: Notes and Queries Number 12 January 19 1850 by Various - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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NOTES:-- Page Passage in Hudibras, by E.F. Rimbault 177 Field of the Brothers' Footsteps 178 Notes on Books and Authors, by Bolton Corney 178 Receipts of the Beggar's Opera 178 Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault 180 Sewerage in Etruria 180 Andrew Frusius 180 Opinions respecting Burnet 181

QUERIES:-- St. Thomas of Lancaster, by R. Monckton Milnes 181 Shield of the Black Prince, &c. by J.R. Planch? 183 Fraternitye of Vagabondes, &c. 183 The name of Shylock, by M.A. Lower 184 Transposition of Letters, by B. Williams 184 Pictures in Churches 184 Flaying in Punishment of Sacrilege 185 Minor Queries:--Pokership or Parkership--Boduc or Boduoc--Origin of Snob--Mertens the Printer-- Queen's Messengers--Bishop of Ross' Epitaph, &c.-- Origin of Cannibal--Sir W. Rider--Origin of word Poghele, &c. 185

MISCELLANIES--including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:-- Darkness at the Crucifixion--High Doctrine--Wife of King Robert Bruce--The Talisman of Charlemagne --Sayers the Caricaturist--May-Day--Dr. Dee's Petition --Lines quoted by Goethe--Queen Mary's Expectations --Ken's Hymns--Etymology of Daysman, &c. 186

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 189 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 190 Notices to Correspondents 190 Advertisements 191

ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS.

The often-quoted lines--

"For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day,"

"For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain."

A second edition was printed by John Kingston, in 1564, with no other variation, I believe, than in the orthography. Haslewood, in a note on the fly-leaf of my copy, says:--

"Notwithstanding the fame of Erasmus, and the reputation of his translator, this volume has not obtained that notice which, either from its date or value, might be justly expected. Were its claim only founded on the colloquial notes of Udall, it is entitled to consideration, as therein may be traced several of the familiar phrases and common-place idioms, which have occasioned many conjectural speculations among the annotators upon our early drama."

The work consists of only two books of the original, comprising the apophthegms of Socrates, Aristippus, Diogenes, Philippus, Alexander, Antigonus, Augustus Caesar, Julius Caesar, Pompey, Phocion, Cicero, and Demosthenes.

On folio 239. occurs the following apophthegm, which is the one relating to the subject before us:--

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