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 9 th S. II. SEPT. 17, '98.]

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A WELL-KNOWN EPITAPH.

(9 th S. ii. 41.) I HAVE read with much pleasure MR HORTON SMITH'S interesting communication In Dr. Wellesley's 'Anthologia Polyglotta <London, 1849, p. 464) there is another Latir variant :

Avete multum, Spesque, Forsque ; sum in vado. Qui pone sint illudite ; baud mea interest.

This was supplied for the book by the Rev <JT. F. de Tessier. There is also an Italiar version by Luigi Alamanni :

Speme e Fortuna, addio ; che in porto entrai.

Schernite gli altri ; ch' io vi spregio omai.

Wellesley gives Jacobs's German version anc three English adaptations. That of Tom Moore is diffuse, and even Dr. Wellesley takes foui lines in which to render two. One by Robert Burton, if somewhat rugged, is vigorous :

Mine haven 's found ; Fortune and Hope, adieu.

Mock others now, for I have done with you.

As the theme is a tempting one, two more alternative English versions may be added : 1. Fortune and Hope, I bid you both good-bye.

I 'm safe in port ; your tricks on others try. -2. Fortune and Hope, farewell ; I am in port.

I've done with you. Make others now your sport.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Moss Side, Manchester.

Wood gives this ('Ath. Ox.,' 1691, i. 226), on the authority of Chytraeus and Sweertius, as the epitaph of Francesco Pucci, who, he says, died " about the year 1600," and "was buried in the church of St. Onuphrius in Rome." He adds :

"I have more than twice sent to that place for the day and year of his death, with a copy of his epitaph, but as yet I have received no answer."

According to Gaspari, the Francesco Pucci who is biographized by Wood was born in 1540, and died in 1593 at Salzburg. Following Wood's example, I also endeavoured "more than twice" to gain information about the inscription at S. Onofrio. My first letter brought no reply (the parroco being non- resident). Next, a friend kindly paid a visit for me to the church, but found " no Pucci inscription." Thirdly, having obtained the par)-oco's name and address, I obtained, through his kindness, a copy of the inscrip- tion, with a reference to Caterbi's ' La Chiesa di S. Onofrio,' 1858. This is the inscription, as copied for me :

"Francisco Puccio Patria et Canon. Florentino Archidiacono Legionen. Card, de Arragonia a secretis fideliss. inorum gravitate ingenioque prse-

stantiss. utriusque linguae multipliciss. qui regibus Aragon. egregiam operam navavit cuique importuna mors majores honores titulpsque praeripuit vix. ann. xix. mens. xi. d. xxi. obiit die xxiv. Aug. Ann. MDXII. amici flentes posuere.

Inveni portum spes et fortuna valete Nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios."

If it seem strange that this lad (who died before completing nis twentieth year) should be Archdeacon of Leon, it may be added that his patron, Luis de Aragon (d\ 21 Jan., 1519), Bishop of Aversa, and afterwards Bishop of Leon (from 1517). was made cardinal in 1496, when he was under twenty-two.

It is from confusing the Francesco Pucci who died at Rome in 151 2 with the Francesco Pucci who died at Salzburg in 1593 that Wood is led to say of the latter that "he went to Rome, and became secretary to Cardinal Pompeius Arragon." Here, of course, is a further confusion between Luis de Aragon and Pompeio Arigoni, who was made cardinal in 1596, and died in 1616.

V. H. I. L. I. C. I. V.

It seems a pity that the produce of one field should not be harvested together. Therefore let these references be added : ' N. & Q.,' 1 st S. v. 10, 64, 135, 523 ; vi. 417 ; 2 nd S. iv. 223 ; 3 rd S. viii. 199, 317 ; 6 th S. i. 494 ; ii. 136, 409 ; iv. 76 ; 7 th S. ix. 168, 237. Gentleman's Magazine, 1816, ii. 160, 194, 422.

W. C. B.

In a letter signed " John Crompton," which appeared in the Times, 4 January, 1894, I ind what follows :

" A foot-note to ' Gil Bias ' gives the lines to a Cardinal La Marck, of the sixteenth century. I hink I remember the matter being threshed out in Notes and Queries years ago."

When was it thus " threshed out " ?

R. M. SPENCE. [See above.]

ORIENTAL PALMISTRY (9 th S. ii. 149). The querist will find an article of mine in the

'vening Standard, 13 August last year, on he subject of Chinese palmistry and phy- iognomy. The following extract may prove nteresting, even to the general reader :

Most curious is the mapping out of the facial rea by the Chinese into twelve periods of five ears each, which seem to take the place with them f those periods ruled off by Englisn chiromantists pon the so-called life-line, to which we have Iready alluded, upon the hand. It is generally dmitted, for instance, that the junction of the aturnian and head lines marks the period of 35. 'his important ' middle date ' is told off, in the hinese system, to the eyebrows and eyes. The orehead comes first, then the eyebrows and eyes, yhich, according to their characteristics, whether mall and weak, or large and prominent, and so