Apo de tou me echontos]," &c.--_Ante_, Vol. viii., p. 372.

"Besides this, _nothing_ that he so plentifully gives me."--Shakspeare,
_As You Like It_, Act I. Sc. 1.

J. W. F.

Having observed several Notes in different Numbers of your interesting
publication, in which sentences have been quoted from the works of ancient
and modern authors that are almost alike in words, or contain the same
ideas clothed in different language, I would only add, that those of your
readers or correspondents who take an interest in such inquiries will find
instances enough, in a work which was published in Venice in 1624, to fill
several columns of "N. & Q." The volume is entitled _Il Seminario de
Governi di Stato, et di Guerra_.

W. W.

Malta.

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Minor Notes.

_Vallancey's Green Book._--Perhaps your readers are not aware of the
existence of the curious and interesting volume mentioned in the following
cutting from Jones's last _Catalogue_ (D'Olier St. Dublin). It may
therefore be worth making a note of in your columns:

"1008. Vallancey's Green Book, _manuscript, folio_.

*** Vallancey's Green Book, so named from being bound in green vellum,
was the volume in which the celebrated Irish antiquary, General Charles
Vallancey, entered the titles of all the manuscripts and printed works
relative to Ireland which he had occasion to consult in his antiquarian
researches. The copy now offered for sale is believed to be the only
one extant. Bound in the same volume is a collection of the titles of
all the manuscripts relating to Ireland, which are preserved in the
Archbishop of Canterbury's library, at Lambeth, London."

R. H.

Trin. Coll., Dublin.

_Herrings._--"The lovers of fish" may be glad to learn what a bloater is, a
mystery which I endeavoured to unravel when lately on the Norfolk coast. A
bloater, I was informed, is a large, plump herring (as we say a _bloated_
toad); and the genuine claimants of the title fall by their own weight from
the meshes of the net.

The origin of the simile--"As dead as a herring"--may not be generally
known. This fish dies immediately upon its removal from the native element
(strange to say) from want of air; for swimming near the surface it
requires much, and the gills, when dry, cannot perform their function.

C. T.

_Byron and Rochefoucauld._--The following almost word-for-word renderings
of two of Roche