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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 120. 



the characters, formed such an idea of them, that 

 she writes with a crayon so distinctly, that her 

 writing can be Avell read." What is the earliest 

 known instance of the blind being taught to read 

 or write by the instrumentality of raised letters ? 



J. Sansom. 



Hyrne, Meaning of . — During my recent inves- 

 tigations into our local history, I met with three 

 places in this town with this word affixed — such 

 as North IIii~ne, now called North Street ; also 

 Cold Hyme, now called All Saints' Street, in 

 South Lynn ; and a place called Clink's Heven, in 

 North Lynn. 



I have also met with another village, "Guyi^frn," 

 in Cambridgeshire, of which most of your readers 

 are aware; and my pi-esent object is to learn the 

 meaning of this word ? John Nurse Chadwick. 



King's Lynn. 



The fairest Attendant of the Scottish Queen. — 

 Mary (of Guise), Dowager Queen of Scots, passed 

 through England, on returning from a visit to 

 Prance, in November 1551 : she was lodged at 

 the Bishop's Palace in London, and on her de- 

 parture " divers lords and ladies brongiit her on 

 her way ; and when she came without Bishopsgate, 

 the fairest lady that she had with her of her country 

 was stolen away from her ; and so she went forth 

 on her journey." Tliis passage is from The 

 Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, now print- 

 ing for the Camden Society. Can any one tell me 

 whether " the fairest lady's " elopement has been 

 elsewhere recorded ? John Gough Nichols. 



" Soud, soud, soud, soud!" — In the Taming of 

 the Shrew, Act IV. Sc. L, Petruchio, on arriving 

 at his house, says to his bride : 



" Sit down, Kate, and welcome. Soud, soud, soud, 

 soud ! " 



The word soud puzzles the commentators. 



Johnson takes it for soot or sooth, sweet. Mason 

 supposes it to denote the humming of a tune, or 

 an ejaculation, for which it is not necessary to find 

 out a meaning- Malone conjectures it to be a 

 word coined to express the noise made by a person 

 heated and fatigued. 



This seems a proper subject for a Query. T. C. 



Kei/ Experiments. — Can some one of your cor- 

 respondents aiford me an explanation of the prin- 

 ciples controlling tlie following experiment : Two 

 persons, taking a large key, hold it balanced by 

 the handle upon the Ibrefinger of their opposite 

 hands ; the key should be tied in a thin book, with 

 t le handle projecting so far that the finger may 

 easily pass between the book and the handle ; the 

 book serves to balance the key by its weight, and 

 exhibits more plainly any movement of the key ; 

 both persons tlien wish the key to turn to the 

 right or left, and, after a k^i moments, the key 

 will take the desired direction. The earnest and 



united wish of the operators appears to be the 

 motive power. The divination by " the Bible and 

 key," given in your Vol. i., p. 413., and Vol. ii. 

 p. 5., is evidently based on the same principles ; 

 and the mention of that superstition will be an 

 apology for my making your pages the medium of 

 the present inquiry, which is perhaps scarcely 

 fitted for a publication designed for literary pur- 

 poses. J. P. Jun. 



Shield of Hercules. — In which of the English 

 periodicals can I have met with a drawing of the 

 Shield of Hercules, as described by Hesiod ? 



Batavus. 



Amsterdam. 



" Sum Liber, et non sum" ^"c. — 

 " Sum Liber, et non sum liber, quia servio Servo. 

 Sum Servus Servo, Servus et ille Deo." 



The above lines are written in the fly-leaf of a 

 copy of the Iliad, Greek and Latin, which for- 

 merly belonged to Sir Isaac Newton, and bears 

 his autograph. Can any of your correspondents 

 inform me whence they are taken ? or may they 

 be considered as the original composition of 

 Newton ? The autograph is " Isaac Newton. 

 Triu. Coll. Cant. 1661." G. E. T. 



Whipping a Husband — Hudibras. — In the first 

 canto oi Hudibras, part ii. 1. 885., are these lines.: 

 " Did not a certain lady whip 

 Of late her husband's own lordship ? 

 And though a grandee of the house 

 Claw'd him with fundamental blows; 

 Ty'd him uncover'd to a bed-post, 

 And firk'd his hide, as if sh' had rid post. 

 And after in the Sessions Court, 

 Where whipping's judg'd, had honor for't? " 

 My copy of the poem, with Hogarth's plates, has 

 no note on this passage. To whom does it refer ? 

 A Bury Guide, published in 1833, states that it 

 occurred in that town in 1650 to a nobleman who 

 had discovered an inclination to desert the Hano- 

 verian cause. BuRiBNSis. 

 [Zachary Grey has given a long note on this passage, 

 and states that it was William Lord M-n-n, residing at 

 Bury St. Edmunds, whose lady, possessing the true 

 disciplinarian spirit, tied his lordship to a bed-post by 

 the help of her maids, and punished him for showing 

 favours to the unsanctified Cavaliers ; for which salu- 

 tary discipline she had thanks given her in open court.] 



Aldus. — What was the inscription on his print- 

 ing-house, requesting his friends to dispatch their 

 business with him as soon as possible, and then 

 go about their business? A. D. F. R. S. 



[Over the door of his sanctum Aldus placed the fol- 

 lowing inscription : 



" Whoever you are, Aldus earnestly entreats you to 

 dispatch your business as soon as possible, and then 



