{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_13389/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_13389","id":"gutenberg_13389","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13389","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: Journals","Category: Language & Communication","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"NOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNO. 40.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1850. [Price Threepence  Stamped Edition 4d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {145}\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nNOTES:--Page\n  Translations of Juvenal--Wordsworth\n  Dedication to Milton by Antonio Malatesti, by S.W. Singer\n  Pulteney's Ballad of \"The Honest Jury,\" by C.H. Cooper\n  Notes on Milton\n  Folk Lore:--High Spirits considered a Sign of impending\n    Calamity or Death--Norfolk Popular Rhymes--Throwing\n    Salt over the Shoulder--Charming for\n    Warts\n  Notes on College Salting; Turkish Spy; Dr. Dee: from\n    \"Letters from the Bodleian, &c.,\" 2 vols. 1813\n  Minor Notes:--Alarm--Taking a Wife on Trial--Russian\n    Language--Pistol and Bardolph--Epigram\n    from Buchanan\n\nQUERIES:--\n  Calvin and Servetus\n  Etymological Queries\n  Minor Queries:--Countess of Desmond--Noli me tangere--Lines\n    in Milton's \"Penseroso\"--\"Mooney's\n    Goose\"--Translation of the Philobiblon--Achilles\n    and the Tortoise--Dominicals--Yorkshire Dales\n\nREPLIES:--\n  Tobacco in the East\n  \"Job's Luck,\" by Coleridge, by J. Bruce\n  Eccius Dedolatus\n  Replies to Minor Queries:--Hiring of Servants--George\n    Herbert--Lord Delamere--Execution of\n    Charles I.--Charade--Discursus Modestus--\"Rapido\n    contrarius Orbi\"--\"Isabel\" and \"Elizabeth\"--Hanap--Cold\n    Harbour\n\nMISCELLANEOUS:--\n  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.\n  Books and Odd Volumes Wanted\n  Notices to Correspondents\n  Advertisements\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES.\n\nTRANSLATIONS OF JUVENAL--WORDSWORTH.\n\nMr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of\nJohnson's \"From China to Peru,\" where, however, I sincerely believe our\ngreat moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by\nits temporary notoriety and popularity, reminds me of a conversation,\nmany years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at which I happened\nto be present, and which now derives an additional interest from the\ncircumstance of his recent decease.\n\nSome mention had been made of the opening lines of the tenth satire of\nJuvenal:\n\n  \"Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque\n  Auroram, et Gangem pauci dignoscere possunt\n  Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remot\u00e2\n  Erroris nebul\u00e2.\"\n\n\"Johnson's translation of this,\" said Wordsworth, \"is extremely bad:\n\n  \"'Let Observation, with extensive view,\n  Survey mankind from China to Peru.'\n\n\"And I do not know that Gifford's is at all better:\n\n  \"'In every clime, from Ganges' distant stream,\n  To Gades, gilded by the western beam,\n  Few, from the clouds of mental error free,\n  In its true light, or good or evil see.'\n\n\"But\", he added, musing, \"what is Dryden's? Ha! I have it:\n\n  \"'_Look round the habitable world_, how few\n  Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.'\n\n\"This is indeed the language of a poet; it is better than the original.\"\n\nThe great majority of your readers will without doubt, consider this\ncompliment to Dryden well and justly bestowed, and his version, besides\nhaving the merit of classical expression, to be at once concise and\npoetical. And pity it is that one who could form so true an estimate of\nthe excellences of other writers, and whose own powers, it will be\nacknowledged, were of a very high order, should so often have given us\nreason to regret his puerilities and absurdities. This language,\nperhaps, will sound like treason to many; but permit me to give an\ninstance in which the late poet-laureate seems to have admitted (which\nhe did not often do) that he was wrong.\n\nIn the first edition of the poem of Peter Bell (the genuine, and not the\npseudo-Peter), London, 8vo. 1819, that personage sets to work to bang\nthe poor ass, the result of which is this, p. 36.:\n\n  \"Among the rocks and winding crags--\n  Among the mountains far away--\n  Once more the ass did lengthen out\n  More ruefully an endless shout,\n  The long dry see-saw of his horrible bray.\"{146}\n\nAfter remarks on Peter's strange state of mind when saluted by this\nhorrible music, and describing him as preparing to seize the ass by the\nneck, we are told his purpose was interrupted by something he just then\nsaw in the water, which afterwards proves to be a corpse. The reader is,\nhowever, first excited and disposed to expect something horrible by the\nfollowing startling conjectures:--\n\n  \"Is it the moon's distorted face?\n  The ghost-like image of a cloud?\n  Is it a gallows these pourtrayed?\n  Is Peter of himself afraid?\n  Is it a coffin--or a shroud?\n\n  \"A grisly idol hewn in stone?\n  Or imp from witch's lap let fall?\n  Or a gay ring of shining fairies,\n  Such as pursue their brisk vagaries\n  In sylvan bower or haunted hall?\n\n  \"Is it a fiend that to a stake\n  Of fire his desperate self is tethering?\n  Or stubborn spirit doomed to yell\n  In solitary ward or cell,\n  Ten thousand miles from all his brethren.\"\n\n  \"Is it a party in a parlour?\n  Cramm'd just as they on earth revere cramm'd--\n  Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,\n  But, as you by their faces see,\n  All silent and all damn'd!\n\n  \"A throbbing pulse the gazer hath,\" &c.\n                        Part i., pp. 33, 39.\n\nThis last stanza was omitted in subsequent editions. Indeed, it is not\nvery easy to imagine what it could possibly mean, or how any stretch of\nimagination could connect it with the appearance presented by a body in\nthe water.\n\nTo return, however, from this digression to the subject of translations.\nIn the passage already quoted, the reader has been presented with a\nproof how well Dryden could compress the words, without losing the\nsense, of his author. In the following, he has done precisely the\nreverse.\n\n  \"Lectus erat Codro Procula minor.\"--_Juv. Sat._ iii. 203.\n\n  \"Codrus had but one bed, so short to boot,\n  That his short wife's short legs hung dangling out!\"\n\nIn the year 1801 there was published at Oxford, in 12mo., a translation\nof the satires of Juvenal in verse, by Mr. William Rhodes, A.M.,\nsuperior Bedell of Arts in that University, which he describes in his\ntitle-page as \"nec verbum verbo.\" There are some prefatory remarks\nprefixed to the third satire in which he says:\n\n\"The reader, I hope, will neither contrast the following, nor the tenth\nsatire, with the excellent imitation of a mighty genius; though similar,\nthey are upon a different plan. I have not adhered rigidly to my author,\ncompared with him; and if that were not the case, I am very sensible how\nlittle they are calculated to undergo so fiery an ordeal.\"\n\nAnd speaking particularly of the third satire, he adds:\n\n\"This part has been altered, as already mentioned, to render it more\napplicable to London: nothing is to be looked for in it but the\nill-humour of the emigrant.\"\n\nThe reader will perhaps recollect, that in the opening of the third\nsatire, Juvenal represents himself about to take leave of his friends\nUmbritius, who is quitting Rome for Can\u00e6: they meet on the road (the Via\nAppia), and turning aside, for greater freedom of conversation, into the\nVallis Egeri\u00e6, the sight of the fountain there, newly decorated with\nforeign marbles, leads to an expression of regret that it was no longer\nsuffered to remain in the simplicity of the times of Numa:\n\n  \"In valem Egeri\u00e6 descendimus, et speluncas\n  Dissimiles veris. Quanto pr\u00e6stantius esset\n  Numen aqu\u00e6, viridi si margine clauderet undas\n  Herba, nec ingenuum violarent marmora tophum?\"\n                            _Sat._ iii. 17.\n\nIn imitating this passage, Mr. Rhodes, finding no fons Egeri\u00e6, no Numa,\nand perhaps no Muses in London, transfers his regrets from a rivulet to\na navigable stream; and makes the whole ridiculous, by suggesting that\nthe Thames would look infinitely better if it flowed through grass, as\nevery ordinary brook would do.\n\n  \"Next he departed to the river side,\n  Crowded with buildings, tow'ring in their pride.\n  How much, much better would this river look,\n  Flowing 'twixt grass, like every other brook,\n  If native sand its tedious course beguil'd,\n  Nor any foreign ornament defil'd.\"\n\nW (1.)\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDEDICATION TO MILTON BY ANTONIO MALATESTI.\n\nDr. Todd, in his _Life of Milton_, ed. 1826, mentions the accidental\ndiscovery of a manuscript by Antonio Malatesti, bearing the following\ntitle:\n\n\"La Tina Equivoci Rusticali di Antonio Malatesti, c[=o]posti nella sua\nVilla di Taiano il Settembre dell' Anno 1637. Sonetti Cinqu[=a]nta.\nDedicati al' III'mo Signore et Padrone Oss'mo Signor Giovanni Milton,\nNobil' Inghilese.\"\n\nIt seems that this MS. had been presented, together with Milton's works,\nto the Academy della Crusca, by Mr. Brand Hollis, but had by some chance\nagain found its way to England, and was sold by auction at Evans's some\nshort time before Mr. Todd published this second edition of Milton's\nLife.\n\nI know not if there has been any further notice of this MS., which is\ninteresting as a monument of the respect and attention our great poet\nreceived from the most distinguished literary men of Italy at the time\nof his visit, and I should be glad if any of your correspondents can\nindicate its existence, {147} and the place where it is now preserved.