If not quite to the purpose, these instances illustrate the correspondence of the life and the looks, which is the philosophy of the Query on Jewish lineaments.
_Sotadic Verses_ (Vol. vi., pp. 209. 352. 445.).--There is an English example of this kind of line, attributed, I think, to Taylor the Water Poet:
To make this perfect, however, "and" must not be written at full length, and "dwell" must be content with half its usual amount of liquid.
It is difficult to make _sense_ of any of the Latin Sotadics quoted in "N. & Q.," except that beginning "Signa te," &c. Even the clue given by the mention of the legend in p. 209. does not enable one to find a meaning in "Roma tibi," &c.
Can any of your readers tell me whence comes the following Sotadic Elegiac poem, and construe it for me?
"Salta, tu levis es; summus se si velut Atlas, (Omina ne sinimus,) suminis es animo. Sin, oro, caret arcanâ cratera coronis Unam arcas, animes semina sacra manu. Angere regnato, mutatum, o tangere regna, Sana tero, tauris si ruat oret anas: Milo subi rivis, summus si viribus olim, Muta sedes; animal lamina sede satum. Tangeret, i videas, illisae divite regnat; Aut atros ubinam manibus orta tua! O tu casurus, rem non mersurus acuto Telo, sis-ne, tenet? non tenet ensis, olet."
_Bells at Funerals_ (Vol. ii., p. 478.).--The following extract will doubtless be interesting to MR. GATTY, if it has hitherto escaped his notice:
"June 27 (1648).--The visitors ordered that the bellman of the university should not go about in such manner as was heretofore used at the funeral of any member of the university. This was purposely to prevent the solemnity that was to be performed at the funeral of Dr. Radcliffe, Principal of B. N. C., lately dead. For it must be known that it hath been the custom, time out of mind, that when head of house, doctor, or master of considerable degree was to be buried, the university bellman was to put on the gown and the formalities of the person defunct, and with his bell go into every college and hall, and there make open proclamation, after two rings with his bell, that forasmuch as God had been pleased to take out of the world such a person, he was to give notice to all persons of the university, that on such a day, and at such an hour, he was solemnly to be buried, &c. But the visitors did not only forbid this, but _the bellman's going before the corpse, from the house or college, to the church or chapel_."--A. Wood, quoted in _Oxoniana_, vol. iv. p. 206.
