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Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Vol. V Number 117 January 24 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
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"How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! In apprehension how like a god!"
Let us be thankful we have fallen to better times.
It is only by the occurrence of such difficulties as the present, which, after remaining so long obscure, are at last only resolvable by presupposing in Shakspeare a depth of knowledge far exceeding that of his triflers, that his wonderful and almost mysterious attainments are beginning to be appreciated.
Can there remain a doubt, therefore, that Shakspeare intended the passage to read as follows, which, requiring neither addition nor alteration of the text as transmitted to us--saving one slight change of "as stars" into "asters,"--must be perfectly intelligible to every reader, especially if accompanied by the simple note of explanation which I subjoin to it:--
"In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets Asters with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun, and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands, Was sick almost to dooms-day with eclipse."
A. E. B.
Leeds.
FOLK LORE.
ALFRED GATTY.
"Lent Crock, give a pancake, Or a fritter, for my labour, Or a dish of flour, or a piece of bread, Or what you please to render. I see by the latch, There's something to catch; I see by the string, There's a good dame within. Trap, trapping throw, Give me my mumps, and I'll be go" .
The above is the most popular version, and the one indigenous to the place; but there is another set, which was introduced some few years ago by a late schoolmistress, who was a native of another part of the county, where her version was customary:
"Shrove-tide is nigh at hand, And we are come a-shroving; Pray, Dame, give something, An apple, or a dumpling, Or a piece of crumple cheese, Of your own making; Or a piece of pancake. Trip, trapping, throw; Give me my mumps, and I'll be go."
PHILIP HEDGELAND.
Bridestowe, Okehampton.
R. R.
GOLDSMITH'S PAMPHLET ON THE COCK LANE GHOST.
"The Mystery Revealed, containing a Series of Transactions and Authentic Memorials respecting the Supposed Cock Lane Ghost. Printed for W. Bristow in St. Paul's Church Yard;"
but which Mr. Prior had not been able to meet with, might possibly be the pamphlet purchased by Newbery, as he had occasional connexion with Bristow, his neighbour.
I have a copy of the pamphlet in question which indeed, as far as I can find, is the only one published at the time which can at all answer to the description of the one sold by Newbery. On a careful examination I am disposed to attribute it to Goldsmith. It contains thirty-four pages, and gives a full narrative of this extraordinary imposture. The beginning and conclusion, though evidently written in haste, are not without marks of Goldsmith's serious and playful manner. The amount paid seems to agree with Newbery's general scale of remuneration to Goldsmith, the length of the pamphlet being considered; and the types employed appear to be similar to those used in some of Newbery's publications at the same period. On the whole I consider that in a new edition of Goldsmith's works this pamphlet, which is additionally interesting, as a record of a famous imposture, ought to find a place.
JAS. CROSSLY.
Minor Notes.
"In commemoration of the 12th Feb. 1808, on which DAY, directly eastward of this spot, the FIRST LIFE was saved from SHIPWRECK, by means of a rope attach'd to a shot propelled by the force of gunpowder over the stranded vessel. A method now universally adopted, and to which at least 1000 sailors of different nations owe their preservation. 1842."
W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.
CLERICUS .
Queries.
Minor Queries.
Walpole, who was familiar from childhood with the events of the courts of the first three Georges, is likely to have been accurate as to the identity of Konigsmark; but his occasional mistakes and misrepresentations, as we are aware, have been frequently exposed by Mr. Croker.
J. H. MARKLAND.
"O Leoline! be absolutely just, Indulge no passion and betray no trust. Never let man be bold enough to say Thus and no farther shall my passion stray. The first step past still leads us on to more, And guilt proves fate which was but choice before."
Who is the author of the above?
H. B. C.
The family is an ancient one, and in the reign of Elizabeth of considerable literary distinction.
J. L.
L. H. L. T.
"Poets beware; never compare Women to aught in earth or in air," &c.
E. F. L.
W. J. C.
St. Lucia.
W. DN.
W. E.
C. W. G.
SEPTIMUS.
Buntingford, Hertfordshire.
"??????? ?????????: The Shadow of the Tree of Life; or a Discourse of the Divine Institution and most Effectual Application of Medicinal Remedies, in order to the Preservation and Restoration of Health, by J. M. London, 1673."
"A. D. S. Mia vita ? il sol: Dell' uom la vita ? Dio, Senza esso ? l'uom, qual senza sol son' io."
What signification has A. D. S.?
L. S.
P. C. S. S.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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