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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. JULY s, 1911.

French literary erudition, and to decide whether ' Le Paradoxe,' as we now possess it, was really the work of Diderot, or whether it has been developed and retouched by his friend and disciple Naigeon.

F. A. HEDGCOCK. 10, rue Antoine Chantin, Paris, XIV.

"AGASONIC.'' In an old magazine " buggy " is given a fantastic derivation from Lat. biga, and the writer adds : " Buggy is the agasonic approximation to the name." I cannot find or guess any meaning or derivation of this weird adjective " agasonic." Can any one help me ? If a typographical error, for what ?

FORREST MORGAN.

" THOUGH CHRIST A THOUSAND TIMES BE SLAIN/' In some volume of hymns or translations a hymn of " Angelus Silesius " is given a fine rendering, beginning

Though Christ a thousand times be slain, should like to find it again. Does any one know the name of the author or collection ?

FORREST MORGAN. Hartford, Conn.

BISHOP FLETCHER. Richard Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough, held that post from 1583 to 1589, when he was made Bishop of Bristol. He was eventually transferred to the see of London, wherein he died in 1596.

Can any one tell me if his biography has ever been published, and, if so, the title of the book ? EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A.

Kirtofi-in-Lindsey.

[Various authorities are cited at the end of Canon V'enables's notice of Fletcher in the 'D.N.B.,'but no biography.]

ROBINSON ARMS AND MOTTO. In Sunder- land parish churcl), which was consecrated in 1719 by Dr. John Robinson, Bishop of London, acting for Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, are the arms of both prelates. Those of Bishop Robinson are represented as Or, on a chevron vert between three stags trippant gu., tliree cinquefoils of the first ; and the motto is in Scandinavian runes. I should be glad to know whether the above tinctures are what were used by the bishop. The bearings are what Burke gives for Robinson of London and York, 1634, but there the chevron is gu. and the stags are vert. Has the Sunderland painter put in the wrong colours ? The singular motto is explained by the bishop's having long been chaplain to the English Embassy in Sweden. It is stated in the

' D.N.B.' that by favour of, and as a'com- pliment to, the Swedish monarch, he assumed as his motto the " Runic " or Old Norse " Madr er moldur auki," paraphrased " As for man, his days are grass." J. T. F. Durham.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. The words " wonder, which is the seed of knowledge," have been given as Bacon's. What is the reference ?

2. Who was the American humorist who said, " I would rather know less than know so much that isn't so " ? G. H. J.

There are two heavens, both made of love. The one incomprehensible even to the other, Divine it is ; the other, far on this side of the stars, by men called Home.

H. A. WALLIS.

In Bonn's edition of ' Johnson's Lives of the Poets ' (vol. i. p. 474) the following lines are quoted as from Dry den. Where are they to be found ? Move swiftly, Sun, and fly a lover's pace ; Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race.

Amariel flies

To suard thee from the demons of the air ; My flaming sword above them to display, All keen, and ground upon the edge of day.

J. M.

On a stained window at Honington, Warwickshire, is the following : Effigiem Christi dum transis pronus honora, Non tamen effigiem sed quern designat adora.

Whence come the lines ? J. T. F.

Durham.

" HERE SLEEPS A YOUTH," &c. Concern- ing whom was the following epitaph written? Where is it to be found ?

Here sleeps a youth who once had every art

That could or knowledge or delight impart.

Great were his virtues, and his sense refined ;

The courtier's manners his, and patriot's mind.

I am quoting from memory, so may not be quite accurate. D. W.

' ST. AUBIN ; OR, THE INFIDEL : A NOVEL.' In connexion with a genealogical search, I have been trying for some years to get a copy of this anonymous romance (which is, I believe, an autobiography), but so far without success. It was not entered at Stationers' Hall, and is not in the British Museum, although the book appears in 'The London Catalogue of Books, 1810-31.' If any reader could tell me of some library where I could see the book, or of the existence and ownership of a copy, I