of Moral Philosophy,
Dublin, which I conceive is one of those facts which might be of service
at some future time to scholars, from having been recorded in your
columns:--

Whitaker having observed--

"One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures
are of no more avail than Aesop's fables, apart from the
testimony of the church."--(Parker Soc. transl., p. 276.)

Professor Fitzgerald appends the following "note:"--

"Casaubon, Exercit. Baron. I. xxxiii. had, but doubtfully,
attributed this to Pighius; but in a MS. note preserved in
Primate Marsh's library, at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, he corrects
himself thus: 'Non est hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus
in Praefat. Controvers. I. Quaest. S. p. 314.' If a new edition of
those Exercitations be ever printed, let not these MSS. of that
great man, which, with many other valuable records, we owe to
the diligence of Stillingfleet and the munificence of Marsh, be
forgotten."

T.
Bath

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ON A VERY TALL BARRISTER NAMED "LONG."

Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum,
Dic mihi, te quaeso, num _Breve_ quicquid habes?

W.(1.)

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"NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR."

_On a very bad book: from the Latin of Melancthon_.

A thousand blots would never cure this stuff;
One might, I own, if it were large enough.

RUFUS.

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_Close Translation._--The following is a remarkable instance; for it is
impossible to say which is the original and which the translation, they
are so nearly equivalent:--

"Boys and girls, come out to play;
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Come with a whoop, come with a call,
Come with a good will, or come not at all." {423}

"Garcons et filles, venez toujours;
La lune fait clarte comme le jour;
Venez au bruit d'un joyeux eclat;
Venez de bon coeur, ou ne venez pas."

W.(1.)

_St. Antholin's Parish Books._--In common with many of your antiquarian
readers, I look forward with great pleasure to the selection from the
entries in the St. Antholin's Parish Books, which are kindly promised by
their present guardian, and, I may add, intelligent expositor, "W.C."

St. Antholin's is, on several accounts, one of the most interesting of
our London churches; it was here, Strype tells us (_Annals_, I. i. p.
199.), "the new morning prayer," i.e.,