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budgets at their backs, which they stole out of the pedlers fardle, climing up to trees, some with spectacles on their noses, some with beades about their neckes. some with touch-boxes and iiik-hornes in their hands, some with crosses and censour boxes, some with cardes in their hands ; al which things they stole out of the budget." But even Coryat did not know the history of the picture, though he went so far as to say : " This pretty conceit seemeth to import some merry matter, but truely I know not the morall of it."

One of Coryat' s panegyrists, Richard Badley, was evidently attracted by the account his friend gave of this work of art : he rimed about

That master-piece of such perfection, Apelles need not scorne t' have laid th' complexion : Wherein proud Art (Dame nature to excell) Within an Ale-house painted had full well, The pilfring pastime of a erne of Apes, Sporting themselves with their conceited Japes About a Pedler that lay snorting by, Not dreaming of their thievish knavery ; Whose packe unclosed, his trinkets on the twigs Some fasten, whilst the others dance their jigs, This piece did please, and so content thy eye, Thou judg'st it worthy immortality.

ST. SWITHIN.

PROVERBS AND POPULAR PHRASES (10 S. x. 281). MR. BOBBINS should consult 'The New English ' of Mr. Kington Oliphant, and its copious index, for early instances of colloquial-proverbial expressions. He will find " here or there " in Gower. " promise- breach " in Shakespeare, and " town-talk " in Congreve. " Right here " occurs in
 * King Alisaunder,' about 1300. H. P. L.

HOPPNER AND SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND'S DAUGHTERS (10 S. x. 168, 233, 294). I have just been to the Franco-British Exhibition, and made a point of looking out for the picture alluded to. It is numbered 74 in the Catalogue, and the particulars supplied to MR. HARLAND-OXLEY are correct. In the left-hand bottom corner are the names of the two ladies, " Marianne and Amelia "; and the inscription states that they are "daughters of Sir T. Frankland," and adds the dates of their death : " Ob. 1795 and 1800." Furthermore, the picture was lent by Sir Edward P. Tennant, Bart., M.P., who presumably is the owner.

A. W. COOPER. 230, Navarino Mansions, Dalston Rise, N.E.

"CADEY" (10 S. x. 147, 198, 277). I have known this word as long as I can remember. A nice, well-kept, cleanly old person is " cadey " in Derbyshire. A cat or other animal showing fondness for you is " cadey."

" How nice and cadey she is ! " well describes several people I have in my eye. It is a word equal to the Lancashire and Cheshire " gradely," and is quite as expressive. Both are folk-words, which to me are not related to slang. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS (10 S. v. 27, 75; vii. 337). At the last reference the line

Est bene non potuit dicere, dixit, erit, was said to be a modern (or possibly mediaeval) proverb rather than a classical quotation, and a reference was given to Seybold's ' Viridarium ' for

EST, qui non potuit dicere, dixit ERIT. I was wrong. To whatever extent the words or any variation of them may have been current as a proverb in post-classical times, it ought not to have escaped me that the line comes from Suetonius. See the last chapter of his life of Domitian (23) :

" Ante paucos quam occideretur menses cornix in Capitolio elocuta est: "Eo-rai Trai/ra /axAws* nee defuit qui ostentum sic interpretaretur : Nuper Tarpeio quce, sedit culmine cornix

Est bene non potuit dicere, dixit: erit."

John of Salisbury quotes this distich, with a slight difference and without giving the source, in i. 13 of his ' Policraticus.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

JESUITS AT MEDIOLANUM (10 S. x. 309). With regard to the site of this Roman sta- tion, most antiquaries have fixed it hypo- thetically at Meifod in the parish of Llan- fyllin, Montgomeryshire. The difficulties of exact identification, however, are so great that more than one distinguished authority has capitulated to them. Richard of Ciren- cester, ' On the Ancient State of Britain,' says :

" Beyond the borders of the Silures were the Ordovices, whose cities were Mediolanum [on the Tanat or Tanad] and Brannogenium [near Lerit- wardine]." Book I. chap. vi. 24.

In his commentary on this Itinerary (Appen- dix I. ) Dr. J. A. Giles observes that

on the banks of the Tanad, not far from the point where it is intersected by the Roman road from

aersws to Chester, was probably the lost town of Mediolanum. From Mediolanum the road runs under the north end of the Brythen, straight, although obscurely, to Rowton, and from thence over the Severn to Wroxeter."

Giraldus states that in his time there existed considerable remains of venerable antiquity at Meifod, and several foundation floors, causeways, &c., have at different