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NOTES:-- Meaning of Delighted as used by Shakspeare, by S. Hickson Authors of "The Rolliad," by Lord Braybrooke Notes on Milton Derivation of Easter, by J. Sansom Folk Lore--Passages of Death, by Dr. Guest--Divination at Marriages Francis Lenton the Poet, by Dr. Rimbault Minor Notes:--Lilburn or Prynne--Peep of Day--Martinet-- Guy's Porridge Pot QUERIES:-- Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding, by John Miland Stukeley's "Stonehenge," by Henry Cunliffe Athelstane's Form of Donation--Meaning of "Somagia," by J. Sansom Minor Queries:--Charade--"Smoke Money"--"Rapido contrarius orbi"--Lord Richard Christophilus-- Fiz gigs--Specimens of Erica in Bloom--Michael Scott the Wizard--Stone Chalices REPLIES:-- Ulrich von Hutten and the "Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum," by S.W. Singer Caxton's Printing-office, by J.G. Nichols The New Temple Strangers in the House of Commons Replies to Minor Queries:--Morganatic Marriage-- Umbrellas--Bands--Scarf--Jewish Music--North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated--"Men are but Children" &c.--Ventriloquism--Cromwell's Estates --Magor--Vincent Gookin--All-to brake MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. Books and Odd Volumes Wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements
NOTES.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "DELIGHTED," AS SOMETIMES USED BY SHAKSPEARE.
Now, if we examine the construction of this passage, we shall find that it appears to have been the object of the writer to separate, and place in juxtaposition with each other, the conditions of the body and the spirit, each being imagined under circumstances to excite repulsion or terror in a sentient being. The mind sees the former lying in "cold obstruction," rotting, changed from a "sensible warm motion" to a "kneaded clod," every circumstance leaving the impression of dull, dead weight, deprived of force and motion. The spirit, on the other hand, is imagined under circumstances that give the most vivid picture conceivable of utter powerlessness:
"Imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world."
I am less inclined to entertain any doubt of the view I have taken being correct, from the confirmation it receives in another passage of Shakspeare, which runs as follows:
There is yet another instance in Cymbeline, which seems to bear a similar construction:
Act v. Sc. 4.
The word appears to have had a distinct value of its own, and is not to be explained by any other single word. If this be so, it could hardly have been coined by Shakspeare. Though, possibly, it may never have been much used, perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to furnish other instances from other writers.
SAMUEL HICKSON.
St. John's Wood.
Rose Dr. Laurence. The Liars General Fitzpatrick. Margaret Nicholson Mr. Adair. Charles Jenkinson George Ellis. Jekyl Lord John Townshend.
I am not certain whether Mr. Adair, to whom "Margaret Nicholson," one of the happiest of the Political Eclogues, is attributed, is the present Sir Robert Adair. If so, as the only survivor amongst his literary colleagues, he might furnish some interesting particulars respecting the remarkable work to which I have called your attention.
BRAYBROOKE.
Audley End, July, 1850.
NOTES ON MILTON.
On l. 8 :--
"Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover'd, Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue; They make no noise, but right resemble may Th' unnumber'd moats that in the sun-beams play."
"My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous."
Act iv. Sc. 8.
--Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33.
On l. 39. The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is from Donne:--
"If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not embarred."
On l. 43. :--
"That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly."
On l. 52. :--
"Mounted aloft on Contemplation's wings."
Drummond has given "golden wings" to Fame.
On l. 88. :--
Hermes Trismegistus.
On l. 100. :--
"Tyrants' bloody gests Of Thebes, Mycenae, or proud Ilion."
On l. 23. :--
"And without respect of odds, Vye renown with Demy-gods."
On l. 27. :--
"But yet, whate'er he do or can devise, Disguised glory shineth in his eyes."
On l. 46. :--
On l. 65. Compare Drunmond--speech of Endymion before Charles:--
"To tell by me, their herald, coming things, And what each Fate to her stern distaff sings," &c.
On l. 84. :--
"And with his beams enamel'd every greene."
On l. 97. :--
"Those brooks with lilies bravely deck't."
On l. 106. :--
"Pan entertains, this coming night, His paramour, the Syrinx bright."
J.F.M.
DERIVATION OF EASTER.
J. SANSOM.
FOLK LORE.
The most ancient, as well as the most striking instance, is recorded in the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis:--
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