herine Parr--Skort--Religious
Teaching in the German Universities--Epigram by
Dunbar--Endymion Porter--Sathaniel--The Scoute
Generall--Anthony Pomeroy, Dean of Cork 302

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Civil War Tract--Trisection
of the Circle--Wolsey's Son--Cardinals and
Abbots in the English Church 303

REPLIES:--
Sir Balthazar Gerbier, by J. Crossley 304
The Travels of Baron Munchausen 305

Replies to Minor Queries:--Tobacco in the East--
Captain John Stevens--MS. Catalogue of Norman
Nobility--Illustrations of Chaucer, No. III.--
Comets--Pope Joan--Abbot Euctacius--The
Vellum-bound Junius--Meaning of Waste-book--
Cowdray--Solemnisation of Matrimony--Epitaph
on the Countess of Pembroke--Scandal against
Queen Elizabeth--The Tanthony--The Hippopotamus
--Tu autem--Places called purgatory--Swearing
by Swans, &c.--Edmund Prideaux and the Post-office
--Small Words and "Low" Words--Lord
Howard of Effingham--Obeahism, &c. 306

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 310
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 311
Notices to Correspondents 311
Advertisements 311

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Notes.

LATIN DRINKING SONG BY RICHARD BRAITHWAIT.

I have been surprised, from the facility with which the author of "Drunken
Barnaby" seems to pour out his Leonine verse, that no other productions of
a similar character are known to have issued from his pen. I am not aware
that the following drinking song, which may fairly be attributed to him,
has ever appeared in print. It was evidently unknown to the worthy
Haslewood, the crowning glory of whose literary career was the happy
discovery of the author, Richard Braithwait. I transcribe it from the MS.
volume from which James Boswell first gave to the world Shakspeare's verses
"On the King." Southey has somewhere said that "the best serious piece of
Latin in modern metre is Sir Francis Kinaston's _Amores Troili et
Cressidae_, a translation of the two first books of Chaucer's Poem[1]; but
it was reserved for _famous_ BARNABY to employ the barbarous ornament of
rhyme, so as to give thereby