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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«"i S. VII. June 11. '59. 



Cicero and Chrysippus (2"^ S. vii. 29.) — Cicero 

 does not " plainly lay down," but argues against, 

 the doctrine which he puts into the mouth of 

 Cato : — 



"Ut enim qui demersi sunt in aquS, ut jam jamque 

 possint emergere, quam si etiam turn essent in profundo : 

 nee catulus ille, qui jam appropinquat, ut videat, plus 

 cernit, quam is, qui modo est natus : ita qui processit ali- 

 quantum ad virtutis aditum, nihilominus in miseria est, 

 quam ille, qui nihil processit." — De Finibus, 1. iii. c. lb., 

 ed. Olivet, 1743, ii. 198. 



" '\fii<TKH &e avToU (Stwikois) janficv (xeVov elf ai a/ieTijs koX 

 KaKi'as' T<^v IleptJraTTjTiKwf fierafv aper^s Kal Ka/cias elvai Xe- 

 yovriav Tr)V TrpoKOTnji' (is yap Seiv, ^acrlv, fi bpdov etfai Sji^ov y) 

 orpe/SAbj', avrtas j) SCxaiov ij aSixdc ' ovre fie SiKaCorepov out* a8i- 

 Kiarepov. koX eirl t(Sv aWiav o^ouu;. Koi nr)v Trjv'aperqv Xpvcmr- 

 TTOs n^i' oTTOpA^Trjf" KXeaffli)? ava-no^KriTOv. 6 fi.iv aJro^A.rjTrjc 

 Sia ne6riv koX iJ.tKayxoKCav' 6 Si, avanopkriTOv, Sia ^e^ai'ovs 

 KaToXiji^ets, Koi avTr}V Se aiperifv elvai." — Laertius in Vita 

 Zenonis, 1. viii. c. i. p. 65., ed. 1759. 



I send merely the passages for which T. W. B. 

 inquires. He will find the matter fully treated of 

 in Lipsii, Manuduciio ad Stoicam Philosophiam, 

 Antwerp, 16C4 ; Ravaison, Essai sur la Metaphy- 

 sique d'Aristote, ii. 209., Paris, 1846 ; and Dean 

 Ireland's Paganism and Christianity Compared, 

 p. 380., London, 1825. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Coverdales Bible (2°'' S. vii. 419.) — Newing- 

 TONEN8IS notices his finding many departures from 

 " our present Hebrew text," in the translation of 

 the Book of Job. As this is a very important in- 

 quiry, will he kindly favour your readers with a 

 few of the more important instances, and state 

 what he considers to be our present Hebrew text. 

 The original edition of Coverdale (Nov. 1535) 

 was issued with two distinct titles. One says, 

 "faithfully and truly translated out of Douche 

 and Latyn into Englyshe ;" reissued in 1536 (the 

 same edition), " Faythfully translated into Eng- 

 lyshe." A new edition in folio and one in 4to., 

 1537, " faythfully translated in Englysh, and 

 newly ouersene and corrected." Again reprinted 

 in 4to., 1550, and reissued 1553. Same title as 

 1537. The only reference to Luther and the 

 Vulgate is in the first issue ; the succeeding five, 

 all issued in the prime of Coverdale's life, give no 

 reference to the text from which he translated. 

 I have compared a great number of passages, and 

 am convinced that Tyndale and Coverdale used 

 the Hebrew text, aided by the Vulgate and Lu- 

 ther's German. Fine copies of all Coverdale's 

 editions are in my library. Geokge Offor. 



RaleigJis Portrait (2°'^ S. vii. 279.) — To the 

 best of N. B.'s recollection, the engraving of Sir 

 Walter llaleigh, by Robert Vaughan (1650), de- 

 scribed by E. W., cannot be taken from the pic- 

 ture at Bothwell Castle. The right hand holds 

 the staff, but does not rest on a globe. The other 

 particulars do not answer ; and the words " Tarn 

 Marti quam Mercurio," do not appear. N. B. 



Cockshut (2"^ S. vii. 405. 463.)— The etymo- 

 logical division of cockshut which I have suggested 

 at p. 405., namely, cocks-hut, not cock-shut, is 

 not, as your correspondent L. appears to suppose, 

 merely conjectural, but is strictly conformable to 

 analogy, both foreign and domestic. To cocks- 

 hut, a lodge, hut, or arbour, where the fowler lay 

 concealed in netting woodcocks, corresponds the 

 German Vogel-hiitte, fowl-Mit, " ?iut in which the 

 fowler hides himself, in foioling" (Rabenhorst) : 

 and, for our own language, all in a row stand 

 Cocksbrook, Coxwold, Cocksheath, Cockshut ; that 

 is. Cocks-brook not Cock-sbrook, Cocks-wold not 

 Cock-swold, Cocks-heath not Cock-sheath, and in 

 like manner Cocks-hut not Cock-shut. 



Your learned correspondent objects that I have 

 cited no example of the use of a hut from any 

 English writer. Of course I did not ; my object 

 being to show the origin from the French, hutte, 

 a lodge, hut, or arbour used in netting woodcocks. 

 This I was desirous to do on a principle previously 

 referred to (on "Culverkey," 2""* S. vii. 325.) ; 

 that for so large a number of our old English terms 

 of venerie we are indebted to the French. But 

 no one surely will deny that lodges, huts, or ar- 

 bours were also used by our English forefatliers 

 in netting woodcocks. " The ends of both lines" 

 [of the net] " must be drawn to your lodge, or 

 stand." (Rules for netting woodcocks, in the Dic- 

 tio7iarium Rusticum, 1704, art. Cock-koads.) 



Suffer me to take this opportunity of remark- 

 ing — it is not worth a separate article — that I 

 cannot understand on what grounds your corre- 

 spondent (2"'^ S. vii. 445.) should have supposed I 

 intended to throiv a doubt on the statement of 

 Jamieson respecting " pit and gallows." Can he 

 have mistaken my note of admiration (2""^ S. vii. 

 384.) for a note of interrogation ? Jamieson is 

 far too good an authority to be lightly called in 

 question. Thomas Boys. 



Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portraits of the Hoare 

 Family (2""* S. vii. 355.) — In reply to J. B. N. 

 the second portrait he speaks of was that of Miss 

 Hoare, afterwards the lion. Mrs. Bucknall. In 

 Cotton's Notes and Observations on the Pictures of 

 Sir Joshua (p. 93.), the payment, in January 178a, 

 of 78Z. 15s. for the portrait of Miss Hoare Is re- 

 corded as having been " paid by Mr. Grlmstone." 



Mrs. Bucknall's daughter, Sophia Askell, mar- 

 ried the Hon. Berkeley Paget, who died in 1842 ; 

 and, on the recent decease of his widow, the por- 

 traits in question were sold by auction. C. E. L. 



Miss Boicdler (2°'^ S. vii. 419.) — Miss Jane 

 Bowdler wrote the Poems and Essays published 

 at Bath for the benefit of the Bath Infirmary or 

 charities. 



Miss, or by brevet, Mrs. Harriet Bowdler wrote 

 a small volume of Sermons, which went through 

 several editions. Anon. 



