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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* 8. iv. JULY s, 1905. naturae de quo (ut prseclare de eo scribitur) non fuerit illi curse scribere." P. 17,1.17; 5,13, " tu m maxirae cum novitas excitat palatum." See Alciatus's Epist. to 'Paulus Jovius at the beginning of the Paris '(1553) ed. of vol. i. of the latter's ' Historic sui Temporis," " Scis quam auidus aim libro- •rum helluo, & turn maxima quum nouitas •excitat palatum." P. 17,11.18-21; 5,11.14-17, " Many men lie down." Since giving (9th S. xii. 363) the exact references in Gellius (mod. texts), Pliny, and Seneca I have made the interesting dis- covery that Burton was indebted for the whole of this passage to Justus Baronius's preface 'Ad Lectorem':— impqsiturus. mitltot ait, in inxigniendi* librig mircut •eequt inscriptionnm festiuitotes. Et C. Flinius plerosque inquit ita in hao ponipa excellere, lit anultos ad vculimonium deserendum eompellant: seu «t Seneca; uerbis utar, jMfri ob»tetricem parlurien/i juux accersentt moram iniicere ponsint."—Sig. (b) 2. recto, 2nd ed., 1605. Burton's marginal references in Gellius and Pliny _are taken from Baronius's margin. Baronius omitted the number of Seneca's epistle; so, naturally, does Burton. The latters statement that Pliny "quotes out of Seneca " is due to a misunderstanding of his original. This is an instructive example. I may add that I have marked very many passages (chiefly in the case of verse quota- tions) in which Burton undoubtedly drew from secondary sources. P. 17, 1. 23; 5, 18, "Anthonie Zara in iour sections, members, subsections," ,L 16' and n- 12J 5' 38' and n- a. is Valla's translation (1513), with exprimit instead of explicat. P. 18, 1. 20, and n. 22; 6, 1. 1 and n. f, ^ Felix Plater O[b]servat. 1. i.» Cap. ' Animi perturbatione, ex imaginatione Iresa,' &c., over one-seventh through lib. i. It was only a single frog (not, as Burton, " frogs ") that the patient imagined to be living inside him. He had " studied physick seven years " to some purpose, graduating as doctor of medicine at Basel "cum laude." Plater's account of the case is good reading. The headstrong delusion, after surviving most heroic purges, yielded at last to arguments drawn from the natural history of reptiles. Burton refers again to this " most memor- able example," i. 474 : 200, I. iii. ii. ii. P. 19,1.14 ; 6, 12, " Experto crede Roberto." To the note at 9th S. xi. 441 may be added that this proverbial phrase is found in several of the books which Burton used. See Nevi- zanus, ' Sylva Nuptialis,' iv. 92, 1. 35 of the verses ; Mizaldus, Cent. iii. 59, which ends, " Experto, ut dicunt, crede Roberto." This section of Mizaldus is quoted in Wecker, ' De Secretis,' lib. v. cap. 4. P. 19, n. 9 ; 6, n. 1, " Iliada post Homerum." Burton has utilized Justus Baronius on the previous page (ed. 6), and cites him by name on the present. So it is at least extremely probable that the proverb was suggested by its occurrence in cap. i. (p. 5) of Baronius's 'Pro Prsescriptionibus suis adversus lohan. Rainoldum Anglo Calvinianum Vindicise,' printed at the end of the 1605 ed. of his ' Prsescriptiones':— " Accesait altera ratio quod non aolum ea causa, de qua nobis lit em mouea, ad nauseam a diuerais ita tractata ac pertractata est, ut ai quid ampliua de ea commentari aggrederer, Iliada poit Homenim xcriliere, atque otio literisque turpiter abuti viderer." Burton's next quotation from Baronius is within three pages of this in the ' Vindicire.' EDWARD BENSLY. Via Lombardia, Rome. (To be continued.) THE BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE III.—The fol- lowing contribution to The Times of a well- known correspondent of ' N. & Q.' opens out an interesting point:— SIR,—In the accounts of the celebration at Eton College, on Saturday, there have been many refer- ences to June 4 aa the birthday of King George III., and the ode of the Poet Laureate of 1805, which was reprinted in your columns, shows, of courae, that at that time June 4 was regarded, as it still is, aa the anniversary of his Majesty's birth. I should like your permiaaion to point out what doea not appear to be generally known—namely, that the King was actually born, not on June 4, but on the same day aa Queen Victoria, May 24. Whatever books of reference may say on the point, the actual date is placed beyond doubt by the quaintly - worded official record in the London Gazette of Friday, May 26,1738:—"On Wednesday last, at Half an Hour past seven in the Morning, Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was safely delivered of a Prince, who was immediately christened by the name of George, which was occa- sioned by some dangerous Symptoms that appeared at tirsi, though they are now happily over, and the Princess likewise is in a very good way." One can only account for the discrepancy be- tween the actual and assigned date of the birthday by auppoaing that when the Gregorian Calendar took the place of the Julian the famoua " eleven days" were added to the real birthday of the
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