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Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
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W.(I.)


_Brown Study_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--Surely a corruption of brow-study,
brow being derived from to old German, _braun_, in its compound form
_ang-braun_, an eyebrow. (Vide Wachter, _Gloss. Germ._)

HENNES


_Seven Champions of Christendom._--Who was the author of _The Seven
Champions of Christendom_?

R.F. JOHNSON.

[_The Seven Champions of Christendom_, which Ritson describes as
"containing all the lies of Christendom in one lie," was written
by the well-known Richard Johnson. Our correspondent will find
many curious particulars of his various works in the
Introduction which Mr. Chappell has prefixed to one of them,
viz. _The Crown Garland of Golden Roses_, edited by him from the
edition of 1612 for the Percy Society.] {419}


"_Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis_."--"E.V." (p. 215.) is
referred to Cicero _De Officiis_, lib. i. cap. 10., and Ovid, _Met_.
lib. xv. 165. et seqq.

"_Vox Præterea nihil_."--"C.W.G." (p. 247.) is also referred to Ovid,
_Met_. lib. iii. 397., and Lactantius, lib. iii. Fab. v. These are the
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