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 n s. iv. DEO. 23, ion.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The use of " fore " for " esse " is post- classical. The transposition of " et ubi " not only makes the second line metrical, but puts the last three precepts in the order of the English version,

And how, and when, and where.

If " hses " were substituted for " sex " in line 1 we should get rid of the difficulty as to the number of the monitions. But the second distich in the version given by MR. RAY- MUND DOWLING has little connexion with the first, and the first two lines could be taken by themselves and converted into riming hexameters :

Si sapiens fore vis, sex serva quee tibi inando : Quid dicas, et ubi, de quo, cui, quomodo, quando.

The insertion of " cui " brings the number of precepts in the couplet up to six.

EDWARD BENSLY.

I have read the same advice in the Hebrew poems of Alcharizi. He may have borrowed the idea of it from the Fathers, with whose writings he was in all likelihood familiar. He puts it a trifle more humorously, as becomes an Italian of the age of Boccaccio. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

" WALM " AS A STREET-NAME (11 S. iv. 290, 358). According to Chambers's ' His- tory of Malvern,' 1817, p. 136, there was a spring in Tippin's Rough in Newen's Wood, in the parish of Ledbury, called " Walm's Well or Wa'am's well." W. C. B

The second signification of this word given in the ' E.D.D.' may account for the origin of the name Walm Lane at Crickle- wood a measure of salt after boiling ; the example there given being : " The salt made is not disposed into sacks, walms, or any other measure, but lieth in huge great heaps," ('Travels Brereton,' 1634-5).

N. W HILL.

New York.

GEORGE WOODBERRY (11 S. iv. 428). In the official ' Army List ' of 1817, under the heading ' 18th Light Dragoons, Hussars,' the date of his lieutenantcy is 10 Dec., 1812 ; and the same date is given in Dalton's
 * Waterloo Roll Call.' W. S.

28TH REGIMENT AT CAPE ST. VINCENT : 75TH REGIMENT (11 S. iv. 288). Official Records of British regiments were pub- lished about 1835. The author's name was Cannon. WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

Dublin.

HISTORY OP ENGLAND WITH RIMING VERSES (11 S. iv. 168, 233, 278, 375,418). There is another of these riming histories which I do not think I have seen referred Begins at the end and works backwards. Unfortunately I have only the following fragments. The entire poem (?) must be somewhat extensive : This is the Sovereign, fair and young, Whose plaudits flow from every tongue. Long may she reign, beloved, in peace ; Each year her happiness increase. 3f all her ancient royal line May hers with noblest glory shine ; And bright in History's page be seen Victoria, our youthful Queen. Niece to William the Fourth, the last King who
 * o. It differs from the others in that it

reigned, When the Bill for Reform was contested and

gained ;

While parties were eagerly struggling at home, To no foreign countries our armies did roam. The ships, too, were quietly kept at their stations, For peace was preserved by the neighbouring

nations.

GEORGE IV. Son of the patriarch George the Third, In whose longest of reigns great events occurred : Duncan, Howe, Jarvis, Nelson, great victories

gained, And Britain the rule of the ocean maintained.

The Young Pretender in forty-five In the North of Scotland did arrive ; At Preston Pans the Royalists beat, But at Culloden suffered a great defeat ; Then fled away from Britain's shore, And his cause was lost for evermore.

that bad [sic] clever man, Oliver Cromwell, the State's Director Under the title of Lord Protector, When Charles the First had lost his head, After his men from battle had fled. For disputes arose, and to war he went With his unruly Parliament.

Edward the First, of lengthy limb ;

Wales was annexed to the realm by him.

He warred with the Scots, whom often he beat,

Though they rallied again after each defeat.

HENRY III.

His reign was the longest of any but one ;

Son of the weak and wicked King John.

His crown to the Pope through fear he resigned,

And famed Magna Carta at Runnymede signed.

Brother to Richard of Lion-heart,

Who in Palestine played a warlike part.

The Germans in prison did him detain ;

At the siege of Chalons in France he was slain.

Henry the Second, wise and great ;

Yet sorrow reached his high estate.

From Thomas a Becket much trouble grew,

Whom at church the King's attendants slew.

For which Henry himself, without complaint,

Was scourged at the shrine of the so-called Saint