was promised for
the correct answer, and I know that a clergyman sent him an answer with
that belief. Among the answers suggested was "Tapir," taken in its
various significations, which I think was as near the mark as "Church,"
as given in No. 35.
I have never heard any answer suggested to Sir Hilary's dissyllabic
prayer.
B.H.C.
_Discursus Modestus_ (Vol. i., pp. 142. 205.).--Such of your readers as
have been making inquiries and suggestions respecting _Discursus
Modestus_ will {159} be glad to hear that a copy exists in the British
Museum. Its title is as follows:
"A Sparing Discoverie of ovr English Iesuits, and of Fa.
Parson's proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholick
Faith in England: for a caueat to all true Catholicks, ovr very
louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very
uncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments. Eccles. 4. _Vidi
calumnias quae sub sole geruntur, et lachrymas innocentium, et
neminem consolatorem_.--Newly imprinted, 1601."
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