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treated again and again by various hands,
down to my own in my 'Annals of Tennis."
4to, 1878. This game, in fact, is simply
tennis (not lawn-tennis). I find, however,
nothing about palla-spagata in Scaino's book,
nor do I remember meeting with the name
before. I should be glad to see a good ex-
planation of it, if any is to be had. It may
be a modern variant. I would, however,
raise a humble protest against "a connected
account " of any of these games being pub-
lished in the restricted space available in
- N. & Q.,' which might easily be filled for
some months to come by such a publication. JULIAN MARSHALL.
DAISY NAMES (9 th S. vii. 8). Mr. Prior C Popular Names of British Plants,' p. 57) suggests that crazy or craisey is a corruption of Christ's eye, but he gives it as a Wiltshire name for the buttercup. Scientifically, this has been appropriated for an exotic species of inule (Inula oculus Christi), and doubtless, like other popular names, is loosely applied to various wild flowers. There has always been an uncertainty in our floral nomencla- ture; thus in the eighteenth century what we know as forget-me-not was called scorpion- grass and mouse-ear, one of the bugles being known as forget-me-not because of its bitter taste. Our heartsease has filched its name from the wallflower, which long ago earned its older title because of its cordial properties ; and apparently Linnaeus did not detect the theft, because he applied the mediaeval Latin name of the wallflower, viola, to the race of pansies. Apparently in classical times viola denoted both violets and wallflowers.
Since writing the above I happened to read the following, a case in point, in the current number of the Gardeners' Chronicle :
" Bermuda Buttercup. An inquiry was recently made as to the correct name of this plant. We find from a communication to the Journal of Horti- culture that a variety of Oxalis is so called. Pre- cisely not a Buttercup, and having nothing to do with Bermuda. No wonder people like popular names ! "
HERBERT MAXWELL.
TEN COMMANDMENTS IN RIME (9 th S. vi. 450). The following version was copied from the registers of the parish of Laneham, Notts, in April, 1852. It is signed " Richard Chris- tian, 1689"; he was vicar at that time. It appeared in * N. & Q.,' 1 st S. v. 607 :
Have thou no other Gods Butt me. Unto no Image bow thy knee Take not the name of God in vain Doe not thy Sabboth day prof aine Honour thy ffather and Mother too And see y* thou no murder doo ffrom vile Adultry keep the cleane
And Steale not tho thy state be meane
Bear no ffalse Witness, shun y^ Blott
What is thy neighbour's Couet not.
Whrite these thy Laws Lord in my heart
And Lett me not from them depart.
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
The following might possibly interest F. R. P., who asked for information about the Ten Commandments :
" An old English Version of the Lord's Prayer, made by Pope Adrian, an Englishman, about the year 1156, to be learnt by the younger people.
Ure fadyr in heaven rich
Thy name be halyed ever lich
Thou bring us thy michel blisc
Als bit in heaven y doe
Evead in yearth been it alsoe
That holy breade that lasteth ay
Thou send us this, ilke day
Forgive us all that we have done
As we forgive each other on
Ne let us fall into no founding
But sheld ous from the fpule thing. Amen." Christian Magazine, 1761.
A. J. KING.
One of Dr. Isaac Watts's ' Divine Songs.'
H. E. M. St. Petersburg.
" FRABBED " (9 th S. vi. 470). Frab, to worry, harass, is given in the 'H.E.D.' Frab, to struggle, fight, argue, contend, worry, fret, fidget, irritate, excite, is given in the ' E.D.D.' Hence it is doubly a "dictionary word." I also find it in the ' Century Dictionary ' and in Webster. But in the present instance it looks as if the gentleman might just as well have said "rubbed." Perhaps he combined this with " fretted." WALTER W. SKEAT.
- PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE ' (9 th S. vi.
450). This song was written and sung by Harry Clifton, music arranged by M. Hobson, and was very popular about thirty-four years ago. It lies before me. The words of the first four lines are accurately quoted by MR. JOHN T. PAGE. The remainder of the first verse is : My wants are small, I care not at all
If my debts are paid when due ; I drive away strife in the ocean of life While I paddle my own canoe.
There are five verses in all, and the chorus is :
Then love your neighbour as yourself
As the world you go travelling through ; And never sit down with a tear or a frown, But paddle your own canoe.
There is another song by the same author which was equally popular about the period named, entitled ' Work, Boys, Work.' One of the verses I venture to quote :
