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Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various
page 33 of 66 (50%)

Can any learned clerk inform me where a copy of such Homilies can be
seen?

B.

_Collar of SS_.--Where can we find _much_ about the SS. collar? Is there
any list extant of persons who were honoured with that badge?

B.

_Rainbow_.--By what heathen poet is the _rainbow_ spoken of as "risus
plorantis Olympi?"

J. SAMSON.

_Passage in Lucan_.--What parallel passages are there to that of
_Lucan_:--

"Communis mundo superest rogus, ossibus astra
Misturus?"

J. SAMSON.

_William of Wykeham_.--Is there any better Life of William of Wykeham
than the very insufficient one of Bishop Lowth?

What were the circumstances of the rise of William of Wykeham,
respecting which Lowth is so very scanty and unsatisfactory?

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