\nWhen it was on sale, I had permission to copy the title and a few of the\nsonnets, which were such as we could not imagine would have given\npleasure to the chaste mind of Milton; each of them containing, as the\ntitle indicates, an _\u00e9quivoque_, which would bear an obscene sense, yet\nvery ingeniously wrapped up. The first sonnet opens thus:--\n\n  \"Queste Sonnetti, o Tina, ch' i' h\u00f3 composto,\n  Me gl' h\u00e1 dettati una Musa buffona,\n  Cantando d' improviso, alla Carlona,\n  Sul suono, spinto dal oalor del Mosto.\"\n\nThe second may serve to show the nature of the _\u00e9quivoque_:--\n\n  \"Tina, I' so legger bene, e rilevato\n  La Storia di Liombrune, e Josafatte,\n  Se ben, per esser noto in queste fratte\n  Sotto il Maestro mai non sono stato.\n\n  \"E il lere del dificio m' ha giurato,\n  Quand' egli ha visto le Poesie ch' i' h\u00f3 fatte,\n  Ch' elle son belle, e i piedi in terra batte,\n  E vuol ch' io mi sia in Pisa adottorato.\n\n  \"Io canto, quand' io son ben ben satollo,\n  Sul Chitarrin con voce si sottile,\n  Ch'io ne disgrado insien Maestro Apollo.\n\n  \"Vien un poco da me, Tina gentile,\n  Che s' egli avvien che tu mi segga in collo,\n  M' sentirai ben tosto alzar lo stile.\"\n\nAntonio Malatesti was a man of mark in his time, being distinguished for\nhis talent as an improvisatore. Among his friends were Galileo,\nColtellini, and Valerio Chimentelli, who have all commendatory poems\nprefixed to Malatesti's \"Sphinx,\" a collection of poetical enigmas,\nwhich has been frequently reprinted. Beside his poetical talent, he\nstudied astronomy, probably under Galileo; and painting, in which he was\na pupil of Lorenzo Lippi, author of the \"Malmantile Raqquistato,\" who\nthus designates him under his academical name of _Amostante Latoni_\n(canto i. stanza 61.):--\n\n  \"E General di tutta questa Mandra\n  Amostante Laton Poeta insigne.\n  Canta improviso, come un Calandra:\n  Stampa gli Enigmi, 'Strologia, e Dipigne.\"\n\nMalatesti was a member of the Academy degli Apatisti, of which Milton's\nfriends Coltellini and Carlo Dati had been the principal founders. The\nhouse of the latter was a court of the Muses, and it was at the evening\nparties there that all who were distinguished for science or literature\nassembled: \"Era in Firenze la sua Casa la Magione de' Letterati,\nparticolarmente Oltramontani, da lui ricevuti in essa, e trattati con\nogni sorta di gentilezza.\"[1] Heinsius, Menage, Chapelain, and other\ndistinguished foreigners were members of this academy; and it is more\nthan probable that, were its annals consulted, our poet's name would\nalso be found there.\n\nS.W. SINGER.\n\nMickleham, July 15, 1850.\n\n[Footnote 1: Salvino Salvini Fasti Consolari dell' Academia Fiorentina,\n1717, p. 548. Milton's stay of two months at Florence must have been to\nhim a period of pure enjoyment, and seems to have been always remembered\nwith delight:--\"Illa in urbe, quam prae ceteris propter elegantiam cum\nlingu\u00e6 tum ingeniorum semper colui, ad duos circiter menses substiti;\nillie multorum et nobilium san\u00e8 et doctorum hominum familiaritatem\nstatim contraxi; quorum etiam privatas academias (qui mos illie cum ad\nliteras humaniores assidu\u00e8 frequentavi). Tui enim Jacobe Gaddi, Carole\nDati, Frescobalde, Cultelline, Bonmatthaei, Chimentille Francine,\naliorumque plurium memoriam apud me semper gratam atque jucundam, nulla\ndies delebit.\"--_Defensio Secunda_, p. 96., ed. 1698.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPULTENEY'S BALLAD OF \"THE HONEST JURY.\"\n\nOn the application for a new trial, in the case of The King _against_\nWilliam Davies Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph (1784), wherein was raised the\nimportant and interesting question, whether in libel cases the jury were\njudges of the law as well as the fact, Lord Mansfield, in giving\njudgment, remarked in reference to trials for libel, before Lord\nRaymond:\n\n    \"I by accident (from memory only I speak now) recollect one\n    where the _Craftsman_ was acquitted; and I recollect it from a\n    famous, witty, and ingenious ballad that was made at the time by\n    Mr. Pulteney; and though it is a ballad, I will cite the stanza\n    I remember from it, because it will show you the idea of the\n    able men in opposition, and the leaders of the popular party in\n    those days. They had not an idea of assuming that the jury put\n    it upon another and much better ground. The stanza I allude to\n    is this:--\n\n      \"'For Sir Philip well knows,\n         That his _innuendos_\n       Will serve him no longer,\n         In verse or in prose;\n      For twelve honest men have decided the cause,\n      Who are judges of fact, though not judges of laws.'\n\n    \"It was the admission of the whole of that party; they put it\n    right; they put it upon the meaning of the _innuendos_; upon\n    _that_ the jury acquitted the defendant; and they never put up a\n    pretence of any other power, except when talking to the jury\n    themselves.\"\n\nIn Howell's _State Trials_ (xxi. 1038.) is a note on this passage. This\nnote (stated to be from the _Speeches of Hon. Thomas Erskine_) is as\nfollows:--\n\n    \"It appears by a pamphlet printed in 1754, that Lord Mansfield\n    is mistaken. The verse runs thus:--\n\n      \"'Sir Philip well knows,\n        That his innuendos\n      Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose:\n      For twelve honest men have determined the cause,\n      _Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws._'\"{148}\n\nLord Campbell, in his _Lives of the Chancellors_ (v. 25.) and _Lives of\nthe Lord Chief Justices_ (ii. 543.), and Mr. Harris, in his _Life of\nLord Chancellor Hardwicke_ (i. 221.), give the lines as quoted by Lord\nMansfield, with the exception of the last and only important line, which\nthey give, after the note to Erskine's speeches, as\n\n  \"Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws.\"\n\nAnd Lord Campbell (who refers to _State Trials_, xxi.) says that Lord\nMansfield, in the Dean of St. Asaph's Case, misquoted the lines \"to suit\nhis purpose, or from lapse of memory.\"\n\nI know not what is the pamphlet referred to as printed in 1754; but on\nconsulting the song itself, as given in the 5th volume of the\n_Craftsman_, 337., and there entitled \"The Honest Jury; or, Caleb\nTriumphant. To the tune of 'Packington's Pound,'\" I find not only that\nLord Mansfield's recollection of the stanza he referred to was\nsubstantially correct, but that the opinion in support of which he cited\nit is expressed in another stanza besides that which he quoted. The\nfirst verse of the song is as follows:\n\n  \"Rejoice, ye good writers, your pens are set free;\n  Your thoughts and the _press_ are at full liberty;\n  For your _king_ and your _country_ you safely may write,\n  You may say _black_ is _black_, and prove _white_ is _white_;\n    Let no pamphleteers\n    Be concerned for their ears;\n    For every man now shall be tried by his _peers_.\n  _Twelve good honest men_ shall decide in each cause,\n  And be judges of _fact_, tho' not judges of _laws_.\"\n\nIn the third verse are the lines Lord Mansfield cited from memory:--\n\n  \"For Sir Philip well knows\n    That _innuen-does_\n  Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose;\n  Since _twelve honest men_ have decided the cause,\n  And were judges of _fact_, tho' not judges of _laws_.\"\n\nLord Campbell and Mr. Harris both make another mistake with reference to\nthis ballad which I may perhaps be excused if I notice. They say that it\nwas composed on an unsuccessful prosecution of the _Craftsman_ by Sir\nPhilip Yorke, and that this unsuccessful prosecution was subsequent to\nthe successful prosecution of that paper on December 3rd, 1731. This was\nnot so: Sir Philip Yorke's unsuccessful prosecution, and to which of\ncourse Pulteney's ballad refers, was in 1729, when Francklin was tried\nfor printing \"The Alcayde of Seville's Speech,\" and, as the song\nindicates, acquitted.\n\nC.H. COOPER.\n\nCambridge, July 29. 1850.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES ON MILTON.\n(Continued from Vol. ii., p. 115)\n\n_Comus._\n\nOn l. 8. (G.):--\n\n  \"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.\"\n\n_Macbeth_, iii. 2.\n\nOn l. 101. (M.):--\n\n  \"The bridegroom Sunne, who late the Earth had spoused,\n  Leaves his star-_chamber_; early in the _East_\n  He shook his sparkling locks.\"\n\nFletcher's _Purple Island_ C. ix. St. 1.\n\nOn l. 102. (M.):--\n\n  \"And welcome him and his with _joy and feast_.\"\n  Fairfax's _Tasso_, B. i. St. 77.\n\nOn l. 155. (D.):--\n\n  \"For if the sun's bright beams do _blear_ the sight\n  Of such as fix'dly gaze against his light.\"\n\nSylvester's _Du Bartas_. Week i. Day 1.\n\nOn l. 162. (G.):--\n\n  \"Such reasons seeming plausible.\"\n\nWarners _Albion's England_, p. 155. ed. 1612.\n\nOn l. 166. (G.):--\n\n  \"We are a few of those collected here\n  That ruder tongues distinguish _villager_.\"\n\nBeaumont and Fletcher's _Two Noble Kinsmen_, iii. 5.\n\nOn l. 215. (G.) \"Unblemished\" was originally (_Trin. Coll. Cam. MSS._)\nwritten \"unspotted,\" perhaps from Drayton:--\n\n  \"Whose form unspotted chastity may take,\"\n\nOn l. 254. (G.) Add to Mr. Warton's note, that after the creation of Sir\nRobert Dudley to be Earl of Leicester by Queen Elizabeth in 1564, \"He\nsat at dinner in his _kirtle_.\" So says Stow in _Annals_, p. 658. edit.\n1633.\n\nOn l. 290. (G.):--\n\n  \"My wrinckl'd face,\n  Grown _smooth as Hebe's_.\"\n\nRandolph's _Aristippus_, p. 18. 4to. ed. 1630.\n\nOn l. 297. (G.):--\n\n  \"Of frame more than celestial.\"\n\nFletcher's _Purple Island_, C. 6. S. 28. p. 71. ed. 1633.\n\nOn l. 331. (G.):--\n\n  \"Night begins to _muffle up_ the day.\"\n\nWither's _Mistresse of Philarete_.\n\nOn l. 335. (G.):--\n\n  \"That whiles thick _darkness_ blots the light,\n  My thoughts may cast another _night_:\n   In which _double shade_,\" &c.