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NOTES AND QUERIES. [IIS.VIL MAR. 1,1913..

AUTHORS WANTED (11 S. vii. 90). The couplet quoted by MB. ARTHUR GAYE (peris should be peri, and there is only one speaker) is the end of an epitaph on a monu- ment that was erected in the Church of St. Mark at Trient our Trent, of Council fame by Andreas Burgius of Cremona, " eques & Csesarius consiliarius," to the memory of his wife Dorothea Tonna, who died on 10 Oct., 1520, aged 30.

The inscription is given on p. 270 of Nathan Chytraeus's ' Variorum in Europa itinerum Delicise,' 3rd ed., 1606. See also p. 312 of Franciscus Sweertius's ' Selectse Christiani Orbis Delicise,' 1608. The part in verse is as follows :

Quid gemis heu tanto felicia funera luctu ?

Turbantur lacrumis gaudia nostra tuis. Farce precor tristes questus effundere, vixi. .

Non erat in fatis longior hora meis. Immatura peri, sed tu diiiturnior annos

Vive meos conjux optime, vive tuos.

The same verses are given by Chytraeus on p. 17 as the epitaph of Julia Maffaea at Rome. This may have been the original. The last line is modelled on the last line of Martial, I. xxxvi,, upon the brothers Lucanus and Tullus,

Vive tuo, frater, tempore, vive meo. In Friedlander's edition of Martial the following lines are quoted from a sepulchral inscription on the tomb of Atilia Pomptilla, n3ar Cagliari in Sardinia (' Ephemeris Epi- graphica,' iv. 491) :

Et prior ad Lethen cum sit Pomptilla recepta, Tempore tu, dixit, vive Philippe meo.

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

(11 S. vii. 109.)

Goldsmith, in his ' Life of Richard Nash ' (Globe Edition of Goldsmith's ' Works,' p. 551), attributes the saying to Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) :

" Nash used sometimes to visit the great Doctor Clarke. The doctor was one day conversing with Locke, and two or three more of his learned and intimate companions, with that freedom, gaiety, and cheerfulness, which is ever the result of innocence. In the midst of their mirth and laughter, the doctor, looking from the window, saw Nash's chariot stop at the door. 'Boys, boys,' cried the philosopher to his friends, 'let us now be wise, for here is a fool coming.' "

Boswell refers to the story in the Dedica- tion of his ' Life of Johnson,' and gives the saying in the form, " My boys, let us be grave : here comes a fool."

L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.

The story referred to will be found in the life of Samuel Clarke ('Clarke on the Attributes ' ) in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' It is given apparently on the authority of Thomas Bott. SERO.

MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD (11 S. vii. 108).' The statute referred to in the passage cited by W. B. H. is one of the statutes given to the College by its founder. Pro- viding that strangers were not to be enter- tained " ad onus collegii," the statute makes certain exceptions. One of these is as follows :

" Quotiescunque vero Anglia? regibus seu illorum primogenitis in collegio nostro cum suis hospitare placuerit, cum debita reverentia et summis honoribus recipi volumus, pra?sente statute nostro non obstante."

It will be seen that the extract does not exactly represent the sense of the statute.

H. A. W.

As a Magdalen man, I venture to doubt whether there is, or ever was. any college statute declaring Magdalen to be the Oxford home of English kings or their heirs. Such a statute, of course, could not have been possibly made without the direct authority of the sovereign, and I never heard of this authority having been asked for or granted. Nevertheless, it is interesting to recall the considerable list of royalties who have enjoyed the hospitality of (shall I say ?) the loveliest college in Christendom since its foundation. King Edward IV. stayed there two nights in 1481 (during the founder's lifetime) ; two years later Richard III. also spent two days there ; and Henry VII. visited the College in 1487 or 1488. In 1495 Henry's eldest son, Arthur, Prince of Wales, a boy of 9 or 10, was an inmate of the College on two separate occasions. One does not hear much after this of kings and princes being lodged at Magdalen, though, of course, they often visited it ; and an interesting reminiscence is that of Charles I. and Prince Rupert, on 29 May, 1644, watching the movements of the enemy's troops from the top of Magdalen Tower.

The College State-rooms which we under- graduates used to believe were absolutely sacred to royal use are now incorporated in the President's Lodgings ; and recent royal inmates have had to content them- selves with a set of ordinary undergraduates 7 rooms. Probably neither the late Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein nor the present Prince of Wales has been in the least inclined to grumble at this arrange- ment, though some of us who have no