ii.

"Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among
Wits."--_Johnsoniana_.

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"[Greek: Ostis eim ego; Meton,
On oiden Hellas cho Kolonos.]"

Aristophanes, _The Birds_, 997.

"Under the Tropics is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke."

_Martinus Scriblerus_, Ch. xi.

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"Pandite, atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci,
obsecro:
Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco: quippe quo
memo advenit
Nisi quem spes reliquere omnes."

Plautus, _Bacchis_, Act iii Sc. 1.

"Per me si va nella citta dolente

Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che intrate."

Dante, _Inferno_, iii. 1-9.

W.B.D.

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FOLK LORE.

_Power of Prophecy._--MR. AUG. GUEST (Vol. ii., p. 116.) will perhaps
accept--as a small tribute to his interesting communication on the
subject of that "power of prophecy" which I apprehend to be still
believed by many to exist during certain lucid intervals before death--a
reference to Sir Henry Halford's _Essay on the [Greek: Kausos] of
Aretaeus_. (See Sir H. Halford's _Essays and Orations read and delivered
at the Royal College of Physicians_, Lond. 1831, pp. 93. et seq.)

J. Sansom.

_Bay Leaves at Funerals._--In some parts of Wales it is customary for
funerals to be preceded by a female carrying bays, the leaves of which
she sprinkles at intervals in the road which the corpse will traverse.

Query, Is this custom practised elsewhere; and what is the meaning and
origin of the use of the bay?

N.P.

_Shoes (old) thrown for luck._--Brand, in his _Popular Antiquities_,
observes, that it is accounted {197} lucky by the vulgar to throw an old
shoe after a person when they wish him to succeed in what he is going
about. This custom is very prevalent in Norfolk whenever servants are
going in search of new places; and especially when they are going to be
married, a shoe is thrown after them as they proceed to church.

C.P.R.M.

Some years ago, when the vessels engaged in the Greenland whale-fishery
left Whitby, in Yorkshire, I observed the wives and friends of the
sailors to throw old shoes at the ships as they passed the pier-head.
Query, What is the origin of this practice?

[Hebrew: T.A.]

_Roasting Mice for Hooping-cough_ is also very common in Norfolk; but I
am sorry to say that a mor