es the tug of war."

NAT. LEE.

The real line in Lee is--

"When Greeks join Greeks then was the tug of war."

LEE's _Alexander the Great_.

J.W.G. GUTCH

* * * * *

I wish to ask a few questions, referring to these lines, if you do not
think the subject already exhausted by Mr. Rimbault's curious and
interesting communication.

1. Does not the _entire_ quotation run somewhat thus:--

"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain
Can never hope to fight again"?

2. Are the two last lines in the _Musarum Deliciae_?

3. May not the idea suggesting the two first lines be traced to some
passage in one of the orations of _Demosthenes_, and, PAST him, to the
"[Greek: Anaer ho pheugon kai palin machaesetai]" of some contemporary,
if not still older writer?

4. Whose _Apothegems_ [qy., those of Demosthenes?] are under
consideration on folio 239., from which Mr. Rimbault quotes?

Queries 1, 2, 3 have long stood _in MS._ in my note-book, and I should
much like to see them in _print_, while the subject to which they refer
is still fresh in the minds of your readers.

MELANION

* * * * *

The lines--

"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day,"

resemble the following quatrain in the _Satyre Menippee_, being one of
the several verses appended to the tapestry on which was wrought the
battle of Senlis:--

"Souvent celuy qui demeure
Est cause de son meschef;
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure
Peut combattre de rechef."

A.J.H.

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NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, No. 5.

In the library of St. John's College are some hundreds of volumes
bequeathed to it by Thomas Baker; most of these have little notices on
the fly-leaves, some thirty or forty of which seem worth printing. One
(Strype's _Life of Parker_) has marginal notes throughout the book, the
value of which will be duly appreciated by those who have read Baker's
notes on Burnet's _Reformation_. (See the _British Magazine_ for the
last year.)

Hereafter, if you do not object, I hope to send larger extracts from
Baker's MSS.; at present I confine myself to a single specimen, taken
from the fly-leaf of a copy of Noy's _Compleat Lawyer_, London, 1665.
(St. John's Library, Class mark, I. 10. 49)

"Gul. Noye de S. Buriens. Com. Cornub. Armig. unus Magistrorum
de B