Warwick.
_"Mater ait natæ," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 155.).--In reply to your
correspondent who asks where the following lines "Mater ait natæ," &c. are
to be found, I refer him to the following note in Greswell's _Account of
Runcorn_, p. 34.:
"Leland, in his _Itinerary_, mentions an old woman, a native of Over in
Cheshire, who lived in the family of Downes of Shrigley, and died at
the age of 140 years. Zuingerus reports of a noble lady of Worms, in
the {248} archbishopric of Mentz, who lived to see the sixth
generation, that she might thus address her daughter:
'(1) Mater (2) natæ die (3) natæ filia (4) natam
Ut moneat (5) natæ plangere (6) filiolam.'
That is, 'The mother says to her daughter: Daughter, bid thy daughter,
to tell her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.'"