"Yet some seeke knowledge, meerely to be knowne,
And idle curiositie that is;
Some but to sell, not freely to bestow,
These gaine and spend both time and health amisse;
Embasing arts, by basely deeming so,
Some to build others, which is charity,
But those to build themselves, who wise men be."
Workes, p. 50.: Lond. 1633, 8vo.
"Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant: et turpis curiositas est. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quæstus est. Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut ædificentur: et prudentia est."—S. Bernardi In Cantica Serm. xxxvi. Sect 3. Opp., vol. i. p. 1404. Parisiis, 1719, fol.
It is no mean eulogy upon Lord Brooke's poem just referred to, to say that it stood high in the estimation of the late Rev. Hugh James Rose, and was quoted approvingly by him in his lectures before the Durham University. My acquaintance with it was first derived from that source, and I am confident that many others of your readers sympathise with the wishes of Mr. Crossley, for "a collected edition of the works of the two noble Grevilles" ("N. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 139.). The facts upon which the tragedy of Mustapha is founded are graphically summed up by Knolles in his Historie of the Turkes, pp. 757-65.: London, 1633, fol.
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Warmington.
St. Munoki's Day.—Professor Craik, in his Romance of the Peerage, vol. ii. p. 337., with reference to the date of the death of Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland, gives two authorities, namely, 24th November, 1541, from the Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents, and St. Munoki's Day, from the Chronicle of Perth, and then says: "I find no saint with a name resembling Munok in the common lists." Now this Note of mine has originated in the belief that I have found such a name in the Calendar of Saints, or at any rate one very closely resembling it, if not the identical Munok. "St. Marnok, B. patron of Killmarnock in Scotland, honoured on the 25th October in the Scots Calendar." Now "Marnok" is most probably Munok, the latter, perhaps, misspelt by a careless scribe in the Chronicle of Perth. There is a discrepancy of a month certainly in these two dates, 25th October and 24th November; but that is not very wonderful, as a doubt of the exact day of Queen Margaret's decease evidently exists among historians, for Pinkerton (vol. ii. p. 371.) conjectures June. The above extract regarding St. Marnok is from a
curious old work in my possession, published in 1761 in London, and entitled A Memorial of Ancient British Piety, or a British Martyrology. It gives also the names of St. Moroc, C., Nov. 8; St. Munnu, Ab., Oct. 21, both saints in the Scottish calendar.
A. S. A.
Punjaub.
Epitaph in Chesham Churchyard.—
"As an