\n\nCartwright's _Poems_, p. 220. ed. 1651.\n\nOn l. 345. (G.):--\n\n  \"Singing to the sounds of _oaten reed_.\"\n\n_Drummond_, p. 128.\n\nOn l. 373. (G.):--\n\n  \"Virtue gives herself light thro' darkness for to wade.\"\n\nSpenser's _F. Queene_. {149}\n\n(D.) For what is here finely said, and again beautifully expressed (v.\n381.), we may perhaps refer to Ariosto's description of the gems which\nform the walls of the castle of Logistilla, or Reason:--\n\n  \"Che chi l'ha, ovunque sia, sempre che vuole,\n  Febo (mal grado tuo) si pu\u00f2 far giorno.\"\n\n_Orl. Fur_. x. 60.\n\nOn l. 404. (G.):--\n\n  \"Whiles a puft and _rechlesse_ libertine,\n  Himselfe the primrose path of dalliance treads,\n  And _reakes_ not his owne reed.\"\n\n_Hamlet>_ i. 3.\n\nOn l. 405. (G.):--\n\n  \"Where death and danger _dog_ the heels of worth.\"\n\n_All's Well that ends Well_, iii. 4.\n\nOn l. 421. (M.):--\n\n  \"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just:\n  And he but naked, though locked up in steel,\n  Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.\"\n\n2 _Henry IV._, iii. 2.\n\nOn l. 424. (G.):--\n\n  \"And now he treads th' _infamous_ woods and downs.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Eclog._, i. p. 4. ed. 1633.\n\nOn l. 494. (G.) The same sort of compliment occurs in Wither's\n_Sheperd's Hunting_. (See _Gentleman's Mag._ for December 1800, p.\n1151.)\n\n  \"Thou wert wont to charm thy flocks;\n  And among the massy rocks\n  Hast so cheered me with thy song,\n  That I have forgot my wrong.\"\n\nHe adds:--\n\n  \"Hath some churle done thee a spight?\n  Dost thou miss a lamb to-night?\"\n\n_Juvenilia_, p. 417. ed. 12mo. 1633.\n\nOn l. 535. (M.):--\n\n  \"Not powerful Circe with her _Hecate rites_.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Poetical Miscellanies_, p. 65. ed. 1633.\n\nOn l. 544. (D.):--\n\n  \"The soft sweet moss shall be thy bed\n  With crawling woodbine overspread.\"\n\nHerrick's _Hesperides_, p. 223.\n\nOn l. 554 (G.):--\n\n  \"And flattery to his sinne _close curtain_ draws.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 112. ed. 1633.\n\nOn l. 635. (G.):--\n\n  \"_His clouted shoon_ were nailed for fear of wasting.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 113.\n\nOn l. 707. (G.) A passage in the Spanish Tragedy confirms Mr. Warton's\nreasoning--\n\n  \"After them doth Hymen hie as fast,\n  _Clothed in sable_ and a saffron robe.\"\n\n_Old Plays_, vol. iii. p. 214. ed. 1780.\n\nOn l. 734. (G.):--\n\n  \"Saw you not a lady come this way on a sable horse\n  _studded with stars_ of white?\"\n\nBeaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.\n\nOn l. 752. (G.):--\n\n  \"A sweet _vermilian tincture_ stained\n  The bride's fair cheek.\"\n\nQuarles' _Argalus and Parthenia_, p. 118. ed. 1647.\n\nOn l. 812. (G.):--\n\n  \"_Bathed_ in worldly _bliss_.\"\n\n_Drayton_, p. 586. ed. 1753.\n\n  \"The fortunate who bathe in floods of joys.\"\n\nE. of Sterline's _Works_, p. 251. ed. 1637.\n\nOn l. 834. (D.):--\n\n  \"The lily-wristed morn.\"\n\nThe Country Life, Herrick's _Hesperides_, p. 269.\n\n(G.):--\n\n  \"Reacht him her ivory hand.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Purple Island_, p. 117.\n\nOn l. 853. (G.) Compare this line of Drayton in his _Baron's Warrs_:--\n\n  \"Of gloomy magicks and benumbing charms.\"\n\nVol. i. p. 110. ed. 1753.\n\nOn l. 861. (G.):--\n\n  \"Through whose _translucent_ sides much light is born.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Pur. Island_, C. 5. St. 31. p. 54.\n\nOn l. 862. (M.):--\n\n  \"All hundred nymphs, that in his rivers dwell,\n  About him flock, with water-lilies crowned.\"\n\nPh. Fletcher's _Poet. Miscell._, p 67. ed. 1633.\n\nOn l. 863. (G.) The use of Ambergris, mentioned in Warton's note,\nappears from Drayton, v. ii. p. 483.:--\n\n  \"Eat capons cooked at fifteen crowns apiece,\n  With their fat bellies stuft with ambergrise.\"\n\nOn l. 886. (G.):--\n\n  \"The wealth of Tarsus nor the _rocks of pearl_,\n  _That pave the court of Neptune_, can weigh down\n  That virtue.\"\n\nBeaumont and Fletcher's _Philaster_, Act iv.\n\nOn l. 894. (G.):--\n\n  \"Beset at th' end with emeralds and turches.\"\n\nLingua iv. 4. _Old Plays_, v. 5. p. 202. ed. 1780.\n\nOn l. 924. (M.) Mr. Warton says this votive address was suggested by\nthat of Amoret in the _Faithful Shepherdess_; but observes that \"the\nform and subject, rather than the imagery, is copied.\" In the following\nmaledictory address from Ph. Fletcher's 2nd eclogue, st. 23., the\nimagery is precisely similar to Milton's, the good and evil being made\nto consist in the fulness or decrease of the water, the clearness or\nmuddiness of the stream, and the nature of the plants flowing on its\nbanks:--\n\n  \"But thou, proud Chame, which thus hast wrought me spite,\n  Some greater river drown thy hatefull name;\n  Let never myrtle on thy banks delight;\n  But willows pale, the leads of spite and blame,\n  Crown thy ungratefull shores with scorn and shame: {150}\n    Let dirt and mud thy lazie waters seize,\n    Thy weeds still grow, thy waters still decrease;\n  Nor let thy wretched love to Gripus ever cease.\"\n\nP. 13. ed. 1633.\n\nSee also the \"Masque,\" in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Maid's Tragedy_, Act\nI. vol. i. p. 17. edit. 1750.\n\nOn l. 936. (G.):--\n\n  \"And here and there were pleasant arbors pight,\n   And shadie seats and sundry flowring banks.\"\n\nSpenser's _F. Queen_, vol. ii. p. 146. ed. 1596.\n\nOn l. 958. (G.):--\n\n  \"How now! back friends! shepherd, go off a little.\"\n\n_As You Like It_, iii. 2.\n\nOn l. 989. (D.) See Bethsabe's address to Zephyr in tire opening of\nPeele's _David and Bethsabe_:--\n\n  \"And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes.\"\n\nOn l. 995. (D.):--\n\n  \"Her gown should be goodliness\n    Well ribbon'd with renown,\n  _Purfil'd_ with pleasure in ilk place\n    Furr'd with fine fashioun.\"\n\nRobert Henryson's _Garment of Good Ladies_. See Ellis' _Spec. of Early\nEng. Poets_, i. 362.\n\nJ.F.M.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nFOLK LORE.\n\n_High Spirits considered a Sign of impending Calamity or Death_ (Vol.\nii., p. 84.).--\n\n  \"_Westmoreland_. Health to my lord, and gentile cousin, Mowbray.\n\n  _Mowbray_. You wish me health in very happy season;\n  For I am, on the sudden, something ill.\n\n  _Archbishop of York_. Against ill chances, men are ever merry;\n  But heaviness foreruns the good event.\n\n  _West_. Therefore be merry, cos; since sudden sorrow\n  Serves to say thus,--Some good thing comes to-morrow.\n\n  _Arch_. Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.\n\n  _Mow_. So much the worse, if your own rule be true.\"\n\nSecond Part of _King Henry IV._, Act iv. Sc. 2.\n\nIn the last act of _Romeo and Juliet_, Sc. 1, Romeo comes on, saying,--\n\n  \"If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep,\n  My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:\n  My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne;\n  And, all this day, an unacustom'd spirit\n  Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.\"\n\nImmediately a messenger comes in to announce Juliet's death.\n\nIn Act iii. Sc. 2., of _King Richard III._, Hastings is represented as\nrising in the morning in unusually high spirits. This idea runs through\nthe whole scene, which is too long for extraction. Before dinner-time he\nis beheaded.\n\nX.Z.\n\n_Norfolk Popular Rhymes_.--On looking over an old newspaper, I stumbled\non the following rhymes, which are there stated to be prevalent in the\ndistrict in which these parishes are situated, viz. between Norwich and\nYarmouth:--\n\n  \"Halvergate hares, Reedham rats,\n  Southwood swine, and Cantley cats;\n  Acle asses, Moulton mules,\n  Beighton bears, and Freethorpe fools.\"\n\nThey seem to proceed simply on the alliterative principle mentioned by\nJ.M.B. (Vol. i., p. 475.) as common to many popular proverbs, &c. Two\nothers I subjoin from my own recollection, which differ in this\nparticular:--\n\n  \"Blickling flats, Aylsham fliers,\n  Marsham peewits, and Hevingham liars.\"\n\nThese are four villages on the road between Norwich and Cromer. A third\ncouplet alludes merely to the situation of a group of villages near the\nsea-coast,--\n\n  \"Gimingham, Trimingham, Knapton, and Trunch,\n  Northrepps and Southrepps, hang all in a bunch.\"\n\nE.S.T.\n\n\n_Throwing Salt over the Shoulder_.--This custom I have frequently\nobserved, of taking a pinch of salt without any remark, and flinging it\nover the shoulder. I should be glad to know its origin.\n\nE.S.T.\n\n\n_Charming for Warts_.--In Vol. i., p. 19., a correspondent asks if the\ncustom of \"charming for warts\" prevails in England.\n\nA year or two ago I was staying in Somersetshire, and having a wart\nmyself, was persuaded to have it \"charmed.\" The village-charmer was\nsummoned; he first cut off a slip of elder-tree, and made a notch in it\nfor every wart. He then rubbed the elder against each, strictly\nenjoining me to think no more about it, as if I looked often at the\nwarts the charm would fail.\n\nIn about a week the warts had altogether disappeared, to the delight of\nthe operator.\n\nN.A.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNOTES ON COLLEGE SALTING; TURKISH SPY; DR. DEE; FROM \"LETTERS FROM THE\nBODLEIAN, &c.\" 2 VOLS. 1813.\n\nHaving been lately reading through this interesting collection, I have\n\"noted\" some references to subjects which have been discussed in your\ncolumns.\n\n1. _College Salting. Salt at Eton Montem_ (Vol. i., pp. 261. 306. 321.\n384. 390. 492.).--I am not quite clear as to the connection between\nthese two subjects: but an identity of origin is not improbable. A\nletter from Mr. Byrom to Aubrey, \"On the Custom of Salting at Eton,\"\nNov. 15. 