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fur ( antabrigiensi, " honovrable " for noble. Perhaps the most remarkable error is in the copy of the second inscription. The seventh line runs : " day of May, in the yesere." An asterisk attached to " yesere " points to a footnote, " So on the stone." It is not so on the stone, of which I have a rubbing. The word is " YEARE," but the A and the R are joined together after the manner of the diphthong M. Including stops, omitted or inserted, u for v, &c., there are thirty errors in the copies of the two epitaphs given in The Gentleman's Magazine.

Can any correspondent describe the Pallavicini arms, which I have not been able to find in any book of heraldry ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

AUTHORS WANTED. I am looking for the author of '' It is the Mass that matters." An Irish priest, professor in a North American university, lately quoted it in a graduation sermon as from Thomas Carry le. Two English friends ascribe it respectively to Augustin Birrell and to Cardinal Gasquet. S. GREGORY Ouu>, O.S.B.

[A similar question was asked at 10 S. x. 470. A reply at xi. 98 derives the saying from the well- known story of Plowden in Elizabeth's reign, " No priest, no mass."]

Can any reader give me author's name and other references for following lines ?

The great ennobling Past is only then A misty pageant, an unreal thing, When it is measured in the narrow ring And limit of the present by weak men.

Also for the following, which may not be correctly quoted :

Heaven would not be Heaven were thy soul not with mine ; nor would Hell be Hell were our souls together.

CHARLES PLATT.

60 Stapleton Road, S.W.

" RELIGIOUS " AS A SUBSTANTIVE. The meaning of this expression is obvious enough, but what literary or historical authority is there for its use ? A good example of it occurs in ' John Inglesant,' chap, xxxv., closing paragraph : " He was brought under the influence of Molinos's party, and. . . .he came to me to know whether he should become a religious."

W. B.

[Religio in Mediaeval Latin has commonly the meaning of " vita monastica, seu voto, ut vulgo dicimus, religionis adstrMa " (v. Ducange) ; the corresponding term reli</iKi wis commonly used for persons under vows. The English equivalent " religious " in singular as well as in plural quite usual term. It is illustrated from century to century in the ' N.E.D.' from ' The Ancren liiwle ' downwards.]

ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S HYMN : ' O DEUS,

EGO AMO TE ' : TRANSLATIONS. Prof. J.

Fitzmaurice-Kelly, in his ' History of Spanish Literature,' p. 192, considers this hymn, which he says " is familiar to English readers in a free version ascribed to Dryden" :

O God, Thou art the object of my love, Not for the hopes of endless joys above. Nor for the fear of endless pains below Which those who love Thee not must undergo : For me, and such as me, Thou once didst bear The ignominious cross, the nails, the spear, A thorny crown transpierced Thy sacred brow, What bloody sweats from every member flow ! For me, in torture Thou resign st Thy breath, Nailed to the cross, and sav'dst me by Thy death : Say, can these sufferings fail my heart to move ? What but Thyself can now deserve my love? Such as then was and is Thy love to me, Such is, and shall be still, my love to Thee. Thy love, O Jesus, may I ever sing,

God of love, kind Parent, dearest King.

Remembering something similar in Pope,

1 find in vol. iv. p. 499 of his ' Works ' (Murray), 1882, a poem entitled ' Prayer of St. Francis Xavier,' thus :

Thou art my God, sole object of my love ; Not for the hope of endless joys above ; Not for the fear of endless pains below, W T hich they who love Thee not must undergo. For me, and such as me, Thou deign'st to bear An ignominious cross, the nails, the spear : A thorny crown transpierc'd Thy sacred brow, While bloody sweats from ev'ry member flow. For me in tortures Thou resign'dst Thy breath, Embrac'd me on the cross, and saved me by Thy

death.

And can these sufferings fail my heart to move ? What but Thyself can now deserve my love ? Such as then was, and is, Thy love to me, Such is, and shall be still, my love to Thee To Thee, Redeemer, mercy's sacred spring ! My God, my Father, Maker, and my King !

In a foot - note to the poem in Pope's ' Works ' it is said that it was first published in The Gentleman's Magazine for October, 1791, with the following letter :

" Mr. Urban, The perusal of a small book lately printed by you has revived an intention which I have often formed of communicating to the public an original composition of the celebrated Mr. Pope, with which I became acquainted near forty years ago. I was a student at that time in a foreign college, and had the happiness of conversing often with a most respectable clergyman of the name of Brown, who died soon after, aged about ninety. This venerable man had lived in England as domestic chaplain in the family of the Mr. Caryl to whom Mr. Pope inscribes the ' Rape of the Lock in the beginning cf that poem, and at whose house he spent so much of his time in the early and gay part of his life. I was informed by Mr. Brown that, seeing the poet often amuse the family with verses of gallantry, he took the liberty one day of request- ing him to change the subject of his composition, and to devote his talents to the translating of the Latin hymn, or ' rhythmus,' which I n'nd in the