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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



193 



" It is small, very small " (clasping her neck). (Anna 

 Bolejm.) 



« I feel as if I were myself again." (Walter Scott.) 



" It is well." (Washington.) 



" Independence for ever." (Adams.) 



" A dying man can do nothing easy." (Franklin.) 



" Don't let poor Nelly starve." (Charles 11 ) 



" I have endeavoured to do my duty." (Taylor.) 



" There is not a drop of blood on my hands." (Fre- 

 derick V.) 



" I resign my soul to God, my daughter to my country." 

 (Jefferson.) 



" It is the last of earth." (J. Q. Adams.) 



" Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave." 

 (Burns.) 



" Lord, make haste." (H. Hammond.) 



" Precious salvation." (Sir J. Stonhouse.) 



" Remember " (the chai-ge to Archbishop Jnxon to bid 

 Charles 11. forgive his father's muiderer.'^). (Charles I.) 



"I have sent fi)r a'ou (Lord Warwick) to see how a 

 Christian can die." (Addison.) 



"I shall l)e happy." (Arclil)ishop Sharpe.) 



" God's will be done." (Bishop Ken.) 



"Amen." (Bishop Bull.) 



"I have peace." (Parkhurst.) 



" C^onie, Lorl Jesus." (Burkitt.) 



" Cease now " (Lady Masham was reading the Psalms). 

 (Locke.) 



" I thank God I was brought up in the Church of Eng- 

 land." (Bishop Gunning.) 



" O Lord, forgive me specially my sins of omission." 

 (Usher.) 



" Lord, receive my spirit." (Ferrar, Cranmer, Hooper, 

 G. Herbert.) 



" Thy will be done." (Donne.) 



"Tliis day let me see the Lord Jesus." (Jewell.) 



" In te speravi : ne confundar in eternum." (Bishop 

 Abbot.) 



"God will save my soul." (Burghley.) 



" And is this dea^^? " (George IV.) 



" Lord, take my spirit." (Edward VI.) 



"What? do they run already? Then I die happv." 

 (Wolfe.) 



" God bless yon, my dear " (Miss Morris). (Dr. John- 

 son.) 



" What I cannot utter with my mouth, accept Lord 

 from my heart and soul." (F. Quarles.) 



" Then I am safe." (Cromwell.) 



" Let the earth be filled with His glorj-." (James, 

 Earl of Derby, Bishop Broughton.) 



" I go to m}' God and Saviour." (P. He^'lyn.) 



" Mv days are past as a shadow that returns not." 

 (R. Mooker.) 



" Let me hear once more those notes so long my solace 

 and delight." (Mozart.) 



"I wish the true principles of government carried out. 

 I ask no more." (Harrison.) 



"For mv coming down, let me shift for myself" (on 

 the .scaffold). (Sir T. More.) 



"In me behold the end of this world with all its 

 vanities." (Sir P. Sydney.) 



Mackenzie "Walcott, M.A. 



QTPSIB9. 



(1" S. iv. 471. ; 2°'» S. ii. 143.) 



It is desirable that the statement " We are Romees 

 and Egypt was our fatherland " attributed to " the 



Gypsies everywhere " should be confirmed by au- 

 thority, No 8uch opinion is to be found attributed 

 to them by Borrow in his Zincali, nor, I think, by 

 any previous authority on this subject. The sup- 

 posed resemblance of the Gypsey word " Romany " 

 (husbands) to the nlpufiis of Herodotus is totally 

 insufficient to counterbalance the evidence that 

 the langua<re of the Gypsies is an Indian dialect 

 {Bombay TransactionSy 1820). Almost every 

 nation has a separate name for them, and although 

 in Hungary and Transylvania they are called 

 " Pharaoh Nepek," or " Pharaoh's People," and 

 by the English " Gypsies," in reference to their 

 assumed Egyptian origin, probably from their 

 reaching Europe thri)ugh Egypt, first in 1427, 

 " it seems proved that they are not originally 

 from that country, their appearance, manners, and 

 language being totally different from those of 

 either the Copts or Fellalis. There are many 

 Gypsies now in Egypt, but they are looked upon 

 as strangers, as indeeil they are everywhere else " 

 (Penmj Cyc. Art. " Gipsies). They are styled 

 Ghvjar in Egypt (Lane, ii. 3).* Although the 

 literal rendering of Ka\hs K<^yad6i in Herodotus is 

 " beautiful and good," the conventional use of 

 those words meant what we mean by " a man of 

 birth and educatitm " f as distinguished from the 

 nobles and the lowest class ; this is what Hero- 

 dotus expresses by /cot' 'EAXaSa yXwaaav (Arist. 

 Pol. iv, 8.), The English equivalent to pitomis 

 is therefore " gentleman ; " a character which the 

 Gypsy has not yet borne among any people. From 

 Borrow it appears that the Gypsies understand 

 the name, by which they designate themselves, to 

 mean " husbands ; " and he furnishes reasons for 

 their use of the name ; chiefly that their women 

 will marry no other men ; that seduction by a 

 man, not a Gypsy, is unknown ; and that effectual 

 means are provided to secure the women from 

 violation. They also call themselves Sind (In- 

 dian) ; and a tribe of them is found near the 

 mouths of the Indus called Tchinganes, the name 

 by which they are designated in Turkey and the 

 Levant. The digpersion of the Gypsies is per- 

 haps attributable to the invasion of Timur Beg, 

 A.D. 1399 (Penny Cyc. 1. c), T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



GRUNDONNEKSTAG. 



(2"'» S, 1, 315.) 



The Thursday next before Easter goes under 

 various names : in the Roman Missal it is called 



* This name points to Gujerat, near the province of 

 Siiide, on the east of the Sind or Indus ; tivSol and 'JfSol 

 are the same word, the aspirate of the latter being rough- 

 ened into the sibilant of the former. 



f Fort honnetes gens; Artaud's Clouds of Aristophanes 

 (v. 101.), i, 139. 



