grescit nox, rem latro patrat atrox."

It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion?

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

Birmingham.

_Dictionary of English Phrases._--Is there in English any good dictionary
of phrases similar to the excellent _Frasologia Italiana_ of P. Daniele?

G. K.

_Lines on Woman._--W. V. will be glad to know if any of the correspondents
of "N. & Q." can tell where the following lines are to be found?--

"Not she with traitrous kiss her master stung,
Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue;
_She_, when apostles fled, could danger brave,
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave."

_Collections for Poor Slaves._--I have met with the following memorandum in
a parish register, and have seen notices of similar entries in others:

"1680. Collected for the redemption of poor slaves in Turkey, the sum
of 2s. 8d."

Can you refer me to the king's letter authorising such collections to be
made?

W. S.

Northiam.

[Some information upon this point will be found in "N. & Q.," Vol. i.,
p. 441.; Vol. ii., p 12.]

_The Earl of Oxford and the Creation of Peers._--Where will be found the
answer made by the Earl of Oxford when impeached in the reign of Queen Anne
for creating in one day twelve peers?

S. N.

_"Like one who wakes," &c._--Can any of your readers supply the authorship
and connexion of the following lines?--

"Like one who wakes from pleasant sleep,
Unto the cares of morning."

C. W. B.

_Bells at Berwick-upon-Tweed._--Can any one favour me with a parallel or
similar case, in respect to bells, to what I recently met with at
Berwick-upon-Tweed? The parish church, which is the only one in the town,
and a mean structure of Cromwell's time, is without either tower or {293}
bell; and the people are summoned to divine service from the belfry of the
town-hall, which has a very respectable steeple. Indeed, so much more
ecclesiastical in appearance is the town-hall than the Church, that (as I
was told) a regiment of soldiers, on the first Sunday after their arrival
at Berwick, marched to the former building for divine service, although the
church stood opposite the barrack gate. My kind informant also told me that
he found a strange clergyman one Sunday morning trying the town-hall door,
and rating the absent sexton; having undertaken to preach a missionary
sermon, and become involved in the same mistake as the soldiers.

But more curious stil