s authority, two conclusive facts; the first
is, that it was not till _Sunday night_, the 31st _January_ (_a week
after_ the date of the letter) that Sir Robert made up his mind to
resign; and, secondly, that he had at least two personal interviews
with the king on that subject.

C.

_Line quoted by De Quincey_.--"S.P.S." (No. 22. p. 351.) is informed
that

"With battlements that on their restless fronts
Bore stars"...

is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of "Cloudland" by
Wordsworth, which occurs near the end of the second book of the
Excursion. The opium-eater gives a long extract, as "S.P.S." probably
remembers.

A.G.

Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850.

_Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat_.--Malone, in a note in
_Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that
a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of
Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic.

"[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]"

The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in
Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to
be found? It is much nearer to the Latin.

C.

_Bernicia_.--In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21. p. 335.),
"P.C.S.S." begs leave to refer him to Camden's _Britannia_ (Philemon
Holland's translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, at p.
797., the following passage:--

"But these ancient names were quite worn out of use in the
English Saxon War; and all the countries lying north or the
other side of the arme of the sea called Humber, began, by
a Saxon name, to be called [Old English: Northan-Humbra-ric]
that is, the Kingdome of Northumberland; which name,
notwithstanding being now cleane gone in the rest of
the shires, remayneth still, as it were, surviving in
Northumberland onely; which, when that state of kingdome
stood, was known to be a part of the _Kingdome of Bernicia_,
which had _peculiar petty kings_, and reached from the River
Tees to Edenborough Frith."

At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of _Berwick_ from _Bernicia_.

P.C.S.S.

_Caesar's Wife_.--If the object of "NASO'S" Query (No. 18. p. 277.) be
merely to ascertain the origin of the proverb, "Caesar's wife must be
above suspicion," he will find in Suetonius (Jul. Caes. 74.) to the
following effect:--

"The name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Caesar,
having been