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Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 by Various
page 46 of 63 (73%)

From what author, "chapter and verse," comes the motto of the University
of Cambridge, HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SAGRA? It is used as a quotation in
Leighton on St. Peter's Epistle, but in the last edition the learned
editor does not give a reference.

J.J.S.

_Family of Giles of Worcestershire_.

Can you tell me any thing of a family named "_Giles_," whose crest was a
horse's head? They were connected with Worcestershire.

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_Passage from an Old Play._

Can any of your many readers oblige me by informing me where the
following very striking passage can be found? I have seen the lines
quoted as from an "Old Play;" but a tolerable extensive knowledge of old
plays, and a diligent search, have not hitherto enabled me to find
them:--

"Call you the city gay, its revels joyous?
They may be so to you, for you are young,

Belike and happy. She was young in years,
But often in mid-spring will blighting winds
Do autumn's work; and there is grief at heart
Can do the work of years, can pale the cheek,
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