Goodluck.
Waller Family (Vol. v., p. 586.).—Francis Waller, of Amersham, Bucks, grandfather of Edmund Waller the poet, by his will, dated 13th of January, 1548-49, entails his mansion house in Beaconsfield, and other estates in Bucks, Herts, &c., on the child of which his wife Anne is "now pregnant," with remainders to his two brothers, Thomas and Edmund, in tail, with divers remainders over, to Francis Waller, son of his brother Ralph Waller, and the heirs of his "sister Pope" and his sister Davys. The lady in question was of the Beaconsfield branch of the Wallers, and great aunt to the poet. (From the family muniments.)
Lambert H. Larking.
"After me the Deluge" (Vol. iii., pp. 299. 397.).—The modern, whoever he may be, can only lay claim to reviving this proverb of selfishness, which was branded by Cicero long ago:
"Illa vox inhumana et scelerata ducitur, eorum, qui negant se recusare, quò minùs, ipsis mortuis, terrarum omnium deflagratio consequatur, quod vulgari quodam versu Græco [Ἐμοῦ Θανόντος γαῖα μιχθήτω πυρί] pronuntiari solet."
This passage occurs in his treatise De Finibus, III. xix., vol. xiv. p. 341. Valpy's edition, 1830.
Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
Sun-Dial Motto (Vol. v., p. 499.).—Y. is informed that Hazlitt, in his Sketches and Essays, has an essay on a sun-dial, beginning with these words:
"Horas non numero nisi serenas, is the motto of a sun-dial near Venice."
In La Gnomonique Pratique of François de Celles, 8vo., there is pretty long list of Latin mottos for sun-dials, but I do not find the above amongst them. It scarcely reads like a classical quotation.