_Under the Rose._--That the English proverbial expression, _Under the
Rose_, is derived from the confessional, is, I believe, generally
admitted: but the authorship of the well-known Latin verses on this
subject is still, as far as I am aware, a _rexata quæstio_, and gives a
somewhat different and _tantaleau_[1] meaning to the adage:--

"Est Rosa flas Veneris, quem, quo sua furta laterent,
Harpoerati, Matris dona, dicavit Amor.
Inde rosam mensis hospes suspendit amicis,
Convivæ ut sub ca dicta tacenda sciant."

Can any of your correspondents obligingly inform me to whom these not
inelegant or unclassical lines are to be attributed?

ARCHÆUS.

Wiesbaden, Dec. 15. 1849.

[Footnote 1: See Pindar's First Olympic Ode.]


_Norman Pedigrees._--Can any gentleman inform me where (in what book)
may be found the situation of the places from which the companions of
William the Norman took their names? Such _French_ names as have _De_
prefixed--in fact, a _Gazetteer_? Also, where may be found--if such
exist--pedigrees of the same _worthies_?

B.