I add another chronogram "by Godard, upon the birth of Louis XIV. in 1638, on a day when the eagle was in conjunction with the lion's heart:"
"EXorIens DeLphIn AqUILa CorDIsqUe LeonIs
CongressU GaLLos spe LætItIaqUe refeCIt."
B. H. C.
"Haul over the Coals" (Vol. viii., p. 125.).—This appears to mean just the same as "roasting"—to inflict upon any one a castigation per verbum and in good humour.
To cover over the coals is the same as to cower over the coals, as a gipsy over a fire. Thus Hodge says of Gammer Gurton and Tib, her maid:
"'Tis their daily looke,
They cover so over the coles their eies be bleared with smooke."
To carry coals to Newcastle is well understood to be like giving alms to the wealthy; but viewed in union with the others would show what a prominent place coals seem to have in the popular mind.
B. H. C.