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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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have left it to them to answer Mb. Raines's in- 

 quiry, but for the opportunity it affords of point- 

 ing out what appears to me to be a contradiction 

 in the poet's narrative. In line 146. the Sibyl 

 tells iEneas that he will have no difficulty in se- 

 curing the bough, if the Fates permit him to visit 

 the Shades : — 



"... namque ipse volens facilisque sequetur, 

 Si te fata vocant : aliter, non viribus uUis 

 Vincere, nee duro poteris convellere ferro " ; 

 but when he describes the hero as actually grasp- 

 ing the prize, his language is 



« Corripit extemplo ^neas, avidusque refringit 



Cunctantem " 



I observe that there is another reading given, 

 " Sedantem," but I imagine it will find few sup- 

 porters. C. H. 



Tote (2°* S. viii. 282. 338.) — The word tote 

 has many more meanings than either Me. Mtebs 

 or Mr. p. Thompson assign to it. Old writers 

 often used it in the sense of to pry, look about, 

 &c. Abp. Cranmer, speaking of the elevation of 

 the Host, uses the word, 



" Peepj'ng, tootyng, and gasyng at that thing, whiche 

 the priest held up in his hands." — Def, of the Sacra. 

 fol. 101. a. 



Spenser also uses the word in the sense of to 

 search for : — 



" I cast to go a shooting, 

 Long wand'ring up and down the land, 

 With bow and butts on either hand, 



For birds in bushes tooting." — Shep. Cal. 



Tote had also the meaning of to sound, or make 

 a noise, as, 

 " Toting, and piping upon the destroyed organ pipes." 

 -Bp. Hall, Specialities of his Life. 



In Howell's Letters we find the word used to 

 signify something prominent : — 



" Though perhaps he had never a shirt to his back, 

 yet he would have a toting, huge, swelling ruff about his 

 neck." — Howell, Lett. I. iii. 32. 



In the following passage the word tote would 

 seem to have another meaning, equivalent per- 

 haps to our expression to lounge, or to stroll : — 



"Then toted I into a taverne, and there I aspyede 

 Two frere Carmes." — Pierce PL Crede (qA. 1563), sign. 

 B. iii.) 



On second thoughts, perhaps to peep would be 

 the more correct interpretation of the word tote 

 in the above quotation, as the same author, in 

 another part of the work I have quoted from 

 (sign. B. i.) uses the word in the sense of look- 

 ing:— 



" Then turned I again when I had all ytoted." 



J. A. Pn. 



The handle of a carpenter's plane is called a 

 tote to this day. Does not this fact infer the 

 word to be of Anglo-Saxon origin ? A. A. 



Poets' Corns'". 



Texts from the Apocrypha (2"^ S. viii. 309.) — 



" A Sermon preached on the late Fast Day,Wednesda}', 

 Oct. 19, 1803, at the Parish Church of Hatton, Warwick- 

 shire, by Samuel Parr, LL.D , has a text from the Apo- 

 crypha, viz. 1 Maccabees, iii. 21. : ' We fight for our lives 

 and our laws.' " 



The sermon was published, 4to. Lond. 1804. 

 and reprinted by Johnstone in his edition of 

 Parr's Works, vol. ii. p. 625. &c. Y. B. N. J, 



Mr. Ralph Willett (2"* S. viii. 308.) —The son 

 or nephew of Mr. Ralph Willett died in the 

 Albany some two years back. He had a valuable 

 collection of coins, but was fortunate especiaHy 

 in his Hogarths, of which he had a dozen or more, 

 including the charming portrait of Mrs. Hogarth 

 that was at Manchester. I remember having 

 heard him say that at his seat in Dorsetshire he 

 had a large collection of pictures, English and 

 foreign. A. F. 



" Eleu loro" (2°'' S. viii. 292.)— The latter word 

 is the dative plural of the personal pronoun third 

 person in Italian, and signifies " to them, for 

 them." JEleu is, no doubt, a corruption of the 

 Italian Ela. The meaning of the phrase is, "Alas! 

 for them," as the context will show. A. A. 



Poets' Comer. 



Marriage Customs (2°'^ S. viii. 186.) — Urqu- 

 hart says that the slipper is a symbol of authority. 

 In Morocco a pair are carried before the Sultan, 

 as amongst us the sceptre and sword of state. 

 At a Jewish wedding at Rabat, the bridegroom 

 struck the bride with his shoe, in token of autho- 

 rity and supremacy. Thus Scripture speaks of 

 transferring the shoe in certain cases. — Pillars of 

 Hercules, i. 305. F. C. B. 



The unburied Ambassadors (2"^ S. viii. 377.) — 

 More than twenty years ago, the late Mr. Catling, 

 the intelligent Sacrist, called my attention to an 

 unburied coffin in one of the side chapels of West- 

 minster Abbey, which he said was that of a 

 Spanish ambassador. The tradition deserves some 

 credence from the following passage, which I 

 turned up in Macky's Journey through Ejiglandj 

 ed. 1724, vol. i. p. 207. : — 



" Poor Don Pedro de Ronquillo, who served Spain so 

 long and faithfully, as Ambassador to this Court, is like 

 to have the honour of h'ing unbury'd amongst the Eng- 

 lish Kings for ever; his corpse being arrested by his 

 creditors, and kept in this chappel above ground till his 

 relations redeem it; which can hardly be expected from 

 a Spaniard ; not but they have the honour, if they had 

 the capacity, of doing so just an action." 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Old Boodleite (2"'' S. viii. 353.) — The expres- 

 sion "stupid, d — d stupid, and a Boodle" {i.e. 

 a member of Boodle's Club), which may be the one 

 inquired after, occurs in Cecil, a novel edited by 

 Mrs. Gore. S. D. S. 



