Chapter M: N. O

_Auriga._--How comes the Latin word AURIGA to mean "a charioteer?"

VARRO.

_To speak in Lutestring._--1. Philo-Junius--that is, Junius himself--in the 47th Letter, writes:

"I was led to trouble you with these observations by a passage which,
_to speak in lutestring_, I met with this morning, in the course of my
reading."

Had the expression in Italics been used before by any one?

2. In the 56th Letter, addressed to the Duke of Grafton, Junius asks:

"Is the union of _Blifil_ and _Black George_ no longer a romance?"

What part of that story is here referred to?

VARRO.

"_Lavora, come se tu," &c._--In Bohn's edition of Jeremy Taylor's _Holy Living and Dying_, I observe in the notes several Italian sentences, mostly couplets or proverbs. One peculiarly struck me: and I should feel obliged if any of your readers could tell me whence it was taken, name of author, &c. The couplet runs thus (Vide p. 182. of the work):--

"Lavora, come se tu avessi a camper ogni hora:
Adora, come se tu avessi a morir allora."

Indeed it would not be amiss, if _all_ the notes were marked with authors' names or other reference, as I find some few of the Latin quotations as well as the Greek, and _all_ the Italian ones, require a godfather.

W. H. P.

_Tomb of Chaucer._--Are any of the existing English families descended from the poet Chaucer? If so, might they not fairly be applied to for a contribution to the proposed restoration of his tomb? His son Thomas Chaucer left an heiress, married to De la Pole, Duke of Suffolk; but I have not the means of ascertaining whether any of their posterity are extant.

C. R. M.

_Family of Clench._--Can any of your readers supply me with the parentage and family of _Bruin Clench_ of St. Martin's in the Fields, citizen of London? He married Catharine, daughter of William Hippesley, Esq., of Throughley, in Edburton, co. Sussex; and was living in 1686. His christian name does not appear in the pedigrees of the Clinche or Clench family of Bealings and Holbrook, co. Suffolk, in the _Heralds' Visitations_, in the British Museum. His daughter married Roger Donne, Esq., of Ludham, co. Norfolk, and was the maternal grandmother of the poet Cowper.