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348 Respecting the lines referred to in the Chorus, Dr. Donaldson makes the following remarks, in his critical edition of the Antigone, published in 1848:—

This proverb had been previously used by Amyot, and probably also by Jerome le (or de) Hangest, who was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and adversary of Luther, and who died in 1538. Ibid. p. 136 (note 49.).

I know not how old may be "to put the cart before the horse." Rabelais (i. 227.) has—

Rabelais (i. 229, 230.):—

The Emperor Alexander of Russia is said to have declared himself "un accident heureux." The expression occurs in Mad. de Staël's Allemagne, §xvi.:—

Gibbon, ''Decl. and Fall'' (Lond. 1838. 8vo.), i. 134.:—

Gibbon's first volume was published in 1776 and Voltaire's Ingenii in 1767. In the latter we find—

Gibbon, vol. ix. p. 94.:—

Cf. Voltaire, "Siècle de Louis XV." (Œuvres, xxi. p. 67.):—

ascribed to Condorcet, in ''Edin. Rev.'' April, 1800. p. 240. (note *)

By Thiers (Hist. de la Rév. Franç. Par. 1846. 8vo. ii. 283.), these words are attributed to Cambon; while, in Lamartine's ''Hist. des Girondins'' (Par. 1847. 8vo.), Merlin is represented to have exclaimed in the Assembly, "Déclarez la guerre aux rois et la paix aux nations."

Macaulay's ''Hist. of England'' (1st ed.), ii. 476.:—

These lines are said by Ménage (Menagiana, Amstm. 1713. 18mo., iii. 12mo.) to exist in a Commentary "In composita verborum Joannis de Galandiâ."

Your correspondent, the Rev. T. Corser, in his note on William Basse, says, that he has been informed that there are, in Winchester College Library, in a 4to. volume, some poems of that writer. I have the pleasure of assuring him that his information is correct, and that they are the "Three Pastoral Elegies" mentioned by Ritson. The title-page runs thus:—

Then follows a dedication, "To the Honourable