Elector Dietrich of Mayence, issued and styled in the most formidable terms
by _Pius II._ This broadsheet, consisting of eighteen lines, and printed on
one side only, appears from the uniformity of its type with the _Rationale_
of 1459, to be the product of _Fust_ and _Schöffer_.

No mention whatever is made of this typographical curiosity in any of the
standard bibliographical manuals, from which it seems, that this broadsheet
is UNIQUE. Can any information, throwing light upon this subject, be given?

QUERIST.

November, 1850.

"_Please the Pigs_" is a phrase too vulgarly common not to be well known to
your readers. But whence has it arisen? Either in "NOTES AND QUERIES," or
elsewhere, it has been explained as a corruption of "Please the _pix_."
Will you allow another suggestion? I think it possible that the pigs of the
Gergesenes (Matthew viii. 28. _et seq._) may be those appealed to, and that
the invocation may be of somewhat impious meaning. John Bradford, the
martyr of 1555, has within a few consecutive pages of his writings the
following expressions:

"And so by this means, as they save their pigs, which they would not
lose, (I mean their worldly pelf), so they would please the
Protestants, and be counted with them for gospellers, yea, marry, would
they."--_Writings of Bradford_, Parker Society ed., p.390.

Again:

"Now are they willing to drink of God's cup of afflictions, which He