Notes and Queries, July 30, 1910.
INDEX.
Postmaster, oldest, his death, 106
Pothinus and Blandina, their imprisonment, 9
Potinius (Jo.) and Duncan Liddel, 447
Potter (Col. Vincent), Regicide, his biography,
147, 214
Potter ( J. F. Gill) on Col. Vincent Potter, 147 Potts (R. A.) on authors wanted, 317, 354 Shrove Monday : Collop Monday, 352 Pouncy (B. T.), artist, d. 1799, 487 Power (D'Arcy) on the Frere Caromez, 9 Prayer, metrical, and Passion emblems, 67, 152,238 Presidency, official use of the word, 264 Presley (J. T.) on authors wanted, 109 Prestage (Edgar) on Princess Clara Emilia oi
Bohemia, 508 ' Trabalhos de Jesus,' 148 Preston : " Proud Preston " and leather shoes
66, 212
Preston (C. W. A.) on gargoyles, 168 Prideaux (W. R. B.) on Milton and the Company
of Coopers, 244
Priestley and the Birmingham riots, 280 Priests, Irish, banished to Barbados by Cromwell,149 " Prince Fred " satire, earliest version, 148, 292, 355 Princes' deaths and comets : Julius Caesar, 448 Pringle (James Hall), 1689, his descendants, 326 Printers of the Statutes, c. 1500, 106, 238 Printing, Watson's ' History ' of, 90, 154, 234 Proclamation of the sovereign in Scotland, 441 Prophecy : " When our Lord shall lie in our
Lady's lap," 49, 94 Prosser (G.) on parsons not in Holy Orders, 12
Proverbs and Phrases :
Agnes : Do not play Agnes, 290, 495
Altes Haus, fideles Haus, 88, 153
Anne : As dead as Queen Anne, 347, 430
Annus mirabilis, 464
Audi alteram partem, 464
Beneath his horse, 449
Best company consists of five persons, 367, 433
Bis peccare in bello non licet, 464
Broad-Bottomed Administration, 328
But more was lost on Mohacs field, 258
Christians to the lion, 428, 492
Cle>icalisme, voila 1'ennemi ! 306
Cuckoos to clear the mud away, 208, 257, 316, 492
Dickens: what 'the dickens ! 160
Ducks to clear mud away, 208, 257, 316, 492
Fire out, 405
Forbes Mackenzie hour of eleven, 268, 353
He will either make a spoon or spoil a horn, 57
Hem of a noise, 108, 258
In cauda venenum, 505
In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail, 168
It takes all sorts of people to make a world, 369
Keep body and soul together, 27
Kicking up Bob's-a-dying, 150, 258
Making one's parish, 206, 254, 315
Man in a quart bottle, 136
Mesopotamia : That blessed word Meso- potamia, 369, 458
Mohammed and the mountain,|89, 151,231, 275
Monkeys' Parade, 225, 276
Mother of dead dogs, :i2r>
Mother of free Parliaments, 227, 315, 375
Music of the future, 249 ^
Nemesis of words, 149
Nescit servire virtus, 211
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, 89, 177 Psychological moment, 416
Proverbs and Phrases :
Standing for Parliament, 87, 252, 432
"Tace" is Latin for candle, 380
There are more acres in Yorkshire than letters in the Bible, 52
When the devil goes a-nutting, 33 Psalmanazar (George), his biography, 349 Psychological moment, origin of the phrase, 416 Public School Registers, 203, 269, 294, 431 Publishing and bookselling, bibliography of, 5, 44 Pull=a seizure, in Devon inquest, 1651, 407, 457 Pulpit, nosegay in the, c. 1760, 88 Pun, used in 1643, 425 Punjaub or Burmah head, Anglo-Indian term for
amnesia, 206
Purpose, alleged dance-name, 217 Puttenham's ' Arte of English Poesie,' Sir John Harington on, 404
Quarme (Mrs.), c. 1775, 9
Queen of Bohemia's players, 1630, 246
Queue in England, its origin, 486
Quillin (Bernard LordM. )on"jGanion'coheriga," 432
Quilt = traverse quickly, its use, 448
Quotations :
A few white bones upon a lonely strand, 68
A 1'impossible nul n'est tenu, 463
A rose-red city half as old as Time, 340
A rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, 227
A watch lost in a tavern, that a crime, 506
Ambition is more lowly, 269, 317
Amicus est Socrates, 463
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of
privilege, 408, 455, 514
And blind Orion, hungry for the morn, 269, 316 And visions, as poetic eyes avow, 269, 316 Be the day weary, be the day long, 49 Beauty is the lover's gift, 368 Before her face her handkerchief she spread,
109, 197 But Scripture saith, an ending to all fine
things must be, 368, 417 Called aloud on Tully's name, 269, 317 Cane mihi et Musis, 464
Careless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell, 232 Casting all doubt upon the darker side, 128 Cleanse and purify thy heart, 176 Come tell me, thou coy little fiower, 78 Corruption most abhorred, 269, 335 Cum Paris Iliaca tria numina vidit in Ida, 393 Die Wahrheit ruht in Gott, 367, 417 Each moss Each shell, each crawling insect,
227, 291 Enfeebles all internal strength of thought,
269, 316
Eye hath not seen, ear heard, or heart con- ceived, 109, 197 Farewell. Be prosperous in this journey, as
in all, 248 Felix et prudens qui tenipore pacis de bello
cogitet, 50, 113 Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum,
50, 113, 155, 216
Fixing low motives unto noble deeds, 128 For love is old Old as eternity, 137 For sair the English bowmen galled, 88 For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first,
38, 113 For who, in time, knows whither we may
vent, 68 Give your money to the hospitals, 50
