In an edition of Latimer's _Sermons_, small 4to., black letter, judged to be the edition of 1584, the stop in question is not found. The note of interrogation is very curiously formed,--a colon surmounted by a comma, thus [,:] I might also observe that, to one of such limited knowledge as myself, the paging is singular,--only one numeral on each leaf. In _Caroli Sigonii de Republica Hebræorum_, libri vij, Hanoviæ, 1608, no semicolon occurs. But in Purchas' _Pilgrimage_, 1613, all the four stops are used. So also in _The Spanish Mandevile of Myracles_, 1618. S. S. S. _Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes_ (Vol. v., p. 273.).--Anne Spinckes married Anthony Cope, Esq., second son of Sir John Cope, fifth baronet, but had _no issue_.--See Debrett's _Baronetage_. S. L. P. Oxford and Cambridge Club. _"'Twas they," &c._ (Vol. v., p. 10.).-- "'Twas they unsheath'd the ruthless blade, And Heaven shall ask the havock it has made." AMICUS asks where this couplet is to be found. It appears to me that it has been derived from an imperfect translation of the last two lines of Martial's epigram, L. iv. Ep. 44., in which he describes the effects of a recent eruption of Vesuvius: "Cuncta jacent flammis, et tristi mersa favillâ: Nec Superi vellent hoc licuisse sibi." It is a _petit morçeau_ of heathen blasphemy, in supposing that the gods ought to repent of what they have done. W. N. D. _Madrigal, Meaning of_ (Vol. v., p. 104.).--NEMO will find all that I could collect upon this subject in the introduction to my _Bibliotheca Madrigaliana_, published by J. Russell Smith, 8vo., 1847. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. _Absalom's Hair_ (Vol. iv., pp. 131. 243.).--In answer to P. P., who says that "Absalom's long hair had nothing to do with his death, his head itself, and not the hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs of the tree," RT. refers to the "respectable antiquity" of the popular tradition. In the Vulgate edition of the Bible (Venetiis, 1760, ex Typographia Balleoniana) there is a rude woodcut, evidently of much older date than 1760, in which Absalom is represented as hanging by his hair. Perhaps some of your correspondents can mention similar woodcuts of a far earlier date. In a family Bible (black letter, 1634), I find the following MS. note on 2 Sam. xiv. 26.: "And when he polled his head ... he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight;" which suggests a solution of the difficulty which has puzzled many commentators, who, to make Absalom's hair of the full weight, have to suppose that it was plastered with pomatum and sprinkled with gold dust: