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form as in the sixth. I venture to think that the sense is perfectly clear, and that the deviation in the second line from the normal type (its "initial truncation") has nothing surprising in it. Indeed, the variety in the line helps to emphasize the meaning.

Vol. i. p. 415, 1. 8 from foot (Part. I. sect. ii. mem. iv. subs, vii., p. 163 in the sixth edition) :

Concussis cecidere animis, ceu frondibus ingens

Silva dolet lapsis.

Burton's marginal note is " Maph.," to which Shilleto adds, "Possibly Maphaeus, who, according to Hallam, added a thirteenth book to Virgil's * ^Eneid.' " Presumably. See Julius Caesar Scaliger's ' Poetice,' bk. vi. chap. iv. (pp. 785-6 in edition of 1 586), where five and a half lines (ending at "concussis cecidere animis ") are quoted from Maphaeus Vegius's addition to the '^Eneid,' and highly praised.

A propos of the * Poetice ' a curious error in Shilleto's edition may here be mentioned.

Vol. iii. p. 305, 1. 6, " Scaliger, Poet. lib. cap. 13, concludes against women. Besides their inconstancy, treachery, suspicion, dis- simulation ," &c. Shilleto gives Burton's

marginal note to this as follows : " Ideo : mulieres praeterquam quod sunt infidae, suspicaces...," &c. To those acquainted with the 'Poetice' a moment's consideration will show that * Ideo ' should probably be ' Idea,' the title of Book III. of that work ; and an examination of the sixth edition of the ' Anatomy ' (p. 597, Part. III. sect. iii. mem. i. subs. ii.). of which Shilleto's edition is pro- fessedly a reprint, with some alterations in spelling (see publishers' note on p. v), will show that Idea is clearly printed. The number of the chapter, however, which Burton gives as 13, ought to be 14. See 'Poetices,' Liber iii. chap. 14, headed 'A Sexu.' (Did Burton misread xiiii. as xiii. ?)

Vol. i. p. 439, 1. 15, " nescis quid serus secum vesper ferat" (Part. I. sect. ii. mem. v. subs, v., p. 178 in ed. six). Shilleto calls this " a re- miniscence of Virg. Georg. i. 461." Surely the " nescis " points to the title of Varro's ' Satira Menippea ' " Nescis quid vesper serus vehat " (see Aulus Gellius, xiii., xi. 1, and p. 196 of % Varronis Menippeae,' printed at the end of the third edition of Biicheler's
 * Petronius ').

Vol. i. p. 446, 1. 16 from foot, " as Felix Plater notes of some young Physicians, that study to cure diseases, [that they] catch them

themselves " Shilleto would appear to be

wrong in inserting " that they." It is true that the text of the sixth edition (p. 183, Part. I. sect. iii. mem. i. subs, ii.) cannot well stand ; but the right remedy is to be seen

from ed. four, which reads " that studying to cure diseases,'' &c.

Vol. ii. p. 14, 1. 10 from foot, "or that Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine" Shilleto's foot-note states that Jacobus de Voragine died in 1292. He died in 1298 (see, e.g., the introduction to ' La Legende Doree traduite du Latin par Teodor de Wyzewa,' 1902). If 1292 is not a mere slip or a mis- print, the curious might guess how Shilleto's error arose by examining the account of Jacobus de Voragine in the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica. '

Vol. ii. p. 191, 1. 5 from foot (Part. II. sect. iii. mem. iii.) :

Ipse deus sinaul atque volet me solvet, opinor. The reader of Shilleto's edition finds the following mysterious foot-note to this line : "Leonides." The line is, of course, with one slight change ("volet" for "volam"), from Horace (Epist. I. xyi. 78) ; but why "Leonides"? In the sixth edition, p. 334, the "reference" (a t) which directs the reader to the note *' Leonides " is prefixed to

the line "Ipse deus ," while there is no

"reference" before the next quotation in verse :

Servus Epictetus, mutilati corporis, Irus

Pauper : at hsec inter carus erat Superis, and the error has been repeated in the present edition. Shilleto has a note " See the original Greek of these lines in Aulus Gellius, ' Noct. Att.,' ii. 18." Any one, how- ever, consulting Hertz's critical edition of Gellius, or his text of the same author in Teubner's series, will fail to see the Greek lines. The short section containing this Greek couplet, which was printed by many editors at the end of Gellius, ii. 18, is taken from Macrobius, 'Saturnalia,'!, xi. 45, where it is immediately preceded by this chapter of Gellius which Macrobius has "conveyed." See also ' Anth. Pal.,' vii. 676. The lines are anonymous ; their ascription to Leonidas is apparently due to an error in the 'Anthologia Planudea.' One cannot help noticing that Burton's English rendering of the Latin version is strangely incorrect.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia. (To be continued.)

EPITAPH ON QUEEN ELIZABETH.

Miss AGNES STRICKLAND in the fourth volume of her 'Lives of the Queens of England,' which treats of Queen Elizabeth, writes on p. 784 as follows :

"Among the complimentary epitaphs which were composed for her, and hung up in many churches, was one ending with the following couplet :