2"d s. VIII. Oct. 8. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



GaUimawfry, — in the glossaries is interpreted 

 " a medley," " a confused Leap of things ;" and this 

 might be the meaning in the Winter's Tale, Act 

 IV. Sc. 3., did we meet with it in no other passage. 

 But in the Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Sc. 

 1., Pistol, talking to Ford of his wife, says — 

 " He loves thy galliniawfry ; Ford, perpend ! " 



Of course the word as given above would be non- 

 sense applied to a lady, and it could not be a term 

 of reproach, or Pistol would not dare to use it to 

 Ford's face. Is it not derived from the Anglo- 

 Saxon gal, light, pleasant, and mauther or maufer, 

 a provincial term for a lass, derived, says Spel- 

 mau, from the Danish ? The " gallimawfry of 

 gambols," in the Winter's Tale (supra), would then 

 .probably mean such gambols as young girls play. 



A. A. 

 Poets' Corner. 



Fap. — Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Sc. 1. 

 — Bardolph, when describing how Slender got tipsy, 

 and had his pocket picked, says, " the gentleman 

 had drunk himself out of his five sentences, and 

 being fap, was, as they say, cashiered." The com- 

 mentators simply say in a note " fap, i. e. drunk." 

 There seems, however, to be no word like this in 

 any language ; besides Bardolph has just said he 

 was drunk. Is not the true reading " sap," being 

 silly, weak, sappy, he suffered his pocket to be 

 picked? The sap or soft part of timber has 

 always been considered a type of a weak person. 



A. A. 



Poets' Comer. 



Fair lined Slippers. — In the beautiful pastoral 

 of Chr. Marlowe, " Come, live with me, and be my 

 love," referred to by Shakspeare in the Merry 

 Wives of Windsor, occurs a line, the reading of 

 which appears to me to be capable of emenda- 

 tion : — 



" A gown made of the finest wool, 



Which from our pretty lambs we pull : 



Fair lined slippers for the cold, 



With buckles of the purest gold." 



Should we not read " rmV-lined," or '■'•fur- 

 lined," slippers ? Fair lined seems poor, espe- 

 cially as we have just had pretty lambs ; and vair 

 and fair are so similar in sound as to be easily 

 confounded. Cjbtlonensis. 



[Walton's version of this pastoral, in his Complete An- 

 gler, contains several variations ; among others one in the 

 third line of the verse quoted above, which reads : — 

 " A gown made of the finest wool, 

 Which from our pretty Iambs we pull ; 

 Slippers, lin'd choicely for the cold, 

 With buckles of the purest gold."] 



Shahspeare's Latinity. — I was reading Bishop 

 Hall's treatise, Heaven upon Earth, this morning, 

 when I observed that he there alludes to persons 



" of firm and obdurate foreheads," to which ex- 

 pression a note is subjoined (in Cattermole's edi- 

 tion), stating that such is a proverbial Latin 

 idiom ; a person lost to shame being said to be 

 " duraj et perfricataj frontis." Now, Shakspeare 

 uses the expression " mdiashful forehead." *" Qy., 

 Was Shakspeare therefore acquainted with this 

 Latin idiom ? John Peat, M.A. 



Weald Parsonage. 



Allusion to the Play of "Hamlet " in 1596. — 



" And looks as pale as the visard of y« ghost which 

 cried so miserably at y« Theater like an oister wife ' Ham- 

 let revenge.' " — Lodge's Incarnate Devils, 1596, p. 56. 



Ithl'biel. 



Early Allusion to Shakspeare. — Amongst a col- 

 lection of poems, sixteenth and seventeenth cen- 

 tury, formerly in the possession of Dr. Bliss, and 

 noted by him as collected by Clement Paman, we 

 find one called "A Poetical Revenge," which 

 alludes to the plays of Shakspeare : — 

 " But ere I farre did gee 

 I flunge y'' darts of wounding poetrie 

 These two or three sharpe curses backe. May he 

 Be by his father in his study tooke, 

 At Shakespeare's Playes instead of the L<i Cooke." 



Ithuriel. 



Shakspeare Music. — As everything relating to 

 Shakspeare has its interest, one would like to see 

 a list of the musical compositions to his poetry. 

 Some of bis songs have been set to music several 

 times, and in those cases where any one of the 

 composers has been strikingly successful, it would 

 be very curious to see the less fortunate attempts 

 at the same words. Thus, Purcell's setting of 

 "Full fathom five" is famous, but there are at 

 least two other settings in existence : one by 

 Banister, in Charles ll.'s time, and one by Han- 

 del's friend, John Christopher Smith, which has 

 even attained to the honour of being reprinted 

 (twice, I think f). Again, Purcell's setting of 

 " Come unto these yellow sands," is the univer- 

 sally received one ; there ai-e, however, at least 

 two other settings in the field : one by Banister, 

 and one (as a glee) by Sir John Stevenson. Then 

 there is Dr. Arne's happy conception of " Where 

 the bee sucks," of which song it may be noted 

 that there are at least four other settings extant : 

 one by Pelham Humphrey J, one by Dr. John 



* As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 3. 



t In Mr. E. Loder's arrangement of J. C. Smith's " Full 

 fathom five" (1850), the music is transposed from the 

 original key of E flat, into D. Purcell's chorus, " Sea- 

 nj'mphs hourly ring his knell," belonging to his own 

 setting of " Full fathom five," has been added by Mr. 

 Loder to J. C. Smith's song, but without any intimation 

 of the authorship. 



J Pelham Humphrej' is mentioned several times by 

 Pepys in his Diary. The printed music of his composi- 



