QUERIES:— [St. Thomas of Lancaster, by R. Monckton Milnes] [Shield of the Black Prince, &c. by J.R. Planché] [Fraternitye of Vagabondes, &c.] [The name of Shylock, by M.A. Lower] [Transposition of Letters, by B. Williams] [Pictures in Churches] [Flaying in Punishment of Sacrilege] [Minor Queries:—]Pokership or Parkership—Boduc or Boduoc—Origin of Snob—Mertens the Printer— Queen's Messengers—Bishop of Ross' Epitaph, &c.— Origin of Cannibal—Sir W. Rider—Origin of word Poghele, &c.
[MISCELLANIES]—including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:— Darkness at the Crucifixion—High Doctrine—Wife of King Robert Bruce—The Talisman of Charlemagne —Sayers the Caricaturist—May-Day—Dr. Dee's Petition —Lines quoted by Goethe—Queen Mary's Expectations —Ken's Hymns—Etymology of Daysman, &c.
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ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS.
The often-quoted lines—
"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day,"
generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras, are to be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, at p. 602. of his Handbook for London), in the Musarum Deliciæ, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of "witty trifles," by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith.