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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. NOV. 12, im.
to the dates of the Latin and Scots texts of
these laws as they stand in the Record
edition. ROBT. J. WHITWELL.
Oxford.
"WHAT IF A DAY, OR A MONTH, OR A YEAR ? "Can any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' oblige me with an exact copy from 'An Hour's Recreation in Music, 3 by Richard Alison, Gentleman, 1606, of a song beginning "What if a day, or a month, or a year?" Copies of or references to this song, which at one time was very popular, and has been attributed to Campion, will be very welcome. I know the versions in ' Philotus,' the l Rox- burghe Ballads/ the 'Pepys Ballads,' and Arber's 'Anthology.' Direct communication preferred. A. E. H. SWAEN.
7, Van Eeghenstraat, Amsterdam. [See 5 th S. viii. 220.]
" POETA NASCITUR NON FIT." Can any of your correspondents tell me from what author comes that hackneyed quotation of " Poeta nascitur non fit" ? SENEX.
[Unknown. See 8 th S. vii. 329; yiii. 14, 194 ; and
3hn's ' Dictionary,' under "Nascimur poetse."]
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How TO CATALOGUE SEVENTEENTH- CEN-
TURY TRACTS. Does any book exist giving
instructions how technically to describe^
calendar, or catalogue seventeenth - century
tracts, forming part of a private library ? or
can any reader tell me how such a task should
be undertaken ? INEXPERT.
D'EUDEMARE. Can any one give me information about the old French name D'Eudemare? Is it the title or the name of the author? W. B. H.
[Francois d'Eudemare wrote ' Histoire Excellente et Heroique du Roy Willaume le Bastard, jadis Roy d'Angleterre et Due de Normandie,' Rouen, 1626. It is rare. ]
"GAG-MAG." Having referred to Webster's 'Imperial Dictionary,' and also to the ' Slang Dictionary,' and having found that the former (to my surprise) uses the word of language, but the latter in its more general application to food, I venture to ask if any reader of ' X. & Q.' can throw light on the subject. The word is undoubtedly slang. EDWARD P. WOLFERSTAN.
[A column is devoted to the word, in its various senses in the ' E.D.D.' It is also fully discussed in the 'N.E.D.' It originally signified a tough old goose. Reference to such sources should precede application to N. & Q.,' in which see also under
Dickens : Cag-Maggerth,' 6 th S. xii. 268, 292 ; and under ' Keg-meg,' 9 th S. i. 248, 357, where all necessary information is supplied. Further com- munications on the subject are not invited.]
THOMAS GLADSTONE AND BREAD RIOTS IN
LEITH. Can any one inform me where I can
find an authentic account, contemporary or
otherwise, of Thomas Gledstanes (grand-
father of the late W. E. Gladstone) being
maltreated by a mob in Leith a hundred
years ago or more ? H. A. COCKBURN.
IA, Lower Grosvenor Place, S.W.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.
1. Death's pale violets that he gives when he takes life's roses. ? Tom Hood.
2. The hectic flush had mounted its bloody flag of No Surrender !
3. The gratitude of a patient is part of his disease.
4. So when at last by slow degrees
My sluggish veins grow old and freeze.
5. Will your pulse quicken when you are told you must die?
6. The generations shall become weaker and wiser. ? from Greek.
MEDICULUS.
SAYING ABOUT THE ENGLISH. " The old elogium and character of this English nation was, that they were Hilaris gens, cui libera metis et libera lingua 1 ' (Cl. Walker, 'Hist, of Independency,' i. 92, 1648). Are there any earlier references to this saying 1
REGINALD HAINES.
Uppingham.
SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS. Can any reader refer me to a list of works on this subject, and say when the first volume dealing with it made its appearance 1 N. E. R.
BRASS IN WINSLOW CHURCH. In St. Lau- rence's Parish Church at Winslow there is a brass sunk in a recumbent tombstone, dated 1578, in memory of " Thomas fnge & Janne his wyfe," bearing these arms : Quarterly,
1 and 4, a fesse between three fleurs de lys ;
2 and 3, on a bend three molets pierced . It seems peculiar, as in the second and third quarters the bend is transposed, that in the second being a dexter bend, while that in the third is sinisterwise.
I shall be glad of any information as to whether these two quarters represent the coats of different families, or whether the bends were merely transposed by the caprice of the craftsman. If the former, it will be interesting to know what two families bear coats so very similar ; if the latter, the reason for transposing the ordinary.
The arms appear to have been elaborately wrought, and may, I suppose, originally have shown the tinctures, all traces of which are now absent. The field of the first and fourth quarters is irregularly grooved, and shows in one place remains of plaster, while the fleurs de lys and fesses are formed of lead sunk in
