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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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that this impression, forgotten in the interval, is 

 revived by the actual occurrence of the event 

 foreseen ? In the Confessions of J. J. Rousseau 

 is a remarkable passage, which appears to support 

 this theory. He says, that in his youth, taking a 

 solitary walk, he fell into a reverie, in which he 

 clearly foresaw " the happiest day of his life," 

 which occurred seven or eight years afterwards : 



"Je me vis, conime en extase, transporte dans cet 

 heureux temps, et dans cet heureux sejour, oil mon cocur, 

 posscdant toute la felicite qui pouvait lui plaire, la goutait 

 dans les ravisscments inexprimables, sans songer meme k 

 la voluptd des sens. Je ne me souviens pas de m'etre 

 elance jamais dans I'avenir avec plus de force, et d'illu- 

 sion que je fis alors: et ce qui m'a frappe le plus dans le 

 souvenir de cette reverie quand elle s'est realisee, e'est 

 d'avoir retrouve des .objets tels exactement que je les 

 avais imaging. Si jamais reve d'un homrae eveille eut 

 I'air d'une vision prophetique, ce fut assurement celui-1^." 

 — Confes., partie i. liv. 3. 



He afterwards relates the realisation of his day- 

 dream, at a fete champetre in the company of Ma- 

 dame de Warens, at a place which he had not 

 previously seen: 



"La situation d'ame oil je me trouvais, tout ce que 

 nous avions dit et fait ce jour-1^, tous les objets qui m'a- 

 vaient frappe, me rappelferent I'espfece de reve que tout 

 eveille j 'avais fait h, Annecy sept ou huit ans auparavant, 

 et d'ont j'ai rendu conipte en son lieu. Les rapports en 

 etaient si frappants, qu'en y pensant j'en fus e'mu jusqu'aux 

 I'armes." — Confes., partie i. liv. 6. 



Now if Rousseau, on the second of these occa- 

 sions, had forgotten the previous one, saving a 

 faint remembrance of the ideas which he then 

 conceived, it is evident that this would have been 

 a case of the kind under consideration. 



I do not agree with Mb. Nichols, that the 

 persons mentioned by him can be considered as 

 persons of morbid sensibility. In particular, the 

 quotation from Guy Mannering shows that Sir 

 Walter Scott had experienced the mysterious 

 sensation at a time when his mind was in its fullest 

 vigour. F. 



" COYSE. 



(2"'i S. ii. 420.) 



I cannot agree with Mr. EASTwood that coyse 

 has any connection with coystrell, i. e. hestrell. 



Skinner tells us coyse is explained jollities, and 

 refers to joye in his General Index, observing, 

 " Nescio an corr. a joyes." But this explanation 

 and etymology must have been framed to suit 

 some particular usage, perhaps this very one by 

 Gower. And certainly Poor Florent might give 

 this name in bitter irony to " the lothest wighte 

 that man euer caste on his eie," whom he was 

 leading home to his bridal " chamer," with little 

 promise of a night oi joyes, or jollity, with such a 

 bed-fere. 



If this is not the true origin, what and whence 



is the word ? We have no other instances of its 

 use to assist us in the discovery. Can it be from 

 the Fr. chose. It. cosa, a thing? Florent might 

 well call this foule necke, " this foule great thing." 

 Chose was and is a common term in law to denote 

 a thing ; either in possession or in action. See 

 Blackstone. 



But I offer this to more erudite philologers as 

 one conjecture. Another arises thus : the Scotch 

 have cosh and coshly, cosie and cosiely ; all applied 

 to a state of snug and comfortable intimacy. 



Jamieson quotes from Allan Ramsay : 



" While to m}' cod [?'. e. pillow] my pow I keep, 

 Canty and cosiely I h'e." 



To keep his pow to his pillow, lying " still as 

 any stone," was for a time Florent's part to per- 

 form, but the cannieness and coziness with fit 

 mate, that would float in his mind, were wrecked 

 in the anticipation of the certainty of a sad re- 

 verse. 



Your more inquisitive readers must refer to 

 Jamieson, who will conduct them to an Old Teu- 

 tonic etymology. 



Spenser and Ben Jonson use the word cosset, 

 which Ray and Grose tell us is applied to a cade 

 lamb, i. e. a pet lamb ; and Moore adds, " It is 

 also applied to a too much indulged child " (in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk). Q. 



NARCISSUS LUTTRKLL. 



(2"'' S. i. 33. 91. 110.) 



The following notice of Narcissus Luttrell fur- 

 nishes a reply to the Query of S. L. in " N. & 

 Q." of the r2th January last. It is transcribed 

 from a note by Haslewood in his copy of Jacob's 

 Lives of the Poets, now in the British Museum, and 

 as a memorial of one who was an industrious col- 

 lector of the flying literature of his own times 

 well deserves to be preserved in your columns. 



" Although Narcissus Luttrell, Esq., is not on record as 

 a poet, still there are few characters can urge so just a 

 claim for a niche on the fly-leaves of any volume of this 

 collection as he. To support that claim, he founded and 

 in part formed one of the most extraordinary and valuable 

 collections of fugitive poetical tracts, in folio and quarto, 

 and also broadsides and slips, relative to his own times, 

 that are anywhere known. They exceeded in interest, if 

 not in value, the king's collection of pamphlets in the 

 British Museum, and it is a matter of regret that the 

 whole of the Luttrell collections were not, unviolated, 

 placed in that trulj' national repository. But they were 

 in part divided before the trustees began to look about 

 them, and now they do peer a little, it seems their in- 

 nate desire never to see a molehill, and sometimes with 

 difficulty that they can distinguish a mountain. As, 

 for example, these ten volumes might drawl through tea 

 sales, by a regular shift of ownership, and not once excite 

 a bidding from either trustees or officers of that institu- 

 tion ; while if an extensive library was at their option to 

 purchase, a similar article to this collection would be 



