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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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then, to know all the delicate sweet forms for the assump- 

 tion of it ; as also the rare corollary and practice of the 

 Cuban ebolition, euripus and whifF; which he shall re- 

 ceive or take in here in London, and evaporate at Ux- 

 bridge, or farther, if it please him." — Act III. So. 3. 



The process of tuition was singular enough, and 

 is described by Carlo Buffone to his friends (Act 

 IV. Sc. 4.), while that " essential clown" Sogliardo 

 is undergoing his novitiate at the " Horn's ordi- 

 nary : " — 



" They have hir'd a chamber and all, private to prac- 

 tise in, for the making of the patoun, the receit reciprocal, 

 and a number of other mysteries not yet extant. I 

 brought some dozen or twenty gallants this morning to 

 view 'em (as you'd do a piece of perspective) in at a key- 

 hole ; and there we might see Sogliardo sit in a chair, 

 holding his snout up like a sow under an apple-tree, 

 while th' other open'd his nostrils with a poking-stick, to 

 give the smoke a most free delivery. They had spit some 

 three or four score ounces between 'em, afore we came 

 away." 



" Puntarvolo. How ! spit three or four score ounces ? 



" Carlo. I, and preserv'd it in porrengers, as a barber 

 does his blood when he opens a vein." — Every Man out 

 of His Humour. 



So fashionable was the practice at this time, 

 that " neat, spruce, affecting courtiers," like Fas- 

 tidius Brick, carried It into the boudoir, and 

 actually courted their mistresses with a " yard of 

 clay" in their hands (Act III. Sc. 9.) 



I think Mk. Bates is wrong in " attributing the 

 honour of the first importation of tobacco to Sir 

 John Hawkins, circa 1568," as in all probability it 

 came from France or Portugal some years pre- 

 viously. 



Let me here correct a typographical error 

 ("N. & Q." 2"'^ S. iii. 311.), and conclude with a 

 Query. Capt. Bobadil, after asserting to Master 

 Stephen, that, when he was in the Indies, himself 

 and a dozen other gentlemen had not " received 

 the taste of any other nutriment but this simple 

 only, for the space of one-and-twenty weeks ! " 

 adds, that for healing a green-wound, " your Bal- 

 samum, and your St. John's Wort, are all mere 

 gulleries and trash to it." 



Duranti also, in the verses quoted above, is of 

 the same opinion as the worthy Captain : " sanat 

 plagas et vulnera jungit," he remarks. Now I 

 should like to know, whether tobacco was used by 

 the surgeons of that time to close wounds ; and if 

 so, when the practice fell into disuse ? 



A. Challeteth. 



Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn. 



Tobacco and Hemp. — The following quaint 

 verses are from a poem of nearly four-hundred 

 lines, entitled — " Tobacco Battered and the Pipes 

 Shattered (about their Ears that idly Idolize so 

 base and barbarous a Weed : or, at least-wise 

 over-love so loathsome Vanity)." The poem is 

 said to be " Collected out of the famous Poems of 

 Joshua Sylvester, Gent.," and I find the whole of 



it quoted in a Pamphlet against Tobacco, London, 

 1672 : 



" Of all the Plants that Tellus' bosom yields. 

 In Groves, Glades, Gardens, Marshes, Mountains, Fields, 

 None so pernicious to man's life is known. 

 As is Tobacco, saving Hemp alone. 

 Betwixt which two there seems great sympathy. 

 To ruinate poor Adam's Progeny ; 

 For in them both a strangling vertue note. 

 And both of them do work upon the throat ; 

 The one, within it ; and without, the other ; 

 And th' one prepareth work unto the t'other: 

 For there do meet (I mean at Gaile and Gallows) 

 More of these beastly, base, Tobacco-Fellows, 

 Than else to any prophane haunt do use, 

 (Excepting still the Pla3'-house and the Stews). 

 Sith 'tis their common lot (so double choaked) 

 Just bacon-like to be hung up and smoked, 

 A destiny as proper to befall 

 To moral Swine aa to Swine natural." 



Henry Kensingtow. 



enallage of participles. 



In Latin poetry there appears an enallage of 

 the past for the present participle of deponent 

 verbs : locutus for loquens, molitus for molieiis, &c. 

 We may discern something of the same kind in 

 the languages derived from the Latin. Thus the 

 Spaniards have " hombre atrevido^'' &c. ; the 

 Italians, "huomo accorto" &c. ; the French, 

 " homme re/lechi" &c. ; and perhaps our own 

 " well-rea(i man " is of the same kind. 



Spenser, who so frequently follows Virgil in his 

 language, seems to have adopted this practice 

 among others. Thus we meet in him with : 



" llerfapied paramour, her forced guest." 



Faerie Queene, iv. 1, 36. 



« Whose scoffed words he taking half in scorn." 



Jb, 2, 6. 



" That rascal manv with u?ipitied spoil." 



lb. V. 2, 65. 



Perhaps we might venture to assert the same 

 of Shakspeare himself, who has — 



« Two traded pilots, twixt the dangerous shores 

 Of will and judgement." 



Troilus and Cressida, Act II. Sc. 2. 

 " I cannot do it better than in gyves. 

 Desired more than constrained." 



Cymb., Act V. Sc. 4. 



« I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports." 



K. John, Act IV. Sc. 1. 



Be it as it may with respect to these passages, 

 there are two others which can attain to sense 

 only on this principle, unless we consent to alter 

 the text a little, a procedure so abhorred by all 

 true believers in the infallibility of the old printers. 

 They are these : 



" All plumed like estriches that with the wind 



Bated like eagles having lately bathed." 



1 Hm. IV., Act IV. Sc. 1, 



