2n>» S. VIII. July 9. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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are deemed favourable to the vine. So, in Reve- 

 lation vi. 6., it is said : 



" A measure of -wheat for a pennj^, and three measures 

 of barley for a penny [the labourer's daily wages], and 

 see thou hurt not the oil and the wine." 



The poor will have a bare sufficiency of barley 

 and wheat, whilst the rich will see their luxuries 

 cheapened by an abundant growth. 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 



Zeyst. 



" The Style is the Man himself" (2"<> S. vi. 308. ; 

 vii. 502.) — "Le style est I'homme meine" (Dis' 

 cours prononce a VAcudemie Franqais par M. De 

 Buffon, le Jour de sa Reception, 25 Aout, 1753.) 

 M. riourens, in his very handsome edition, with 

 learned and valuable notes, of Buffon's (Euvres 

 Completes, Paris, (12 vols, royal 8vo., 1853, &c.), 

 which is now esteemed the best edition, inserts 

 the following note to the phrase quoted above : — 



" Mot c^lfebre, et chaque jour repete, ' Le Style est 

 I'homme m^me, et BufFon nous en donne la vraie raison ; 

 c'est que les autres choses sont hors de I'homme, et peuvent 

 lui etre enlevees." 



There can be no doubt, therefore, that your 

 Philadelphia correspondent is right in vindicating 

 the accuracy of the phrase in the form now 

 quoted. J. Mac eat. 



Oxford. 



Old Prooerh (2"^ S. vii. 88.) —The answer (2»'> 

 S. vii. 183.) gives : 



" If that j'ou will France win, 

 Then with Scotland first begin." 



Hen. V. Act I. Sc. 2. 

 Compare farther Henry Chicheley's speech in 

 Hall, 2 Hen. V., pp. 50—54., with the Archb. of 

 Canterbury's in Shakspeare, Act I. Sc. 2. To 

 which Raufe, Erie of Westmerland, replies : 



"... I thinke, yea and litle doubt, but Scotland shalhee 

 tamed before Fraunce shalie framed." — Hall, p. 54. (ed. 

 4to., 1809. 



" No q'^ the Duke of Excester, uncle to the Kyng 

 (whiche war well learned and sent into Italy by his 

 father entendj-ng to have been a prieste) : ' He that will 

 Scotlande win, let hvm with Fraunce first begin.' " — 

 Hall, p. 55. 



Shakspeare, no doubt, quoted from memory, 



J. M. N. 



^^ Perhaps it ivas right to dissemble your love" ^-c. 

 (2°* S.vii. 177.)— Mr. Fkebe says authoritatively 

 that, though / presume these lines to be Kem- 

 ble's, they certainly are not his. Notwithstanding 

 I submit that the entire probability is in favour of 

 Kemble's authorship. They are shown to be not 

 Bickerstaff's, and it is unlikely that Kemble would 

 have deliberately appropriated the composition of 

 another without acknowledgment. J'he Panel was 

 altered from Bickerstaff's play ; therefore what 

 was not in Bickerstaff's original must be put down 

 to Kemble. Hence the fair conclusion to be ar- 



rived at is, that Kemble contributed these lines 

 to the " Asylum for Fugitive Pieces," and three 

 years afterwards introduced them into The Panel, 

 on the principle of a man's right to do what he 

 likes with his own. W. T. M. 



Hong Kong, 5th May, 1859. 



^ Old Bells (2°^ S. viii. 12.) — The bell in ques- 

 tion may or may not be old : the form is as ancient 

 as any, and such are called erotals, often found in 

 barrows. When linked together in the way which 

 had excited the admiration of Mk. Coombs, they 

 are called by country people jinglers, rattlers, ear- 

 bells, — being attached to the bridles of horses 

 universally in the days of narrow roads and pack- 

 saddles. I remember them in common use, but 

 now they are rare ; so much so as to be con- 

 sidered " curious." H. T. Ellacombe. 



Botnbs (2"^ S. vii. 521.)— In Mr. Boys's paper 

 on the " Ballad of Sir Andrew Barton," he says, 

 " Bombs are said to have been invented in 1495." 

 In a little work alluded to by Abhba (2"^ S. vii. 

 517.), i. e. The Tablet of Memory, I find it stated 

 that bombs were not invented till 1588, by a man 

 at Venlo, and that they were first used by the 

 French in 1634, in which year they were fired 

 from mortars. T. C. Anderson, 



H. M.'s 12th Reg. Bengal Army. 



[We are aware that the date of this invention has been 

 disputed; and it is not clear that bombs were thrown 

 from mortars before the sixteenth century. But they are 

 said to have been first invented towards the close of the 

 fifteenth, as stated by Mk. Boys, and by Haydn in hia 

 Diet, of Dates. — Ed.] 



Drowning as a Punishment for Women (2"^ S. 

 vii. 445.) — The following passage occurs in Lord 

 Coke's Third Institute, p. 58., from which it ap- 

 pears that the right of pit and gallows was alsa 

 known to the ancient law of England : — 



"The judgment in all cases of felony is, that the per- 

 son attainted be hanged by the neck until he, or she, be 

 dead. But in ancient times in that case the man was 

 banged, and the woman was drowned, whereof we have 

 seen examples in the reign of Eichard I. And this is the 

 meaning of ancient franchises granted de furcd et fossa, 

 ' of the gallows and the pit,' for the hanging upon the 

 one and drowning in the other ; but fossa is taken away, 

 and/ttrca remains," 



L. 



Cockade (2"* S. vii. 522.)— Certainly I think 

 the servant of any non-commissioned officer or 

 private of any rifle or other volunteer corps, is 

 not entitled* to the decoration of a cockade. _ Of- 

 ficers of the regular army and embodied militia^ 

 or when on retired pay, or halfpay, may place 

 the cockade in their servants' hats, but even these 

 should doff it, if they altogether retire from the 

 service. Still perhaps it is much a^ matter of 

 feeling, and should any one assume it, it is not 

 very likely that there may be any question about 

 it, or the pretension inquired into. H. 



