, easy, and intelligible; and I can imagine how
the word "addunt" arose from the mistake of a transcriber, by supposing
that the MS. was written thus:--ac[s]vnt, with a long [s] closely following
the c, so as to resemble a d.

SCRIBLERUS.

_Poems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. Digby._--In page 18. of your
current volume is a poem of which I am anxious to know the author: it is
entitled the "Houre-Glasse." Among the poems of Amaltheus I have discovered
one so like it, that it appears to be almost a translation. It is curious,
and but little known, so that I trust you can find it a place in "NOTES AND
QUERIES."

"HOROLOGIUM PULVERUM, TUMULUS ALCIPPI.

Perspicuo in vitro pulvis qui dividit horas
Dum vagus augustum saepe recurrit iter,
Olim erat Alcippus, qui Gallae ut vidit ocellos,
Arsit, et est caeco factus ab igne cinis.--
Irrequiete cinis, miseros testabere amantes
More tuo nulla posse quiete frui."

H. A. B.

_Matter-of-fact Epitaph._--May I venture to ask a place for the following
very matter-of-fact epitaph in the English cemetery at Leghorn?

"Amstelodamensis situs est hic Burr. Johannes,
Quatuor e lustris qui modo cratus erat:
Ditior anne auro, an meritis hoc nescio: tantas
Caeca tamen Clotho non toleravit opes."

which may be thus freely rendered:

"Here lie the remains of a Dutchman named Burr. John,
Who baffled at twenty the skill of his surgeon;
Whether greater his merits or wealth, I doubt which is,
But Clotho the blind couldn't bear such great riches."

C. W. B.

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Queries.

ANCIENT DANISH ITINERARY: PROL IN ANGLIAM.

An ancient scholiast on Adam of Bremen, "paululum Adamo ratione aetatis
inferior," according to his editor, Joachim Maderus, supplies us with a
curious list of the stations in the voyages from Ripa, in Denmark, to Acre,
in the Holy Land. Adam of Bremen's _Ecclesiastical History_ dates toward
the end of the eleventh century, about 1070. His text is as follows:--

"Alterum (episcopatum) in Ripa; quae civitas alio tangitur alveo, qui ab
oceano influit, et per quem vela torquentur in Fresiam, vel in nostram
Saxoniam, vel certe in Angliam."

The scholiast has this note:--

"De Ripa in Flandriam ad _Cuicfal_ velificari potest duobus diebus, et
totidem noctibus; de Cuicfal ad _Prol in Angliam_ duobus diebus et una
nocte. _Illud est ultimum caput Angliae versus Austrum_