1693, is in vol. ii. p. 167.: {151}\n\n    \"I could send you a long answer to your queries, but have not\n    the confidence to do it; for all that I can say was only heard\n    from others when I was at school at Eton, and if I should depend\n    upon that, perhaps I should make too bold with truth. 'Twas then\n    commonly said that the college held some lands by the custom of\n    salting; but having never since examined it, I know not how to\n    account for it. One would think, at first view, considering the\n    foundation was designed for a nursery of the Christian religion,\n    and has not been in being much above 250 years, that it is not\n    likely any remains of the Gentiles, relating to their\n    sacrifices, should in so public a manner be suffered in it;\n    however, I cannot but own with those that understand anything of\n    antiquity, that the Christians very early assumed some rites of\n    the heathens; and probably it might be done with this\n    design,--that the nations, seeing a religion which in its\n    outward shape was something like their own, might be the sooner\n    pursuaded to embrace it. To be free, sir, with you, I am apt to\n    believe, for the honour of that society of which I was once an\n    unworthy member, that the annual custom of salting alludes to\n    that saying of our Saviour to His disciples, '_Ye are the salt\n    of the earth_;' for as salt draws up all that matter that tends\n    to putrefaction, so it is a symbol of our doing the like in a\n    spiritual state, by taking away all natural corruption.... If\n    this will not please, why may it not denote that wit and\n    knowledge by which boys dedicated to learning ought to\n    distinguish themselves. You know what _sal_ sometimes signifies\n    among the best Roman authors: _Publius Scipio omnes sale\n    facetiisque superabat_, Cic.; and Terent, _Qui habet salem qui\n    in te est_.\"\n\nThe Editor has a note on this letter:--\n\n    \"There have been various conjectures relative to the origin of\n    this custom. Some have supposed that it arose from an ancient\n    practice among the friars of selling consecrated salt and\n    others, with more probability, from the ceremony of the _bairn_\n    or _boy_-bishop, as it is said to have been formerly a part of\n    the Montem-celebration for prayers to be read by a boy dressed\n    in the clerical habit.\"\n\nA letter from Dr. Tanner to Mr. Hearne on _Barne_ or _Boy-bishops_, is\nin vol. i., p. 302.\n\n2. _The Turkish Spy_ (Vol. i., p. 324.; vol. ii., p. 12.).--The letter\nor the authorship of this work quoted by DR. RIMBAULT from the Bodleian\nMSS., is printed in vol. i. p. 233.; and I observe that DR. R. has\nincorporated in his communication the Editor's note on the passage.\n\n3. _Dr. Dee_ (Vol. i., pp. 216. 284.).--A letter about Dr. Dee from Mr.\nBallard to T. Hearne occurs in vol. ii. p. 89. It does not throw light\non the question of why Dr. Dee left Manchester College? There are also\nnotes for a life of Dee among Aubrey's _Lives_, appended to these\n_Letters_ (vol. ii. p. 310.) Both letters and notes refer to original\nsources of information for Dee's Life.\n\nCH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR NOTES.\n\n_Alarm_.--A man is indicted for striking at the Queen, with intent\n(among other things) to _alarm_ her Majesty. It turns out that the very\njudge has forgotten the legal (which is also the military) meaning of\nthe word. An alarm is originally the signal to arm: Query, Is it not\nformed from the cry _\u00e0 l'arme_, which in modern times is _aux armes_?\nThe judge said that from the courage of her family, most likely the\nQueen was not alarmed, meaning, not frightened. But the illegal intent\nto alarm merely means the intent to make another think that it is\nnecessary to take measures of defence or protection. When an _alarm_ is\nsounded, the soldier who is _not_ alarmed is the one who would be held\nto be frightened.\n\nM.\n\n\n_Taking a Wife on Trial_.--The following note was made upon reading _The\nHistorical and Genealogical Account of the Clan of Maclean_, by a\nSeneachie, published by Smith, Elder, and Co., London, 1838. It may be\nthought worthy of a corner amongst the Notes on Folk Lore, which form so\ncurious and entertaining a portion of the \"NOTES AND QUERIES.\"\n\nIn the beginning of the year 1608 a commission, consisting of the\nArchbishop of Glasgow, the Bishop of the Isles (Andrew Knox), Andrew\nStewart, Lord Ochiltree, and Sir James Hay of Kingask, proceeded to the\nIsles with power to summon the chiefs to a conference, for the purpose\nof intimating to them the measures in contemplation by the government. A\nmeeting for this purpose was held at Aross Castle, one of the seats of\nMaclean, in Mull, at which the principal barons and heads of houses\nattended.\n\nThe regulations contemplated had for their object the introduction of an\nadditional number of pious divines, who were to be provided for out of\nthe lands of the great island proprietors; the abolishing a certain\nremarkable custom which till then prevailed, namely, that of taking a\nwife on approbation, or, in plain intelligible terms, _on trial_!\n\nThe following are two examples recorded of this singular custom.\n\nJohn Mac-Vic Ewen, fourth laird of Ardgour, had _handfasted_ (as it was\ncalled) with a daughter of Mac Ian of Ardnamurchan, whom he had taken on\na promise of marriage, if she pleased him. At the expiration of two\nyears he sent her home to her father; but his son by her, the gallant\nJohn of Invorscaddel, a son of Maclean of Ardgour, celebrated in the\nhistory of the Isles, was held to be an illegitimate offspring by virtue\nof the \"handfast ceremony.\"\n\nAnother instance is recorded of a Macneil of Borra having for several\nyears enjoyed the society of a lady of the name of Maclean on the same\nprinciple; but his offspring by her were deprived {152} of their\ninheritance by the issue of his subsequent marriage with a lady of the\nClanrannald family.\n\nThese decisions no doubt tended to the abolition of a custom or\nprinciple so subversive of marriage and of the legitimacy of offspring.\n\nJ.M.G.\n\nWorcester, July 19.\n\n_Russian Language_.--A friend of mine, about to go to Russia, wrote to\nme some time since, to ask if he could get a _Russian grammar in\nEnglish, or any English books bearing on the language_. I told him I did\nnot think there were any; but would make inquiry. Dr. Bowring, in his\n_Russian Anthology_, states as a remarkable fact, that the first Russian\ngrammar ever published was published in England. It was entitled _H.W.\nLudolfi Grammatica Russica qu\u00e6 continet et Manuductionem quandum ad\nGrammaticam Slavonicam_. Oxon. 1696. The Russian grammar next to this,\nbut published in its own language, was written by the great Lomonosov,\nthe father of Russian poetry, and the renovator of his mother tongue: I\nknow not the year, but it was about the middle of the last century. I\nhave a German translation of this grammar \"Von Johann Lorenz\nStuvenhagen: St. Petersburgh, 1764.\" Grotsch, Jappe, Adelung, &c., have\nwritten on the Russian language. Jappe's grammar, Dr. Bowring says, is\nthe best he ever met with. I must make a query here with regard to Dr.\nBowring's delightful and highly interesting _Anthologies_. I have his\nRussian, Dutch, and Spanish _Anthologies_: _Did he ever publish any\nothers_? I have not met with them. I know he contemplated writing\ntranslations from Polish, Servian, Hungarian, Finnish, Lithonian, and\nother poets.\n\nJarltzberg.\n\n\n_Pistol and Bardolph_.--I am glad to be able to transfer to your pages a\nShakspearian note, which I met with in a periodical now defunct. It\nappears from an old MS. in the British Museum, that amongst canoniers\nserving in Normandy in 1436, were \"Wm. Pistail--R. Bardolf.\" Query, Were\nthese common English names, or did these identical canoniers transmit a\ntraditional fame, good or bad, to the time of Shakspeare, in song or\nstory?\n\nIf this is a well-known Query, I should be glad to be referred to a\nsolution of it, if not, I leave it for inquiry.\n\nG.H.B.\n\n\nEPIGRAM FROM BUCHANAN.\n\n    Doletus writes verses and wonders--ahem--When there's nothing in\n    _him_, that there's nothing in _them_.\n\nJ.O.W.H.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQUERIES.\n\nCALVIN AND SERVETUS.\n\nThe fate of Servetus has always excited the deepest commiseration. His\ndeath was a judicial crime, the rank offence of religious pride,\npersonal hatred, and religious fanaticism. It borrowed from superstition\nits worst features, and offered necessity the tyrant's plea for its\nexcuse. Every detail of such events is of great interest. For by that\nimmortality of mind which exists for ever as History, or through the\nagency of those successive causes which still link us to it by their\neffects, we are never separated from the Past. There is also an\neloquence in immaterial things which appeals to the heart through all\nages. Is there a man who would enter unmoved the room in which\nShakspeare was born, in which Dante dwelt, or see with indifference the\ndesk at which Luther wrote, the porch beneath which Milton sat, or Sir\nIsaac Newton's study? So also the possession of a book once their own,\nstill more of the MS. of a work by which great men won enduring fame,\nwritten in a great cause, for which they struggled and for which they\nsuffered, seems to efface the lapse of centuries. We feel present before\nthem. They are before us as living witnesses. Thus we see Servetus as,\nalone and on foot, he arrived at Geneva in 1553; the lake and the little\ninn, the \"Auberge de la Rose,\" at which he stopped, reappear pictured by\nthe influence of local memory and imagination. From his confinement in\nthe old prison near St. Peter's, to the court where he was accused,\nduring the long and cruel trial, until the fatal eminence of Champel,\nevery event arises before us, and the air is peopled with thick coming\nvisions of the actors and sufferer in the dreadful scene. Who that has\nread the account of his death has not heard, or seemed to hear, that\nshriek, so high, so wild, alike for mercy and of dread despair, which\nwhen the fire was kindled burst above through smoke and flame,--\"that\nthe crowd fell back with a shudder!