10 s. XL JAN. 16, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
"HE WHICH DBINKETH WELL" (10 S. X.
511). In its Latin form I have been ac- quainted with this example of what logicians call a sorites for nearly fifty years, and have always understood it to be of mediaeval origin. The words are as follows :
" Qui bene bibit, bene dormit ; qui bene dormit. noii peccat ; qui non peccat, salvabitur ; ergo qui bene bibit, salvabitur.
This mode of argument seems to have been familiar to Boswell, if we may judge from what he says in one of his ' Letters to the Rev. W. J. Temple,' just published :
" It requires the utmost exertion of practical philosophy to keep myself quiet. I have, however, done so all this week to admiration : nay, I have appeared good-humoured ; but it cost me a con- siderable quantity of strone beer to dull my faculties."
I quote from The Polishers' Circular of 26 December last. JOHN T. CUBBY.
I think that MB. T. RATCLIFFE may pos- sibly find that the author from whom he quotes had at one time been a student at a German university. W nen I was a student at Heidelberg in 1878 a Latin version of this was in common use, and had apparently come down " from time immemorial." In my " commersbuch " of that date I find I have written :
" Qui bene bibit, bene dormit ; qui bene dormit non cogitat malum ; qui non cogitat malum noii peccat ; qui non peccat non offendit Deum : ergo, qui bene bibit non offendit Deum ! " This looks more like an original than does the English version given in the query.
I should like to take this opportunity of thanking W. C. B. for his reply to my query as to Booth of Rame. E. J. BALL.
MAN IN THE MOON IN 1590 (10 S. x. 446, 518). I had hoped it was unnecessary to occupy space by pointing out that my quotation was an example of the secondary sense of the phrase. Possibly in the purer atmosphere of Cambridge the " man in the moon " has never had the actuality that is unfortunately ascribed to him in this city by the sober testimony of Blue-Books and the ' Life ' of our late Chichele Professor.
Q. V.
Oxford.
NAMES TEBBIBLE TO CHILDBEN (10 S. x. 509). In Mr. Pett Ridge's clever, but painful story ' Name of Garland ' the heroine, when officiating as a nursemaid, keeps her infant charge in order by threatening him with the name of Mr. Gladstone. The date at which the story begins is not given, but
Tom references to " Jack the Ripper ' T
and other indications, it may be taken to-
- >e 1888 or thereabouts. Mr. Gladstone was-
not then Prime Minister, but he was the aest-known politician of that day, and was probably regarded as a formidable foe to- evildoers. W. F. PBJDEAITX.
Richard I. of England is a well-known instance. See Gibbon's ' Rome,' chap. lix. :
' His tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants : and if a- lorse suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, 'Dost thou think King Richard is n that bush?'" He refers to Joinville, p. 17.
Scott puts a like statement into the mouth of Saladin when he meets Richard at the lists (' Talisman.' chap, xxvii.).
M. TELSON.
Narses, 473-568 (Gibbon's ' Decline and Fall,' viii. 219).
Richard Coeur de Lion (ib., xi. 146).
Sir Thomas Lunsford (Butler's ' Hudibras, T iii. 2).
Lamia, Lilith, and Hunniades may also- be included ; and see the ' Decline and Fall,' xii. 166. A. R. BAYLEY.
See 10 S. i. 325, ' Drake in Mexico ' ; and 10 S. vii. 387, ' La Hueste Antigua.'
W. R. B. PBIDEAUX.
According to the Berea Quarterly, quoted by The Manchester Guardian of 19 December last, the traveller stopping at a lonely cottage in the hill country of Kentucky may hear the mother quiet an unruly child by saying " Behave now, son, or Clavers will get you." " Clavers " is a reminiscence of Claver- house, who harried the Covenanting ancestors of these Kentuckians. H. W. H,
Should not Gilles de Retz of Brittany, executed in 1440, and the Black Douglas (William, lord of Nithsdale), killed in 1390, be added to this list ? W. B. GEBISH.
Bishop's Stortford.
SIB JOHN SYDENHAM, BABT., OF BBOMP- TON (10 S. x. 490). I am unable to conjecture where MB. GBAY got his information upon which he founds his query. Burke in his ' Extinct Baronetage ' says :
"Sir John Sydenham, Bart., married for his first wife Mary, daughter and coheir of John Buckland of West Harpetre, co. Somerset, who after, his death (in 162o) married the Lord Grey. The last statement is an error. She^died in 1596.
