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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"i S. N" 72., May 16. '57. 



It will be seen that I assume a line to be lost 

 here ; and if Mr. Collier's corrector had dis- 

 cerned it, he might possibly have filled up the 

 hiatus after this fashion : 



" Are fluttered, as they speed along the plain." 



Most editions, it is true, read " wing the wind ;" 

 but he was a sore zoologist that made this correction ; 

 for he might as well have said that a greyhound as 

 that an ostrich winged the wind. It was not alto- 

 gether fair to seek to make Shakspeare guilty of 

 such ignorance ; had wijig been in the original 

 text, it would have been a different matter. This 

 however is all by the way : the real difficulty is in 

 bated, evidently the past part, of the verb to bate ; 

 which, in falconry, signified to flap the wings in 

 order to dry them after bathing. Is it not then 

 quite clear that to give sense to the passage, we 

 must either take bated in the sense of bating, or 

 change it to bating ? 



" When I have decked the sea with drops full salt, 

 Under my burden groaned," 



Tempest, Act I. Sc. 2. 



It is thus it must be pointed, as it is paren- 

 thetic, and there are three ways in which it may 

 be reduced to sense. One is to take groaned in 

 the sense of groaning ; another to read groaning, 

 and a third to read in the first line loho for have. 

 In this last case it may be observed, that this use 

 of the compound for the definite preterite is very 

 rare. I cannot recollect another instance of it in 

 Shakspeare ; but I have met with the following 

 in the Knight of the Burning Pestle : 



" Whom I have made my own when all forsook him." 



ii. 8. 



In tlie same scene of the Tempest, we have — 



" Was the first man that leaped, cried Hell is empty ;" 



wliich may be a case of the same kind. 



Tugs. KEiGHTLEr. 



Minax §,atti. 



Early Notice of Temple Bar. — In the accounts 

 of the Escheator for Middlesex for 1-2 Edward 

 III. is the following entry : 



" De cxitibus quorundam tenementorum extra barram 

 Kovi Templi London, in eodem Comitatu que fuerunt 

 Thome nuper Comitis Lancastrie." 



TEMPIiAB. 



Cripplegate. — I find the following Norwegian 

 legend quoted in Forest Scenes in Norway and 

 Sweden, by the Rev. II. Newlarid, London, G. 

 lioutledge, 1854 : 



" There was a man in Walland so great a cripple that 

 he was obliged to go on his hands and knees, and it was 

 revealed to him that if he should go to St. Olaf s Church, 

 in London, he should be healed. How he got there I 

 cannot tell you ; but he did, and lie was crawling along 

 and the boj's were laughing at him, as he asked them 



which was St. Olaf s Church, when a man dressed in 

 blue, and carrying an axe on his shoulder, said, ' Come 

 with me, for I have become a countryman of yours.' So 

 he toolc up the cripple, and carried him through the 

 streets, and placed him on the steps of the church. Much 

 difficulty had the poor man to crawl up the steps ; but 

 when he arrived at the top, he rose up straight and whole, 

 and walked to the altar to give thanks ; but the man with 

 the battle-axe had vanished, and was never seen more ; 

 and the people thought it was the blessed St. Olaf him- 

 self, and they called the place where the cripple Avas 

 found ' Cripplegate,' and so they tell me it is called to this 

 day." 



Henry Kensington. 



Montgomery's " Incognita." — The exquisite 

 stanzas bearing this title will be remembered by 

 every reader of Montgomery's poems. The lines 

 comparing the dead to stars " unseen by day," 

 was often in the mouth of Moore : but my pre- 

 sent purpose is less the poem than the picture to 

 which it refers. The poet first saw this portrait of 

 an "Unknown Lady" at Leamington, in Warwick- 

 shire, from whence it came into his own possession, 

 and adorned his drawing-room at " The Mount, 

 near Sheffield," till the time of his death ; after 

 which it passed into the possession of his niece, 

 Mrs. Foster, of Artillery Koad, Woolwich, Avho, I 

 am sure, would be glad to show it to any artist or 

 other gentleman taking an interest in the subject. 

 Of the artistic merits of the picture I am incom- 

 petent to speak, beyond my intimate knowledge 

 of the fact that the poet's admiration of its quiet 

 beauty was justified by the opinion of good judges. 

 As it is now within such easy reach of London, I 

 would fain hope that some person seeing it will be 

 able to identify the artist, if not the subject, sup- 

 posed to have been one of the Knightly family. 



N. D. 



Fire-arms of a Highland Laird in 1716. — After 

 the suppression of the rebellion in 1715, a dis- 

 arming act was passed, but very imperfectly exe- 

 cuted. The following is the return made by a 

 loyal Highland proprietor, brother of Duncan 

 Forbes, afterwards Lord President of the Court 

 of Session : — 



" John Forbes of CuUoden, Esquire, 162 guns, valued 

 at 96^. 14s. 2d. ; 7 guns without locks, 1/. 17s. Ad. ; 2 gun 

 barrels, 4s. 6d. ; 5 side pistols, 21. 10s. ; 21 swords, 41. 9s. Gd. ; 

 1 target and 1 Dane's axe, 12s. ; total, 106/. 7s. Gd." 



Fs. 



A Primitive, Cheap, and Useful Barometer. — 



" On board the Mexican steamer is a barometer of the 

 most simple construction, but of the greatest accuracy. 

 It consists only of a long strip of cedar, very thin, about 

 two and a half feet in length, about an inch wide, cut 

 with the grain, and set in a block, a foot thick. This cedar 

 strip is backed or lined with one of white pine, cut across 

 the grain, and the two, are tightly glued together. To 

 bend these when dry is to snap them, but on the approach 

 of bad weather, the cedar curls Qver until the top at times 

 touches the ground. This simple instrument is the in- 

 vention of a Mexican guitar maker, and such is its ac- 

 curacy, that it will indicate the coming on of a ' norther ' 



