NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[a^'i S. VlII. July 2. '^0, 



Prize Essay on the Historical Plaj's of Shakspeare. 

 8vo. London'. 1850. 



A new Boke about Shakspeare and Stratford-upon- 

 Avon. By J. O. Halliwell. 4to. London. 1850. 

 (Printed for private circulation.) 



Sentiments and Similes of William Shakspeare, illu- 

 minated in the ancient iMissal Style. By H. N. Hum- 

 phrey. 4to. London. 1851. 



Truths illustrated by {rreat Authors. A Dictionary of 

 nearly 4000 Aids to Reflexion, Quotations, &c., from 

 Shakspeare and other great Writers. 8vo. London. 

 1852. 



Chasles (Philartte) Etudes sur Shakspeare, Marie 

 Stuart et Aretin. 8vo. Paris 



The Text of Shakspeare : an Article in North British 

 Review, December, 1853. [By G. L. Craik.] 



The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare, comprising 

 Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, &c. 12rao. 

 London. 1853. 



Collier, J. P., Alte Handschriftliche Emendationem 

 zum Shakespeare gewilrdigt von Dr. Delias. Bonn. 

 1853. 



Leo, F. A., BeitrUoje und Verbesserungen zu Shake- 

 speare's Dramen. Berlin. 1853. [On J. P. Collier's 

 Folio, 1G32.] 



New Readings in Shakspeare : in Blackwood's Maga- 

 zine for .August, September, and October, 1853. 



Der Perkin's Shakspeare. By T. Momnisen. 8vo. 

 Berlin. 1854. 



The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspeare unfolded. 

 By Delia Bacon, with a Preface by Nat. Hawthorne. 

 8vo. London. 1857. 



The Beauties of Shakspeare; a Lecture delivered at 

 Stratford-on-Avon, 23rd April, 1857. By John Wise. 

 London. 1857. 



Shakspeare's Sonnets : an Article in the Westminster 

 Review for April (?) 1857. 



L. A. B. W. 



C8. Bolsover Street, W. 



GLEANINGS FROM WEITBKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH 

 CENTUKY, ILLUSTRATIVE OF PKOVERBS, WORDS, 

 ETC. 



(Contviued/rom 2"<» S. vi. 321.) 

 Words : — 



" We live in a stupid age. The greatest stroakes of 

 God, if any whit remote, scarce make the least dint : 

 those that cut to the quick usually be doft too soon." — 

 Remains of Mr. Richard Capel. London, 1658. Prefatory 

 Address. 



" We may be left to green heads, to those that be little 

 better than children." — lb. 



" He would bolt out that, out of the holy book of God, 

 that would not come into another man's consideration." 

 —lb. 



" 'Tis no wonder, then, that the cream of the whole 

 country . , . would hang on his ministry." — lb. 



"He would be far front those battohgies and miserable 

 extravagancies," &c. — lb. 



" Sometimes in such dumps," &c. — lb. 



" Get we then to God, He can stablish the shuttle 

 heart." — lb. 



" Again, gingle not with termes that be improper in 

 matters of Religion. " — lb. 



" Learn to be more above board in all our dealings." 

 — lb. 



"Not to the half nor quarterth part of a common apo- 

 tliecarie's bill." — lb. 



"Erasmus hurt the Pope more by his jesting than 

 Luther by his ruffling," Sic. — Reviams of Mr. Richard 

 Capel. London, 1658. Prefatory Address. 



" Age creeping one" — lb. 



" These and his other eminencies would be laid in oule 

 &nd lime by him that hath a better pencil." — lb. 



"There's an immanent wheres not a transient power 

 to edifie." — lb. 



" Some scapes in the printing," p 80. of the following 

 Treatise on the Translation of the Holy Scriptures ; — 



" That we may not leave any rubb in the consciences of 

 the weak. — lb., p. 19. 



_ (In this treatise the word sith occurs twelve 

 times.) 



" In this universal scare-fire." — The Balm of Gilead. 

 A Sermon preached by Anih. Tucknerj, D.D., Aug." 30, 1643, 

 London, 1654, p. 11. 



" Like a wruckt man," &c. — lb., 13. 



"Be a means that she (i. e. vour native countrv), 

 which hath suckled you with lier milk, may not "be 

 slocken in her own blood." — Jb., 44. 



" You shall find all hopes and expectations dasht, all 

 ankers coming home," &c. — lb., 56. 



"Anker, shipicrack." — lb., 62. 



"If circumstances can i((?i?e» them of the largest size." 



— lb., 74. 



" Death's sting can pierce, even to the quick, through 

 such a callous brawnynesse." — A. Tuckney's Sermon on 

 Death disarmed, p. 25. 



"He thinks he is still raiding and tossing in the tem- 

 pest."— 76., 109. 



" Then all vizards will be laid aside, all black patches 

 and beauty spnts that covered foul sores will he pluckt off." 



I' No more is a true godly spirit hindered in his way by 

 this scorn (or reproach), then one riding on with strength 

 in his journey, hindred by the barking of ivhappets at his 

 horse heeh." —r Burroughs on the Excellency of a Gracious 

 Spirit. London, 1638,"p. 64. 



"The child that thou snibbedst and reprovest." — Bur- 

 roughs on Hosea. London, 1652, vol. i. p. 52. 



" Bewetted with the tempest." — lb , bb. 



I' Because God revealeth such rich grace in the middest 

 of judgment, let this engage your hearts to the Lord for 

 ever." — lb., 72. 



" It hath been matter enough for a godly, painful, con- 

 scionable minister to be outed of all he hath in an in- 

 stant."— /6., 82. 



" Many times in dark corners in the country where 

 they never had the knowledge of Jesus Christ, but were 

 nuzled up in Poperj', and all kinds of superstitious 

 vanity." — lb., 85. 



" A dead luskish spirit is liable to a thousand tempta- 

 tions."— /A., 92. 



" We shall have nothing but braUlng and divisions ; 

 what shall every man be left to do what he list?" — 

 lb., 98. 



"They have wide, checker, lyiher consciences, and hav- 

 ing ends of their own, they will yield to anything for the 

 attaining of those ends." — lb., 102. 



" What kind of dangers did inviron the Church, and 

 do inviron it." — lb., 116. 



"Those on ship-board shoot out to have them come to 

 helpe,"&c. — 7A., 149. 



"The^' (children) should be very carefull in keeping 

 their due respect to their parents, and not speak malla- 

 perlly." — lb., 152. 



"Pride, arrogancy, mallapertness." — lb., 159. 



" We have already met with as tickle points as can be." 



— 7^,161. 



