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Edward F. Rimbault.
Greek Inscription on a Font (Vol. viii., p. 198.).–This Query has already been answered and illustrated in Vol. vii., pp. 178. 366. 417.; but the following passage may be of interest, as affording instances of the same inscription in France, and pointing out the probable source of its usage, viz. from the ancient Greek metropolitan church at Constantinople:
"St. Mémin est une abbaye célèbre sous l'ancien nom de Micy, sur la rivière de Loire, proche d'Orléans. Il y a dans l'église de ce monastère un benétier de forme ronde, avec cette inscription grecque gravée sur le bord du bassin, ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ. La même chose est à Paris, au benétier de St. Etienne d'Egrès, et aussi autrefois à celui de Sainte Sophie à Constantinople."—Voyages liturgiques de France, par le Sieur Moleon, p. 219., 8vo. 1718.
It may be added (on Cole's authority, vol. XXXV. f. 19b.) that the same inscription is inscribed round a large silver basin used formerly at the master's table on festival days, in Trinity College Hall, Cambridge; and I have also seen it on a sliver-gilt rose-water basin, introduced at the banquets given by the master of Magdalene College in the same university.
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"Fierce" (Vol. viii., p. 280.).—In this part of the country the words pert, pronounced "peart," and pure, bear the same meaning, of well in health and spirits.
Francis John Scott.
Tewkesbury.
Giving Quarter (Vol. viii., p. 246.).—It must be observed that the older form of the expression is "keeping quarter:"
"That every one should kill the man he caught,
To keep no quarter."
—Drayton in Richardson.
Now very obvious application of the word quarter, instanced by Todd, is to signify the proper station or appointed place of any one.
"They do best who, if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarter, and sever it wholly from their serious affairs."—Bacon's Essays.
To keep quarter, then, is to keep within measure, within the limits or bounds appointed by some paramount consideration; and hence, as in the following passage from Shakspeare (where it is clumsily interpreted amity or companionship), the word is used as synonymous with terms or conditions:
"Friends all but now,
In quarter and in terms like bride and groom
Divesting them for bed, and then but now
Swords out and tilting one at other's breast."
In the same sense Clarendon speaks of "offering them quarter for their lives if they would give up the castle," i. e. offering them conditions for their lives on their performing their part of the bargain.
Again, in a passage of Swift, cited by Todd: "Mr. Wharton, who detected some hundred of the bishop's mistakes, meets with very ill quarter from his Lordship," i. e. meets with very ill conditions of treatment from him. Finally, to give quarter in the military sense is to give conditions absolutely, as opposed to the unmitigated exercise of the victor's power, and, as the most important of all conditions, to spare life.
H. W.
Sheriffs of Glamorganshire (Vol. iii., p. 186.).—The list of the Glamorganshire sheriffs here inquired for was not printed by Mr. Traherne, but by the Rev. H. H. Knight, M.A., of Neath, and of Nottage Court, in Glamorganshire: it is a little pamphlet in a paper cover.
Tewars.
"When the maggot bites" (Vol. viii., p. 244.).—A correspondent asks why a thing done on the spur of the moment is said to be done "when the maggot bites." It signifies rather doing a thing when the fancy takes one. When a person acts from no apparent motive in external circumstances, he is said to have a maggot in his head, to have a bee in his bonnet or, in French, "Avoir des rats dans la tête;" in Platt-Deutsch, to have a mouse-nest in his head, the eccentric behaviour being attributed to the influence of the internal irritation.
H. W.
Connexion between the Celtic and Latin Languages (Vol. viii., p. 174.).—Your correspondent M. will find much valuable information on this subject in a work entitled Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of the Gael, by James Grant, Esq., Advocate: Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1814.
Francis John Scott.
Tewkesbury.
Bacon's Essays (Vol. viii., p. 143.).—Bacon's Essay VII.: "Optimum elige," &c. Pythagoras, in Plutarch de Exilio.—Essay XV.: "Dolendi modus," &c. Plin., lib. viii. ep. 17. fin.
C. P. E.
"Exiguum est." &c. (Vol. viii., p. 197.).—"Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse." Vide Senec. de Ira, ii. 27.
C. P. E.
Muffs worn by Military Men on a March (Vol. viii., p. 281.).—In the year 1592 the Duke of Nevers was despatched by Henry IV. with all speed to a place called Bully, in order to cut off the retreat of the Duke of Guise, lately defeated near Bures. Sully speaks of him thus:
"The Duke of Nevers, the slowest of men, began by sending to make choice of the most favourable roads, and marched with a slow pace towards Bully, with his hands and his nose in his muff, and his whole person well packed up in his coach."—Memoirs of Sully, vol. i. p. 235., English edit., Edinburgh, 1773.
Francis John Scott.
Tewkesbury.
"Earth says to Earth" (Vol. vii., pp. 498. 576.).—A fac-simile of these lines, discovered in the chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross at Stratford-on-Avon (with many other curious plates), may be seen in Fisher's Illustrations of the Paintings, &c., edited by J. G. Nichols, Esq., and published in 1802, and afterwards continued.
Erica speaks of "Weaver's" Account. Unless this is a misprint for "Wheler's" (Account of Stratford-on-Avon), perhaps he will oblige me with the full title of Weaver's work.
Este.
Poetical Tavern Signs (Vol. viii., p. 242.).—I would add the following sign-inscription to those noted by R. C. Warde. It was on the walls of a tavern half-way up Richmond Hill, three miles south of Douglas, Isle of Man, kept by a man of the name of Abraham Lowe:
"I'm Abraham Lowe, and half-way up the hill,
If I were higher up, what's funnier still,
I should be belowe. Come in and take your fill
Of porter, ale, wine, spirits, what you will.
Step in, my friend, I pray no farther go;
My prices, like myself, are always low."
J. G. C.
Unkid (Vol. viii., p. 221.).—Is not the word hunks, so common in people's mouths,—An old hunks, an old miser or miserable wretch, to be referred to the same derivation as unkid, hunkid?
F. B—w.
Camera Lucida (Vol. viii., p. 271.).—Caret will find Dr. Wollaston's description of his invention, the "Camera Lucida," in the 17th volume of Nicholson's Journal.
M. C. M.
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