2n'J S. VII. April 9. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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fact, or coming to any agreement about it, our 

 philosophical disputants argue the assertion that 

 the external form is often produced by excess of 

 bone, not of brain. But be it bone or brain, the 

 fact, if true, is a fact. But one philosopher will 

 not detach the fact he believes in from his theory ; 

 and his opponent will not be content to deny the 

 fact, but will insist that the fact is overthrown by 

 the theory not being true. 



I should like to know whether any of your 

 readers have ever seen either the original writ- 

 ing of Digby in French, or the first edition of 

 White's translation : I can find nothing quoted 

 except the second edition. The matter of this 

 tract looks very much like caricature of Digby's 

 previous writings : and it would not surprise me 

 at all if it should be found out either that the 

 French memoir is a spurious production, or that 

 White's translation is the original. 



A. De Morgan. 



(2"'i S. vii. 233.) 



The complimentary verses by Creech, and an 

 anonymous writer described by Mr. Vine as being 

 prefixed to the 2nd edition of the Iteligio Laid, 

 are also prefixed to the 1st edition, and therefore 

 aflford no evidence that this work was not " coldly 

 received." 



Is the supposed 2nd edition anything more than 

 an issue of the remaining copies of the 1st edition 

 with an alteration of the date 1682 to 1683? 

 The number of pages of which the poem consists 

 is twenty-eight in each. The title-page is the 

 same in each, except the date. The only addition 

 to the 2nd edition is the lines by Roscommon. 



Aslrea redux. The edition which appeared in 

 1688 of this poem was not a separate publication, 

 but formed one of several tracts published toge- 

 ther in one volume under the following title : — 



"ANNUS MIRABILIS. 



The Year of wonders, mdclxvi. 



An Historical Poem. 



Also 



A Poem (the Astrea redux) on the happy Restoration 



and Return of 



His sacred Majesty Charles the Second ; 



Likewise 



A Panegyrick on his Coronation, 



Together 



With a Poem to my Lord Chancellor, 



Presented on New-year's-Day, 16G2, 



By John Dryden, Esq. 



London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and Sold by 



Jacob Tonson at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-Lane, 



1688." 



The volume above- described is paged consecu- 

 tively 1. to 1 16. Each piece Jias a separate title- 

 page, and in that prefixed to Astrea redux occurs 

 the misprint, " Driden," mentioned by Mr. Vine. 



The Medall. This poem, by Dryden, without 

 his name, but as " by the Authour of Absalom and 

 Achitophel," has two copies of verses prefixed, 

 one of which is addressed " To the unknown Au- 

 thour of the following poem, and that of Absalom 

 and Achitophel." Both copies of verses are anony- 

 mous. Are the authors known ? 



'■'■Satyr to his Muse, by the authour of Absalom 

 and Achitophel. London, printed for T. W. 1682." 



" Quo liceat libris non licet ire mihi, 

 Turpiter hue illuc Ingeniosus eat." 



Is it known why this was published without the 

 name of printer or publisher ? 

 It begins strangely : — 



"Hear me, dull prostitute, worse than my wife; 

 Like her, the shame and clog of my dull life." 



It is to be regretted that the notice in Lowndes 

 of Dryden and his works is very scanty and im- 

 perfect, and Mr. Bohn's new edition of Lowndes 

 is no better in this respect. For the early edi- 

 tions of Dryden's works reference is made to 

 Scott's edition of Dryden, but surely it would 

 have been preferable to give them in the proper 

 place, viz. the Bihliographer's Manual. 



I find no notice in Lowndes of the following 

 works referring to Dryden : — 



1. "The Reasons of Mr. Bays changing his Religion 

 Considered in a Dialogue between Crites, Eugenius, and 

 Mr. Bays. London, printed for S. T. 1688." 



2. " The late Converts exposed ; or the Reasons of Mr. 

 Bays's Changing his Religion, Considered in a Dialogue, 

 Part the Second. With Reflections on the Life of St. 

 Xavier, Don Sebastian, King of- Portugal. As also the 

 Fable of the Bats and Birds. Licensed January 8, 1689. 

 London, printed for Thomas Bennet at the Sign of the 

 Half Moon in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1690." 



3. " The Reasons of Mr. Joseph Hains the Player's 

 Conversion and Re-Conversion ; being the Third and last 

 Part to the Dialogue of Mr. Bays. London, printed for 

 Richard Baldwin, near the Black Bull in the Old Bailey." 



I believe these three works are by Thos. Browne. 



4. " The Hind and the Panther transvers'd to the Story 

 of The Country Mouse and the City Mouse. London, 

 printed for W. Davis, 1687." [Qy. by Charles Monta- 

 gue?] 



R. J. R. 



bishop barnabbe. 



(2"* S. vii. 196. 286.) 



This is more usually Bushy Barneyhee in the 

 mouthsof those who cannot read the best sources 

 of pure provincialisms. Bishop is a corruption to 

 suit the assumed derivation, and the original sense 

 of the metrical charm quoted by Sloaneus being 

 lost, Bishop or Bushy has been incorrectly taken 

 as part of the insect's name. I conjecture the 

 primitive form of the rhyme to have been — 

 " Busk ye, Busk ye, bjTuie bee. 

 Tell me when my wedding be," &c. ; * 



i. e. " Get ready, get ready, bee-with-a-coat-of- 



