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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. M AR. 12, 1910.

school, and stands fronting the Market Place, behind the statue of William III. Charles II. and his queen mother slept here en route to France.

Pepys in his ' Diary l also alludes to ' ' The Castle Inn " :

" May 1st, 1661. Up early and bated at Petersfield in the room which the King lay in lately at his being there. Here very merry, and played with our wives at bowles. Then we set forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seeming to me to be a very pleasant strong place."

F. K. P.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. i. 50, 113, 155). MB. DE VILLIEBS will find the line

Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum in a dialogue of Joh. Ravisius Textor, a French writer, in Latin, of the early years of Francis I., as is proved by one of his dialogues being written in celebration of the conclusion of the Treaty of London in October, 1518, whilst the one in which the line in question occurs alludes to the preparations of Francis for his expedition to Italy about 1521. The line is the third from the end of a dialogue in which the persons are three Epicureans, Disease, a Devil, an Angel, and the World. It is on p. 148 in my copy, which is a small one, printed by Arnold Leers, at Rotterdam, in 1651.

It seems to have escaped the notice of editors of, and writers on, early English drama, that the originals of at least two Interludes, ' Thersites,'- and ' The Dis- obedient Child, l are to be found in Textor' s Dialogues. FBANK NEWMAN.

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No. 4 of MB. DE VILLIEBS'S quotations appears, with " f eriunt " for " no cent, 11 in 'The Book of Fortune Two Hundred un- published Drawings by Jean Cousin Repro- duced from the original manuscript in the Library of the Institute of France with intro- duction and notes by Ludovic Lalanne trans- lated by H. Mainwaring Dunstan, n Librairie de l'-Art, Paris, et London, 1883, plate 108 :

Tela pra3visa minus f eriunt. This is the proverb or sentence of a symbol in which there are arrows and mirrors. The companion emblem has this sentence :

Fortunae imperatrix providentia. In this "Foresight,' 4 with crown and sceptre, is seated on a throne, pointing her finger at " Fortune," who sits with bandaged eyes, humiliated, on the step below the

throne. Dunstan's translation of the ex- planation of the emblem and symbol is as follows : -

"As in a mirror one sees what is hurtful to the face, so one ought to foresee arrows : that is to say, the ills which Fortune may bring ; which when well foreseen do not hurt so much ; so Providence (foresight) is empress of the afore- said Fortune." P. 30.

The next two sentences are : 'Ubi Prudentia nullus Fortunse locus. Jugum Fortunes vitabit prudens.

According to the Introduction, this ' Liber Fortunse centum emblemata, et symbola centum, continens,' &c., of which the MS. title appears in facsimile (p. 2), was never printed until after its discovery by Lalanne (? about 1875, see p. 6).

The compiler of the proverbial sayings and author of tlie text appears to have been one Imbert d'Anlezy, lord of Dunflun in Nivernais, Knight of the Order of the King, and one of the hundred gentlemen of his household, who ' ' must have died in or before 1574." From the year 1538 he "served Francois I. and his successors in their wars at home and abroad " (pp. 6, 7).

As to the text, only the sayings and the explanations originally in French are repro- duced : D'Anlezy's quatrains, distichs, quotations, and proverbs written in Latin are omitted (p. 17).

ROBEBT PlEBPOINT.

SOWING BY HAND (11 S. i. 46, 133). There may well be uncertainty about the methods of hand sowing. In the autumn of last year the land was not dry enough for the drill to work, and the farmer had ' ' to revert to the ancient practice of hand- sowing, now almost a lost art lost for want of practice on the part of the older genera- tion of labourers, and because never learned by the younger" (The Times, 22 Nov. 1909).

The race of shepherds is dwindling because the young men will not agree to uncertain hours or to nightwork. The thatcher also becomes rarer every year. County Councils discountenance thatch, and corrugated iron is a powerful competitor. W. C. B.

MB. RATCLIFFE (whose reply confirms my note) is right in saying that the attitude of the sower on the* Cornhill cover is alto- gether wrong. The seed-hopper (MB. RAT- CLIFFE calls it a " skep, i? ' a word I do not remember to have heard in this connexion) ought to hang directly in front of the sower, instead of on his right hip, as it is