: Notes and Queries Number 76 April 12 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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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:

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