Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850, page 19 by Various Authors
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, and shall be glad if any of your readers can tell me who is the author, and where they first appeared,
"'Tis a very good world to live in-- To lend, and to spend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for one's own, 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known."
D. V. S.
Home, April 29.
Porson's Imposition.--When Porson was at Cambridge, his tutor lent him a pound to buy books, which he spent in getting drunk at a {72} tavern. The tutor set him an imposition, which he made to consist in a dog-Greek poem, giving an account of the affair. These were the three first lines,--
[Greek: "Tutor emoi men poundon elendeto; ôs mala simplos] [Greek: Ton men egô spendon kata dômata redlionoio,] [Greek: Drinkomenos kai rhôromenos dia nukta bebaiôs."]
Then part of another,--
[Greek: "--autar egô megalois klubboisin ebanchthên."]
I cannot but think that some Cambridge men know the whole, which would be invaluable to retrieve. There is nothing about it in Kidd.
C. B.
Alice Rolle.--Can any of your readers conversant with Irish pedigrees, if they remember to have met with this lady's name, kindly inform me where it may be found?
S. S. S.
The Meaning of "Race" in Ship-building.--In Hawkin's Voyages ("Hakluyt Society, 1847"), p. 199., he says, "Here is offerred to speak of a point much canvassed amongst carpenters and sea-captains, diversely maintained but yet undetermined, that is, whether the race, or loftie built shippe, bee best for the merchant;" and again, p. 219.: "A third and last cause of the losse of sundry of our men, most worthy of note for all captains, owners, and carpenters, was the race building of our ship, the onely fault she had," &c. Can any of your correspondents explain what is meant by "race"; the editor of the Voyages, Captain C. R. D. Bethune, R.N., confesses himself unable to explain it.
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