Notes & Queries Archive
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"Isabel" and "Elizabeth."

By SCOTUS.

At pages 439. and 488. of Vol. i., "Notes and Queries," are questions and answers on the names of "Isabel" and "Elizabeth." The following, from the *Epigrammaton Joannis Dunbari*, Lond. 1616, may amuse some of your readers: "AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH. "Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam: Verè Electoris nomine dignus erat." "AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SPONSAM. "El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat: Hine meritò Elisabeth nobile nomen habet. Scilicet illa Deo est motore, et Principe primo, Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri."

Topics: Names, Epigrams

Locations: Lond