Secum post fati funera quisque feret."
Effigies.
Giving the Lie.—The great affront of giving the lie arose from the phrase "Thou liest," in the oath taken by the defendant in judicial combats before engaging, when charged with any crime by the plaintiff, and Francis I. of France, to make current his giving the lie to the Emperor Charles V., first stamped it with infamy by saying, in a solemn Assembly, that "he was no honest man that would bear the lie."
Blowen.
Anachronisms of Painters.—An amusing list is given in D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature (edit. 1839, p. 131.). The following are additional:
At Hagley Park, Worcestershire, the seat of Lord Lyttleton, is a painting by Varotari, a pupil of Paul Veronese, of Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery. One of the Jewish elders present wears spectacles.
At Kedleston, Derbyshire, the seat of Lord Scarsdale, is a painting by Rembrandt, Daniel interpreting Belsazzar's Dream. Daniel's head is covered with a peruke of considerable magnitude.
J. E.
Spenser's Faerie Queene.—The following brief notes may perhaps prove interesting:—
1. Spenser gives us a hint of the annoyances to which Shakspeare and Burbage may have been subject:—