Ἀστέρας εἰσαθρεῖς Ἀστὴρ ἐμός· εἴθε γενοίμην Οὐρανὸς ὡς μυρίοις ὄμμασιν εἴς σε βλέπω. I cannot withhold Shelley's exquisite version: "Fair star of life and love, my soul's delight! Why lookest thou on the crystalline skies? O that my spirit were yon heaven of night, Which gazes on thee with its thousand eyes!" _Revolt of Islam_, c. ix. st. 36. Dr. Wellesley's _Anthologia Polyglotta_ contains several versions of Plato's lines. There is also one by Swynfen Jervis, in Lewis's _Biographical History of Philosophy_, s. v. Plato. C. P. PH***. _Epitaph in St. Giles' Church, Norwich._-- "ELIZABETHA BEDINGFIELD, Sorori Francisce Sve S. R. Q. P. "My name speaks what I was, and am, and have, A Bedding field, a piece of earth, a grave, Where I expect, untill my soule shall bring Unto the field an everlasting spring; For rayse and rayse out of the earth and slime, God did the first, and will the second time. Obiit Die 10 Maii 1637." The above epitaph is curious; but what is the meaning of the letters "S. R. Q. P.?" NEDLAM. _Hair in Seals._--Stillingfleet, referring to a MS. author, who wrote a chronicle of St. Augustine's, says: "He observes one particular custom of the Normans, _that they were wont to put some of the hair of their heads or beards into the wax of their seals_: I suppose rather to be kept as monuments than as adding any strength or weight to their charters. So he observes, _that some of the hair of William, Earl of Warren, was in his time kept in the Priory of Lewis_."--_Orig. Brit._, chap. I., _Works_, Lond. 1710, tom. iii. p. 13. J. SANSOM. _To_ "_eliminate_."--The meaning of this word, according both to its etymology and its usage in the Latin authors, is quite clear; it is to "turn out of doors." Figuratively, it has been used by mathematicians to denote the process by which all incidental matters are gradually thrown out of an equation to be solved, &c., so that only its essential conditions at last remain. Of late, however, I have observed it used not of the _act_ of elimination, but of the _result_; a sense quite foreign to its true meaning, and producing great ambiguity. Thus, in a recent Discourse, the object of biblical exegesis is declared to be "the _elimination_ of the statements of the Bible respecting doctrine;" the author evidently meaning, not what his words imply,--to get rid of the statements of the Bible,--though that has been sometimes the problem of exegesis, but to present the doctrinal result in a clear form, and detached from everything else. A PRECISIAN. Queries. ALGERNON SYDNEY.