It seems to be used as an
adage, coupled with an admonition to observe silence or secrecy.
W.A.F.
_Poins and Bardolph._--Can any of your correspondents skilled in
Shakspearian lore inform me whence Shakspeare took the names _Poins_
and _Bardolph_ for the followers of Prince Hal and Falstaff?
C.W.S.
_Flemish Work on the Order of St. Francis._--Can any of your
correspondents tell me any thing about, or enable me to procure a
copy of, a book on the order of St. Francis, named, _Den Wijngaert van
Sinte Franciscus va Schoonte Historien Legenden, &c._ A folio of 424
leaves, beautifully printed. The last page has,--
"Gheprent Thantwerpen binnen die Camer poorte Int huys va
delft bi mi, Hendrich Eckert van Homberch. Int iaer ons heeren
M.CCCCC. efi XVIII. op den XII. dach va December."
The only copy I ever saw of it, which belonged to a friend of mine,
had the following note on a fly-leaf in an old and scarcely legible
hand:--
"Raer boeck ende seer curieus als gebouwt synde op de Wijsen
voor meesten deel op de fondamenten van den fameus ende extra
raer boeck genoempt _Conformitatis Vita S. Francisci cum
Vita Jesu Christi_, de welch in dese diehwils grateert wordt
gelijck gij in lesen sult andesvinden maer onthout wer dese
latijn spreckwoordt, _Risum teneatis amici_.
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