MORE ENGLISH PROVERBS IN LATIN HEXAMETERS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1

Sra,—Among the papers of my father-in-law, the late Canon Quennell of Shenfield, I have found some "English Proverbs in Latin Hexameters," written by him to supplement a list which appeared in your columns in March, 1904. I know that he intended to send them to you at the time, and I venture to think that even now you may consider them too good to be

Quanto ossi propior tsnto jucundior esca eat.

Si nihil ausus ens nil tu lucraberis unquam.

Saucius igne puer foculum formidat inanem. Lacne, quod effusum est, lacrimando colligis unquam ?

Uncia jacta mihi eat, nune asse periclitor idem.*

Cum fratre it pedibus sutoris filia nudis.

Qui latrat bonus est, melior ei dente tenax Femina non aliud quam mas jus exigit anser.

Non vetitum fell regem aspectare superbiun.

Tune aviam gestis ova exhaurire docere ?

Quodvis tu dicas eat sanguis crassior unda.

Optima quae sequitur mantis sententia primam.

Quem laudare velis sincere imitare profecto.

Non potes ex portae deducere poste cruorem.

No jam surrepto stabulum tu claude caballo.

Id tolerare malum quod non medic,abile oportet.

Fictilis olla ohm nigrum appellabat ahenum.

Quaevis caedendo virga eat satis apta oaten°.

Jus tibi corrumpet plus justo turba coquorum.

W. Q.