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Eclympasteire (2"'' S.v. 229.387.)— The readers 

 of " N. & Q." remember the interesting papers 

 which have appeared in its pages respecting the 

 meaning and etymon of this strange word or name. 

 I am free to say that I was not satisfied with the 

 explanation given, and I have since had my 

 doubts strengthened by a passage which I have 

 found in M. Sandras's able and very interesting 

 Etudes sur Chaucer consider^ comme Imitateur des 

 Trouveres, lately published at Paris. 



M. Sandras observes : — 



" Chaucer et Froissart sont les seuls auteurs dans les- 

 quels j'ai trouv^ le nom d' Enclimpostair donn^ k un des 

 fils du Sommeil : on chercherait en vain ce nom dans les 

 glossaires." 



The passage of Chaucer occurs, as the readers 

 of " N. & Q." know, in the Book of the Duchess, 

 and there the word or name is given as Eclym' 

 pasteire. The passage in Froissart's Poems is 

 this : — 



" Car il (i. e. le Sommeil) envoya parmi I'air, 

 L'un de ses fils Enclimpostair." 



The reader will see that there is a slight differ- 

 ence between the name as given by the French and 

 by the English poet. But as the latter is on this 

 point only the imitator of the former, we must 

 take Froissai't's variante as the true reading, and 

 this reading may help us to a conjecture. 



In "Enclim," we have "Enclin" in the state of 

 common mutation of n into m when it is followed 

 by p. Now din, or din d'aeil, is well known to 

 mean that ordinary precursor of sleep — a wink of 

 the eye : we may, therefore, without much hardi- 

 hood of assertion say that in the words en din we 

 have a part of the mysterious name which our old 

 poet has so undeservedly and puzzlingly immor- 

 talised. I give up the remaining portion of the 

 name, -postair : for I cannot subscribe to the 

 conjecture of M. Sandras, excellent critic as he is. 

 His interpretation is this : " Selon moi voici I'ety- 

 mologie — Engle (ange) imposteur." H. C. C. 



" Eihon Basilike" (2"<> S. viii. 356.) — My copy 

 of the Eihon agrees in all particulars of title-page 

 with that mentioned by B. H. C, except that it 

 has under the letter a crown, with " C. K." and a 

 death's head, with date 1648 ; but there is to it a 

 second title-page, which delivers it as "printed 

 by Samuel Brown, Hague, A.," as follows : — 



" Reliquise Sacrse Carolina). The Workes of that Great 

 Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charles the I", both 

 Civil and Sacred, with a short View of the Life and Reign 

 of that most blessed Prince from his Birth to his Burial. 

 Tacit. Hist, lib. i. 'Alii diutius Imperium tenuerunt, 

 nemo tarn fortiter reliqnit.' Hague: Printed by Sam. 

 Browne." 



This title is bounded and divided by rubrical 

 lines. It has two plates by Marshall : one the 

 double one mentioned in "N. & Q.," another 

 headed " Fidei defensor," representing the king 

 sitting at a globe. There is also a third of Charles 



II. (no name of engraver) facing sect, xxvii., en- 

 titled " To the Prince of Wales." This volume 

 also contains the king's speeches — discussions 

 with the Scotch ministers. I have always sup- 

 posed this the first edition. A. B. R. 

 Belmont. 



Pill Garlick (l" S. ii. 393. ; iii. 42. 74. 150. ; 

 2°^ S. viii. 229.) — I send the following cutting 

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 merit, and if it throw light on the name, perhaps 

 some one who has it will kindly furnish a note on 

 it: — 



« Pill Garlick (Life of), Eather a Whimsical Sort of 

 Fellow, humorous frontispiece, 8vo. Large Paper, 4s. 

 1813." 



EiRIONNACH. 



Rings ; their Uses and Mottoes (2"'* S. viii. 329.) 

 — The History and Poetry of Finger Rings. By 

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