\" Now it strikes me, an original MS.\nof the work for which he was condemned still exists; and I, thinking\nthat others may feel the interest I have tried to sketch in its\nexistence, will now state the facts of the case, and lay my authorities\nbefore your readers.\n\n    \"We condemn you, said the council, Michael Servetus, to be bound\n    and led to Champel, where you are to be fastened to a stake, and\n    burnt alive together with your book, as well the printed as the\n    MS.\"\n\n    \"About midday he was led to the stake. An iron chain encompassed\n    his body; on his head was placed a crown of plaited straw and\n    leaves strewed with sulphur, to assist in suffocating him. At\n    his girdle were suspended his printed books; and the MS. he had\n    sent to Calvin.\"\n\nThis MS. had been completed in 1546, and sent\nto Geneva for his opinion. Calvin, in a letter to\nFarel says:\n\n    \"Servetus wrote to me lately, and accompanied his letter with a\n    long volume _of his insanities_.\"\n\nThis long volume was the MS. of the \"Restitutio Christianismi,\" now\nready for the press. We {153} have seen that it was sent to Calvin. It\nwas never returned, but produced in evidence, and burnt with him at the\nstake. Nevertheless, he either possessed another copy or took the pains\nof writing it afresh, and thus the work was secretly printed at Vienna,\nat the press of Balshazar Arnoullet in 1553. Of this edition, those at\nFrankfort were burnt at the instance of Calvin; at Geneva, Robert\nStephens sacrificed all the copies which had come into his hands; so\nthat of an edition of one thousand, it is said only six copies were\npreserved. These facts I owe to the excellent Life of Calvin by Mr. T.H.\nDyer, recently published by Mr. Murray. Now does the following MS. bear\nrelation to that described as recopied by Servetus, from which Arnoullet\nprinted? or is it the first rough sketch? Can any of your readers say\ninto what collection it passed?\n\nThe extract is from the Catalogue of the Library of Cisternay Dufay, by\nGabriel Martin, Paris, 8vo. 1725, being lot 764., p. 98., and was sold\nfor 176 livres.\n\n    \"Librorum Serveti de Trinitate Codex MS. autographus. In fronte\n    libri apparet note qu\u00e6 sequitur, manu ipsius defuncti D. du Fay\n    exarata.\n\n    \"Forsan ipsius auctoris autographus Codex hic MS. qui fuit\n    percelebris Bibliopol\u00e6 Basiliensis Coelii Horatii Curionis.\n    Videtur prima conceptio (vulg\u00f2 l'Esquisse, en termes de\n    Peinture) Libri vald\u00e8 famigerati Mich. Serveti, a Joanne Calvino\n    cum ipso Serveto combusti, cui Titulus, _Christianismi\n    Restitutio, hoc est totius Ecclesi\u00e6 Apostolic\u00e6 ad sua limina\n    Vocatio_, &c. &c., typis mandati anno 1554, Vienn\u00e6 Allobrogum,\n    8vo. pagg. 734,\" concluding with an anecdote of the rarity of\n    the volume.\n\nThere may be some to whom these \"Notes\" may be of use, others to whom a\nreply to the \"Queries\" may have interest, and so I send them to you.\nSuch MSS. are of great historical importance.\n\nS.H.\n\nAthen\u00e6um, July 26.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nETYMOLOGICAL QUERIES.\n\nAny remarks on the meaning and derivation of the following words, will\nbe thankfully received.\n\n_Rykelot_.--A magpie?\n\n_Berebarde_.--\"In the fever or the _Berebarde_.\"\n\n_Wrusum_, or _Wursum_.--\"My wounds that were healed gather new _wrusum_,\nand begin to corrupt.\"\n\n_Deale_.--Placed always between two sentences without any apparent\nconnection with either of them. Is it an abbreviation of \"Dieu le sait?\"\n\n_Sabraz_.--\"He drinks bitter _sabraz_ to recover his health.\"\n\n_Heteneste_.--\"Inclosed _hetenest_ in a stone coffin or tomb.\"\n\n_Schunche_.--\"Schunche away.\"\n\n_I-menbred_.--\"A girdle _i-menbred_.\"\n\n_Blodbendes_ of silk.\n\n_Hesmel_.--\"Let their _hesmel_ be high _istiled_, al without broach.\"\n\n_Irspille_.--\"Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor _irspilles_ felles.\"\n\nJ. Mn.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMINOR QUERIES\n\n_Countess of Desmond_.--I should be much obliged if any of your readers\nwould inform me of the manner of the death of Catherine Fitzgerald,\nCountess of Desmond, commonly called the \"old Countess of Desmond,\" who\ndied in 1626, aged above 140 years,--some say, 162 years. I think I\nremember reading, some years since, that she died from a fall from a\ncherry-tree, at the age of 144 years. If so, where can the account be\nfound?\n\nK.\n\nCheetham Hill.\n\n\n_Noli me tangere_.--Can any of your readers refer me to pictures upon\nthe subject of _Noli me tangere_. I want to know what artists have\ntreated the subject, and where their pictures exist.\n\nB.R.\n\n\n_Line in Milton's \"Penseroso.\"_--In those somewhat hacknied lines,\n\n  \"And may my due feet never fail,\" &c.,\n\nI am somewhat puzzled to understand the expression,\n\n  \"With antique pillars massy _proof_.\"\n\nNow what is \"proof,\"--a substantive or adjective? If the latter, no\nedition is rightly stopped; for, of course, there should be a comma\nafter \"massy;\" and then I somewhat doubt the propriety of \"proof\" for\n\"proved,\" unless joined with another word, as \"star-proof,\"\n\"rain-proof.\"\n\nIf \"proof\" is a substantive, \"massy proof\" is in apposition to \"antique\npillars,\" and is very meaningless. Can any of your readers suggest an\nexplanation?\n\nH.A.B.\n\n\n_\"Mooney's Goose.\"_--As a pendant to \"Ludlam's dog,\" I beg to insert the\nproverb of \"Full of fun and _fooster_, like Mooney's goose,\" with the\nhope that your acute and ingenious correspondent D.V.S. may be able to\nthrow some light upon \"Mooney.\" Let me add that D.V.S. has perhaps\nsomewhat misconceived my brief comment on Ludlam, which my regard for\nconciseness has left some deal obscure; and it does not appear worth\nwhile to go over the ground again. I repeatedly heard \"Dick's hat-band\"\nquoted by Lancashire friends exactly as given by Southey. Does not the\nvariation \"cobbler's dog\" tend to prove the alliterative principle for\nwhich I had been contending?\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n\n_Translation of the Philobiblon_.--Where can I procure a translation of\nRobert de Bury's _Philobiblon_?\n\nL.S.{154}\n\n_Achilles and the Tortoise_.--Where is the paradox of \"Achilles and the\nTortoise\" to be found? Leibnitz is said to have given it solution in\nsome part of his works.\n\nThere is also a geometrical treatment of the subject by Gregoire de S.\nVincent. Will some reading man oblige me with information or reference\nconcerning it.\n\n[Greek: Idiotaes.]\n\n_Dominicals_.--I am desirous of obtaining information on a subject of\nmuch interest to Exeter.\n\nAn ancient payment is made to the rectors of each parish within the city\nof Exeter, called \"Dominicals,\" amounting to 1d. per week from every\nhouseholder within the parish. Payments of a similar nature are made in\nLondon, Canterbury, and I believe Worcester. Can any of your numerous\nreaders state the origin of Dominicals, and give any information\nrespecting them.\n\nW.R.C.\n\n\n_Yorkshire Dales_.--A Pedestrian would be much obliged by being informed\nif there is any map, guide, or description published, that would serve\nas a hand-book to the Dales in the West Riding of Yorkshire, between\nLancashire and Westmoreland.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREPLIES\n\nTOBACCO IN THE EAST.\n\nIn the _Edinburgh Cabinet Library_, vol. iii. p. 383., art. \"China,\" it\nis stated that three species of tobacco have been found in India and in\nChina, under circumstances which can leave no doubt of their being\nnative plants.\n\nDr. Bigelow (_American Botany_, 4to., vol. ii. p. 171.) tells us that\n_Nicot. fructicosa_ is said to have been cultivated in the East prior to\nthe discovery of America. Linn\u00e6us sets down the same as a native of\nChina and the Cape of Good Hope. Sir G. Staunton says that there is no\ntraditional account of the introduction of tobacco into China; nor is\nthere any account of its introduction into India[2]; though, according\nto Barrow, the time when the cotton plant was introduced into the\nsouthern provinces of China is noted in their annals. Bell of Antermony,\nwho was in China in 1721, says,\n\n    \"It is reported the Chinese have had the use of tobacco for many\n    ages,\" &c.--_Travels_, vol. ii. p. 73., Lond. ed. 4to. 1763.\n\nLedyard says, the Tartars have smoked from remote antiquity (_Travels_,\n326.). Du Halde speaks of tobacco as one of the natural productions of\nFormosa, whence it was largely imported by the Chinese (p. 173. Lond.\ned. 8vo. 1741).\n\nThe prevalence of the practice of smoking at an early period among the\nChinese is appealed to by Pallas as one evidence that in Asia, and\nespecially in China, the use of tobacco for smoking is more ancient than\nthe discovery of the New World. (See _Asiat. Journ_., vol. xxii. p.\n137.)\n\nThe Koreans say they received tobacco from Japan, as also instructions\nfor its cultivation, about the latter end of the sixteenth century.\n(Authority, I think, Hamel's _Travels, Pink. Coll._, vii. 532.) Loureiro\nstates that in Cochin China tobacco is indigenous, and has its proper\nvernacular name.\n\nJava is said to have possessed it before 1496. Dr. Ruschenberg says,\n\n    \"We are informed the Portuguese met with it on their first visit\n    to Java.\"--_Voy. of U.S.S. Peacock_, vol. ii. p. 456, Lond. ed.\n    8vo. 1838.\n\nCrauford dates its introduction into Java, 1601, but admits that the\nnatives had traditions of having possessed it long before. (_Indian\nArchipelago_, vol. i. pp. 104. 409, 410. 