_Sir Francis Drake._--Having traversed the globe within three years, his travels were thus noticed by a poet of his day: "Drake, pererrati novit quem terminus orbis, Quemque semel mundi vidit uterque Polus. Si taceant homines, faciant te sidera notum, Sol nescit comitis non memor esse sui." CLERICUS (D.) _Similarity of Idea in St. Luke and Juvenal._--Examples of identity of expression existing between the Scriptures and ancient heathen writers have already appeared in "N. & Q." Permit me to add the following passages, which appear to me to afford an instance of similarity of idea: "Λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι ἐὰν οὗτοι σιωπήσωσῖν, οἱ λίθοι κεκρὰξονται."--_Luc._ cap xix. v. 40. "Audis, Jupiter, hæc, nec labra moves, quum mittere vocem Debueras, vel marmoreus, vel aëneus?" Juven. _Sat._ xiii. v. 113. The satirist would seem to say (taking the sceptic's view), that even if Jupiter existed only in brass and marble, the very statues would "cry out" against the impious perjury. I drop my initials, and beg to subscribe myself ARCH. WEIR. _Sincere._--Trench, _On the Study of Words_, 4th ed., p. 197., says: "They would be pleased to learn that 'sincere' may be, I will not say that it is, without wax (sine cerâ), as the best and finest honey should be." {196} Is not this derivation erroneous? _Sincere_ does not mean "pure, like virgin-honey;" but it expresses the absence of deception. I doubt not that it is derived from-- "The practice of Roman potters to rub wax into the flaws of their unsound vessels when they sent them to market. A sincere [without wax] vessel was the same as a sound vessel, one that had no disguised flaw." So says Bushnell (_God in Christ_, p. 17.). The derivation is no novelty. I reproduce it merely to correct an error which is obtaining currency under the name of Mr. French. I should be obliged to any of your correspondents who would refer me to, or still better cite, any passages in the Latin classics relating to the practice I have mentioned. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. _Epitaph in Appleby Church-yard, Leicestershire._-- "I was a fine young man, As you would see in ten. And when I thought of this, I took in hand my pen, And wrote it down so plain That every one might see; How I was cut down, Like blossoms from a tree." J. G. L. * * * * * Queries. THE CRESCENT.