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such as did not pay, or were chargeable with some breach 

 of the law in buj'ing or selling, were confined till repara- 

 tion was made." 



J. Eastwood. 



Although this word may be traced to the Saxon, 

 it is more than probable that we have it from the 

 Danish Toldbod, a custom-house, from Told, toll, 

 duty, custom, and Bod, shop, warehouse, booth, 

 stall. The custom-house at Copenhagen is called 

 the Toldbod. R. S. Charnock. 



Gray's Inn. 



Watling Street (2°* S. iii. 390.) — We were 

 taught at school to consider this name a corrup- 

 tion of Strata Vitelliana, from the road having 

 been made in the time of the Emperor Vitellius. 

 Spelman, however, following Hoveden, says it 

 is the paved road which the sons of King Wethle 

 constructed through England from the Eastern 

 Sea to the Western. J. Eastwood. 



Pasquinades (2"^ S. iii. 349. 415.) — On this 

 subject one may, perhaps, be allowed to refer to 

 one of those numerous publications after (and a 

 long way after) the Punch mould, called Pasquin 

 (the first number of which was published on 

 January 26, 1850, and whose career was a very 

 short one), in order to call attention to its cover, 

 drawn by Gavarni. In its inimitable design, the 

 clever Frenchman (whose name of Gavarni, by 

 the way, is a mere nom de plume) has represented 

 the tailor Pasquino, sitting cross-legged upon his 

 shop-board, surrounded by evidences of his ti'ade, 

 and engaged in the composition of a pasquinade, 

 the merry expression of his face denoting that his 

 lampoon is a humorous one. The upper portion 

 of his body is shaded by a projecting blind, on 

 which is his name. Behind, appears the pedestal 

 of a statue, and " the stumps of old Pasquin," as 

 Evelyn calls them. The drawing of this design 

 is very masterly and original. The introductory 

 remarks in the opening number explain the origin 

 of the name "Pasquin." They state (in addition 

 to what has already appeared in these pages) that 

 the tailor lived In the neighbourhood of the statue 

 " ' many years since,' says Paresio, in his An- 

 tiquities of Rome, published in 1600." 



Pasquin was preceded (in 1848) by a similar 

 publication called The Puppet-Show, which is also 

 noticeable for its cover, another masterly and 

 striking design by Gavarni. The current number 

 of The Quarterly gives a list of rival publications 

 to Punch. This list might, however, be greatly 

 extended. Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 



Italian Opera (2"'^ S. iii. 230. 415.) — I have in 

 my library a copy of Pyrrhus and JDemetrius, an 

 Opera as it is performed at the Queens Theatre in 

 the Haymarket, 4to., 1709, in which the actors 

 sung in Italian and English, and the absurdity is 

 heightened by its being so printed ! The di'amatis 



personcB contains the names of the singers as fol- 

 lows : Signor Cavallero NIcolini Grimaldi, Signer 

 Valentino Urbani, Mr. Ramondon, Mr. Turner, 

 Signora Margarita, Mr. Cooke, Mrs. Tofts, and 

 The Baroness. The music was by Scarlatti, and 

 the libretto by Owen Swiny. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



''Concur," '' Condog" (2°^ S. ill. 405.) — Has 

 any one traced this joke to its origin ? for Dr. 

 Littleton was not the inventor ; at least, not the 

 first who played it off. 



Turn to the third scene in the third act of 

 LlUie's Galathea, a play anterior to Shakspeare's 

 time, and you will find : 



" Alchymist. So it is ; and often doth it happen that 

 the just proportion of the fire and all things concur. 

 " Rdlph. Concur, Condog : I will away. 

 " Alchymist. Then awav." 



T. S. 



Nature's Mould (2"'^ S. ii. 225.) — Add, Earl of 

 Surrey's Poems : A Praise of his Love, vv. 3, 4. : 



" I could rehearse, if that I would, 

 The whole effect of Nature's plaint, 



When she had lost the perfect mould, 

 The like to whom she could not paint : 



With wringing hands, how she did cry, 



And what she said, I know it, I. 



« I know she swore with raging mind, 



Her kingdom only set apart, 

 There was no loss, by law of kind. 



That could have gone so near her heart ; 

 And this was chiefly all her pain, 

 *She could not make the like again.' " 



Ibid. Of the Death of S'. Tho. Wyatt (No. 2.), 

 V. 8.: 



" A valiant corpse, where force and beauty met : 

 Happy, alas ! too happy, but for foes ; 

 Lived, and ran the race that Nature set ; 



Of manhood's shape, where she the mould did lose." 



Ache. 



St. Chrysostom and Aristophanes (2"'^ S. iii. 246.) 

 — Mr. Trevelyan of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, in a prize essay (1806), alludes to the 

 saint's liking for the witty Athenian : — 



" Te vero, Menandre, cariorem habeo quia in suaj aesti- 

 mationis clientelam te suscepit divinura Pauli ingenium. 

 Vellem tibi quoque, ut Aristophani*, sacrum illud patro- 

 cinium idem prsebuisset monumentum ! " 



E. H. A. 



"An Epistle of Comfort" (2"^ S. Hi. 376.) — 

 This work is presumed to be by the martyr South- 

 well, and the same as that assigned to him by 

 Dodd by the title of ^ Consolation for Catholics 

 imprisoned on account of Religion. See Turnbull s 

 edition of SouthwelVs Poems, Memoir, p. xxxv. 



M. h. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



* " Sc. Chrysostom. (he adds in a note) cui Aristoph. 

 Comoed. maxime fuerunt in deliciis ; et ob hanc rem ad- 

 huc durasse creduntur." — Prolusiones, p. 43. 