8vo.) Rumphius, in the latter\npart of the seventeenth century, found it universal even where the\nPortuguese and Spaniards had never been.\n\nSavary, in his _Parfait N\u00e9gociant_, states that the Persians have used\ntobacco 400 years, and probably received it from Egypt. (See _Med. Chir.\nReview_, 1840, p. 335.)\n\nOlearius found it fully established in Persia, 1637, only about fifty\nyears after its arrival in England. (Lond. 1662, in fol. p. 322.)\nChardin states, the Persians smoked long before the discovery of\nAmerica, and had cultivated tobacco time immemorial.\n\n    \"Coffee without tobacco is meat without salt.\"--Persian Proverb,\n    Sale's _Koran_, Preliminary Discourse, 169. ed. 8vo.\n\nIn 1634 Olearius found the Russians so addicted to tobacco that they\nwould spend their money on it rather than bread. (See edit. above\nquoted, lib. iii. p. 83.)\n\nAccording to Prof. Lichtenstein, the Beetjuanen smoked and snuffed long\nbefore their intercourse with Europeans. (_Med. and Chir. Rev._, 1840,\np. 335.)\n\nLiebault, in his _Maison Rustique_, asserts that he found tobacco\ngrowing naturally in the forest of Ardennes. Libavius says that it grows\nin the Hyrcinian forest. (Ibid.)\n\nDr. Cleland shows the three last to be falsehoods(?).\n\nYsbrants Ides found tobacco in general use among the Ostiaks and other\ntribes passed in his route to China, 1692. (Harris's _Coll._, fol. vol.\nii. pp. 925. and 926.)\n\nThe story told of Amurath IV. punishing a Turk for smoking seems to be a\nmistake, since Amurath only began to reign 1622; whereas Sandys relates\nthe same story of a certain Morad Bassa, probably Murat III., who began\nto reign {155} 1576, and ended 1594. If this be the case, the Turks were\nsmokers before tobacco was known in England.--In Persia smoking was\nprohibited by Shah Abbas. There were two princes of this name. The first\nbegan his reign 1585 A.D., died 1628: the second began 1641, died 1666.\nThe proclamation against smoking was probably issued by the first, since\n(as before mentioned) in 1634 Olearius found the custom firmly\nestablished. If so, the Persians must have been early smokers. Smoking\nseems to have obtained at a very remote period among several nations of\nantiquity. Dr. Clarke quotes Plutarch on Rivers to show that the\nThracians were in the habit of intoxicating themselves with smoke, which\nhe supposes to have been tobacco. The _Quarterly Review_ is opposed to\nthis.\n\nLafitau quotes Pomp. Mela and Solin to show the same; also Herodotus and\nMaximin of Tyre, as evidences to the same custom prevailing amongst the\nScythians, and thinks that Strabo alludes to tobacco in India. (See, for\nthe Scythians, the _Universal History_.) Logan, in his _Celtic Gaul_,\nadvances that smoking is of great antiquity in Britain. He says that\npipes of the Celts are frequently found, especially at Brannocktown, co.\nKildare, where in 1784 they were dug up in great numbers; that a\nskeleton dug out of an ancient barrow, actually had a pipe sticking\nbetween its teeth when found. (From _Anthol. Hibern._, i. 352.) Halloran\nsays Celtic pipes are found in the Bog of Cullen. In form, these pipes\nwere very similar to those in use at this day.\n\nEulia Effendi mentions having found a tobacco pipe, still in good\npreservation, and retaining a smell of smoke, embeded in the wall of a\nGrecian edifice more ancient than the birth of Mahomet. (_Med. Chir.\nRev._ 1840, p. 335.) This Dr. Cleland proves to be a lie(?). He proves\nthe same of Chardin, Bell of Antermony, Mr. Murray, Pallas, Rumphius,\nSavary, &c.\n\nMasson describes a \"chillum,\" or smoking apparatus, found embedded in an\nancient wall in Beloochistan. (_Travels_, ii. 157.)\n\nDr. Yates saw amongst the paintings in a tomb at Thebes the\nrepresentation of a smoking party. (_Travels in Egypt_, ii. 412.)\n\nThere is an old tradition in the Greek Church, said to be recorded in\nthe works of the early Fathers, of the Devil making Noah drunk with\ntobacco, &c. (Johnson's _Abyssinia_, vol. ii. p. 92.)\n\nNanah, the prophet of the Sikhs, was born 1419. Supposing him fifty when\nhe published his _Ordinances_, it would bring us to 1469, or 23 years\nbefore the discovery of America by Columbus. In these _Ordinances_ he\nforbade the use of tobacco to the Sikhs; but found the habit so deeply\nrooted in the Hind\u00fb that he made an exception in their favour. (Masson's\n_Beloochistan_, vol. i. p. 42.) Should this be true, the Hind\u00fb must have\nbeen in the habit of smoking long before the discovery of America, to\nhave acquired so inveterate a predilection for it.\n\nIf the prophecy attributed to Mahomet be not a fabrication of after\ntimes, it is strongly corroborative, and goes to show that he was himself\nacquainted with the practice of smoking, viz.\n\n    \"To the latter day there shall be men who will bear the name of\n    Moslem, but will not be really such, and they shall smoke a\n    certain weed which shall be called tobacco.\"--See Sale's\n    _Koran_, ed. 8vo. p. 169.\n\nQuery. Is tobacco the word in the original? If so, it is a\nstumbling-block.\n\nLieut. Burns, in his _Travels_, has the following curious statement:\n\n    \"The city of Alore was the capital of a great empire extending\n    from Cachemere to the sea. This was conquered by the Mahomedans\n    in the seventh century, and in the decisive battle they are\n    reported to have brought fire, &c., in their pipes to frighten\n    the elephants.\"\n\nLieut. Burns conjectures that they must have smoked bang, &c., tobacco\nbeing then unknown.\n\nBuchanan's account of the cultivation and preparation of tobacco in\nMysore, carries with it a conviction that these elaborate processes were\nnever communicated to them by Europeans, nor brought in any way from\nAmerica, where they have never been practised. They strike one as\npeculiarly ancient and quite indigenous.\n\nThe rapid dissemination of tobacco, as also of forms and ceremonies\nconnected with its use; its already very extensive cultivation in the\nremotest parts of the continent and islands of Asia, within a century of\nits introduction into Europe, amounts to the miraculous; and\nparticularly when we see new habits of life, and novelties in their\nceremonies of state, at once adopted and become familiar, to such\notherwise unchangeable people as the orientals are known to be.\nExtraordinary also is the fact that the forms and ceremonies adopted\nshould so precisely coincide (in most respects) with those in use among\nthe American Indians, and should not be found in any of the intermediate\ncountries through which we must suppose them to have passed. Who taught\nthem the presentation of the pipe to guests, a form so strictly observed\nby the Red Men of America, &c.? But the \"narghile,\" the \"kaleoon,\" the\n\"hookah,\" the \"hubble-bubble,\" whence came they? They are indigenous.\n\nGreat stress is laid on the silence of Marco Polo, Rubruquis,--the two\nMahomedans, Drake, Cavendish, and Pigafelta; also of the _Arabian\nNights_, on the subject of smoking,--and with reason; but, after all, it\nis negative evidence: for we have examples of the same kind the other\nway. Sir Henry Blount, who was in Turkey in 1634, describes manners and\ncustoms very minutely without a single allusion to smoking, though we\nknow {156} that twenty years previously to that date the Turks were\ninveterate smokers. M. Adr. Balbi insists likewise on the prevalence of\nthe Ha\u00eftian name \"tambaku\" being conclusive as to the introduction of\ntobacco from America. This, however, is not exactly the case: in many\ncountries of the East it has vernacular names. In Ceylon it is called\n\"dun-kol\" or smoke-leaf; in China, \"tharr\"--Barrow says, \"yen.\"\n\nThe Yakuti (and Tungusi?) call it \"schaar.\" The Crim Tartars call it\n\"t\u00fct\u00fcn.\" The Koreans give it the name of the province of Japan whence\nthey first received it. In the Tartar (Calmuc and Bashkir?) \"gansa\" is a\ntobacco-pipe. In America itself tobacco has many names, viz. \"goia,\"\n\"gozobba\" or \"cohobba,\" \"petun,\" \"y'ouly,\" \"yoly,\" and \"uppwoc.\" Are\nthere any proofs of its growing wild in America? At the discovery it was\nevery where found in a state of cultivation. The only mention I have met\nwith is in Drake's _Book of the Indians_[3], where he says it grew\nspontaneously at Wingandacoa[4], and was called by the natives\n\"uppewoc.\" Does not this very notice imply something unusual? and might\nnot this have been a deserted plantation?\n\nThe Indians have always looked to Europeans for presents of tobacco,\nwhich they economise by mixing with willow-bark, the uva-ursi, &c., and\nthere are some tribes totally unacquainted with its use. M'Kenzie says,\nthe Chepewyans learnt smoking from Europeans, and that the Slave and\nDogrib Indians did not even know the use of tobacco.\n\nIn mentioning the silence of early visitors to the East on the subject\nof smoking, I might have added equally the silence of the Norwegian\nvisitors to America on the same subject.\n\nA.C.M.\n\nExeter, July 25. 1850.\n\n[Footnote 2: There is no positive notice of its introduction into\nTurkey, Persia, or Russia?]\n\n[Footnote 3: Book iv., p. 5., ed. 8vo., Boston.]\n\n[Footnote 4: Virginia.]\n\nThe tobacco-plant does not appear to be indigenous to any part of Asia.\nSir John Chardin, who was in Persia about the year 1670, relates in his\ntravels, that tobacco had been cultivated there from time immemorial.\n\"Honest John Bell\" (of Antermony), who travelled in China about 1720,\nasserts that it is reported the Chinese have had the use of tobacco for\nmany ages. Rumphius, who resided at Amboyna towards the end of the\nseventeenth century, found it universal over the East Indies, even in\ncountries where Spaniards or Portuguese had never been. The evidence\nfurnished by these authors, although merely traditional, is the\nstrongest which I am aware of in favour of an Asiatic origin for the use\nof tobacco.