chbishop of
Canterbury, and it was reported that a reward of 100l. was promised for
the correct answer, and I know that a clergyman sent him an answer with
that belief. Among the answers suggested was "Tapir," taken in its
various significations, which I think was as near the mark as "Church,"
as given in No. 35.

I have never heard any answer suggested to Sir Hilary's dissyllabic
prayer.

B.H.C.

_Discursus Modestus_ (Vol. i., pp. 142. 205.).--Such of your readers as
have been making inquiries and suggestions respecting _Discursus
Modestus_ will {159} be glad to hear that a copy exists in the British
Museum. Its title is as follows:

"A Sparing Discoverie of ovr English Iesuits, and of Fa.
Parson's proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholick
Faith in England: for a caueat to all true Catholicks, ovr very
louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very
uncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments. Eccles. 4. _Vidi
calumnias quae sub sole geruntur, et lachrymas innocentium, et
neminem consolatorem_.--Newly imprinted, 1601."

At the end of the Preface are the initials W.W., making it clear that
Watson, the author of _Important Considerations_ and the _Quodlibets_,
was the writer, and accounting for the connection which seemed to exist
between the _Discursus_ and the _Quodlibets_.

The two passages quoted by Bishop Andrewes (_Resp. ad Apol._ pp. 7.
117.) are to be found in p. 13. But the question now arises, from what
earlier book the quotations are taken, as they both appear in the
_Sparing Discovery_ in Latin, and not in English? Did the Jesuits
publish a work containing such statements? or are we to accept them as
their opinions only on the authority of so bitter an opponent as Watson?

James Bliss.

"_Rapido contrarius orbi_" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in one of the finest
passages in Ovid:

"Nitor in adversum nec me qui caetera vincit
Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi."

C.B.

_"Isabel" and "Elizabeth."_--At pages 439. and 488. of Vol. i., "Notes
and Queries," are questions and answers on the names of "Isabel" and
"Elizabeth."

The following, from the _Epigrammaton Joannis Dunbari_, Lond. 1616, may
amuse some of your readers:

"AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH.

"Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam:
Vere Electoris nomine dignus erat."

"AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SPONSAM.

"El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat: