Abbas solus prandebit sapremus in refectorio habens vastellum de qua voce Walsius in Glossario. Si non sit Umbraculum aut Baldekinum (a Canopy) nescio quid significat; neque tamen conjecture possum, quare Umbraculum Vastellum diceretur;[1] quære.—[W. K.]
But by the word Vastellus no doubt is meant the Wastel or Wassal Bowls, which as a piece of state was placed at the upper end of the table for the use of the Abbat, who drank out of that Plate a Health or Poculum Charitatis to the rest of the fraternity.—W. Kennett.
Newyears Day.
Prospera lux oritur: linguisq' animisq' favete;
Nunc dicenda bono sunt bona verba die.—[Fasti, i. 71, 72.]
Hence the complement of wishing one Happy New yeare.
Wishing each other a happy-New-yeare.
.... laeta tuis dicuntur verba calendis,
Et damus alternas accipimusq: preces.—[Fasti, i. 175-6.]
Newyears Gifts.
Quid vult palma sibi, rugosaq' caryca, dixi,
Et data sub niveo candida mella favo.—[Fasti, i. 185-6.]
Omens [see pp. 19, 25, 30].
Omina principijs, inqnit, inesse solent.
Ad primam vocem timidas advertitis aurea:
Et visam primum consulit augur avem.—[Fasti, i. 178-80.]
Numa first invented the adoration of dead men's ghosts.
Omen, ait, causa est, ut res sapor ille sequatur,
Et peragat coeptu' dulcis ut annus iter.—[Fasti, i. 187-8.]
[Dogs Barking.]
Exta canum Triviæ.— [Fasti, i. 389.]
Mdm.—How they bark all night when the moone shines: e. g. from Bathe to Oxford: the dogges take their cue from Hamlet to Hamlet.
- ↑ Vit. S. Alban Abbat, Mat. Par. p. 141.
