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SITE OF THE GLOBE THEATRE (11 S. x -Jo'i. 290). Having seen in ' N. & Q.' at the latter reference a reply concerning the site t.f Shakespeare's Globe, I have looked up tin 1 corresponding query on p. 209.

The paper which I wrote upon ' The Site if the Globe Playhouse' was published in vol. xxiii. of the Surrey ArchcBological Col- l'<-!r>ns in 1910. In that paper I set out ms for supposing the site to be upon tin 1 south side of Maid Lane reasons which appeared to be almost conclusive.

S nee the publication of Dr. Wallace'.' Contributions to The Times of 30 April and 1 May of the present year the trustees oi tli,' (Hobe Memorial have again considered the question of the site, and have been ex;- mining the documents to which Dr. Wallace has referred. Owing, however, to Dr. Wallace's unfortunate omission to state whore the documents were to be found, soin." delay was occasioned in their discovery.

Since the trustees have not yet issued their report as to the effect of the new evi- <lem-e, I am unable to state their opinion. If. however, L. L. K. would send me his address, probably the trustees would allow documents. From these he would be able to form his own opinion. Meanwhile I may say that in my opinion the quotation from the records of the Comnv'ssioners of Sewers to which L. L. K. refers does not state that the ({lobe was to the south of Maid Lane, nor even suggest it to be there.
 * me to show him copies of the recently found

WILLIAM MARTIN.

2, (iarden Court, Temple, B.C.

' ALMANACK DE GOTHA ' (11 S. x. 147, 198' 237. 255). In answer to J. F. B., what is claimed on the title-page of Martin Breslauer's ' Auktions-Katalog Nr. 24, Almanach de Gotha und Gothaische Hof- ' kalendar,' sold on 18-19 June, 1913, at Berlin (Kurfurstendamm 29), is that the Edward Clement (of Magdeburg) Col- therein contained, is extraordinarily com- plete. (But probably J. F. B. is acquainted with this catalogue.) The 'Almanac' ap- peared in 1764. From 1765 to 1892 ap- peared the ' Gothaischer Hof -Kalender. ' AitiT the lapse of a year the ' Almanac ' re- appeared in 1766. Lot 14 of the E. CleYnent Collection consisted of a complete set, 1766-1912, with, of course, the 1764 edition, <>f the 'Almanac,' &c. The E. Clement Catalogue can be seen at the library of the Yietoria and Albert Museum (press-mark SO. C.). A. VAN DE PUT.
 * lection, 557 ' A. de G.' items being

AUTHORS WANTED (11 S. x. 270, 314).

2. Perimus licitis.

This is put among the ' Adespota ' at the end of W. F. H. King's 'Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 3rd ed., 1904. Bishop Burnet in his ' Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale ' gives the following in a scheme that the judge " drew for a diary," adding, " I am not certain when he made it " :

"Setting a watch over my own infirmities and passions, over the snares laid in our way. Perimus licitis."

See Wordsworth's ' Ecclesiastical Biography, ' vol. iv. p. 538.

In ' N. & Q.,' 2 S. iii. 95, HENRY T. BILEY wrote of the Latin words :

"This was the favourite saying of Sir Matthew Hale, but I am unable to say whether it originated with him, or from what source, if any, he borrowed it."

He cites no evidence for his statement that " Perimus licitis " was Hale's favourite say- ing. According to Burnet (p. 577), " Festina lente was his beloved motto, which he ordered to be engraven on the head of his staff."

Wordsworth illustrates " Perimus licitis " by a passage from Hale's ' Moral Works,' ii. 262 :

"I have still chosen, to forbear what might be probably lawful, rather than to do that, which might be possibly unlawful : because, I could not err in the former ; I might, in the latter," &c.

3. Dii laneos habent pedes.

For this see Erasmus's ' Adagia ' ; Otto, ' Sprichworter der Bomer'; and Fried - lander's note to Petronius, Sat., XLIV., in edition of 'Cena Trimalchionis.' The meaning and origin are somewhat obscure. The scholiast (' Porphyrion') on Horace, Odes,' III. ii. 31, says : " Hoc proximum est illi quod dicitur deos iratos pedes lanatos habere, quia nonnumquam tarde eniunt nocentibus."

Macrobius, ' Saturnalia,' I. viii. 5, quotes ^.pollodorus (2nd cent. B.C.) for the state- ment that the image of Saturn used to be >ound during the year with a woollen band, and unbound on the day sacred to him in December, " atque inde proverbium ductum, deos laneos pedes habere," the meaning >eing that a child is born in the tenth month, >eing kept from birth till then by " mollibus Ratline vinculis." In Petronius, 44. " itn- que dii pedes lanatos habent, qnia nos religiosi non sumus," the context shows the ?ense to be that the gods are slow to help is. Friedlander suggests that the feet vrapped in wool are gouty feet, and trans-