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"Levommi il mio pensiero in parte ov' era Quello eh' io cerco, e non ritrovo in terra; ... in questa spera Sarai ancor meco, s' el desir non erra."
S.W. SINGER.
ANNOTATED COPIES OF BISHOP ANDREWES' WORKS.
JAMES BLISS.
Ogburne St. Andrew, near Marlborough.
Minor Queries.
"Some put unto their name A.M., And others put a D. and D., If 'tis no harm to mimick them, I adds unto my name O.P.
"Master of Arts, sure I am not, No Doctor, no Divine I be But OAKUM PICKING is my lot, Of the same clay are we all three."
The "works" of this "rogue and vagabond," now in my possession, were given me by the late Mr. Catnach of Seven Dials.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
C.H. COOPER.
Cambridge, July 29. 1850.
"Somerset pretended that one bell in a steeple was sufficient for summoning the people to prayer; and the country was thus in danger of losing its best music."
What follows is so beautiful and appropriate, that I may perhaps be excused for lengthening my quotation:
"--a music, hallowed by all circumstances, which, according equally with social exultation and with solitary pensiveness, though it falls upon many an unheeding ear, never fails to find some hearts which it exhilarates, and some which it softens."
H.T.E.
EFFESSA.
Who is the Anglicus Poeta? What is the name of his poem?
J.B.
JOHN TIMBS.
N.A.B.
J.L.W.
...
"We married privately. Two years and more have passed since this has happened, And one sweet pledge of love has crowned our vows."
Now I am anxious to know,
T.E.L.L.
"De male quaesitis gaudet non tertius haeraes."
R.P.
J.BT.
PRISCIAN.
J.M.B.
"The Lord said to his ladie, As he mounted his horse, Beware of Long Lonkin That lies in the moss."
And goes on to tell how Long Lonkin crept in at "one little window" which was left unfastened, and was counselled by the wicked maiden to--
"Prick the babe in the cradle"
as the only means of bringing down the poor mother, whom he wished to kill.
Are there any other traditions of him, and can he have any connection with the name bestowed by children on the middle finger, in the following elegant rhyme?--
"Tom Thumbkin, Will Wilkins, Long Lonkin," &c.?
This I had always supposed merely to refer to the length of the finger, but the coincidence of names is curious.
SELEUCUS.
REPLIES.
TREATISE OF EQUIVOCATION.
"And here was showed a Book, written not long before the Queen's death, at what time Thomas Winter was employed into Spain, entituled, 'A Treatise of Equivocation,' which book being seen and allowed by Garnet, the superior of the Jesuits, and Blackwell, the Archpriest of England, in the beginning thereof Garnet with his own hand put out those words in the title of 'Equivocation,' and made it thus; 'A Treatise against Lying and fraudulent Dissimulation.' ... And in the end thereof, Blackwell besprinkles it with his blessing, saying, 'Tractatus iste valde doctus, et vere pius et Catholicus est. Certe S. Scripturarum, patrum, doctorum, scholasticorum, canonistarum, et optimarum rationum praesidiis plenissime firmat aequitatem aequivocationis; ideoque dignissimus est qui typis propagetur, ad consolationem afflictorum Catholicorum, et omnium piorum instructionem.'"
The copy in the Bodleian is the one which was produced at the trial. It is a small quarto in a vellum cover, on the outside of which is written, on the front side, in a later hand, "Blackwell de Equivocatione, &c.;" on the other side, in Sir E. Coke's hand, "Equivocations." It consists of sixty-six pages in all; i.e. two leaves at the beginning originally left blank, and not numbered; sixty-one pages numbered continuously, and fifty-nine of them written on: p. 61., that is, the fly-leaf at the end, contains Blackwell's imprimatur as described by Coke. On the first fly-leaf, at the beginning, is the following memorandum:--
"This booke, contening 61 pages, I founde in a chamber in the Inner Temple, wherein Sr Thomas Tresham used to lye, and whiche he obteyned for his two younger sonnes. This 5 of December, 1605." EDW. COKE.
"Os quod mentitur occidit animam."
It may be enough to remind the reader, that after Nov. 5, 1605, Coke, being Attorney-General, was engaged in prosecuting the discovery of the plot and seeking for evidence. Francis Tresham, to whom the authorship is attributed by Dodd , was a son of Sir Thomas Tresham; his connection with Garnet and the plot is well known. Sir T. Tresham died Sept. 11, 1605. Francis had been committed to prison, and died Nov. 20, 1605; and Coke found this in searching his chambers a fortnight after. The title originally stood thus:--
I have to apologise for some incorrect dates in my last communication.
J.B.
BOETHIUS' CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY.
King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version, with an English translation and notes, by J.S. Cardale, was printed at London, in 8vo., 1829.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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