REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Robert Drury--Real Signatures _versus_ Pseudo-Names--Lines on the Institution of the Garter--"Short red, God red," &c.--Martha Blount--Longevity--Its--Oldham, Bishop of Exeter--Boom--Lord North--Dutch Pottery--Cranmer's Correspondences--Portable Altars--Poem attributed to Shelley--Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March)--"Up, guards, and at them!"--Pennycomequick--Captain Booth of Stockport--"Hurrah," &c.--Detached Belfry Towers--Blotting-paper--Riddles for the Post-Office--Mulciber 181 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 185 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 186 Notices to Correspondents 186 Advertisements 186 * * * * * Notes. BACON'S ESSAYS, BY MARKBY. (_Continued from_ Vol. viii., p. 144.) Essay XXIX. Of the true Greatness of Kingdoms.-- "The speech of Themistocles."] See Plut. _Them._ 2., _Cimon_, 9. "Negotiis pares."] An expression of Tacitus. In _Ann._ vi. 39., he says of Poppæus Sabinus: "Maximis provinciis per quatuor et viginti annos impositus; nullam ob eximiam artem, sed quod _par negotiis_ neque supra erat." Again, in _Ann._ xvi. 18. of C. Petronius: "Proconsul Bithyniæ, et mox consul, vigentem se ac _parem negotiis_ ostendit." "As Virgil saith, 'It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.'"] Lord Bacon, as Mr. Markby observes, evidently alludes to the following verses of Eclogue vii.: "Hic tantum Boreæ curamus frigora, quantum Aut numerum lupus, aut torrentia flumina ripas." The meaning is, however, doubtless correctly explained by Heyne: "Ut numerato pecori parcat." "Quia solam considerat lupus prædam," says Servius. The sense of the passage is, that after the shepherd has "told his tale," after he has counted his sheep, the wolf does not care how much he deranges the reckoning. For the advice of Parmenio to attack Darius by night, and the refusal of Alexander to steal the victory, see Arrian, _Exp. Alex._ iii. 10.; Plut. _Alex._ 31., _Curt._ iv. 13. "Neither is money the sinews of war, as it is trivially said."] "Nervi belli, pecunia infinita," Cic. _Phil._ v. 2. Machiavel, like Bacon, questions the truth of this dictum, _Disc._ ii. 10. "Solon said well to Crœsus (when in ostentation he showed him his gold), 'Sir, if any other come that hath better iron than you, he will be master of all this gold.'"] This saying is not in Herodotus, or in Plutarch's Life of Solon. Query, In what ancient author is it to be found?