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NOTES AND QUERIES.

11 S. I. JAN. 15, 1910.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I am editing the letters of a man who quoted pretty freely in two senses and I have traced all his quotations except these five :

1. Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cantum.

2. Felix et prudens qui tempore pacis de bello

cogitet.

3. Recte faciendo neminem timeas. 4 Tela prsevisa minus nocent.

5. Turba per extremas semper bacchata vagatur, Et medias iiescit carpere tuta vias.

Can the readers of * N. & Q. ? assist me ? J. A. J. DE VILLIERS> Hon. Sec. Hakluyt Society.

I shall be glad of information about the following quotations, which I cannot trace to their origin.

In ' Across the Plains ? Stevenson quotes :

1. The tall hills Titan discovered. In ' The Black Arrow l :

2. Here is no law in good green shaw.

In ' Westward Ho l Kingsley quotes :

3. Our bodies in the sea so deep, Our souls in heaven to rest.

4. Who will join, jolly mariners all ?

5. Westward ho ! with a rum below, And hurrah for the Spanish Main O !

What is " a rumbelow " ?

In ' The Pleasures of Life ' Lord Avebury quotes :

6. When care sleeps the soul wakes.

7. The dark lantern of the spirit,

Which none can see by but he who bears it.

8. " The eternal crown of poesy n is a phrase either used by Milton or of Milton's works. A. L. O. G.

Bonn.

Can any one inform me in which of Mr. Alfred Austin's poems or odes the line

Give your money to the hospitals appears ? I think it was written in con- nexion with the King Edward Hospital Fund. I am desirous of obtaining a copy of the poem. E. H. LLOYD.

3, Park Road, Oxbridge.

REV. RICHARD SNOWE. I shall be glad to add to my extremely small store of infor- mation in reference to the eighteenth- century divine of this name who was Rector of SS. Anne and Agnes with St. John Zachary, London, from 1780 till his death some eight years later. All I know of him at present is limited to his being Rector of St. Anne's as above ; and to his dying on 6 Feb., 1788, and being interred in the chancel of the church on the 13th of the

month. His will, at P.C.C. 95 Calvert, dated 7 January of same year, makes no mention of wife or family. He does not seem to hav6 held a degree.

Perhaps some correspondent can tell me whether Mr. Snowe was in any way related to the " Rev. Dr. J. Snowe ?i who is re- ferred to in Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers ? as chaplain to the Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis) in 1732.

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

MARRIAGE IN A SHIFT. In ' Parish Registers of Wonston, Hants ' (press-mark 9905), p. 6, is the following entry :

" The Widow Taylor's former husband dying insolvent, she was married to her second husband only with her shift, thinking thereby, according to a vulgar tradition, to discharge him from her first husband's debts. 12 Oct., 1783."

Is there any other record of this peculiar wedding ? W. HAWKES STRUGNELL,

Commander R.N.

[The custom has been previously discussed in ' N. & Q.' ; see 9 S. v. 323 ; xii. 146, 214, 314, and the references cited.]

WILLIAM KEITH was elected on the foundation at Westminster School in 1751. Particulars of his career and the date of his death are required. G. F. R. B.

EDWARD PLASS was elected on the founda- tion at Westminster School in 1698. I should be glad to obtain any information about him. G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM SHIPPEN, 1673-1743. Who was his mother ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' (lii. 117) says nothing about her. G. F. R. B.

CHAUCER : NAMES OF CHARACTERS IN ' THE SQUIRE'S TALE.' Will some one kindly explain the origin and meaning of the following characters in ' The Squire's Tale J ? It is probable that they come from some language of the Mongol family : Cam- buscan (? Kannusi-Kan, " King of Kings ") ; Elphita (? Alp, " noble ") ; Cambalo (? Kan- bele, " of royal family ") ; Algarsyf (? Arabic El Wasuf, " the titles " or " attributes " of the Almighty). The above are merely crude suggestions made by a friend.

EMERITUS.

[Have you consulted any annotated edition ? ]

SIR ROBERT GEFFERY. This native of Landrake in Cornwall was Lord Mayor of London in 1685. I am anxious to know if there is a portrait of him in existence.

J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B.

88, Horton Grange Road, Bradford.