2'"« S. VIII. Dec. 10. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES, 



475 



" This Soudan for his prive councel sent 



and charged hem in lite. 1 



To shapen for his lif som remedie." 



31. of Laioes Tale, 4C29, 



On the other hand, we have in Thomas Beket I 

 (Percy Soc.) : 



" The King sat an hey on his cee." — v. 773. | 



And in Antnrs of Arther (Camd. Soc.) : ! 



" There my^te hathels in hye herdus be-hold," I 



where the meaning seems to be on-high. In the ', 



passage in question it may mean haughtily. 



6. Werne = forbid, refuse, is of very frequent 

 occurrence. Thus in Avowynge of Arther : 

 " I a- vow bi my life 



Nere werne no mon of my mete." — ix. 13. 



" None the King sayd, ' Fie he ne can 

 Ne werne his mete to no man.' " — xlv. 2. 



So in Si?' Amadace (xiii. 11.) : 



" And pore men for Goddus sake 

 He fed horn euyriche day ; 

 Quil he hade any gud to take. 

 He wernelt no mon for Goddus sake." 



So In Thomas Behet (v. 1274.) : 



" The Pope bigan to sike sore ; mid Avel dreorl thoyt 

 The teres urne out of his even, lie ne mi jte hem werne 

 no3t." 



So in Romaunt of the Rose (see Richardson). 

 7, 8. Mr. Boys has probably given the true mean- 

 ing of these, unless we be a misprint for ivedd. 



9. Smalle. There seems no necessity for any 

 such farfetched derivation in this case as sam- 

 mcele. Most likely smalle is used substantively, 

 as adjectives constantly are in the old romances. 

 Cf. "that stern'' {Antnrs, 311.), "that lovely,'' 

 " that gay " {lb. 41. 10.), &c. 



10. Wayne, no doubt means swing, whether the 

 reading be correct, or (as is not improbable) the 

 true reading be u-ayiie, i. e. wave. Wayne ^ 

 strikes, or, goes at, occurs in the Anturs (xlii. 2.) : 



" Thenne with steroppus fulle stre3te, stifly be strikes 

 Waynes atte Sir Wawane ry^te as he were wode." 



11. Withynney-u-is. The recurrence more than 

 once in the poem of the words withynne and y-wis, 

 lead inevitably to the conclusion that the above is 

 a mere typographical error, which " the learned 

 editor" is not at all unlikely to have overlooked. 

 The very same phrase, '•'•farre within," occurs in 

 one of Hey wood's interludes {Lover Loved) : 



" Where folke be./arre luithin a man must knock." 

 Introd. to iVit and Folly (Percy Soc), xxvii. 



The instance, brought forward by Mr. Boys 

 to back his conjecture, does not apply, as he will 

 be the first to see if he will kindly look over the 

 passage again : 



" The hound rennyth evyr y-wis 

 Tylle he come there hys maystyr ys." 



There was no need for the dog to run every- 

 wise, inasmuch as he had come straight from his 



master's grave to the palace ; and not having 

 found his master's murderer there, he returned 

 straight without stopping to the grave. This is 

 confirmed by what is said a few lines farther on : 

 " When he goth, pursewe hym then 

 For ecymiore he wylle renne 

 Tj'lle he come there hys maystyr ys." 

 And again : 



" Eeste wolde he nevyr have 

 Tylle lie come to hys maystyr's grave." 



With regard to No. 1. — " Y may evyr after 

 this," &c., I confess myself to be entirely at a 

 loss, unless may = can make, am able to cause, 

 i. e. I can bring to pass that, if ever after this 

 thou wouldest entice me to do amiss, no sport 

 should please thee. It is worth noting that in 

 every other passage in the poem where game and 

 glee occur, their positions are reversed, e. g. 

 1. 462. : 



" But ther gamyd hur no glewe." 

 So 1. 1467. : 



" Then gamyd hym no glee." 

 Two other passages struck me as noteworthy, 

 viz. : 



" That they myght have there a space, 

 Knyghtys of dyvers a place.'' — 1. 656. 



" Nor no wepyn hytn with to were." — I. 677. 

 But they present only peculiarities of construc- 

 tion, not real difficulties. J. Eastwood. 



JAMES ANDERSON. 



{Concluded from p. 459.) 

 II. 



" Extract from part of a Letter in Draft from James An - 

 derson, Esq., to his Cousin, James Anderson, Westmin- 

 ster. 



"Edin., June 10,1711. 

 " I presume you will not grudge to call at the noble 

 and civil Earle [of Rochester], give my most humble 

 duty, and acquaint his lordship what money I have re- 

 mitted to him.* As to the overplus, be pleased to pay 

 Mr. George Gordon what 1 owe him for news prints 

 whenever he is pleased to call for it, and give him ten 

 shillings ; and for what remains 1 shall give you direc- 

 tions at mv next remittance for Lady Campbell [of Caw- 

 dor]. 



" Since my last to you, I have seen a friend who gives 

 me a melancholy account of Mar3-, and of your concern 

 and good advices to her, and of Janet's care of her ; but I 

 find she is buoyed up with pride and self-conceit, if not 

 worse ; for, my dear friend, you have acted such a kind 

 part in that inatter, that I'll use the freedom to tell you 

 that, as I hinted formerl.v, she came to London without 

 my knowledge, and directly against the advice of her best 

 friends ; but I understood she has lost her reputation by 

 Ij'eing and keeping bad companj'; yet such was my 

 lenity, and in hopes of lier amendment, that I not only 

 concealed her misbehaviour, but endeavoured to put her 

 in the way of business — above all, in good company. 



* " The money mentioned was the feu-duty exigible 

 for Islay, to which the family of Hyde had right, although 

 Campbell of Calder held the property of the island." 



