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 io--s.iv.ocT.28.i905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 351 In canto xi.:— As the sighing, singing branches In the pleasant Moon of Strawberries. The month of snowshoes I presume to be January ; the month of leaves, May; and the mouth of strawberries, July. JAMES WATSON. Folkestone. There is "running in my head" the open- ing verse of an old glee, given below, which may be of interest to your correspondent, although it does not support his provisional arrangement of "moon names":— Come out, 'tis now September, The Hunters' Moon a begun. And through the wheaten stubble Is heard the frequent gun. CHARLES HICHAM. [The glee in question was sung forty odd years ago at Evans's. ] PAGING PROFESSOR" (10tb S. iv. 188, 273).—Anent the notes on this subject that have already appeared, perhaps the sub- joined remarks may not bo out of place. 1. That the expression "Sacra Pagina" does signify Holy Writ may be, I think, established by a reference to the third anti- l lip in of the Office of Lauds for the feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great, 12 March, which is as follows: "Dum paginre sacra mysteria panderet, coluniba nive candidior apparuit," the allusion being, of course, to St. Gregory's study of the Scriptures. And a propos of the same idea, the seventh verse of the hymn 'Anglorum jam Apostolus,' by St. Peter Damien, which is said at Vespers and Lauds on that day, runs thus:— Scripture sacra niystica Mire solvis aenigmata: Theories mysteria Te docet ipsa Veritas. 2. Was there ever a formal " degree " known as " Sacrse Paginse Doctor" ? I ask this question in all simplicity. There may have been, and the evidence produced by W. B. (p. 273) seems to suggest that there was—i.e., if the "S.P.D." quoted by him does there stand for "Sacrse Paginae Doctor"; but I •would venture to hazard the opinion (and I may be wrong) that no such degree was ever given. Until comparatively modern times the study of Holy Writ was considered, ecclesiastically, as forming part of the theo- logical curriculum. In olden times a " theo- logian " taught the Scripture course, in accordance with this reflection : "Theologia omnium scientiarum est regina: verse theologize aniraa est Scripturarum scientia." In those days there was no hard-and-fast division between the two sciences as we know them now; so that we find that even the greatest of the commentators was styled, not"S. Pag. Doctor," but "Theologus." Thus, for example, the famous Cornelius a Lapide, in his great work on Scripture, is referred to, by the Censor Deputatus, by the General of the Order, and oy the Provincial of the Society in Flanders, merely as "Societatis nostree Theologus." And there also, in the "Summa Privilegii Regii Philippi—Dei gratia Hispaniarum, Indiarum, <fec Rex Catho- licus," he is somewhat further particularized as a theologian and as " Sacrarum Litterarum olim in collegio Romano Professor." Here, naturally, as in the modern acceptation of the word, the term "Professor" simply im- plied that the person indicated occupied the Chair of Scripture at the said college. Further, the University of Louvain was specially re- markable for the prominence given there to the study of the Sacred Scriptures in the theological course ; but is there any evidence of a "degree" being given? Lamy himself, in his 'Introductio in Sacram Scripturam,' is designated in the prefatory notes as merely " S. Theologies Doctor ; Hermeneuticse Sacra et Lingg. Orient, in universitate Catholica Lovaniensi Professor." Being interested in the subject, I should like to know whether a "degree" for Scrip- ture did exist in earlier times. If so, where and when was it conferred ? B. W. Fort Augustus. EPHIS AND HIS LION (10th S. ii. 448).— The story referred to by Charles Reade in ch. Ixxiv. of 'The Cloister and the Hearth' is to be found in Pliny's 'Nat. Hist,' viii. 16 (21), §§ 57, 58. The man's name is Elpis. EDWARD BENSLY. COPENHAGEN HOUSE (10th S. iv. 205,295).— Not one of the authorities quoted by MR. J. HOLDEN MAcMiciiAEL provides sufficient evidence to suggest that Francis Place's im- pression of the decay of this pleasure resort in 1824 was erroneous. The ' Picture of London' of almost every year between 1816 and 1830 simply records its existence under ' Tea Gardens,' giving no information as to its relative importance or prosperity. Admitting that the dead dog and the duckweed are insufficient evidences, we are justified in believing that a good democrat like Place would have taken pleasure in recording the success and popular patronage of the tavern if it existed. Supplementing the information contained in ' My Lifetime,' the late Mr. John Hol- liugshead sent me several letters on the