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NOTES:-- Page Could Shakespeare have designated Cleopatra "Yond ribald-rid Nag of Egypt?" by S. W. Singer 273 Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, by C. Forbes 274 Minor Notes:--"In the Sweat of thy Brow"--Anecdote of Old Times--Foreign English--Britannicus --Honeymoon--Fees at Westminster Abbey--Turning the Tables 275
QUERIES: Authors of the Rolliad--Pursuits of Literature, by Dawson Turner 276 Account of a large ancient Wood-engraving 277 Minor Queries:--Viaggi di Enrico Wanton--Gloucester Alarm--Where is Criston, co. Somerset?-- "There was a Maid of Westmoreland"--Anthony Bridges--Barlaam and Josaphat--"Stick At Nothing" --"Ejusdem Farinae"--Batail--The Knights of Malta --General Pardons--"Too wise to err" 277
REPLIES:-- Thomas May 279 Duchess of Buckingham 280 San Grail 281 The Frozen Horn 282 Bab at the Bowster 282 Oliver Cromwell and his Dealings with the Devil 282 Replies to Minor Queries:--Gig Hill--Epigram against Burke--Engraved Portrait--Salgado's Slaughter-house --Mathew's Mediterranean Passage--The Mitre and the "Cloven Tongues"--Slums--"God's Acre"-- Wages in the last Century--Tradesmen's Signs-- Standfast's Cordial Comforts, &c.--St. Pancras-- Lines on Woman's Will--Scandal against Queen Elizabeth--Coggeshall Job--Whale caught at Greenwich before the Death of Cromwell--Fronte Capillat?, &c.--John Sanderson, or the Cushion-dance--George Steevens and William Stevens--Tradescant--Origin of Harlequins--"Predeceased" and "Designed"-- "Quadrijugis invectus equis," &c.--St. John's Bridge Fair--Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe--Lord Howard of Effingham--Separation of the Sexes in Church--Vox Populi Vox Dei--Mazer Wood--Traditions from remote Periods through few Hands-- Latin Epigram on the Duchess of Eboli--"Harry Parry, when will you marry?"--Visions of Hell-- "Laus tua non tua Fraus," &c.--Passage from Cymbeline --Engraved Warming-pans--Symbolism of the Fir-cone--Dr. Robert Thomlinson--Touching for the Evil--Drax Free School, &c. 283
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 293 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 293 Notices to Correspondents 294 Advertisements 294
Notes.
COULD SHAKESPEARE HAVE DESIGNATED CLEOPATRA "YOND RIBALD-RID NAG OF EGYPT?"
The notes in the variorum edition begin by one from Johnson, in which he says:
"She once being loof'd, The noble ruin of her magick, Antony, Claps on his sea-wing."
It is to me a matter of surprise that Mr. Collier and Mr. Knight, in their laudable zeal for adherence as closely as possible to the old copies, should not have perceived the injury done both to the sense and harmony of the passage by this unwarrantable substitution.
S. W. SINGER.
BROWNE'S BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS.
Indeed Campbell says of Browne:
"His poetry is not without beauty; but it is the beauty of mere landscape and allegory, without the manners and passions that constitute human interest."--Vol. iii. p. 323.
"Now great Hyperion left his golden throne," &c.,
--book ii. song 1. and the "Lament of the Little Shepherd for his friend Philocel"--
"With that the little shepherd left his task," &c.,
--book ii. song 4.
If you will allow me to quote a short extract from each passage, it may enable the reader to see how far I am justified in protesting against Campbell's criticism; and I will then try to support the pretensions of the last, by showing that much of the very same imagery that it contains is to be found in other writings of acknowledged merit:--
"And as Night's chariot through the air was driven, Clamour grew dumb, unheard was shepherd's song, And silence girt the woods: no warbling tongue Talk'd to the echo; satyrs broke their dance, And all the upper world lay in a trance. Only the curl?d streams soft chidings kept, And little gales that from the green leaf swept Dry summer's dust, in fearful whisp'rings stirr'd, As loath to waken any singing bird."
