cium est miseris socios habere poenarum."

_Ovidius Epistolarum_.

In the same page (fol. 149. rect.),

(sic) "Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum"

is transferred from Horace to Ovid; while, on the reverse of the same
fol., AEsop has the credit of

"Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro;
Hoc coeleste bonum praeterit orbis opes."

Of the first line of the couplet, Menage says (_Menagiana_, Amstm.
1713. 12mo.), iii. 132., that it is "de la fable du 3'e Livre de ce
meme Poete a qui nous avons dit qu'appartenoit le vers

"'Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest;'"

But I cannot find the reference to which he alludes.

In the same fol. (149 rect.) is perhaps the earliest quotation of

"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadende.--_Sapiens_,"

which occurs also in _Menagiana_ (Amstm. 1713. 12mo.), i. 209.:--

"Horace fait mention du Poete Cherile, de qui l'on n'a que ce
vers Grec--

"[Greek: Petran koilainei rhanis odatos endelecheiae.]"

"Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo."

The parallel passages in Ovid are in _Epist. ex Pont._ iv. x. 5.:--

"Gutta cavat lapidem; consumitur annulus usu,
Et feritur pressa vomer aduncus humo,"

and in _Art. Amat._ l. 475, 476.:--

"Quid magis est saxo durum? quid mollius unda?
Dura tamen molli saxa cavantur aqua."

F.C.B.

* * * * *

QUERIES.

A TREATISE ON THE LORD'S SUPPER, BY ROBERT CROWLEY.

I have before me a somewhat scarce volume of Theological Tracts (small
8vo.), ranging between the years 1533 and 1614. With the exception of
one relating to the Sacraments, by John Prime (Lond. 1582), the most
curious treatise is that entitled "The Supper of the Lorde, after
the true meanyng of the sixte of John, &c.... wherunto is added,
an Epystle to the reader, And incidentally in the exposition of the
Supper is confuted the letter of master More against John Fryth." To
a motto taken from 1 Cor. xi. is subjoined the following date, "Anno
M.CCCCC.XXXIII., v. daye of Apryll," together with a printer's device
(two hands pointing towards each other). This Tract was promptly
answered by Sir Thomas More (A.D. 1533, "after he had geuen ouer
the offyce of Lorde Chauncellour of Englande"), and is described by
him as "the poysoned booke whych a _nameles_ heretike hath named the
Supper of the Lorde" (_Works_, pp. 1035, seqq., ed. Rastell). From
the following passage of the reply, we learn that