\n\nMr. Lane, on the other hand, speaks of the \"introduction of tobacco into\nthe East, in the beginning of the seventeenth century of our era,\"\n(_Arabian Nights_, Note 22. cap. iii.), \"a fact that has been completely\nestablished by the researches of Dr. Meyer of Konigsberg, who discovered\nin the works of an old Hindostanee physician a passage in which tobacco\nis distinctly stated to have been introduced into India by the Frank\nnations in the year 1609.\" (Vide _An Essay on Tobacco_, by H.W. Cleland,\nM.D. 4to. Glasgow, 1840, to which I am indebted for the information\nembodied in this reply to Z.A.Z., and to which I would beg to refer him\nfor much curious matter on the subject of tobacco.)\n\nMy own impression is, that the common use of _hemp_ in the East, for\nintoxicating purposes, from a very early period, has been the cause of\nmuch of the misconception which prevails with regard to the supposed\nante-European employment of \"tobacco, divine, rare, super-excellent\ntobacco,\" in the climes of the East.\n\nJ.M.B.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"JOB'S LUCK,\" BY COLERIDGE.\n\nThese lines (see Vol. ii., p. 102.) are printed in the collected\neditions of the poems of Coleridge. In an edition now before me, 3 vols.\n12mo., Pickering, 1836, they occur at vol. ii. p. 147. As printed in\nthat place, there is one very pointed deviation from the copy derived by\nMr. Singer from the Crypt. The last line of the first stanza runs thus:\n\n  \"_And_ the sly devil did not take his spouse.\"\n\nIn the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for February, 1848, there is a poem by\nColeridge, entitled \"The Volunteer Stripling,\" which I do not find in\nthe collected edition above mentioned. It was contributed to the _Bath\nHerald_, probably in 1803; and stands there with \"S.T. Coleridge\"\nappended in full. The first stanza runs thus:\n\n  \"Yes, noble old warrior! this heart has beat high,\n  When you told of the deeds which our countrymen wrought;\n  O, lend me the sabre that hung by thy thigh,\n  And I too will fight as my forefathers fought.\"\n\nI remember to have read the following version of the epigram descriptive\nof the character of the world some twenty or thirty years ago; but\nwhere, I have forgotten. It seems to me to be a better _text_ than\neither of those given by your correspondents:\n\n  \"Oh, what a glorious world we live in,\n  To lend, to spend, or e'en to give in;\n  But to borrow, to beg, or to come at one's own,\n  'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.\"\n\nJ. Bruce.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nECCIUS DEDOLATUS.\n\nMr. S.W. Singer, for an agreeable introduction to whom I am indebted to\n\"Notes and Queries,\" having expressed a wish (Vol. ii., {157} p. 122.)\n\"to see and peruse\" the rare and amusing satire, entitled _Eccius\ndedolatus, authore Joanne-francisco Cottalembergio, Poeta Laureato_, I\nshall willingly forward to him a quarto volume which contains two copies\nof it, at any time that an opportunity may present itself. In the\nmeanwhile, he may not have any objection to hear that these are copies\nof distinct impressions; neither of them intentionally recording place\nor printer.\n\nFour separate and curious woodcuts decorate the title-page of one\nexemplar, which was certainly printed at Basil, apud Andream Cratandrum.\nThe topmost woodcut, dated 1519, is here misplaced; for it should be at\nthe bottom of the page, in which position it appears when employed to\ngrace the title of the facetious _Responsio_ of Simon Hess to Luther.\nThe second copy is in Gothic letter, and has typographical ornaments\nvery similar to those used at Leipsic in the same year. A peculiar\ncolophon is added in the Basle edition; and after the words \"Impressum\nin Utopia,\" a quondam possessor of the tract, probably its contemporary,\nhas written with indignation, \"Stulte mentiris!\" The duplicate, which I\nsuppose to be of Leipsic origin, concludes with \"Impressum per Agrippun\nPanoplium, Regis Persarum Bibliopolam L. Simone Samaritano et D. Juda\nSchariottide Consulibus, in urbe Lacernarum, apud confluentes Rhenum et\nIstrum.\"\n\nProfessor Ranke, referred to by Mr. Singer, was mistaken in assigning\n\"March, 1520,\" as the date of _Eccius dedolatus_. The terms \"Acta decimo\nKalendas Marcii\" are, I believe, descriptive of Tuesday, the 20th of\nFebruary, in that year.\n\nPerhaps Mr. Singer may be able to communicate some tidings respecting\nthe Apostolic Prothonotary Simon Hess, of whom I have casually spoken.\nNatalis Alexander (_Hist. Eccles._, viii. 105. Paris, 1699) attributes\nthe humorous production which bears his name (\"Lege et ridebis,\"\ndeclares the original title-page) to Luther himself, amongst whose works\nit may be seen (tom. ii, fol. 126-185. Witeb. 1551); and it is a\ndisappointment to read in Seckendorf, \"Hessus _Simon_. Quis hic fuerit,\ncompertum mihi non est.\" (_Scholia sive Supplem ad Ind. i. Histor._,\nsig. 1. 3. _Francof_. 1692.)\n\nR.G.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Hiring of Servants_ (Vol. ii., p. 89.).--It was provided by several old\nstatutes, the first of which was passed in 1349, that all able-bodied\npersons who had no evident means of subsistence should put themselves as\nlabourers to any that would hire them. In the following year were passed\nseveral other acts relating to labourers, by one of which, 25 Edward\nIII. stat. i. c. i., entitled, \"The Year and Day's Wages of Servants and\nLabourers in Husbandry,\" it was enacted that ploughmen and all other\nlabourers should be hired to serve for the full year, or other usual\nterms, and not by the day; and further,\n\n    \"That such labourers do carry openly in their hands, in market\n    towns, their instruments of labour, and be there hired in a\n    public place, and not privately.\"\n\nFor carrying into effect these provisions, it would be necessary to have\ncertain days, and a fixed place set apart for the hiring of servants. In\nthe former particular, no days would be so convenient as feast days:\nthey were well known, and were days commonly computed from; they were,\nbesides, holidays, and days for which labourers were forbidden to\nreceive wages (_see_ 34 Edw. III. c. 10. and 4 Henry IV. c. 14.); so\nthat, although absent from labour, they would lose no part of the scanty\npittances allowed them by act of parliament or settled by justices. As\nto the latter requirement, no place was so public, or would so naturally\nsuggest itself, or be so appropriate, as the market-place.\n\nThus arose in our own land the custom respecting which W.J. makes\ninquiry, and also our statute fairs, or statutes; thus called on account\nof their reference to the various \"Statutes of Labourers.\" I was not\naware that any usage to hire on all festivals (for to such, I take it,\nyour correspondent refers) still existed in England. As to France, I am\nunable to speak; but it is not improbable that a similar custom in that\ncountry may be due to causes nearly similar.\n\nArun.\n\n\n_George Herbert._--J.R. FOX (Vol. ii., p. 103.) will find in Major's\nexcellent edition of Walton's _Lives_ the information he requires. At p.\n346. it is stated that Mrs. Herbert, the widow of George Herbert, was\nafterwards the wife of Sir Robert Cook, of Highnam, in the county of\nGloucester, Knt., eight years, and lived his widow about fifteen; all\nwhich time she took a pleasure in mentioning and commending the\nexcellences of Mr. George Herbert. She died in the year 1653, and lies\nburied at Highnam; Mr. Herbert in his own church, under the altar, and\ncovered with a gravestone without any inscription.\n\nAnd amongst the notes appended by Major to these _Lives_, is the\nfollowing additional notice of Herbert's burial-place. The parish\nregister of Bemerton states that\n\n    \"Mr. George Herbert, Esq., parson of Inggleston and Bemerton,\n    was buried the 3rd day of March, 1632.\"\n\n\"Thus he lived and thus he died,\" says Walton, \"like a saint, unspotted\nof the world, full of almsdeeds, full of humility, and all the examples\nof a virtuous life, which I cannot conclude better than with this\nborrowed observation:\n\n  \"'--All must to their cold graves;\n  But the religious actions of the just\n  Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.'\"\n\nAltered from a dirge written by Shirley, attached {158} to his\n_Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles_, Lond. 1659,\n8vo. See Percy's _Reliques of English Poetry_, vol. i. p. 284.\n\nJ.M.G.\n\nWorcester, July 22.\n\n_Lord Delamere_ (Vol. ii., p. 104.).--In Mr. Thomas Lyte's _Ancient\nBallads and Songs_, 12mo. 1827, is a ballad, taken down from tradition,\nentitled _Lord Delamere_. It begins as follows, and though different\nfrom the opening lines given by Mr. Peacock, I am inclined to think that\nit is another version of the same ballad:\n\n  In the parliament house,\n  A great rout has been there,\n  Betwixt our good king\n  And the Lord Delamere;\n  Says Lord Delamere\n  To his Majesty full soon,\n  Will it please you, my liege,\n  To grant me a boon?\n\nAfter nine more stanzas, the editor remarks,\n\n    \"We have not, as yet, been able to trace out the historical\n    incident upon which the ballad appears to have been founded, yet\n    those curious in such matters may consult, if they list,\n    _Proceedings and Debates in the House of Commons for 1621 and\n    1622_, where they will find that some stormy debatings in these\n    several years have been agitated in Parliament regarding the\n    corn laws, which bear pretty close upon the leading features of\n    the above.\"\n\nEdward F. Rimbault.\n\n_Execution of Charles I._ (Vol. ii., p. 72.).--P.S.W.E. is referred to\n_An exact and most impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment,\nTrial, and Judgment (according to law), of twenty-nine Regicides, &c._,\n1660.