nd in miseries."

In Bacon's _Advancement of Learning_, book 2, occurs the following:--

"In the third place, I set down reputation because of the
peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, if they be not
taken in due time, are seldom recovered, it being extreme hard
to play an after game of reputation."

E.L.N.

_Gray's Ode_.--In return for the information about Gray's _Ode_, I
send an entertaining and very characteristic circumstance told in Mrs.
Bigg's (anonymous) _Residence in France_ (edited by Gifford):--

"She had a copy of Gray when she was arrested in the Reign
of Terror. The Jacobins who searched her goods lighted on the
line--

'Oh, tu severi religio loci,'

and said, 'Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de
fanatique.'"

My informant tells me that the monk he saw was the same as the one
mentioned by your correspondent, and that he had a motto from Lord
Bacon over his cell.

C.B.

_The Grand Style_.--Is it not extremely probable that Bonaparte
plagiarised the idea of the centuries observing the French army from
the pyramids from these lines of Lucan?--

"_Saecula_ Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, _Attendunt,
oevumque sequens speculatur_ ab omni Orbe ratem."--_Phars._
viii. 622.

One of the recent French revolutionists (I think Rollin) compared
himself with the victim of Calvary. Even this profane rant is a
plagiarism. Gracchus Baboeuf, who headed the extreme republican party
against the Directory, exclaimed, on his trial, that his wife, and
those of his fellow-conspirators, "should accompany them _even to
Calvary_, because the cause of their punishment should not bring them
to shame."--_Mignet's French Revolution_, chap. xii.

J.F. BOYES.

_Hoppesteris_.--The "shippis _hoppesteris_," in Chaucer's _Knight's
Tale_, 2019., is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean _dancing_, and that in
the feminine--a very odd epithet. He tells us that the corresponding
epithet in Boccaccio is _bellatrici_. I have no doubt that Chaucer
mistook it for _ballatrici_.

C.B.

_Sheridan's Last Residence_ (Vol. i., p. 484.).--I wonder at any doubt
about poor Sheridan's having died in his own house, 17. Saville Row.
His remains, indeed, were removed (I believe for prudential reasons
which I need not specify) to Mr. Peter Moore's, in Great George
Street; but he was never more than a temporary, though frequent
visitor at Mr. Moore's.

C.

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