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t interesting and useful publication who will kindly inform me in what authors the following passages are to be found, and will, if it can be done without too much trouble, give me the references necessary for tracing them:-- "Par un peu de sang bien repandu, L'on en epargne beaucoup." And "Quadrijugis invectus equis Sol aureus extat, Cui septem veriis circumdant vestibus Horae: Lucifer antesolat: rapidi fuge lampada Solis, Aurora, umbrarum victrix, neo victa recedas." The latter I have only seen subjoined to a print of Guido's celebrated Aurora, at Rome; and I should have supposed it might have been written for the occasion, had I not been told, upon authority in which I put confidence, that it is to be found in some classic author. If so, the lines may possibly have given rise to the painting, and not the painting to the lines. DAWSON TURNER. Yarmouth, October 28. 1850. _Avidius Varus._--Can you, or any of your readers, tell me who _Avidius Varus_ was, referred to in the following passage: "Sed _Avidii Vari_ illud hic valeat: 'Aut hoc quod produxi testium satis est, aut nihil satis.'" I find reference made to him as above, in one of the Smith manuscripts; but I cannot discover his name in any catalogue or biographical dictionary. Is he known by any other name? J. SANSOM. _Death of Richard II._--By what authority has the belief that Richard II. died in Pontefract Castle, in Yorkshire, arisen? Every history that I have consulted (with the exception, indeed, of Lord Lyttleton's) coolly assumes it as a fact, in the teeth of the contemporary Froissart, who says plainly enough-- "Thus they left the _Tower of London where he had died_, and paraded the streets at a foot's pace till they came to Cheapside."--_Froissart's Chronicles_, translated by Johnes, vol. vii. p. 708. It is barely possible that our modern historians may have been misled by Shakspeare, who makes Pontefract the scene of his death. Another circumstance which militates against the received story, is the fact that all historians, I believe, agree that his _dead body_ was conveyed to burial from the Tower of London. Now, it seems odd, to say the least, that if he really died at Pontefract, and his corpse was removed to London, that no one mentions this removal--that Froissart had not heard of it, although, from the nature of the country, the want of good roads, &c., the funeral convoy must have be
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