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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 137. 



Grange. A granary, &c. (used also in English). 

 Fr. Grange. 



Giosert, Groser, or Groset. A gooseberry. (Burns.) 

 Fr. Groseille. 



Gud-hr'ither. Brother-in-law. Fr. Bon-frere. 



Haveril. A simpleton, or April-fool. {Burns.") 

 Fr. Avril. 



Jalouse — To. To suspect. (^Antiquary.) Fr. Jalouse. 



Jigot. The hip-joint of lamb or mutton (used also 

 in English). Fr. Gigot. 



Jupe. A woman's mantle or pelisse. Fr. Jupe, a 

 long coat. 



Kicksfiaws. A made-up dish. Fr. Quelque chose. 



Multipkpoinding . An action in Scottish law, some- 

 what similar to the English bill of interpleader in 

 Chancery. Fr. Multiplie-poindre. 



Multure or Mouter. Tlie fee for grinding grain. 

 (Douglas.) Fr. Mouture. 



Onding. A heavy fall of rain or snow. Fr. Ondde (?). 



Petticoat tails. A species of cake baked with butter, 

 sometimes called "short-bread." (Bride of Lammer- 

 moor.) Fr. Petits gatelles (more correctly, gateaux). 



Buckle or Richie. A heap or collection. Fr. lle- 

 cueil. 



Servite or Servet. A table napkin. (Spalding.) 

 Fr. Serviette. 



Veritg — Chair of. A pulpit. Fr. La chaire de 

 verite. (Croker's BosweWs Johnson, p. 513.) 



Vizzie, Vizy, or Visie. A scrutinising view, aim, or 

 sight at the muzzle of a gun. (Bride of Lammermoor.) 

 Fr. Visee, aim. 



Walkes or Valises. Saddlebags. (Godscroft.) Fr. 

 Valise, a portmanteau. 



E.N. 



ON A PASSAGE IN " CTMBELINE," ACT IV. SC. 2. 



It is SO usual with Malone and some other com- 

 mentators on Shakspeare to impute the errors of 

 the printer to the poet, that we often find the most 

 glaring instances of false grammar, and anomalies 

 of construction, laid to his charge, and defended as 

 the practice of the time ; and as his own practice ! 

 The following passage is an instance in point : 

 •' Gni. Why, he but sleeps ; 



If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed; -f 

 With female fairies will his tomb be haunted. 

 And worms will not come to thee." 



Steevens with reason says : 



" This change from the second person to the third is 

 so violent, that I cannot help imputing it to the players, 

 transcribers, or printers." 



He proposed to read him for thee. Malone of 

 course defends the absurdity. We may, however, 

 be assured that it is not attributable to the poet. 

 Whoever reads the passage with attention will 

 perceive that the allusion in the last line is not to 

 Fidele, but to the fairies haunting his tomb. It 

 should be remembered that it was held that no 

 noxious creatures would be found where fairies 

 resort. 



The compositor, as in other cases, mistook the 

 word, probably written " the," and printed " thee" 

 for " them." 



Your correspondent Mr. Halliwell having 

 noticed my approval of the emendation of a pas- 

 sage in Coriolanus, found in Mr. Collier's copy 

 of the second folio, where " bosom multiplied" is; 

 happily corrected to " bissom multitude," perhaps^ 

 I may be permitted to say that I cannot subscribe 

 to his opinion,^ that " it is one of those alterations 

 which no conjectural ingenuity could have sug- 

 gested." To me it appears that the steps are ob- 

 vious by which any intelligent reader of the poet 

 might be led to make the correction. The word 

 which was mistaken by the printer for "bosome" 

 occurs in a previous scene of the play, where it is 

 " beesome" in the folios ; and a recollection of thi* 

 would naturally lead to the conjectured emenda- 

 tion. Indeed the word appears to have been not 

 unfrequently written " beasom," as we find it in 

 Huloet's Dictionary. The word " multitude "" 

 would suggest itself to any attentive reader of the 

 play, from its repeated occurrence in the 3rd Scene 

 of Act II. : and we must always suppose the writer 

 to have been intent upon correcting errata. The 

 correction of "infuitecomming" to " infinite clin- 

 ning," in Measure for Measure, is, in my mind, an 

 instance quite equal in " conjectural ingenuity;" 

 and we know that we owe it to that of the late 

 Mr. Sidney Walker. 



I must candidly confess that the specimens of 

 the corrections given by Mr, Collier in his first 

 two communications to the AtKdncBum gave me the 

 same dissatisfaction and apprehension that Mr.. 

 Halliwell appears to have entertained ; but I 

 do not draw the same inference that gentleman 

 seems to do, from the occurrence of this one truly 

 happy conjectural emendation. It is, however, 

 sufficient to convey a favourable notion of the- 

 acuteness of the writer of the emendatory notes, 

 and nothing more. S. W. Singer.. 



OLB CONCERT BILL. 



The following curious bill (the original of which, 

 is in my possession) of a benefit concert given by 

 Signor Carbonelli, at Drury Lane Theatre, in 

 1722, will enable us to form some opinion of the 

 musical taste prevailing in London in the first 

 quarter of the eighteenth century : 



" Drury Lane Theatre. 



May 4. 



SIGNOR CARBONELLFS CONCERT. 



Act T. 



A New Concerto for Two Trumpets, composed and 



performed by Grano and others. 



A New Concerto, by Albinoni, just brought over. 



Song, Mrs. Barbier. 



Concerto, composed by Signor Carbonelli. 



