"_Sæcula_ Romanos nunquam tacitura labore, _Attendunt,
oevumque sequens speculatur_ ab omni Orbe ratem."--_Phars._
viii. 622.

One of the recent French revolutionists (I think Rollin) compared
himself with the victim of Calvary. Even this profane rant is a
plagiarism. Gracchus Baboeuf, who headed the extreme republican party
against the Directory, exclaimed, on his trial, that his wife, and
those of his fellow-conspirators, "should accompany them _even to
Calvary_, because the cause of their punishment should not bring them
to shame."--_Mignet's French Revolution_, chap. xii.

J.F. BOYES.


_Hoppesteris_.--The "shippis _hoppesteris_," in Chaucer's _Knight's
Tale_, 2019., is explained by Tyrwhitt to mean _dancing_, and that in
the feminine--a very odd epithet. He tells us that the corresponding
epithet in Boccaccio is _bellatrici_. I have no doubt that Chaucer
mistook it for _ballatrici_.

C.B.


_Sheridan's Last Residence_ (Vol. i., p. 484.).--I wonder at any doubt
about poor Sheridan's having died in his own house, 17. Saville Row.
His remains, indeed, were removed (I believe for prudential reasons
which I need not specify) to Mr. Peter Moore's, in Great George
Street; but he was never more than a temporary, though frequent
visitor at Mr. Moore's.