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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. MAY 27, m.

" In the paper-office there are divers letters from the deputy-lieutenants of counties, respecting the marching, quartering, and pay ing new-levied troops in the year 1627 : in one from the deputy-lieu- tenants of the county of Surrey, coat money appears to have been settled at 12s. Qd. Six hun- dred men were, it is said, coated at that rate ; the conduct-money was Sd. per diem, accounting twelve miles for a day's march."

"Anno 1640, conduct-money was settled by King Charles I. at 8d. per diem, and a day's march at not less than fifteen miles."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. i. 348).

There is no death !

The lines given in the query are incorrectly quoted. They are as follows :

And ever near us, though unseen. The dear, immortal spirits tread, ,

For all the boundless universe Is life : there are no dead.

This is the last verse of sixteen of a poem by J. L. McCreery, of Iowa, U.S.A. It was printed, under the title ' There is No Death,' in a collection of his poems published as ' Songs of Toil and Triumph.' J. T. T.

(12 S. i. 369.) H. P. H.'s first quotation, beginning :

Now welcome Whitsuntide was come, is the third verse of ' Phaeton Junior ; or, the Gig Demolished,' in Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld's ' Evenings at Home ' (fourteenth evening). EDWARD BENSLY.

When England's wronged and danger's nigh. I first heard this quatrain just after the close of the Indian Mutiny, when there was some dissatisfaction in the army over the treatment of the troops, and it was said to have been found written on one of the walls of Cawnpore. I never heard an author mentioned. It ran, as I heard it :

When wars are rife and danger's nigh,

God and the soldier is the cry ;

When wars are o'er and matters righted,

God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted.

H. A. ST. J. M.

Similar lines, indicating the different estimation in which our soldiers and sailors were wont to be held in peace and .war, are not infrequent. The following verse is said to have been made and sung on board Hawke's fleet, after the Battle of Quiberon Bay :

Ere we did bang Mounseer Conftaus,

You sent us beef and beer ; But now he 's beat we 've naught to eat,

For you have naught to fear.

T. F. D.

(12 S. i. 389.)

Man may securely sin, but safely never, is the last line in No. 11, 'Epode,' of Ben? Jonson's ' The Forest.' Jonson gives the line/ as a quotation, introducing it as " this^ sentence." He was adapting, or rather inverting, an aphorism which is found in. more than one passage of Seneca :

Scelus aliqua tutum, nulla securum tulit.

' Hippolytus,' 164.

and " Tuta scelera esse possunt : secura non possunt"* ('Epistulae/ 97, 13, or ll,th& sections being numbered differently in different editions). Seneca's words express in epigrammatic form a saying of Epicurus (see Diogenes Laertius, x. 151), which was quoted a few lines earlier in the same epistle as " Potest nocenti contingere ut lateat,. latendi fides non potest." Menage, in his commentary on Diogenes Laertius, compares- Proverbs xxviii. 1. EDWARD BENSLY.

Man may securely sin, but safely never, is the closing line in Jonson's great ' Epode- sung to Deep Ears,' in 'The Forest,' 1616. It was written long before, as this very line- is quoted in ' England's Parnassus,' and th& whole poem, duly signed, appears in Robert Chester's 'Love's Martyr,' 1601. We owe- these discoveries to Mr. Crawford.

L. I. GUINEY. Oxford.

BRITISH HERB : HERB TOBACCO (12 S. i. 48, 136, 317). The composition described at the first reference as having been supplied to the Amicable Club of Warrington, in the- years 1789-97, was probably British Herb- Tobacco, for which a patent was granted in 1766 (No. 842) to the Rev. John Jones of Limpsfield, Surrey. According to the speci- fication of the patent, the ingredients were- betony, coltsfoot, wild lemon thyme, wild rosemary buds, lavender flowers, eyebright,. and marsh trefoils, in various proportions. Minute directions are given as to the time when these plants are to be gathered, and the leaves of betony and coltsfoot are to be- dried on hurdles made of hazel, precautions- being taken to exclude the light in the case of the betony. The patentee claims that this- mixture, when smoked, has " been found of great use in strengthening the stomach,, nerves, and eyes." The specification is curious, and is worth printing in full, but

possunt," -wanting in our MSS. of Seneca (in one they are added by a late hand in the margin), were- supplied by Muretus.
 * It should be noted that the words " secura non