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Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Vol. V Number 132 May 8 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
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On Sir Robert Peel, and his Claims to be remembered by the Literary Men of England 433
NOTES:--
Sitting in Bede's Chair, by Cuthbert Bede 434
Inedited Poetry, by W. Sparrow Simpson 435
Folk Lore:--Sites of Buildings mysteriously changed--Burning the Bush--Essex Superstition 436
Old Song, "Not long ago I drank a full Pot" 437
Minor Notes:--Boston and Bunker's Hill--Snooks--Last Slave sold in England--Hoax on Sir Walter Scott 438
QUERIES:--
Irish Queries 439
Minor Queries:--The Azores--Johnny Crapaud--Poems in the "Spectator"--Old John Harries, "Bishop of Wales"--University Hood--Black Rood in Scotland; Cross Neytz--Crown Jewels once kept at Holt Castle--"Cane Decane," &c.--Rev. John Meekins, D.D.--Finsbury Manor--Frebord--The Stature of Queen Elizabeth--Portrait of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough--Inscription by Luther--"O Juvenis frustra," &c.--All-fours--Richard, second Son of the Conqueror--Francis Walkinghame--Optical Phenomenon 439
REPLIES:--
Scottish Regalia 443
Gospel Oaks, by Professor Theodore Goedes 444
Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger 444
Lords Marchers of Wales, by E. Smirke 445
Doctrine of the Resurrection 446
Can a Clergyman marry himself? 446
Replies to Minor Queries:--Algernon Sydney--Cock-and-Bull Stories--Thomas Crawford--Longevity--Theological Tract: The Huntyng of the Romish Fox--Moke--Ground Ice--Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley--House at Welling--Constable of Scotland--The Iron Plate in Lewes Castle--Chelwoldesbury--"The King's Booke"--Key Experiments--Rhymes on Places--Old Scots March, &c.--Ecclesiastical Geography--"Please the Pigs"--The Word Shunt--Plato's Lines in "Antho. Palat."--Abigail--Nuremberg Token--Meaning of Lode--Mother Damnable--Monuments of De la Beche Family--Coke and Cowper--Monumental Portraits--Motto on Chimney-piece--"Ve d?l am daro"--White-livered--Enigmatical Epitaphs--Pelican in her Piety, &c. 447
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 454
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 454
Notices to Correspondents 454
Advertisements 455
SIR ROBERT PEEL, AND HIS CLAIMS TO BE REMEMBERED BY THE LITERARY MEN OF ENGLAND.
The perusal of this interesting passage has reminded us of a desire which we felt most strongly at the time when the country lost the distinguished man to whom it relates; and which we should then have given expression to, but for the fear that in the multitude of projects for doing honour to his memory then floating before the public eye, what we had to propose might not be received in the way which his merits deserved.
Sir Robert Peel was pre-eminently a patron of English Literature and literary men; and we hoped, and do still hope, to see a recognition of his great claims in that special character on the part of the men of letters in this country. The most appropriate that occurs to us would be the erection of his bust or statue in the vestibule of that national establishment, in the welfare and management of which he always took so great an interest--we mean the British Museum.
Notes.
SITTING IN BEDE'S CHAIR.
One of the most interesting antiquities of Jarrow Church, Northumberland, is the chair of the Venerable Bede. It is preserved in the vestry of the church, whither all brides repair as soon as the marriage service is over, to seat themselves upon it. This, according to the popular belief, will make them the joyful mothers of children; and the expectant mothers would not consider the marriage ceremony complete, until they had been enthroned in the Venerable Bede's chair. The chair is very rude and substantial; made of oak; in height, four feet ten inches; having an upright back, and sides that slope off for the arms. According to the barbarous English fashion, it is carved over with the nomenclature of all the vulgar obscurities of the neighbourhood, whose sacrilegious penknives, together with the wanton depredations of relic-hunters, have so "shorn" the chair of its "fair proportions," that soon nothing but its attenuated form, "small by degrees, and beautifully less," will be left for the future Childe Harold to address with--
"Can it be, That this is all remains of thee?"
CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.
CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.
INEDITED POETRY.
"A BALLAD.
"Sure glorious Modesty again will rise, Since she can conquer in bright Marcia's eyes. Each look of hers creates a lambent fire, And youth and age concur her virtue to admire. Hence flow these lines from an unpolish'd hand, Which thinks her Marcia should the world command. Go, lovely maid, and let each virgin see How graceful modesty appears in thee. That they may all thy imitators be, And give example to posterity.
"How gentle is her voice, Not loud with foul detraction, Good sense guides all her words, And prudence every action. Not stiff in dress, or careless she, But in the graceful mean, What e'er she wears she still appears Like some majestic queen.
"Her mind and thoughts still tends How to perform her duty; To her parents' laws she bends, Which adds more to her beauty. In conduct she a matron is With cheerful air and mein, The steddiness of sixty years, In look she's scarce fifteen.
"In friendship most sincere, As well as in devotion, To herself alone severe, And guards her every motion. Her conquering eyes give her no pride, Her charms she will not know, Nor meaner beautys does deride , Tho' they their envy show.
"How lovely is that face Where modesty's adorning, And Marcia with that grace Is improving every morning. She like the glorious sun in spring Is encreasing every day, For her Apollo's harp he'll string, And the Muses sing their lay.
"How happy is this nymph, Whose noble inclination, All subtle arts contemns And sligh made assignation: Whose hours are spent in useful works, Or reading tracts divine, The young, the grave, the wise, the brave, Pay homage at her shrine. And so does Her humble slave,
"JUBA ISSHAM."
I hope that some of your readers will be able to explain this signature, which is to me inexplicable.
W. SPARROW SIMPSON.
Dr. Johnson long since observed that "there is perhaps not one of Shakspeare's plays more darkened than this by the peculiarities of its author, and the unskilfulness of its editors, by distortions of phrase, or negligence of transcription."
Under these circumstances we cannot be surprised that we are favoured with three pages of notes on the following passage, which occurs in the opening scene:
I must refer those who are desirous of seeing the various attempts to extract a meaning from this passage to the Variorum Edition, and content myself with those of the two latest editors, Mr. Collier and Mr. Knight.
Mr. Collier says:
"This passage is evidently corrupt, as is shown both by the metre and the sense. The latter will be cleared by the omission of the preposition 'to:' 'then no more remains , but that your sufficiency, as your worth is able, and let them work.' This change, however, will only partially cure the defective measure; and even were we to omit 'that,' as well as 'to,' the line would not be perfect without reducing 'sufficiency' to a trisyllable. It has been thought best, therefore, to leave the text as it stands in the first folio. 'Sufficiency' is adequate authority."
Mr. Knight says:
"We encounter at the onset one of the obscure passages for which this play is remarkable. The text is usually printed thus:
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