'Que ja riens d'enchantement croie, Ne sorcerie, ne charroie, Ne _Balenus_, ne sa science, Ne magique, ne nigromance, ... Onques ne pot tenir _Medée_ Jason por nul enchantement; N'onc _Circe_ ne tint ensement Ulixes qu'il ne s'enfoïst,' &c. (_Charroie_ is the dance of witches on their sabbath.) _Hermes Ballenus_ is really a compound name, the true significance of which was pointed out to me by Prof. Cowell, and explained in my letter to The Academy, Apr. 27, 1889, p. 287. _Ballenus_ is 'the sage Belinous,' who discovered, beneath a statue of _Hermes_, a book containing all the secrets of the universe. Hence _Hermes' Ballenus_ (where _Hermes_ is an epithet) means 'Belinous, who adopted the philosophy of Hermes.' For an explanation of the whole matter, see the fourth volume of the Notices et Mémoires des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, p. 107. In this there is an article by De Sacy, describing MS. Arabe de la Bibl. du Roi, no. 959, the title of which is 'Le Livre du Secret de la Creature, par le sage Belinous.' Belinous possessed the art of talismans, which he professed to have learnt from Hermes. There is some reason for identifying him with Apollonius of Tyana. 1274. _Lymote_, according to Warton, is Limotheus; but he omits to tell us where he found such a name; and the suggestion seems no better than his mistake of supposing _Calipsa_ (l. 1272) to mean the muse Calliope! Considering that he is mentioned in company with Simon Magus, or Simon the magician (Acts viii. 9), the suggestion of Prof. Hales seems probable, viz. that _Lymote_ or _Lymete_ (as in F.) means Elymas the sorcerer (Acts xiii. 8). 1275. 'I saw, and knew by name, those that,' &c. 1277. _Colle tregetour_, Colle the juggler; see l. 1260. _Colle_ is here a proper name, and distinct from the prefix _col-_ in _col-fox_, Non. Pr. Tale, B 4405. _Colle_ is the name of a dog; Non. Pr. Tale, B 4573. _Colyn_ and _Colle_ are names of grooms; Polit. Songs, p. 237. Tyrwhitt quotes a passage from The Testament of Love, bk. ii:--'Buserus [Busiris] slew his gestes, and he was slayne of Hercules his gest. Hugest betraished many menne, and of _Collo_ was he betraied'; ed. 1561, fol. 301, col. 2. With regard to _tregetour_, see the account of the performances of Eastern jugglers in Yule's edition of Marco Polo; vol. i. p. 342, and note 9 to Bk. i. c. 61. Col. Yule cites the O.F. forms _tregiteor_ and _entregetour_; also Ital. _tragettatore_, a juggler, and Prov. _trasjitar_, _trajitar_, to juggle. Bartsch, in his Chrestomathie Française, has examples of _trasgeter_, to mould, form, _tresgeteïs_, a work of mechanical art; and, in his Chrestomathie Provençale, col. 82, has the lines-- 'Non saps balar ni _tras-gitar_ a guiza de juglar guascon';