_Poem by Malherbe_ (Vol. ii., p. 104.).--Possibly your correspondent MR. SINGER may not be aware of the fact that the beauty of the fourth stanza of Malherbe's Ode on the Death of Rosette Duperrier is owing to a typographical error. The poet had written in his MS.--
"Et Rosette a vÈcu ce que vivent les roses," &c.,
omitting to cross his _t_'s, which the compositor took for _l_'s, and set up _Roselle_. On receiving the proof-sheet, at the passage in question a sudden light burst upon Malherbe; of _Roselle_ he made two words, and put in two beautiful lines--
"Et Rose, elle a vÈcu ce que vivent les roses, L'espace d'un matin."
(See _FranÁais peints par eux-mÈmes_, vol. ii. p. 270.)
"A True and Strange Discourse of the Travailes of Two English Pilgrimes: what admirable Accidents befell them in their Journey to Jerusalem, Gaza, Grand Cayro, Alexandria, and other places. Also, what rare Antiquities, Monuments, and notable Memories (concording with the Ancient Remembrances in the Holy Scriptures), they sawe in the Terra Sancta; with a perfect Description of the Old and New Jerusalem, and Situation of the Countries about them. A Discourse of no lesse Admiration, then well worth the regarding: written by one of them on the behalfe of himselfe and his fellowe Pilgrime. Imprinted at London for Thomas Archer, and are to be solde at his Shoppe, by the Royall Exchange. 1603."
A copy of this 4to. tract, formerly in the hands of Francis Meres, the author of _Wit's Commonwealth_, has the following MS. note:--
"Timberley, dwellinge on Tower Hill, a maister of a ship, made this booke, as Mr. Anthony Mundye tould me. Thomas, at Mrs. Gosson's, sent my wyfe this booke for a token, February 15. A.D. 1602."
QUOTATIONS IN BISHOP ANDREWES' TORTURA TORTI.
Can any of your contributors help me to ascertain the following quotations which occur in Bishop Andrewes' _Tortura Torti_?
"Si clavem potestatis non prÊcedat clavis discretionis."
"Dispensationes nihil aliud esse quam legum vulnera."
This, though not marked as a quotation, is, I believe, in _S. Bernard_.
"Et quÊ de septem totum circumspicit orbem Montibus, imperii Roma De˚mque locus."
I should also be glad to ascertain whence the following passages are derived, which he quotes in his _Responsio ad Apologiam_?