"Like the _verbum Græcum_
Spermagoraiolekitholukanopolides,
Words that should only be said upon holidays,
When one has nothing else to do."

The _verbum Græcum_ itself is in Aristophanes' _Lysistrata_, 457.

E.M.B.


_Pope Felix._--Who is "Pope Felix," mentioned in Ælfric's _Homily on the
Birthday of St. Gregory_? Ælfric, in speaking of the ancestors of St.
Gregory, states that "_Felix_ se eawfaesta _papa_ waes his fifta
faeder,"--"Felix the pious pope was his fifth father," (i.e. great
grandfather's grandfather).

E.M.B.
April 15. 1850.


"_Where England's Monarch," and "I'd preach as though._"--Will any of
your subscribers have the kindness to inform me who was the author of
the lines

"Where England's monarch all uncovered sat
And Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimm'd hat."

And also of these, quoted by Henry Martyn as "well-known:"