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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. AUG. 23, 1915.

Fitzmaurice-Kelly's ' Memoir of Cer- vantes ' (Clarendon Press, 1913) contains a reproduction of this portrait (I forget whether it is in half-tone) and a discussion as to its .authenticity. H. O.

LIEUT. -GENERAL GEORGE BENSON (11 S. xii- 119). Lieut. - General Benson died 3 May, 1814, aged 64. ALFRED B. BEAVEN/

Grey friars, Leamington.

<0 K02M02 2KHNH (11 S. xii. 117). The Greek motto for Sir John Shad well's first inscription for his father's monument, 2KHNH I1A2 'O BIOS KAI HAIFNION, is a quotation from an epigram of Palladas, ' Anth. Palat.,' x. 72 :

2/oyvr) Tras 6 /3ios Kal Tratyvtov r) /za$e Tat^Etv, rrjv (nrovSrjv jucra^ets, ?} <epe ras 68vva$. In a review of Eland's ' Collections from the Greek Anthology ' in the Museum Criticum, vol. i. pp. 262 sqq., will be found an anonymous English version, and Latin versions by Grotius and Dr. Johnson. That by Dr. Johnson leaves the Greek least of the three :

Vita omnis scena est ludusque ; aut ludere disce Seria seponens, aut mala dura pati.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The line in the proposed inscription for Thomas Shad well's monument in Westminster Abbey (o-Krjvrj /ras 6 fiios KOL Traiyviov) is a quotation from Palladas (see the ' Palatine Anthology,' x. 72).

Some of the translations seem to miss the theatrical allusion. Thus Major Robsrt Guthrie Macgregor writes :

All life is a scene and a sport,

Grave thought and dull care lay aside, Either learn in its sunshine to play,

Or bravely its sorrows abide ; and the Hon. Lionel Arthur Tollemache's version is :

Life is a pastime, light and short :

So either live thy life in sport,

Nor be disquieted in vain : ,

Or boast thy zeal and bear thy pain !

The Rev. Robert Bland turned the lines thus :

This life a theatre we well may call,

Where every actor must perform with- art,

Or laugh it through, and, make a farce of all, Or learn to bear with grace his tragic part.

My own paraphrase published twenty years ago ran :

Life is a farce, and nothing more nor less ;

So learn to laugh at it, and laugh again ; Or, if thou keep'st thy tragic earnestness,

Expect to bear the necessary pain.

JOHN B. WAIKE WRIGHT.

EASTER OFFERINGS (II S. xii. 49, 108). It was not till Easter, 1883, that offerings to the Vicar of Yateley were gathered in the church at the services on that day. Pre- viously the Parish Clerk's custom was to call on parishioners with a little book soliciting gifts, but these he kept, and the then Perpetual Curate had them not. The little book still goes its accustomed round,, the new custom notwithstanding.

J. P. STILWELL, Churchwarden of Yateley, Hants

HERALDIC QUERY (11 S. xii. 118).

2. Town of St. Hubert in Ardenne.

Ablaing van Giessenburg, ' Nederlandsche

Gemeentewapens,' 1862 (plate, ' Namen

en Luxemburg,' No. 10).

4. Erard de la Marck, Bishop of Liege, 1506. Chestret de Haneffe, ' Hist, de la maison de la Marck,' 1898, pp. 147-51. ' Recueil heraldique des bourguemestres

de Liege' (by J. G. Loyens), 1720,

p. 226. Cf. Yanden Steen de Jehay r ' Essai historique,' 1846, p. 164 (plate).

5. Corneille de Berghes, Bishop of Liege,. 1538. " Recueil heraldique (op. cit.), p. 261.

The monographs by Mouzon may possibly give the data required as regards the abbey of St. Hubert. A. V. DE P.

THE FRASER HIGHLANDERS (11 S. viiir 308, 354, sub 'Highlanders at Quebec'). I find a good deal of curious inside informa- tion about this corps in the letters of Lord George Beauclerk, Commander of the Forces in Scotland, to Lord Barrington in 1757. These letters are preserved at the Public Record Office (W. O. 1 : 613).

J. M, BTJLLOCH.

.ROBIN HOOD BIBLIOGRAPHY (9 S. viii. 263 ; 10 S. v. 468 ; viii. 70 ; US. viii. 203, 297, 313, 378; ix. 498). ' A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood,' printed by Wynkyn de Worde, circa 1495. ' The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield, with Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.' ' Yorkshire Legends and Traditions T (Rev. Thomas Parkinson), Second Series, 1889. ' The Ballad-Hero, Robin Hood ' (Rev. Joseph Hunter). ' Robin Hood and the Men of the Greenwood ' (Henry Gilbert). ' The Overthrowe of the Abbyes, a Tale of Robin Hoode,' Ballad Society, vol. i. No. 1, 1868. ' The Book of Days,' vol. ii.

After their dispersal in England Robin Hood and his followers came to Ireland. According to tradition, Little John shot an arrow from the bridge in Dublin now called Church Street Bridge to the present site of St. Michan's Church, a distance of about

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