Compare with different parts of the "Lament:"
C. FORBES.
Temple.
Minor Notes.
The true text reads,--
The misquotation is so common, that a reference to a concordance is necessary for proving to many persons that it is not a scripture phrase.
J. GALLATLY.
When the aunt of my friend married and began housekeeping, there were only two tea-kettles besides her own in the town of Knighton, Radnorshire. The clergyman of the parish forbad the use of tea in his family; but his sister kept a small tea service in the drawer of the table by which she sat at work in the afternoon, and secretly made herself a cup of tea at four o'clock, gently closing the drawer if she heard her brother approach. This clergyman's daughter died, at an advanced age, in 1850.
WEDSECNARF.
"ADVICE OF AN HOTEL.
"The underwritten has the honour of informing the public that he has made the acquisition of the hotel to the Savage, well situated in the middle of this city. He shall endeavour to do all duties which gentlemen travellers can justly expect; and invites them to please to convince themselves of it by their kind lodgings at his house.
BASIL JR. SINGISEM.
Before the tenant of the Hotel to the Stork in this city."
BLOWEN.
R. W. C.
G. F. G.
Edinburgh.
The dean and chapter, however, in those days were more moderate in their demands, for the price of admission was but one penny to the whole.
BLOWEN.
Can any of your kind contributors supply a better derivation?
. .
Queries.
DAWSON TURNER.
Yarmouth, April 1. 1851.
ACCOUNT OF A LARGE ANCIENT WOOD-ENGRAVING.
Perhaps some of your readers may be able to give me information regarding a large and very elaborate woodcut, which has been many years in my possession, and obviously has been used as the fly-leaf of some folio volume, though, of course not originally intended for such a purpose. It is so complicated, that I fear I shall have some difficulty in explaining it, and my explanation may require more space than you may be willing to afford me. You can, however, insert my Query at any time when you have room to spare.
The size of the engraving, is 16 inches by 13, and it is divided into two large oblong circles, and a centre; a story being carried on, clearly allegorically, from the outer circle to the second, and from the second to the centre. I will speak of each, beginning with the outer, which is entered by a portico, consisting of two columns and a round arch; on the base of one of the columns is a monogran of the artist or of the engraver, formed of the letters R. D. Under the arch is seated a lady richly attired, who holds a large cup and cover in her left hand, and around her are fourteen naked children, to one of which she seems tendering the chalice; while a bearded old man, with a scroll, is directing attention to what is going on in the outer circle. Passing under this portico we see, immediately behind it, six ladies, three religious and three secular; while to the right of the three secular ladies is a naked, winged female figure, with her foot on a sphere, a large goblet in her right hand, and some objects that look like fetters in her left hand. To the right of this figure are many others of both sexes, but nearer the spectator, some tranquil and some in despair; while, within a sort of pavilion, we see a young lady and an old gentleman banquetting, and in another compartment in bed. Still farther to the right of the winged figure are persons who appear to be escaping from torments, while a young man in rags is making his way towards a person in a religious habit, who has a scourge in his hand; behind these are two persons under a miserable thatched shed, while a lady is pointing out to a young man what is to be observed in the second circle.
This division is entered by another gate consisting of two square ornamental columns supporting a low gable, beneath which a lady, with a cross on the cape of her dress, is receiving a young man. The persons in this circle are very variously employed: on the right of the spectator are rocks with one man climbing up them, and another fallen headlong: on the left are five persons, male and female, engaged in singing and playing, and near them two men performing military music on a drum and fife; to their right are groups of philosophers and men of science with spheres, astrolabes, books, compasses, &c., and one wearing a laurel crown with a scroll in his hand, probably a poet.
Such is the woodcut regarding which I request some intelligence from your readers, as I have shown it to several persons, who I thought could enlighten me, but who could afford me no satisfaction. I suspect, from the costumes and the edificies, that it is German; and I ought to have mentioned that each circle is separated from the others by a low stone wall running all around, and that trees, hills, and fountains are not sparingly introduced. In the whole, it includes nearly a hundred figures of men, women, and children.
THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.
Minor Queries.
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