In the last three lines [Greek:  Allo], [Greek:  Touto], and [Greek:  Panta] stand precisely in the same relation to [Greek:  ereo] that [Greek:  ek] does in the first, [Greek:  All’] merely taking the place of [Greek:  de], for the sake of versification.

  “But one thing I tell thee. 
  And another thing I tell thee. 
  But this thing I tell thee. 
  And all things I tell thee.”

It is not impossible that [Greek:  exereo] may be a compound of [Greek:  ek], “one,” and [Greek:  ereo], “I speak.”  There is in the Hindostanee an analogous form of expression, Ek bat bolo, “one word speak.”  This is constantly used to denote, speaking plainly; to speak decidedly; one word only; no display of unnecessary verbiage to conceal thought; no humbug; I tell thee plainly; I speak solemnly—­once for all; which is precisely the meaning of [Greek:  exereo] in all the passages where it occurs in Homer:  e.g. Il. i. 212. (where it is employed by Minerva in her solemn address to Achilles); Il. viii. 286., Od. ix. 365. (where it is very characteristically used), &c.

The word ace (ace of spades, &c.) I suppose you will have no difficulty in identifying with the Sanscrit ek and the Greek [Greek:  eis], the c sometimes pronounced hard and sometimes soft.  The Sanscrit das, the Greek [Greek:  dek-a], and the Latin dec-em, all signifying ten, on the same principle, have been long identified.

J. SH.

Bombay.

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SAMUEL ROWLANDS, AND HIS CLAIM TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF “THE CHOISE OF CHANGE.”

Mr. T. Jones in “NOTES AND QUERIES” (Vol. i., p. 39.), describing a copy of The Choise of Change in the Chetham Library, unhesitatingly ascribes its authorship to the well-known satirist, Samuel Rowlands, whom he says, “appears to have been a Welshman from his love of Triads.”  Mr. JONES’S dictum, that the letters “S.R.,” on the title-page “are the well-known initials of Samuel Rowlands,” may well, I think, be questioned.  Great caution should be used in these matters.  Bibliographers and catalogue-makers are constantly making confusion by assigning works, which bear the initials only, to wrong authors.

The Choise of Change may with much more probability be given to a very different author.  I have a copy of the edition of 1598 now before me, in which the name is filled up, in a cotemporary hand, S[imon], R[obson].  And I find in Lowndes’ Bibliographer’s Manual, that the work in question is entered under the latter name.  The compiler adds,—­“This piece is by some attributed to Dr. Simon Robson, Dean of Bristol in 1598; by others, most probably erroneously, to Samuel Rowland.”  An examination of the biography of Dr. Robson, who died in 1617, might tend to elucidate some particulars concerning his claim to the authorship of this and several other works of similar character.