y are sluts indeed."

L.

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Minor Notes.

_"Passilodion" and "Berafrynde."_--Have these terms, which play so
memorable a part in the "Tale of King Edward and the Shepherd" {516}
(Hartshorne's _Ancient Metrical Tales_) been explained? The shepherd's
instructions (pp. 48, 49.) seem more zealous than luminous; but it has
occurred to me that _perhaps_ "passelodion," "passilodyon," or
"passilodion" may have some reference to the ancient custom of drinking
from a _peg_-tankard, since [Greek: passalos] means a _peg_, and [Greek:
passalodia] would be a legitimate pedantic rendering of _peg-song_, or
_peg-stave_, and _might_ be used to denote an exclamation on having
_reached the peg_.

H.G.T.

_Inscription on an Alms-dish._--In Bardsea Church, Island of Furness, is
an alms-dish(?) of a large size, apparently very old, gilt, and bearing
the following inscription:--

"WYLT : GHY : LANGHELEVEN : SOO : ERT : GODT :
ENDE : HOOVT : ZYN : GEBAT : VORWAR."

Bardsea Church is recently erected in a district taken out of Urswick
parish.

Can any of your readers give an explanation of the inscription?

F.B. RELTON.

[This is another specimen of the alms-dishes, of which several have been
described in our First Volume. The legend may be rendered, _If thou wilt
live long, honour God, and above all keep His commandments_.]

_The Use of the French Word "savez."_--About fifty years ago the use of
the French word _savez_, from the verb _savoir_, to know, was in general
use (and probably is so at the present time) among the negroes in the
island of Barbadoes,--"_Me no savez, Massa_," for, "I do not know,
Master (or Sir)." It occurred to the writer at that time as a very
singular fact, because the French had never occupied that island; nor is
he aware of any French negroes having been introduced there. He had also
been informed of its use in other places, but made no note of it. In the
_Morning Herald_ of the 7th instant there is a statement that the
Chinese at Canton, speaking a little English, make use of the same word.
Can any of your readers give an explanation of this?

J.F.

_Job's Luck_.--I send you another version of Job's luck, in addition to
those that have lately appeared in "NOTES AND QUERIES:"

"The devil engaged with Job's patience to battle,
Tooth and nail strove to worry him out of his life;
He robb'd him of children, slaves, houses, and c