2n'» 8. VII. Mar. 19. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(lent who can point out a shadow of proo/ of this 

 assertion. I can find no mention in any of the 

 contemporary records of a prize-fighter named 

 Andrew Johnson, and my strong impression is 

 that the whole story is a myth — Boswellian pos- 

 sibly, but not less a myth. S. Johnson Ashmole. 



[In Croker's Boswell (Murray, 8vo. ed.) we have two 

 allusions to the Dr.'s uncle Andrew, of whom he told Mrs. 

 Piozzi (p. 198.) that he, for a whole year, kept the ring at 

 Smithfield (where they wrestled and boxed), and never 

 was thrown or conquered. The second, at p. 342. is a note 

 Avhich, on the authority of Mrs. Piozzi, tells us, " Mr. John- 

 son was very conversant in the art of attack and defence 

 by boxing, which science he had learned from his uncle 

 Andrew, 1 believe ; and I have heard him descant upon 

 the age when people were received and when rejected in 

 the schools once held for that brutal amusement, much to 

 the admiration of those who had no expectation of his 

 skill in such matters." See " N. & Q." 1" S. viii. 589.] 



Stows " Annals" — I have an imperfect black- 

 letter copy of Stow's Annals, in quarto, and wish 

 to ascertain of what edition. For the sake of re- 

 ference, the lines on Richard II. by John Gower, 

 are on p. 516., reign of Henry IV. The reign of 

 Elizabeth begins on p. 1077. Could you inform 

 me, and oblige Belateb-Adime. 



[The edition is that of 1592. As there is some inac- 

 curacy in Lowndes' account of the early editions of the 

 Annales we will give the collation of this volume. An 

 ornamented title-page, on the top " Vivat Regina." In 

 the central department, the following title: " The Annales 

 of England, faithfully collected out of the most authenti- 

 call Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Anti- 

 quitie, from the first inhabitation vntill this present 

 Yeere 1592. By lohn Stow, citizen of London. Im- 

 printed at London by Ralfe Newbery. Cum priuilegio 

 RegiiB maiestatis." After the title is a Dedicatory Ad- 

 dress to the Abp. of Canterbury, dated 2G of Maj', 1592; 

 another address " To the gentle Reader ;" list of Authors ; 

 and Table of the principall Matters. The Annales end on 

 p. 1295, then eight more pages " Of the Universities of 

 England," and one of " Faults escaped."] 



George Wither's " Abuses Stript and Wkipt" 

 ^'C. — When was the first edition of George Wi- 

 ther's Abuses Stript and Whipt, or Satyrical Es- 

 saycs, published ? In the Literature and Learning 

 in England (vol. Iv. p. 46.), Mr. Craik says : "his 

 volume of satires entitled Abuses Stript and Whipt 

 . . . appeared in 1611." In Chambers's Cyclo- 

 jxcdia of English Literature (vol. i. p. 136) it is 

 stated that Wither " first appeared as an author in 

 the year 1613, when he published a satire entitled 

 Abuses Stript and Whipt" In Mr. Lilly's Cata- 

 logue of Choice Boohs for 1858, I find the follow- 

 ing notice : — 



" Wither's (Geovge) Abuses Stript and Whipt, or Saty- 

 rical Essayes: together with the Scourge, and certaine 

 Epigrams "to the King, Queene, the Princesse, and other 

 noble and honourable Personages and Friends, 12mo. . . . 

 1G15." 



Was this a second edition of the Abuses, or the 

 unsold copies of the first (of 1611 or 1613) with a 

 new title-page ? 



For writing tliis work, or rather publishing, 

 Wither was thrown in the Marshalsea. When 

 was he released? — in 1615 ? If so, what month? 



G. R. Vine. 



Athlone, Ireland, 



[Mr. Griffith, the editor of Biblioiheca Anglo- Foetica, 

 p. 371., states that George Wither's Abvses Stript and 

 Whipt, sma.\\ 8vo., 1613, "is undoubtedly the first edi- 

 tion, though Alex. Dalrymple mentions the date of 1611 

 as that of the first. In Wither's Warning-Piece to Lon- 

 don, 1662, it is distinctlj' asserted that these poems were 

 written 'in sixteen hundred ten and one,' but certainly 

 not printed earlier than 1613." At the sale of the library 

 of J. M. Gutch, Esq., in March, 1858 (lot 2652.), the edi- 

 tion of 1613, suppressed, was sold as the first, and fetched 

 3/. 6s. On the back of the title-page of Abvses Stript and 

 Whipt, 1622, is the following MS. note, apparentlj' by 

 Dalrymple : " I have two diff"erent editions of these 

 Sati/rs printed 1613. The words the same of the title- 

 page, but differently printed, and the poem differently 

 printed throughout." In Wither's poem, A Satyre : De- 

 dicated to his most Excellent 3Iaiestie, 1615, inscribed to 

 James I., are two copies of introductory verses " to the 

 meere Covrtiers," and " to the Honest Courtiers;" at the 

 end Wither signs himself his Majesty's " most loj'all 

 Subiect and j-et Prisoner in the Marshalsey," where he 

 was still confined for his censures on some of the nobility 

 in Abuses Stript and Whipt. He calls the present an 

 Apology for past errors, proceeding from the heat of 

 youth ; but some of it is evidently an appeal to the King, 

 in language forcible and poetical, on the restraint put 

 upon his person ; and one portion of it is a monologue, 

 conducted by the author, between the impulses of sup- 

 plication and disdain. It is asserted b}' Dalrymple that 

 this spirited defence had so good a result as to obtain his 

 release. But whilst in prison Wither also wrote and pub- 

 lished his Satire to the King, 1614, which is thought by 



others to have procured his release. Abuses Stript and 



Whipt, 1615, is not the same edition as that of 1613 ; the 

 typography is different. The edit, of 1613 was printed by 

 (1. Eld ; that of 1615 by Humfrey Lownes.] 



Motto on lialeigh's Portrait. — Among the pic- 

 tures at Bothwell Castle, which originally formed 

 part of the collection of the Lord Chancellor 

 Clarendon, there is a portrait, said to be of Sir 

 Walter Raleigh. On the leacling-staff, which he 

 carries in his liand, there are the following words, 

 which are copied as closely as possible : — 

 " Chi non puol che miol quel che puol." 



The interpretation of these words is desired. 



N. B. 



[We suspect that the fifth word of the inscription 

 should be uuol, that is, vuol; and that, at the end, the 

 word voglia has become indistinct or has disappeared, and 

 must be supplied. The inscription will then be 



" Chi non puol che vuol, quel que puol (voglia)." 



This is only one form of the well-known Italian proverb, 



" Chi non pub quel che vuol, quel que pub voglia." 



" Let him that cannot do what he wills, will what he 

 can do." 



The puol of the inscription is an irregular form of pud. 

 See the Teorica de' Verbi ItuUani, prefixed to the Dic- 

 tionary of Costa and Cardinal!, p. 201., puole.Ji 



