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REPLIES:-- The Black Rood of Scotland 409 Replies to Minor Queries:--Haemony--Byron's Birthplace--Modena Family--Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks--Gaudentio di Lucca--Weights for weighing Coins--Mrs. Partington--The East-Anglican Word "Mauther"--Cheshire Cat--"Thompson of Esholt"--Minar's Book of Antiquities--Croziers and Pastoral Staves--Socinian Boast--MSS. of Locke--Sir Wm. Grant--Tristan d'Acunha--Arabic Numerals--Luther's Hymns--Bolton's Ace--Hopkins the Witchfinder--Sir Richard Steel--Ale-draper--George Herbert--Notaries Public--Tobacconists--Vineyards 410
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 414 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 415 Notices to Correspondents 415 Advertisements 415
NOTES.
The double character of Wolsey drawn by Queen Katherine and her attendant, is a piece of vigorous writing of which any other author but Shakspeare might have been proud; and the celebrated farewell of the Cardinal, with his exhortation to Cromwell, only wants that quickening, that vital something which the poet could have breathed into it, to be truly and almost incomparably great.
"Our own conviction is that Shakspeare wrote a portion only of this play.
At the same time I made the following notes from Coleridge:--
It is a branch of the subject which I have not yet fully considered; but MR. SPEDDING will observe that the view I take does not interfere with the supposition that Fletcher revised the play, with additions for its revival in 1613; a task for the performance of which he would probably have the consent of his early master.
SAMUEL HICKSON.
On this account, and on other accounts, the ballad addressed to Geoffrey Chaucer by Eustache Deschamps deserves repetition. Its text requires to be established, in order that we may be aware of its real obscurities--for no future memoir of Chaucer can be considered as complete, without some reference to it.
"BALLADE IN?DITE ADRESS?E A GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAR EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS.
L'ENVOY.
The new readings are in Italics, and I shall now repeat them with the corresponding words as printed by sir Harris Nicolas:--
After such an exhibition of various readings, arising out of only two copies of the same manuscript, it is evident that a re-collation of it is very desirable, and I am sure the result would be thankfully received by the numerous admirers of Chaucer.
BOLTON CORNEY.
And the editor adds:
His poems were published for the first time in one vol. 8vo., in 1832, by M. Crapelet, with this title:
D.C.
NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
FOLK LORE.
Is anything known on the subject?
A.D.B.
Abingdon, Nov. 1850.
A.D.N.
Abingdon, Nov. 1850.
MINOR NOTES.
"So she went into the garden to pick a cabbage leaf, to make an apple-pie of; and a she-bear, coming up the street, put her head into the shop, and said 'Do you sell any soap?' So she died, and he very imprudently married the barber; and the powder fell out of the counsellor's wig, and poor Mrs. Mackay's puddings were quite entirely spoilt; and there were present the Garnelies, and the Goblilies, and the Picninnies, and the Great Pangendrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they played at the ancient game of 'Catch who catch can,' till the gunpowder ran out of the heels of their boots."
"The ring-dial was the hedge-schoolmaster's next best substitute for a watch. As it is possible that a great number of our readers may never have heard of--much less seen one, we shall in a word or two describe it--nothing indeed could be more simple. It was a bright brass ring, about three quarters of an inch broad, and two inches and a half in diameter. There was a small hole in it, which, when held opposite the sun, admitted the light against the inside of the ring behind. On this were marked the hours and the quarters, and the time was known by observing the hour or the quarter on which the slender ray, that came in from the hole in front, fell."
J.M.B.
Yet, with all deference to the edifying letters of this missionary jesuit, it is difficult to make such distant ends meet. It almost requires a copula like that of the fool, who, to reconcile his lord's assertion that he had with a single bullet shot a deer in the ear and the hind foot, explained that the deer was scratching his ear at the time with his foot.
MANLEIUS.
"De deck being called for dey play'd, Till Larry found one of dem cheated,"
it seems likely to be preserved. I may add, that many words and many forms of expression which have gone out of vogue in England, or have become provincial, are still in daily use in Ireland.
J.M.B.
A.W.H.
On his restoration Du Gard pleasantly retorted,--
"Du Gardum sequitur Stephanus, Stephanumque vicissim, Du Gardus: sortes versat utrinque DEUS."
M.W.
QUERIES.
DRYDEN'S "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL."
"ADVERTISEMENT.
"To prevent the publicks being impos'd on, this is to give notice that the book lately published in 4to. is very imperfect and uncorrect, in so much that above thirty lines are omitted in several places, and many gross errors committed, which pervert the sense."
THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.
N.B. A short "Key" follows the usual address "To the Reader."
MINOR QUERIES.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
And is the following a correct list of English Cardinals since Wolsey, who died in 1530?
Both the latter were born abroad, the former at Naples, the latter at Seville; but they were born of British subjects, and were brought to England at an early age to be educated. The Cardinal of York was born in Rome; but being of the royal family of England, was always styled the Cardinal of England.
G.W.
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