The person described as a "certain M. L-P. Saint-Florentin" was no less a person than the Duke de la Vrilliere, who filled several important offices during the reign of Louis XV. The allusion in the epigram to his "trois noms" has no reference to his _names_, whether Christian or patronymic, in the sense in which the question has been discussed in "N. & Q.," but to the three _titles_ which he successively bore as a public man. He commenced his career as M. de Phelippeaux; was afterwards created Comte de Saint-Florentin, and sometime before his death was raised to the dignity of Duke de la Vrilliere. My authority for this statement is the cotemporary work, _Les Memoires secrets de Bachaumont_, where, under date of December, 1770, the epigram is thus introduced, with a variation in the first line: "Un autre plaisant a fait d'avance l'epitaphe de M. le duc de la Vrilliere. Elle roule sur ses trois noms differents de Phelippeaux, Saint-Florentin, et la Vrilliere: 'Ci-git, malgre son rang, un homme fort commun, Ayant porte trois noms, et n'en laissant aucun.'" The sense being, that his titles had been his only distinction, and that even they had not been sufficient to rescue his character from obscurity and contempt. However "applicable" this epigram may be to the bearers or borrowers of three names, it will be some comfort to them to know that its point was not directed against them, but against a class of men of much higher pretensions, of one of whom it has been said: "_He left the name_, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. "_I put a spoke in his wheel_" (Vol. viii., p. 269.).--If G.K., being wronged, should cherish the unchristian spirit of revenge, let him playfully insert a spoke in the wheel of his friend's tandem, as it bowls along behind a pair of thorough-bred tits, with twelve months' hard condition upon old oats in them. By simply putting a spoke in the wheel of the waggon employed in the removal of the Manchester College to London, one trustee opposed a decided "impediment to the movement" of that institution. W. C. P. S.--Allow me to point out a misprint at Vol. viii., p. 279, "Manners of the Irish:" for _chuse_ read _cheese_.