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 12 s. vii. JULY io, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 35 ENRICO NORIS (21 S. vii. 8). The sug- gestion that Cardinal Enrico Noris (1631- 1709) was a kinsman of " Jacques Noris. . . . .general d'artillerie " in Cyprus would make 4um a member of the family of Nores, famous in the annals of that island. It is umikely that he was a descendant of Jacques who was titular Count of Tripolis and captain -general of the Venetian Artillery .-at the siege of Nicosia by the Turks in 1570, as he and his brothers John, Octavius, and Caesar were all killed by the Turks and his wife and children were all drowned during their voyage as prisoners to Constantinople (Du Cange, ' Les Families rl'Outremer,' 492). But the Cardinal might have descended from Lancelot Nores who was in France in 1580, a member of the household of the Duke of Epernon, or from Jason Nores (son of Peter the grand-uncle of Jacques, Count of Tripolis) who was living with his family in Padua in 1580. Du Cange quotes Stephen de Lusignan in support of the theory that the Nores family of Cyprus, which first appears in the history of the. crusading kingdom of Jerusalem in a charter of July 23, 1217 ('Regesta Regni Hierosoly- mitani,' 896), witnessed by Baldvinus Nore, originally came to the Holy Land from England. H. P.-G. "BELLUM" (12 S. vi. 186, 235, 302). On p. 220 are two corrigenda s.v. " art. 'Bellum ' " but the quotation from Rabe- lais is left untouched. May I correct three rather important errors ? For " pire " read pere. .For " f erracles " read ferrailles. For " decedee " read decelee. The following is the passage as it appears in 'Les CEuvres deMaistre Francois Rabelais,' edited by Ch. Marty-Laveaux 1868-1903, vol. ii. (1870), p. 9 : i.e., in the Prologue of Book III. According to the reprint of the old title page this third book is taken from the 1552 edition : "Pen de chose me retient, que ie n'entre en 1'opinion du bon Heraclrtus, affermant guerre estre de tous biens pere : croye que guerre soit en Latin dicte belle, non par Antiphrase, ainsi comme ont cuyde certains repetasseurs de vieilles ferrailles Latines, par ce qu'en guerre gueres de beaulte ne voyoient : mais absolument, & simple- ment par raison qu'en guerre apparoisse toute espece de bien & beau, soit decelee toute espece de mal & laidure." In the " commentaire," vol. iv. p. 222, there is this note, " Belle, non par Antiphrase. Jj'opinion dont Rabelais se moque ici est celle de Priscien." When Priscian was first given in notes to this passage I do not know, but in Bohn's edition of Urquhart and Motteux's translation, new edition, 1863, vol. i. p. 474, he appears in a foot-note. In reference to H. K. St. J. S.'s reply (ante p. 302) I may point out that Priscian s not a correction for Heraclitus. He is named in foot-notes asoneot the " Botchers of old rusty Latin tass " who believed in the derivation of " bellum " by antiphrasis, contrary to the opinion of Heraclitus and Rabelais. In W. F. Smith's translation 1893, vol. i., p. 379, the foot-notes are : 1. TToAe/XOS TTai/TWl/ fJLV TTaTTl'jp 6<TTl TTOLVTWV Se fiao-iXtvs (Plutarch 'de Is. et Osir.' c. 48, 370D.) 2. " Bellum unde derivatur ? Ab eo quod est bonum bellum diminutivum est ; per anti- phrasin igitur, hoc est per contradictionem, pro malo bellum dicitur." (Priscian,' Partitiones ' xii. Vers. Princ. Aen. ; viii.) ROBERT PIERPOINT. SPOONERISMS (12 S. vii. 6). I cannot call to mind ever having seen any book or maga- zine article on the subject of the mixed metaphors attributed many no doubt with- out any foundation in fact to the Rev. William Archibald Spooner, Warden of New College, Oxford. But when the worthy Don's cartoon by " Spy " appeared in Vanity Fair in April, * 1898, the cynical " Jehu Junior " wrote as follows : " His chief flaim to came lies in his genius fop metathesis, for he is the inventor of " Spooner- isms." The half warmed fish has risen to his breast ; He knows all about Kinquering Congs ; His Cat has popped on its drawers ; He has un- wearily addressed beery wenches ; and he will doubtless be grattered and flatified by his appear- ance in Vanity Fair." I may supplement these samples by a few that I have jotted down from time to time in a scrap-book oi flotsam facetiae : At a cricket match to a lady, " I'll bet you a pair of drawers its a glove." Reference to two children named Kate and Sydney as " Steak and Kidney." " God save the Weasel, and pop goes the Queen." Reference to an undergraduate having " tasted a good many worms " for wasted a good many terms. " Cattle ships and bruisers " for battle ships and cruisers. Arrived by the " town drain," for down train. The Lord is "a shoving Leopard " instead of a loving shepherd. O Lord in whose hand is " the King of hearts " in lieu of the heart t)f kings. Easier for a camel to go through the " knee p an idol," &c,