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 2nd g. NO 22., MAY 31. '56.]

NOTES AND QUEHIES.

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" Lesse like than Poules steple to a dagger shethe." Sir Thos. More's Eng. Works, 595. 672.

" No more like together then is chalke to coles." Ib. 674.

" Let him take myne pie for an apple if he finde etc." Ib. 689.

" He which hath been once at Jerusalem may lie by authority, because he shall be sure seldom to meet any man that hath been there." Ib. 726.

" To seke out one lyne in all h3's bookes were to go loke a nedle in a medow." Ib. p. 837.

" To fyshe before the nette, and set the carte before the horse." Ib. p. 920.

" The maid's child is ever best taught." Latimer's 5th Sermon.

" Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound." Ib. 1st Sermon on Lord's Prayer.

" It is a common saying among the people, ' The law is ended as the man is friended.' " Ib. p. 483.,

which is similar to one in Barclay :

" Aungels worke wonders in Westminster Hall." Ship of Fools, folio 4. ed. 1570.

" It is a common saying there do come as many skins of calves to the market as there do of bulls or kine"" ['. e. the young die as well as the old]. p. 416.

" A proverb much used, ' An evil crow an ill er-.' " p. 42.

" There is a common saying, that when a horse is rubbed on the gall he will kick : when a man casteth a stone among dogs, he that is hit will cry." Remains. p. 40. Parker Soc. ed.

" A common saying, ' When a man will be rich, he must set his soul behind the door,' that is to say, he must use falsehood and deceit." p. 42.

" Every thing is as it is taken." p. 140.

" Well, I have fished and caught a frog ; brought little to pass with much ado." Ib. p. 419.

" As just as Germains lips, which came not together by nine mile." Ib. p. 425.

" Who may have a more ungracyous lyfe Than a chyldis birde and a knavis wyfe."

Skelton's Works, ed. Dyce.

"A proverb of old, ' say well or be still.' " Ib. i. 17.

" Masid as a marche hare." Ib. i. 386.

" It is a wyly mouse

That can build his dwellinge house Within the cattes eare." Ib. ii. 50.

" Wyse men may ete the fysshe when ye shal draw the pole." Ib. i. 235.

" What, wyll ye waste wynde, and prate thus in vayne ?

Ye have eten sauce, I trowe, at the Taylers hall."

Ib. i. 271.

"He hyt the nayle on the hede." Ib. i. 312. " They are loth to hang the bell

Aboute the cattes necke." Ib. i. 317. "As wise as Waltoms calfe." Colyn Cloute, 811. " All is fysshe that cometh to net." Ib. 935. "The blynde eteth many a flye." Ib. i. 213. " Suche apple_tre suche frute." Ib. i. 214.

" He shot like a gentleman fair and far off." * Ascham.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAY.

" The Journal of the Parliament in Ireland" SfC., March 25, 1689.

(Continued from p. 407.)

"June 1. John Brown's Petition read and argued at the Bar ; the Chair-man Reports the Alterations and Ad- ditions made to the Bill of Repeal ; which are approved : Judg Daly's Petition, desiring a further day for an answer, read and granted. Mrs. Wall's Bill against her husband read once.

" June 3. Petitions read, and referred to the Committee : Lord Galway's Councel heard at the Bar, concerning his Ladies Remainder, and Arrears due to the Heirs of Ulick, E. of Clanricard: Lord Riverstown Reports from the Committee several Alterations and Provisoes to be in- serted in the Bill of Repeal ; which were each twice read. Sir William Talbot came up with a Message from the Commons, which imported their earnest Request to the Lords, to pass the Bill with all the expedition they could, because the Heart and Courage of the whole Nation were bound up in it.

" June 4. Journals read : Petition from the Bishop of Cork for relief for Arrears of Rents : A Bill for Mrs. Wall against her Husband, read the second time : Lord Rivers- town Reports new Alterations, new Provisoes in the Bill of Repeal ; the new ones read twice ; the whole Bill, with all its Alterations and Provisoes, read ; after reading the Bishop of Meath speaks against it, Lord Chancellor and Riverstown for it ; the Bishops desire leave to enter their Protest, and four of the Temporal Lords, which were all the Protestants in the House. Mem. That the King said, That they must not enter their Protestation, but only their Dissent; for Protestation came in in Rebellious Times, and that they should not give the Reasons of their Protestation.

" June 5. The Bishops' Protestation. We the Lords Spiritual in Parliament Assembled, which Names are hereafter subscribed, having for divers reasons, then humbly offered to the House of Lords, dissented from passing the Bill into a Law, sent up to this Honourable House from the House of Commons, intitulled, An Act repealing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, fyc. And having obtained leave from the House of Lords to enter our Dissent against the said Bill, do accordingly subscribe our Dissent from the said Bill.'

"This was brought in Parchment to the Clerk of the Parliament the next morning before the House sat, and signed, Meath, Osserj', Cork, Limerick ; the like Protest- ation in Parchment signed per Granard, Longford, Rosse, Howth.

" ' I, Anthony, Bishop of Meath, being constituted and allowed Proxy for the most Reverend Father in God Mich. Lord Archbishop of Armagh, do, in his name and behalf, dissent from the said Bill. Mich. Armagh.'

" The like signed by Ossory, as Waterford's Proxy.

" Journals of the House read : Lord Clamnaliera's Case against Sir Patrick Trent heard at the Bar, and adjudged against : The Lord Mountgarret petitions the House that Sir John Ivory may commit no waste on his Estate ; a general Order made against it. Committees of Trade, Privileges and Petitions revived : A Committee appointed for Mrs. Wall's Bill.

and delight, not that of the gentleman.
 * Archery was, par excellence, the yeoman's occupation