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"Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850"

A. Lower 184
Transposition of Letters, by B. Williams 184
Pictures in Churches 184
Flaying in Punishment of Sacrilege 185
Minor Queries:--Pokership or Parkership--Boduc or
Boduoc--Origin of Snob--Mertens the Printer--
Queen's Messengers--Bishop of Ross' Epitaph, &c.--
Origin of Cannibal--Sir W. Rider--Origin of word
Poghele, &c. 185
MISCELLANIES--including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:--
Darkness at the Crucifixion--High Doctrine--Wife of
King Robert Bruce--The Talisman of Charlemagne
--Sayers the Caricaturist--May-Day--Dr. Dee's Petition
--Lines quoted by Goethe--Queen Mary's Expectations
--Ken's Hymns--Etymology of Daysman, &c. 186
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 189
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 190
Notices to Correspondents 190
Advertisements 191
* * * * *

ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS.
The often-quoted lines--
"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day,"
generally supposed to form a part of _Hudibras_, are to be found (as
Mr. Cunningham points out, at p.


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