"Experto crede Roberto" (Vol. v., p. 104.).
—Your correspondent W. L. may perhaps find the origin of the above phrase in the following epitaph copied from the floor of Exeter College Chapel, Oxford:
"Quam subito, quam certo, experto crede Roberto
Pride AUX, Fratri Matthiæ minori
Qui veneno infæliciter com-
-Esto intra decem horas
Misere expiravit.
Sept. 14, 1627."
What is the meaning of the capitals? Close by is the following:
"Hic jacet in pannis patris op-