can give information on this point.

C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge, April 14. 1851.

_Paring the Nails unlucky on Sundays_ (Vol. ii., p. 511.; Vol. iii, p.
55.).--Compare Sir Thomas Browne's _Vulgar Errors_, lib. v. cap. xxi. Sec. x.

ACHE.

_Errata in Braithwait's Latin Drinking-song_ (Vol. iii., p. 297.).--It is
well for us that honest Barnaby is not alive to visit upon us the
scandalous "negligences and ignorances" with which our transcript of his
song abounds; and it is no excuse perhaps to say, that _the errors almost
all of them exist in the MS. from whence the transcript was made_.
Sensitive as he has shown himself "upon the errata's," _he_ would not have
accepted the apology from us which he makes for himself. "Good reader, if
this impression have errors in it, excuse it. _The copy was obscure_;
neither was the _editor_, by reason of his distance, and employments of
higher consequence, made acquainted with the publishing of it."

"His Patavinus _erravit prelis_,
Authorem suis lacerando telis."

The following corrections, which are necessary to the sense, have been
pointed out, and have no doubt been already silently made by many of our
readers.

_Sic in MS._ _forsan._

Stanza 3. hoc _te_ amoenum hoc amoenum
reparare reperire

Stanza 4. m_e_mento m_o_mento
gustabi_t_ gustabi_s_

Stanza 5. solv_e_t solv_i_t
pot_i_s pot_u_s

Stanza 6. friges_t_is friges_c_is

Stanza 8. succed_a_nt succed_u_nt

Omit the comma between _Domum_ and
_feram_, and disregard the erroneous
punctuation generally.

There may be other errors; for, as it stands at present, the song is
inferior to the other known productions of the pleasant author of the
ITINERARIUM. We can only hope that its publication, in even this imperfect
form, may lead to the discovery of a better text; and we must be content if
the lines of the author are applied to our blunders:

"Delirans iste _Sapiens Gottam_,
Reddit _Coetum_ propter _Cotem_."
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"Quid si breves fiant longi?
Si vocales sint dipthongi?
Quid si graves sint acuti?
Si accentus fiant muti?
Quid si placide, plene, plane,
FREGI FRONTEM PRISCIANI?

Quid si sedem muto sede?
Quid si carmen claudo pede?
Quid si noctem sensi diem?
Quid si veprem esse viam?