Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 | Page 6

Mrs. Gosson's,
sent my wyfe this booke for a token, February 15. A.D. 1602."
P.B.
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QUERIES.
QUOTATIONS IN BISHOP ANDREWES' TORTURA TORTI.
Can any of your contributors help me to ascertain the following
quotations which occur in Bishop Andrewes' _Tortura Torti_?
P. 49.:
"Si clavem potestatis non præcedat clavis discretionis."
P. 58.:
"Dispensationes nihil aliud esse quam legum vulnera."
P. 58.:
"Non dispensatio est, sed dissipatio."

This, though not marked as a quotation, is, I believe, in _S. Bernard_.
P. 183.:
"Et quæ de septem totum circumspicit orbem Montibus, imperii Roma
Deûmque locus."
P. 225.:
"Nemo pius, qui pietatem cavet."
P. 185.:
"Minutuli et patellares Dei."
I should also be glad to ascertain whence the following passages are
derived, which he quotes in his _Responsio ad Apologiam_?
P. 48.:
"[Greek: to gar trephon me tout ego kalo theon.]"
P. 145.:
"Vanæ sine viribus iræ."
P. 119. occurs the "versiculus,"
"Perdere quos vult hos dementat;"
the source of which some of your contributors have endeavoured to
ascertain.
JAMES BLISS.
Ogbourne St. Andrew.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_The Spider and the Fly._--Can any of your readers, gentle or simple,
senile or juvenile, inform me, through the medium of your useful and
agreeable periodical, in what collection of nursery rhymes a poem
called, I think, "The Spider and Fly," occurs, and if procurable, where?
The lines I allude to consisted, to the best of my recollection, of a
dialogue between a fly and a spider, and began thus:-- {246}
Fly. Spider, spider, what do you spin? Spider. Mainsails for a man-of
war. Fly. Spider, spider, 'tis too thin. Tell me truly, what 'tis for. Spider.
'Tis for curtains for the king, When he lies in his state bed. Fly. Spider,
'tis too mean a thing, Tell me why your toils you spread. &c. &c. &c.
There were other stanzas, I believe, but these are all I can remember.
My notion is, that the verses in question form part of a collection of
nursery songs and rhymes by Charles Lamb, published many years ago,
but now quite out of print. This, however, is a mere surmise on my part,
and has no better foundation than the vein of humour, sprightliness, and
originality, obvious enough in the above extract, which we find running
through and adorning all he wrote. "Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit."
S.J.
_A Lexicon of Types._--Can any of your readers inform me of the
existence of a collection of emblems or types? I do not mean allegorical
pictures, but isolated symbols, alphabetically arranged or otherwise.
Types are constantly to be met with upon monuments, coins, and
ancient title-pages, but so mixed with other matters as to render the
finding a desired symbol, unless very familiar, a work of great
difficulty. Could there be a systematic arrangement of all those known,
with their definitions, it would be a very valuable work of reference,--a
work in which one might pounce upon all the sacred symbols, classic
types, signs, heraldic zoology, conventional botany, monograms, and
the like abstract art.
LUKE LIMNER.

_Montaigne, Select Essays of._--
"Essays selected from Montaigne, with a Sketch of the Life of the
Author. London. For P. Cadell, &c. 1800."
This volume is dedicated to the Rev. William Coxe, rector of
Bemerton.
The life of Montaigne is dated the 28th of March, 1800, and signed
Honoria. At the end of the book is this advertisement:--
"Lately published by the same Author 'The Female Mentor.' 2d edit., in
2 vols. 12mo."
Who was _Honoria_? and are these essays a scarce book in England?
In France it is entirely unknown to the numerous commentators on
Montaigne's works.
O.D.
_Custom of wearing the Breast uncovered in Elizabeth's
Reign._--Fynes Moryson, in a well-known passage of his _Itinerary_,
(which I suppose I need not transcribe), tells us that unmarried females
and young married women wore the breasts uncovered in Queen
Elizabeth's reign. This is the custom in many parts of the East.
Lamartine mentions it in his pretty description of Mademoiselle
Malagambe: he adds, "it is the custom of the Arab females." When did
this curious custom commence in England, and when did it go out of
fashion?
JARLTZBERG.
_Milton's Lycidas._--In a Dublin edition of Milton's Paradise Lost
(1765), in a memoir prefixed I find the following explanation of than
rather obscure passage in _Lycidas_:--
"Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and
nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to

smite once, and smite no more."
"This poem is not all made up of sorrow and tenderness, there is a
mixture of satire and indignation: for in part of it, the poet taketh
occasion to inveigh against the corruptions of the clergy, and seemeth
to have first discovered his acrimony against Arb. Laud,