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 vi. AUG. 25, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 145 " Al the seed corne in the ground being beaten downe and troden under foote, with the trampling of their horses (for it was autume), the innocent and htn-iii/i •-•< earth did now make shew, that it should defraud the poore and unfortunate labourer of his pains and travell." Duke. A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influence* That dost this habitation, where thou keep'nt, Hourly afflict. ' MeaBure for Measure,' III. i. Lear. By all the operation of the orbs Prom whom we do exist, and cease to be, Here 1 disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever. ' King Lear,' I. i. " Manie are the influences which did descende downe from the heavens by certaine secret and unknoweu causes of thinges, and it is often seene, that sundry both gooa and evill chances are manifested unto us by the operation of the atarrea and the celeetiall bodies, the which whilst we doe disdaine to observe, wee do referre them to mere accidents and casualtie, and we do not use eyther the service and ministerie of eur owne prudence, nor the Industrie of our owne counselles to purchase unto us the favour and blessing of the devine bountie, nor to turne away the anger and threatenings of the heavens." King. What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like ? Let him go, Gertrude ; do not fear our person : There 's such divinity doth hedge a /•/';/./, That treason can but peep to what it would. ' Hamlet,'IV. v. " For my part I am rather of this minde, that God, even that great God which hath established the king* of the earth in their thrones, hath im- printed in their countenances certaine characters of his divinilie, which maketh them venerable and terrible above other men." In my next contribution I shall be able to give a copy of the title-page of this old book. W. L. RUSHTON. (To be continued.) MOIPERN ZODIACS. {Continued from 9th S. v. 331.) 162. Round the lip of the large bronze basin of the Fontaine Richelieu in the Place Richelieu, Paris, by Visconti, circa 1825. Baedeker, 'Guide,' p. 199. 163. Of a set of 144 Indian ivory cards, beautifully painted in enamel, it is said, "There are twelve suites, each suite having a sign of the zodiac painted on it, from one to twelve times " ; and these signs nearly corre- spond with the European divisions of the zodiac. Morison,' Religious History of Man,' 1838, p. 280. 164. No. 26 in A. Z. is engraved in Loftus, - 165. The Bodleian, Oxford, possesses a painting of the zodiac of Tentyra, by bequest of R. Mason, of Queen's College, in 1841. Macray's 'Annals,' 1890, p. 342; 'N. & Q.,' 9th S. i. 203. 166. In an almanac (1 by Mark Twain) are humorous drawings of the signs around a standing man, connected by lines with twelve parts of the body, the emblems being outside, in a square form. 167. An engraving of a statue of Artemis of Ephesus is in Kitto, ' Illustrated Com- mentary,' vol. v. p. 205. 168. In twelve circles, round a very large painted wheel window, over the grand entrance of St. Augustine's Church, Paris, built to commemorate the birth of the Prince Imperial. 169. A large bronze medal represents Napoleon as Phoebus, behind whom is an arc bearing signs. 1854, Mint, Paris. 170. Engraved in Smith, 'Wonders of Nature and Art.' 171. No. 150 in A. Z. is described and illustrated in ' Ongania.' 172. An engraving of A. Z., No. 257, is in ' Archseologia Cantiana,' vol. iv. p. 87. 173. An engraving of Artemis of Ephesus is in Hislop, ' The Two Babylons,' 1862, p. 43. On it may be discovered Cancer, Leo, Taurus, Aries, Virgo, Aquila, Gemini, Rose, Cherub, Acorn. 174. Painted on tiles with subjects illus- trating the legends of the zodiac, as the zodiac of Pleasure in the summer smoking- room in Cardiff Castle clock tower. See No. 102. 175. Painted on the eight spandrels of the vaulting and in four circles on the side walls of the winter smoking-room in Cardiff Castle clock tower. 176. An arc containing four signs is carved in stone on a panel above a window, below the cornice of the National and Provincial Bank, Threadneedle Street, London. 177. The 'Atlas of the Stars,' by Rev. J. Gall, Edinburgh, contains twenty plates of isterisms and five of constellations tinted blue, and six star maps. 178. An engraving of a medal of Antoninus bearing the zodiac, enclosing the seven planets as busts around Serapis, is in ' Acad. Inscript.,' vol. xli. A. Z., No. 57. 179. The zodiacal alphabet. Aries corre- sponds to ain, Taurus to aleph, Gemini to Keth, Cancer to vau, Leo to lamed, Virgo to lieth, Libra to caph, Scorpio to zain, Sagit- tarius to gimel, Capricornus to tau, Aquarius to mim, Pisces to nun. The figures are from the Egyptian zodiac. Engraved in 'Man-