passages in Ovid:

"Nitor in adversum nec me qui cætera vincit
Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi."

C.B.

_"Isabel" and "Elizabeth."_--At pages 439. and 488. of Vol. i., "Notes
and Queries," are questions and answers on the names of "Isabel" and
"Elizabeth."

The following, from the _Epigrammaton Joannis Dunbari_, Lond. 1616, may
amuse some of your readers:

"AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH.

"Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam:
Verè Electoris nomine dignus erat."

"AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SPONSAM.

"El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat:
Hine meritò Elisabeth nobile nomen habet.
Scilicet illa Deo est motore, et Principe primo,
Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri."

Scotus.

_Hanap_ (Vol. i., p. 477.).--"A cup raised on a stem, either with or
without a cover." (_Arch. Journ._ vol. ii. 1846, p. 263., where may be