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