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MANTEL, _n. s._ (_mantel_, old French, or rather the German word _mantel_, 'Germanis _mantel_ non pallium modo significat, sed etiam id omne quod aliud circumdat: hinc murus arcis, atque structura quæ focum invertit, _mantel_ ipsis dicitur.' V. Ducange in v. Mantum). Work raised before a chimney to conceal it, whence the name, which originally signifies a cloak.
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The Italians apply it (plastick) to the _mantling_ of chimneys with great figures, a cheap piece of magnificence.
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Perturbabantur, &c._ (Vol. ix., p. 452.).--When I first learned to scan verses, somewhere about thirty years ago, the lines produced by your correspondent P. were in every child's mouth, with this story attached to them. It was said that Oxford had received from Cambridge the first line of the distich, with a challenge to produce a corresponding line consisting of two words only. To this challenge Oxford replied by sending back the second line, pointing out, at the same time, the false quantity in the word
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Constantin[)o]politani.
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Constantin[)o]politani.
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Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani. The Cantabs immediately returned the challenge by sending
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Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus. Perhaps it is worthy of remark, though not evident except to a Greek scholar, that the first line contains at least _one_ false quantity, for
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Constantinopol[)i]tani