Meaning of "Nervous," by W. E. C. Nourse and E. J. Jones 70 The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by C. Ross 70 Replies to Minor Queries:--Pope's "honest Factor"--Banks Family--Dies Iræ, Dies Illa--Equestrian Statues--Monumental Symbolism--Organs in Churches--Tennyson: "The Princess"--"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love"--Sardonic Smiles--Epitaph on Voltaire--Voltaire, where situated--Children at a Birth--Milkmaids--"Heu quanto minus," &c.--The "Passellew" Family--Lady Petre's Monument--Spenser's Age at his Death--Blessing by the hand--Handel's Occasional Oratorio--Moore's Almanack--Kiss the Hare's Foot--Derivation of the World "Bummaree" or "Bumaree"--Sheridan and Vanbrugh--"Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum"--"Alterius Orbis Papa"--Umbrella--To learn by Heart--"Suum cuique tribuere"--Frogs in Ireland--Round Towers--Lines on the Temple--Killigrew Arms--Meaning of Hernshaw--Theory of the Earth's Form--Coke and Cowper, how pronounced--Registry of British Subjects Abroad, &c. 71 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 77 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 78 Notices to Correspondents 79 Advertisements 79 Notes. RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE. If the following "Notes" do not demand too much of your valuable space, they may possibly interest the philological reader, and elicit a number of learned illustrations. They are drawn from a MS. belonging to this University (Dd. I. 1.), of which the main part is a course of _metrical_ sermons upon the Gospels throughout the year. The author of most, if not all, of the pieces, was the famous solitary, Richard Rolle, of Hampole, near Doncaster, who died in 1348. 1. The first sample I shall give is a curious illustration of the way in which the preachers of that age were wont to represent the harshness of the great in their dealings with the poor: "For wiþ ensample may we se, Þ't al þis world is but as þe se Þ't bremli bariþ on banke wiþ bale, And grete fischis etin þerin þe smale. For riche men of þis world ete Þ't pore men wiþ traueyle gete: For wiþ pore men fariþ þe king Riht as þe hal wiþ þe hering, Riht as þe sturgeoun etiþ _merling_ And _lobkeling_ etiþ _spirling_, So stroyen more men þe lesse Wiþ worldis wo and wrongwisnesse, All þ'e ska þe þt lesse sufferin of more Smytiþ as storm of þe se ful sore." Pp. 115, 116. 2. The word _keling_ (cod-fish) occurs again in the following passage, where the subject of the preacher is the Incarnation of our Lord: