S"-* S. VIII. Dec. 31. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Life and Passion" for Chrisfs holy, crucified Life 

 and- Passion, p. 427. ; " foil" for fall, p. 97. ; "se- 

 crenat" for serenat, p. 41. 



Another library edition published by Duncan, 

 4 vols. 8vo., appeared in 1830 ; but if it were a 

 new edition, it was I should say a mere reprint, like 

 all the succeeding editions. 



When a new Edition of Leighton appears, I 

 trust it will have a good Iijdex, running titles, 

 and every mechanical help necessary to make his 

 Works what they are not now — and that is, easy 

 of reference. For instance, in the Com. on St. 

 Peter the chapter and verse ought to be given at 

 the head of every page. 



Coleridge* woulU have rejoiced had he met with 

 Mb.Wogan's edition o( the Eighteen Sermons,'Riy- 

 ington, 1745. I ought to mention the Subjects, 

 Notes or Essays in the Appendix. They are : — 

 I. Of Justification and Sanctification, II. Of In- 

 defectihility, or Final Perseverance. III. Of Re- 

 generation. IV. Of being in God, in Christ. V. 

 Of Mortification and Vivification. VI. Of Elec- 

 tion. VII. Of Assurance. EiEiONNAcn. 



SHAKSPEA.BIANA. 



Passage in '■^ Measure for Measure." — I hope 

 you will be so kind as to insert the following lines 

 in " N. & Q." if you find them worth printing : — 



" How may likeness, made in crimes. 

 Making practice on the times." 



Measure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 2. 



Even Dyce finds it hopeless to ascertain what 

 the poet really wrote (Dyce's Shah, i. 344.). 



I do not know whether I could not relieve this 

 hope by proposing the alteration of one letter, 

 and the adoption of Malone's conjecture : — 



" How may likeness, mate in crimes. 

 Mocking practice on the times." 



F. A. Leo. 

 Berlin, Dec. 1859. 



Mr. W. H. Shakespeare's Sonnets. — Some time 

 ago I read, in what book I forget, an able advo- 

 cacy of the claims of Lord Southampton, or Lord 

 Pembroke (I forget which), based on the circum- 

 stance that his heraldic motto occurs twice in 

 Shakspeare's Sonnets. I should be obliged to any 

 of your correspondents who would either refer 

 me to a book or article containing such an argu- 

 ment, or to the Sonnets in which the motto occurs. 

 I remember distinctly that the two lines cited are 

 not verbatim alike. Clammild. 



Athenajum Chib. 



* Coleridge, in accordance with the desultory nature 

 of his Aids to Reflection, makes no mention whatsoever 

 of Leighton in his Preface. However, some notice of 

 Leighton and the connexion between the Aids and his 

 Works, may be found at pp. 51. 108. 117. 124. of the sixth 

 edition. 



Portrait of Shahspeare (2"« S. viii. 284.) — 

 Arthur Paget (Cranmore) mentions a supposed 

 portrait of Shakspeare at Weymouth. I have seen 

 the picture at the library referred to, and felt 

 much interested in the same, having heard the 

 Chandos portrait pronounced spurious. The por- 

 trait at Weymouth appears to have been taken 

 when Shakspeare was about twenty- seven or 

 twenty-eight years of age ; and from the opinions 

 of art critics in the possession of the owner, it 

 also appears to be an undoubted work of Zuc- 

 chero's. It must be remembered that Zucchero 

 visited England at the time Shakspeare was a 

 great favourite of Elizabeth's, for the purpose of 

 painting Elizabeth and her court, and, in all pro- 

 bability, painted Shakspeare at the same time. 

 The Weymouth picture agrees in every particular 

 with a portrait described by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 

 who says in one of his Lectures : — 



" I have lately seen in a private collection at Bath a 

 portrait of Shakspeare, painted by Zucchero by com- 

 mand of Elizabeth. It is a small picture on panel, and 

 has the name of the immortal bard on the right hand 

 side of the head. It consists of the head and neck-rufF 

 onl^', and there can be no doubt as to its originality." 



Sir Joshua was much interested in everything 

 Shakspearian, and undertook to paint three pic- 

 tures for Alderman Boydell's magnificent edition 

 of Shakspeare — " Macbeth and the Witches," 

 " Puck," and " The Death of Cardinal Beaufort." 

 "Puck" became the property of the late poet 

 Rogers, and was purchased at the sale of his col- 

 lection by the late Lord Fitzwilliam. 



H. SlNCUUB. 



Manchester. 



Baccare (2"'' S. vii. 124.) — A. A. seems to 

 imagine that this word is purely Shaksperian, or 

 he would scarcely express a belief that " Shak- 

 speare never would have coined such a word." 

 The common meaning- "stand back, or go back," 

 is, I think, evidently the true one. In Heywood's 

 Epigrams on Pro,ve7-bs, A. A. would find 



"194. Of Mortimer's sow. 

 " Backare, quoth Mortimer to his sow, 

 Went that sow hack at that bidding trow j'ou ? " 



Two more versions of this epigram, and a refer- 

 ence to the word in his poem on Proverbs (chap, 

 xi.), would lead us to suppose the word was ia 

 common use in Heywood's time. 



As to the meaning of the word compare the use 

 of it by Lyly, Mydas, Act I. Sc. 2. (1592) : — 



" Lie. Thou servest Mellacrites, and I his daughter ; 

 which is the better man ? 



Pet. The masculine gender is more worthy than the 

 feminine. Therefore, Licio, backare." 



Again, in Sir John Grange's Golden Aphroditis, 

 1577 : — 



" Yet wrested he so his eflfemlnate bande to the siege 

 of backwards affection, that bothe trumpe and drumme 

 sounded nothing for their larum, but Baccare, Baccare." 



