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REPLIES:-- The Black Rood of Scotland 409 Replies to Minor Queries:--Haemony--Byron's Birthplace--Modena Family--Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks--Gaudentio di Lucca--Weights for weighing Coins--Mrs. Partington--The East-Anglican Word "Mauther"--Cheshire Cat--"Thompson of Esholt"--Minar's Book of Antiquities--Croziers and Pastoral Staves--Socinian Boast--MSS. of Locke--Sir Wm. Grant--Tristan d'Acunha--Arabic Numerals--Luther's Hymns--Bolton's Ace--Hopkins the Witchfinder--Sir Richard Steel--Ale-draper--George Herbert--Notaries Public--Tobacconists--Vineyards 410
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 414 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 415 Notices to Correspondents 415 Advertisements 415
NOTES.
The double character of Wolsey drawn by Queen Katherine and her attendant, is a piece of vigorous writing of which any other author but Shakspeare might have been proud; and the celebrated farewell of the Cardinal, with his exhortation to Cromwell, only wants that quickening, that vital something which the poet could have breathed into it, to be truly and almost incomparably great.
"Our own conviction is that Shakspeare wrote a portion only of this play.
At the same time I made the following notes from Coleridge:--
It is a branch of the subject which I have not yet fully considered; but MR. SPEDDING will observe that the view I take does not interfere with the supposition that Fletcher revised the play, with additions for its revival in 1613; a task for the performance of which he would probably have the consent of his early master.
SAMUEL HICKSON.
On this account, and on other accounts, the ballad addressed to Geoffrey Chaucer by Eustache Deschamps deserves repetition. Its text requires to be established, in order that we may be aware of its real obscurities--for no future memoir of Chaucer can be considered as complete, without some reference to it.
"BALLADE IN?DITE ADRESS?E A GEOFFREY CHAUCER PAR EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS.
L'ENVOY.
The new readings are in Italics, and I shall now repeat them with the corresponding words as printed by sir Harris Nicolas:--
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