\n\nTherein he will find minutes of the trial and _conviction_ of one\n\"William Hulett, alias Howlett,\" on the charge of having struck \"the\nfatal blow.\" How far the verdict was consistent with the evidence (or,\nindeed, the whole proceedings of that court with the modern sense of\njustice), abler judges than I have long since determined.\n\nOn behalf of the prisoner Hulett, witnesses (\"not to be admitted upon\noath against the king\") deposed that the common hangman, Richard\nBrandon, had frequently confessed (though he had also denied) that _he_\nhad beheaded the king. One of these depositions, that of William Cox, is\nso remarkable that I am induced to transcribe it. If it be true,\n\"Matfelonensis\" is certainly justified in saying, \"We need hardly\nquestion that Richard Brandon was the executioner.\"\n\n    \"_William Cox_ examined.\n\n    \"When my Lord Capell, Duke Hamilton, and the Earl of Holland,\n    were beheaded in the Palace-yard, in Westminster, my Lord Capell\n    asked the common hangman, said he, 'Did you cut off my master's\n    head?' 'Yes,' saith he. 'Where is the instrument that did it?'\n    He then brought the ax. 'Is this the same ax; are you sure?'\n    said my Lord. 'Yes, my Lord,' saith the hangman, 'I am very sure\n    it is the same.' My Lord Capell took the ax and kissed it, and\n    gave him five pieces of gold. I heard him say, 'Sirrah, wert\n    thou not afraid?' Saith the hangman, 'They made me cut it off,\n    and I had thirty pound for my pains.'\"\n\nWilliam Franks Mathews.\n\n_Charade_ (Vol. ii., p. 120.).--I think I can answer Mr. Gatty's Query\nas to the authorship of the charade in question. A schoolfellow of mine\nat Charterhouse wrote the following:\n\n  \"What's that which all love more than life,\n  Fear more than death or mortal strife;\n  That which contented men desire,\n  The poor possess, the rich require,\n  The miser spends, the spendthrift saves,\n  And all men carry to their graves?\"\n\nThis was taken from the original copy, and it was certainly his own\ninvention while at school, and was written about five years ago. I have\nnot seen him since, and do not like therefore to give his name.\n\nWhile on the subject of charades, can any of your correspondents inform\nme of either the authorship or the answer of the following:\n\n  \"Sir Hilary charged at Agincourt--\n  Sooth! 'twas a fearful day!\n  The Rufflers of the camp and court\n  Had little time to pray.\n  'Tis said Sir Hilary utter'd there\n  Two syllables, by way of prayer--\n  The first to all the young and proud\n  Who'll see to-morrow's sun;\n  The next, with its cold and quiet cloud,\n  To those who'll meet a dewy shroud\n  Before to-day's is gone:\n  And both together to all bright eyes,\n  That weep when a warrior nobly dies.\"\n\nI quote from recollection, so perhaps have omitted part, but believe it\nto be pretty correct. I heard it at the same time as the one quoted in\nNo. 31., and believe both to be hoaxes, as no answer I have heard\n(including that given in No. 35.) can be considered satisfactory. The\nformer charade was attributed at the time to the late Archbishop of\nCanterbury, and it was reported that a reward of 100l. was promised for\nthe correct answer, and I know that a clergyman sent him an answer with\nthat belief. Among the answers suggested was \"Tapir,\" taken in its\nvarious significations, which I think was as near the mark as \"Church,\"\nas given in No. 35.\n\nI have never heard any answer suggested to Sir Hilary's dissyllabic\nprayer.\n\nB.H.C.\n\n_Discursus Modestus_ (Vol. i., pp. 142. 205.).--Such of your readers as\nhave been making inquiries and suggestions respecting _Discursus\nModestus_ will {159} be glad to hear that a copy exists in the British\nMuseum. Its title is as follows:\n\n    \"A Sparing Discoverie of ovr English Iesuits, and of Fa.\n    Parson's proceedings vnder pretence of promoting the Catholick\n    Faith in England: for a caueat to all true Catholicks, ovr very\n    louing brethren and friends, how they embrace such very\n    uncatholike, though Iesuiticall deseignments. Eccles. 4. _Vidi\n    calumnias qu\u00e6 sub sole geruntur, et lachrymas innocentium, et\n    neminem consolatorem_.--Newly imprinted, 1601.\"\n\nAt the end of the Preface are the initials W.W., making it clear that\nWatson, the author of _Important Considerations_ and the _Quodlibets_,\nwas the writer, and accounting for the connection which seemed to exist\nbetween the _Discursus_ and the _Quodlibets_.\n\nThe two passages quoted by Bishop Andrewes (_Resp. ad Apol._ pp. 7.\n117.) are to be found in p. 13. But the question now arises, from what\nearlier book the quotations are taken, as they both appear in the\n_Sparing Discovery_ in Latin, and not in English? Did the Jesuits\npublish a work containing such statements? or are we to accept them as\ntheir opinions only on the authority of so bitter an opponent as Watson?\n\nJames Bliss.\n\n\"_Rapido contrarius orbi_\" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in one of the finest\npassages in Ovid:\n\n  \"Nitor in adversum nec me qui c\u00e6tera vincit\n  Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi.\"\n\nC.B.\n\n_\"Isabel\" and \"Elizabeth.\"_--At pages 439. and 488. of Vol. i., \"Notes\nand Queries,\" are questions and answers on the names of \"Isabel\" and\n\"Elizabeth.\"\n\nThe following, from the _Epigrammaton Joannis Dunbari_, Lond. 1616, may\namuse some of your readers:\n\n  \"AD. FREDERICUM PRINCIPEM PALATIN. RH.\n\n  \"Selectam Elector sibi quando elegit Elisam:\n  Ver\u00e8 Electoris nomine dignus erat.\"\n\n  \"AD ELISHABETHAM EIUS SPONSAM.\n\n  \"El Deus est, ish vir, requiem Beth denique donat:\n  Hine merit\u00f2 Elisabeth nobile nomen habet.\n  Scilicet illa Deo est motore, et Principe primo,\n  Principis una sui lausque, quiesque viri.\"\n\nScotus.\n\n_Hanap_ (Vol. i., p. 477.).--\"A cup raised on a stem, either with or\nwithout a cover.\" (_Arch. Journ._ vol. ii. 1846, p. 263., where may be\nfound an interesting account of old drinking vessels, &c., many of them\ncuriously named.)\n\nJarltzberg.\n\n_Cold Harbour_ (Vol. ii., p. 60.).--There is a place bearing that\ndesignation at Gosport, running along side of Portsmouth harbour,\nbetween the town of Gosport and the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard. I\nam at present aware of none other.\n\nJ.R. Fox.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISCELLANEOUS\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.\n\nThe \"Percy Society\" has just issued _The Anglo-Saxon Passion of St.\nGeorge_, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library. It is a\nwork highly creditable to the Society; and in the interesting\nIntroduction prefixed to it by the Editor, the Rev. C. Hardwick, M.A.,\nFellow of St. Catharine's Hall, he has gratified our national prejudices\nby showing the favour which the Saint from whom we take\n\n    \"Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George\"\n\nenjoyed in England before the Norman Conquest. Mr. Hardwick's brief\nnotice of the Anglo-Saxon allusions to Saint George is complete and most\nsatisfactory.\n\nMessrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, will sell, on Tuesday\nand Wednesday next, the Miscellaneous Collections of the late Rev. J.\nSundius Stamp, including several thousand Autograph Letters of ever\nperiod and class. We need scarcely add that the autographs are classed\nand catalogued with Messrs. P. and S.'s usual tact.\n\nWe have received the following catalogues:--Bernard Quaritch's (16.\nCastle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue of Italian and French Books;\nWilliam Brown's (130. and 131. Old Street, St. Luke's) Catalogue of\nBooks connected with Wesleyan Methodism.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES\n\nWANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\nTHE NEWE LIFE OF VIRGINEA, DECLARING THE FORMER SUCCESSE AND PRESENT\nSTATE OF THAT PLANTATION; being the Second Part of Nova Britannia.\nPublished by the Authoritie of His Majestie's Councell of Virginea.\nLondon; imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for William Welby, dwelling at the\nSigne of the Swan in Paul's Churchyard. 1612.\n\n[A liberal price will be given for a copy in good condition.]\n\nLetters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be\nsent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of \"NOTES AND QUERIES,\" 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNotices to Correspondents\n\nVolume the First of Notes and Queries, _with Title-page and very copious\nIndex, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by\norder, of all Booksellers and Newsmen_.\n\n_The Monthly Part for July, being the second of Vol. II., is also now\nready, price 1s_.\n\n_Our valued Correspondent at Cambridge is assured that we could afford\nsome a satisfactory explanation of the several points referred to in his\nfriendly remonstrance._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCAMBRIAN ARCH\u00c6OLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.\n\nTHE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING will be held at DOLGELLAU, August 26th to\n31st, 1850.\n\n_President_.--W.W.E. Wynne, Esq., F.S.A. John Williams, Llanymowddwy,\nMallwyd, W. Basil Jones, Gwynfryn, Machynileth, _General Secretaries_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nROCHEFOUCAULD'S MAXIMS, WITH NOTES.\n\nJust published, in Fcp. 8vo. 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PARLIAMENT STREET.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrinted by Thomas Clark Shaw, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New\nStreet Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and\npublished by George Bell, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St.\nDunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, August 3. 1850.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":13615}