"As for the forme of those spots, some of the vulgar thinke they represent a man, and the poets guesse 'tis the boy Endymion, whose company shee loves so well, that shee carries him with her; others will have it onely to be the face of a man as the moone is usually pictured; but Albertus thinkes rather that it represents a lyon, with his taile towards the east and his head to the west; and some others (Eusebius, Nieremb. Hist. Nat., lib. VIII. c. xv.) have thought it to be very much like a fox, and certainly 'tis as much like a lyon as that in the zodiake, or as Ursa Major is like a beare.... It may be probable enough that those spots and brighter parts may show the distinction betwixt the sea and land in that other world."—Bishop Wilkin's Discovery of a New World, 3rd. edit., Lond. 1640, p. 100.
"Does the Man in the Moon look big,
And wear a huger periwig;
Show in his gait, or face, more tricks
Than our own native lunatics?"
Hudibras, pt. II. c. iii. 767.
To judge from his physiognomy, one would say the Man in the Moon was a Chinese, or native of the Celestial Empire.
Eirionnach.
Arms of Richard, King of the Romans (Vol. viii., p. 653.).—With respectful submission to Mr. Norris Deck, and notwithstanding his ingenious conjecture that the charges on the border are pois, and the seal which he mentions in his last communication, I think the evidence that the border belongs to Cornwall, and not to Poictou, is perfectly conclusive.
1. The fifteen bezants in a sable field have been time out of mind regarded as the arms of Cornwall, and traditionally (but of course without authority) ascribed to Cadoc, or Caradoc, a Cornish prince of the fifth century. They occur in juxtaposition with the garbes of Chester, upon some of the great seals of England, and I think also upon the tomb of Queen Elizabeth; and they are, to the present day, printed or engraved on the mining leases of the duchy.