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French moillier. Do not these derivative show conclusively that mulierem must hav been accented on the penultima, thougl short? W. BUBD.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any of your readers locate the following citation, which is quoted by Dallas, ' The Gay Science/ vol. i. p. 283 ?

Man doth usurp all space,

Stares thee in rock, bush, river, in the face.

Never yet thine eye beheld a tree,

It is no sea thou see'st in the sea :

'Tis but a disguised humanity.

WM. H. FLEMING. Philadelphia.

Who was the author of the saying I think in connexion with the Boer War " Any fool can annex " ?

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS.

I shall be grateful if you can tell me where I can find the verses of which the following is all I can recollect, and also if you can complete the verse :

It is not growing like a tree

In bulk better be.

E. D. TILL. [The lines are Ben Jonson's, and the words omitted are "doth make men."]

"Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool, Mr. S."

Attributed to one of the Georges. To which ? and who was Mr. S. ? J. M.

DILLON ON DISRAELI. Mr. Dillon on one occasion called Disraeli " a harp struck by lightning." What did he mean ? I have read that it was the only time Dizzy was at a loss for an answer. J. D.

OLD SAMPLER. No date is given. It is a map of England. Some of the names are spelt differently from the present way : Teinmouth for Tynemouth, Padsto for Padstow, and Normandie. It was worked by Elizabeth Mathers. Can any one tell the date ? M. A. P.

Lucius. The existence of this king, or prince, is by some authors considered a fable ; others temporize by saying it is a matter of controversy. The latter I do not desire to raise, but I should like to learn some- thing about the ' Original Epistle of Eleu- therinus to Lucius,' of which Speed in his ' Chronicles ' (1625, p. 102) gives a copy ; the original, he states, " was in the Records and Constitutions of the City of London." A marginal note reads : " Now in the possession of Sir Robert Cotton, Antiquary." ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

THE DUBLIN GUNNS. The Hon. Mrs. Calvert tells in her diary, ' An Irish Beauty of the Regency,' of the " Miss Gunns." " I never knew such girls," she says in 1808; " they sing divinely and are very entertain- ing " (p. 115). She met them again at Geneva in 1817, when they " sang divinely : they have wonderful talents." These ladies were the daughters of George Gun, after- wards Gun-Cuninghame. But their musical talent suggests that their family may have been connected with Michael Gunn (d. 1861), father of the late Mr. Michael Gunn (d. 1901), the manager of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Is this so ? J. M. BULLOCH.

BEQUEST or BIBLES. " By the will of Philip Lord Wharton 1868 " is inscribed on ajjBible I possess. He died in 1695, and left a charge on his estates to supply a certain number of Bibles annually to every parish where he had property. Is it still a custom for these Bibles to be presented ? T. S.

THE YOUNG MAN'S COMPANION.' I should like to know the date of the first edi- tion of this book by William Mather. I have a very battered copy, without covers a revised edition, the preface ending :

" Bedford, October the 16th, 1713. I am a well-wisher of the general good of all. William Mather, Aetatis suse 77."

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

NORTH DEVON WORDS c. 1600. In the Churchwardens' Accounts for the Parish Church of Hols worthy in North Devon are
 * he following entries :

1598. " Bread an tea an sugar an worthings."

" Reed, for gyrte sold iijs. Id"

" Pd. to a breyse at Topsham 1 0."

" 5 y cards of dossles to make a Batchett for the "

1609. " Item Reed, for beanes and amyllyea old 5d."

" Sowne money."

have never before seen worthing, gyrte , Breyse, dossles, amyllyea, or sowne. They are lot to be found in the dialects of Devon or West Somerset, nor in the twenty odd Re- ports of the Committee for collecting Devon- hire Provincialisms, appointed by the Devonshire Association for the Advancement >f Science, Literature, and Art. I should hink, although it scarcely seems credible, hat they are peculiar to Holsworthy and istrict. I shall be very much obliged to my reader of ' N. & Q.' who can interpret hem for me, and turn them into modern anguage, if possible. A. J. DAVY.

Torquay.

[Is breyse a variant spelling of brief, the / being ead as a long s ? ]