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Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Vol. IV Number 93 August 9 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
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"Yarrow, sweet yarrow, the first that I have found, And in the name of Jesus I pluck it from the ground. As Joseph loved sweet Mary, and took her for his dear, So in a dream this night, I hope my true love will appear."
Sleep with the yarrow under the pillow.
J. M.
J. M.
Minor Notes.
"An old Record. J. H. W...... Birch Hill, May, 1844."
R. H.
J. O. M.
"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces."
And that Goldsmith says:
JAMES CORNISH.
Queries.
ON A SONG IN SCOTT'S PIRATE--"FIRE ON THE MAINTOP."
"'Fire on the quarter-deck, Fire on the bow, Fire on the gun-deck, Fire down below!'
"The last line is given by all hands with great vim and volume; and as for the chorus itself, you will never meet or pass a boat, you will never behold the departure or arrival of one, and you will never witness a New Orleans fire, without hearing it."
"'Thus said the Rover To his gallant crew, Up with the black flag, Down with the blue! Fire on the main-top, Fire on the bow, Fire on the gun-deck, Fire down below!'"
So run the lines in the original edition, but in the revised one of the collected novels in forty-eight volumes, and in all the subsequent ones, the first two stand thus:
"Robin Rover Said to his crew."
"From a neighbouring thicket of shrubs, amongst which his visitor had disappeared, he heard her chant a verse of a comic song, then much in fashion, concerning a despairing lover who had recourse to a precipice.
"'But when he came near, Beholding how steep The sides did appear, And the bottom how deep; Though his suit was rejected He sadly reflected, That a lover forsaken A new love may get; But a neck that's once broken Can never be set.'"
"Distracted with care For Phyllis the fair, Since nothing could move her, Poor Damon, her lover, Resolves in despair No longer to languish, Nor bear so much anguish; But, mad with his love, To a precipice goes, Where a leap from above Would soon finish his woes.
"When in rage he came there, Beholding how steep The sides did appear, And the bottom how deep, His torments projecting, And sadly reflecting That a lover forsaken," &c. &c. &c.
In this instance it is shown that Sir Walter was not indebted for the comic song to his wonderful genius, but to his stupendous memory; and it is just possible that it may be so in the other, in which case one would be very glad to see the remainder of the "old ditty."
T. W.
Minor Queries.
I should be extremely obliged to any of your learned correspondents who would bring the faintest ray of evidence to bear upon this obscure question.
J. E.
Oxford, Aug. 2. 1851.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
J. B. J.
Liverpool, July 28. 1851.
What is the meaning of the word "Curol," supposing Cole to have used it aright?
C. DE D.
JAMES GRAVES.
Kilkenny, July 19. 1851.
It would be satisfactory perhaps to many of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES," as well as to myself, to know whether any gentleman possesses a copy of the work with such a plan.
H. T. E.
Clyst St. George.
J. E.
Oxford, July 29.
E. M. B.
It is well known that the Bible Society keeps on its shelves both the Protestant and Roman Catholic versions of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Its endeavours at present are, I believe, confined to attempting to circulate the Roman Catholic versions, on the ground that it is impossible to circulate the more correct Protestant ones. My Queries are:--
E. M. B.
"Dogmatism is nothing but puppyism come to its full growth."
"If a churle or a countryman so thrived that hee had fully five hides of his owne land, a church, and a kitchen, a bel-house, a borough-gate with a seate, and any distinct office in the king's court, then was he henceforth of equall honour or dignitie with a Thane."
I beg to ask whether the existing knowledge of the details of Saxon architecture substantiates Selden's view; and whether this bell was also the alarum-bell of the castle, hanging in an outside turret?
Many thanks to my correspondent, and to "NOTES AND QUERIES" for the introduction to his notice.
ALFRED GATTY.
Minor Queries Answered.
BENBOW.
Birmingham.
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