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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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"We encounter at the onset one of the obscure passages for which this play is remarkable. The text is usually printed thus:
"'Then no more remains But that to your sufficiency, as your worth is able, And let them work.'
"It is certainly difficult to extract a clear meaning from this; and so Theobald and Hanmer assume that a line has dropped out, which they kindly restore to us, each in his own way. The emendation which Steevens proposes is much less forced: 'Then' , 'no more remains to say,
"'But your sufficiency as your worth is able, And let them work.'
S. W. SINGER.
FOLK LORE.
In support of this tradition, there is the figure of a pig sculptured on the tower of the church, just above the western entrance; and also the following Latin doggerel:
"Hic locus, Oswalde, quondam placuit tibi valde; Northanhumbrorum fueras Rex, nuncque Polorum Regna tenes, loco passus Marcelde vocato."
May not the phrase "Please the pigs" have originated in the above tradition, since the founder of Winwick Church was obliged to succumb to the pleasure of his porkish majesty?
Instances of equally marvellous changes in the sites of buildings are recorded in Bede, and other monkish writers. Perhaps it would not be difficult to unravel the mystery of such changes.
W. H. K.
J. B. ROBINSON.
Belper.
I have learned that the superstition about the bees deserting their hives on the death of one of their owner's family, is common in the same county. A lady tells me, that calling upon some poor people who lived at Hyde Green, near Ingatestone, she inquired after the bees. The old woman of the house replied, "They have all gone away since the death of poor Dick; for we forgot to knock at the hives, and tell them he was gone dead."
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
OLD SONG, "NOT LONG AGO I DRANK A FULL POT."
I send another old song; and, as in the case of the "Cuckold's Cap," I would ask is it known?
Not long ago I drank a full pot, Full of sack up to the brim, I drank to my friend, and he drank his pot, Thus we put about the whim. Six bottles at a draught he pour'd down his throat; But what are such puny sips as these? I laid me all along, with my mouth unto the bung, And I drank up a hogshead to the lees.
I have heard of one who drank whole tankards, And styl'd himself the Prince of Sots; But what are such poor puny drunkards? Melt their tankards, break their pots. My friend and I did join for a cellar full of wine, We drank the vintner out of door, We drank it ev'ry drop, one morning at the tap, And we greedily star'd about for more.
My friend then to me made this motion, Don't let's part thus with dry lips; With that we sail'd upon the ocean, Where we met with a fleet of ships; All laden with wine which was superfine, The merchants they had ten thousand tun, We drank it all at sea, before they reach'd the quay, And the merchants swore they were all undone.
"Pooh!" says one, "what a beast he makes himself, He can neither stand nor go!" "Sir," said I, "that's a grand mistake of yours, For when did you ever know a beast drink so? 'Tis when we drink the least, we drink the most like beasts; 'Tis when we carouse with six in hand; 'Tis then and only then, we drink about like men, When we drink 'till we neither can go nor stand."
J. R. R.
Minor Notes.
J. S. WARDEN.
G. W. J.
"FOR SALE:
"A healthy negro girl, aged about fifteen years; speaks good English, works at her needle, washes well, does household work, and has had the small-pox."
SAXONICUS.
"A witty rogue, the other day, who sent me a letter subscribed 'Detector,' proved me guilty of stealing a passage from one of Vida's Latin poems, which I had never seen or heard of; yet there was so strong a general resemblance as fairly to authorise 'Detector's' suspicion."
Lockhart remarks thereupon:
"'When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!'
"end as follows: and it must be owned that if Vida had really written them, a more extraordinary example of casual coincidence could never have been pointed out.
"'Cum dolor atque supercilio gravis imminet angor, Fungeris angelico sola ministerio.'
W. T. M.
Hong Kong.
Queries.
IRISH QUERIES.
Any one desiring to report the books wanted, to be so kind as to do so in "N. & Q."
MAC AN BHAIRD.
Minor Queries.
J. O'G.
PHILIP S. KING.
J. G. F.
St. Asaph.
J. G. F.
"In the priory of Lanrecost, in the diocese of Carlisle, before W. Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry, the King's Chancellor; and in the presence of Adomar de Valence."
J. T. A.
J. B. WHITBORNE.
"Cane Decane canis; sed ne cane, cane Decane, De cane, de canis, cane Decane, cane."
Which may be thus freely translated:
"Hoary Deacon, sing; but then, Not of dogs, but hoary men."
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