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is a balcony. Webster's ' Dictionary ' gives " Put. v.t., Dan. putte, to put, to put into Fries. Putje, allied to W. Pwtian Pwtiaw, to butt, poke, thrust," &c. This recalls the word " put-log " (which I have heard pro nounced by Devonshire workmen " putt-log),' & log or beam one end of which was thrust into the walling as a support for scaffolding or upper flooring.

That the purpose or use of the pot-gallery was not necessarily connected with drinking from pots has been established.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

NAME-PUZZLE IN EARLY SPENSER (10 S ix. 48, 114). The conjecture that the owner's name is to be looked for in the in- scription " amore summo," &c., followed by " ama Deum," seems very doubtful. The maxim was certainly not composed with the intent of revealing (or concealing) the name. The trick is of not uncommon oc- currence in varying forms. See Part II. p. 199 (1601) of Reusner's ' ^nigmato- graphia,' where the following are found : Amicus Amore

verus More

cognosci- Ore

tur Re.

Seruiendum Deo~toto corde, id eat Amore Summo More vero, Ore fideli, Re omni.

On the same page may be seen the following " Logogriphus,"

pit rem tern pit rem

Qui ca vxo li ca atque dolo

ret re te ret re

which is quoted* from the fly-leaf of a Camb. Univ. MS. by Prof. Skeat in his ' Student's Pastime,' p. 28 ('N. & Q.,' 3 S. xii. 412). The lines thus arranged are not uncommon. The first is quoted (with cupit) in the
 * Anatomy of Melancholy.'

Is it not possible that the iambics given by MR. BOYS, as well as the maxim below them, may merely have been jotted down as memoranda by a former owner of the book ? EDWARD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

CHEESE FOR LADIES (10 S. xi. 229, 292).

When I was living in Jamaica some years ago, a friend of mine told me that, before he left England as a young man, it was not the custom for ladies to eat cheese. As he would, if living, have been nearly ninety-five, this takes us back to a time long before Mrs. Gaskell's 'Wives and Daughters.' How-


 * With poenam and p<xna for (item and lite.

ever, though he had been in England so lately as 1874, he believed that ladies suffered the same privation at that time, and almost refused to believe me when I told him that they did not.

F. NEWMANJ

AUTHOR or QUOTATION WANTED (10 S. xi. 268). The poem beginning " If sadly thinking," which your correspondent mis- quotes, is by John Philpot Curran. It will be found in his 'Life,' by his son (1822, vol. i. p. 181). It is also given in Mr. Stopford Brooke's ' Treasury of Irish Poetry' (Smith, Elder & Co.).

CLEMENT SHORTER.

These verses are two out of four known as ' The Deserter's Meditation,' by John Philpot Curran. They were set to a plaintive air by Wm. Carnaby> Mus. Doc., who began as chorister in the Chapel Royal, and ended as organist at Hanover Chapel, Regent Street, London. The song is called 'The Deserter,' and was published about 1835 by Willis & Co., Royal Musical Repository, 55, St. James's Street, London, and 7, Westmoreland Street, Dublin.

A. RHODES.

'The Deserter's Meditation' can be found in Brooke and Rollestone's ' Treasury of Irish Poetry,' London, 1900, and Lover's ' Lyrics of Ireland,' London, 1858.

JOHN S. CRONE. Kensal Lodge, N.W.

The poem is in C. Phillips's 'Recol- lections of John Philpot Curran,' a very popular book some forty years ago. I have not seen it for quite that time. W. J. L.

Savile Club.

[Copies of the poem sent by DR. W. H. CUMMINGS and DR. G. WHERRY have been forwarded to SIR ARTHUR CLAY. Other correspondents are also thanked for replies.]

SHAKESPEARE AND ENSOR : PAUL FAMILT (10 S. xi. 210). There is a reference to the Ensor family of Wilmcote at 10 S. vi. 190, 253. I am unable to give the connexion between the Shakespeare and Ensor families, but the following may be of interest.

James Ensor of Wilmcote had a daughter who in January, 1754, married Jeffery Paul of Wilmcote, gentleman, great-grand- son of Jeffery Paul of Chilvers Coten, co. Warwick. It is perhaps worth noting the coincidence that John Paul (mercer of Gosport, Hants) an ancestor of mine, married Emily (?) Ensor of London about 1832-3. Three of their children died in