof hath had out of the Parke of Farnham, belonging to the Bishopricke of Winchester, certaine white clay for the making of grene potts usually drunk in by the gentlemen of the Temple, and nowe understandinge of some restraint thereof, and that you are authorized there in divers respects during the vacancye of the said Bishopricke; my request, therefore, unto you is, and the rather for that I am a member of the said house, that you would in favo? of us all p'mytt the bearer hereof to digge and carrie away so muche of the said claye as by him shalbe thought sufficient for the furnishinge of the said house w?? grene potts aforesaid, paying as he hath heretofore for the same. In accomplishment whereof myself with the whole societie shall acknowledge o?selves much beholden unto you, and shalbe readie to requite you at all times hereafter w?? the like pleasure. And so I bid you moste heartilie farewel.
"Inner Temple, this xix?? of August, 1591.
"To the right worshipful Sir W'm More, Knight, geve these."
Bristol.
"Le monde est une sph?re infinie, dont le centre est partout, la circonf?rence nulle part."
Here we have two propositions, which, whether taken separately, or opposed to each other, would seem to contain nothing but paradox or contradiction. And yet I believe they are but different modes of expressing the same thing.
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
S. Z. Z. S.
"Hoc magis est instar tecti quam tegminis; hoc non Ornare est; hoc est aedificare caput."
CLERICUS
Minor Queries.
Although he does admit that this chase may be profitable and pleasant for the time, insomuch as there are not so many defaults, but a continuing sport; he concludes, "I will not stand much upon them, because they are not so much desired as the rest."
R. W. B.
SARAH ANNA.
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
I remember hearing when a school-boy at the college, Grantham, some thirty-five years ago, that Newton's name, cut by himself on a stone in the recess of one of the windows of the school-house, was to be seen there no long time back; but that the stone, or the portion of it which contained the name, had been cut out by some mason at a time when the building was being repaired, and was in the possession of a gentleman then living in the largest house in Grantham--built, I believe, by himself. Those of your readers who knew Grantham at the time, will not need to be told the name of the gentleman to whom I allude. The questions I would wish to ask are these:
M. A.
My question relates to the passages in Italics.
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