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io* s. V.APRIL 2i. 1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


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LONDON, SATUEDAY, APE1L .11, 1906.


CONTENTS.-NO. 121.

NOTES : Montaigne, Webster, and Marston, 301 Love Lane, 302 Mrs. James Robertson, Portrait Painter Stow's 'Survey': Cheap Edition Dickens on the Bible. 304 Walter Lynn's Steam-Eugine Exchequer Tallies, 305 Gray's 'Elegy' in Russian Clapham Worthies " The Coal Hole "Lightship at the Nore Cabot and Mychell, " Rende/.-vous," 306.

QUERIES : Pistole, Scottish Coin Wordsworth Anecdote Lady Coventry's Minuet Headless Dolls Kipling's ' Tomlinson 'Frances Wright d'Arusmont T. T. Runkel Salingen Abbe Campbell and Mrs. Fit /herbert's Marriage, 307 Leighton's 'British Crests ' Aubrey's 'Surrey' Holy Britons Cresset Stones Pigott JeftVrson " The Sophy" Thomas Bettesworth Barnes: Origin of the Name-Earl of Shipbrook-Irish Bog Butter, 308 John Fullerton Qoncourt'a 'Histoire de la Societ.6 Francaise' Carter Pedigrees Latin Genitives in Floricultural Nomenclature Hackney' Haarlem Coiuant ' Harlem, a Newswriter English Pennies Gallie Surname, 3u9.

REPLIES :-" War" : its Old Pronunciation, 310 Nelson Trafalgar Memorandum Unregistered Arms, 311 Archer of Umberslade-Cheyne Walk : China Walk Samuel Wil- liams, Draughtsman, 312 Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary Duke of Guelderland : Duke of Lorraine- Oscar Wi'lde Bibliography Knightley Family African Sloths, 313 Kynan Copyiighr, in Letters Archdeacons' Marks Cross-legged Knights, 314 Ropes used at Execu- tionsRoman Bagpipers Bohemian Language German Emperor and Poets Laureate Theodor Reysman : Andreas Keller "Hamberbonne" of Wheat, 315 Mr. Thompson of the 6th Dragoons Authors of Quotations Wanted "Place," 316 The Condado " Pightle " : Pikle"- Rebus in Churches, 317.

NOTES ON BOOKS: -'The Age of Justinian and Theo- dora' Welford's 'Delinquent Royalists in Dm ham and Northumberland ' Dod's Parliamentary Companion' Poe's ' Lyrical Poems ' ' Pippa Passes Northern Notes and Queries.'

Obituary : -Dr. Richard Garnett P. J. F. Gantillon.

Booksellers' Catalogues.


MONTAIGNE, WEBSTER, AND MARSTON : DR. DONNE AND WEBSTER.

(See 10 th S. iv. 41, 121, 201, 302.)

MONTAIGNE says :

Aminde couragiously vicious may happily furnish itselfe with security, but shee cannot be fraught with this selfe-joyning delight and satisfaction. Book iii. chap. ii. p. 410, col. 2.

Ma/hc.ureux. Dear loved sir, I find a mind courageously vicious may be put on a desperate security ; but can never be blessed with a firm enjoying and self - satisfaction. ' The Dutch Courtezan,' III. i. 233-6.

Conceive man accompanied with omni potency, you overwhelme him : he must in begging manner crave some impeachment and resistance of you. Book iii. chap. vii. p. 469, col. 1.

Freerill. But consider man furnished with omnipotence, and you overthrow him ; thou must cool thy impatient appetite. 'The Dutch Courte- zan,' III. i. 262-3.

Quee faerant litia, more* t>un' : il What erst were vices are now growne fashions." Book iii. chap. ii. p. 410, col. 2.

Freevi/l. What old times held as crimes, are now but fashions. 'The Dutch Courtezan,' III. i, 234. See also * The Fawn,' I. ii. 350.


Stercm ctilque sinim lene olet.

Ev'ry man's ordure well To his owne sense doth smell. Book iii. chap. viii. p. 474, cols. 1 and 2. Cod&hmou. Every man's turd smells well in 's own nose. 4 The Dutch Courtezan,' III. iii. 50-51.


Mulligrnb. I was a gentlewoman by my sister's side I can tell ye so methodically. Methodically! 1 wonder where I got that word? ! Sir Aminadab Ruth bad me kiss him methodic- ally ! I had it somewhere, and 1 had it indeed ' The Dutch Courtezan,' III. iii. 59-63.

Perhaps Marston got his word from Florio : _ Every one may speake truely, but to speake orderly, methodically t wisely and sufficiently, few can doe it. Book iii. chap. viii. p. 473. col. 2.

The weaknes of our condition causeth that things in their naturall simplicitie and puritie cannot fall into our use. The elements we enjoy are altered metals likewise, yea gold, must be em paired with some other stuffe to make it fit for our service. Nor vertue so simple, which Ariston, Pyrrho, and Stoikes made the end of their life, hath been able to doe no good without composition, &c. Book ii. chap. xx. p. 344, col. 1.

Freevill. But is this virtue in me? No, not pure, Nothing extremely best with us endures ; No use in simple purities ; the elements Are mix'd for use ; silver without allay Is all too eager to be wrought for use : Nor precise virtues, ever purely good, Holds useful size with temper of weak blood. 'The Dutch Courtezan/ IV. ii. 4046. The parallel to Act V. sc. i. 11. 28-37, is already recorded at 10 th S. iv. p. 42, col. 1.


I can never forget this good saying : /ii'^rent, qti<i' iiiitiiiH dolent : "They keepe a howling with most ostentation who are less sorrowfull at heart." Their lowring and puling is hatefull to the living and vaine to the dead. Wee shall easily dispence with them to laugh at us when we are dead, upon condition they smile upon us while wee live. Is not this the way to revive a man with spite ; that he who hath spitten in my face when I was living shall come and claw my feet when I am dead? Book ii. chap. xxxv. p. 378, col. 2..

-. Is not this better than louring and


pouting and puling, which is hateful to the living and vain to the dead? Come, come, you must live by the quick, when all is done ; and for my own part, let my wife laugh at me when I am dead, so she'll smile upon me whilst I live: but to see a woman whine, and yet keep her eyes dry : mourn, and yet keep her cheeks fat : nay, to see a woman claw her husband by the feet when he is dead, that would have scratched him by the face when he was living this now is somewhat rediculous. 'The Dutch Courtezan,' V. ii. 80-90.

For the parallel to Act V. sc. iii. 11. G8-81, see 10 th S. iv. p. 42, col. 1.

I turn now to ' The Fawn. 3 Montaigne, praising the Emperor Maxi- milian, says :