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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



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petty mischiefs are interrupted by the laws, yet if a mis- 

 chief becomes public and great, acted by princes and 

 effected by armies, and robberies be done by wliole fleets, 

 it is virtue and it is glory ; it fills the mouths of fools 

 that wonder, and employs the pens of witty men that eat 

 the bread of flattery." — Taylor's Life, vol. viii. p, 547. 

 edit. Eden. 



Wm. Denton. 



Dialects (2""* S. ii. 431.) — Your 'correspondent 

 will find some interesting information upon the 

 history of the Scotch dialect (its identity with 

 the English, and its commencing discrepancies), 

 in Craik's Literature and Learning in England^ 

 (vol. ii. p. 108.). Mr. Craik, speaking of The 

 Bruce of Barbour, shows that his language is, in 

 the main, identical with that of Chaucer, with 

 whom he was contemporary ; that he himself calls 

 it English, as do also his successors Dunbar, and 

 even Lyndsay ; and that the terra Scotch was only 

 applied to the Gaelic of the Highlanders. And 

 again, at p. 247., when treating of The Complaynt 

 q/ Scotland, printed at St. Andrews in 1548, he 

 remarks, that though the Scotch dialect had al- 

 ready a distinct character, some of its most marked 

 peculiarities had not yet appeared : such as the 

 elision of the final I after a vowel or a diphthong. 

 This change he says is probably very modern. 



Leicester. 



A stale joke quoted (2°'' S. i, 447.) — I have seen 

 the first line differently quoted : 



" The sun, from his vertical height, 

 lUumin'd the depths of the sea." 



The friend who added the expressive lines 

 about the fishes, is said to have been Lort Mansel, 

 afterwards Master of Trinity and Bishop of Bristol. 

 I think that the learned Swedes must have been 

 " ploughing with his heifer." Henry T. Riley. 



" The World Unmasked; or, the Philosopher the 

 Greatest Cheat" (2"*S. ii. 390.) —This work may 

 have been attributed to Bernard Mandeville, by 

 persons unacquainted with the wide difference in its 

 character and tendency from the immoral and licen- 

 tious nature of Mandeville's productions. I find 

 it attributed, with much greater probability, in 

 p. 59. of a recent publication, a Memoir of William 

 Cookworthy, a minister in the Society of Friends, 

 by his grandson, George Harrison, to Beat Louis 

 Muralt, a native of Berne, in Switzerland. In the 

 list of this author's works in La France Litte- 

 raire, par J. M. Querard, 7'Ae World Unmasked is 

 not to be found, but a book is there enumerated 

 which appears to be the original of a treatise, a 

 translation of which is contained in the same vo- 

 lume with that of The World Unmasked, 1736. 

 The title is the following : 



" Le syst^me des anciens et des modernes concilie par 

 I'exposition des sentiments diff^rents de quelques th^olo- 

 giens sur I'^tat des fimes s^par^es du corps. Nouv. Edi- 



tion 

 titule 



., augm. d'une Suite, servant de reponse au livre in- 

 le : ' Examen de I'Origenisme.' Amst. 1733, in-12." 



'AAieuy. 

 Dublin. 



Doily (2°'» S. ii. 387.) — The author of Wine 

 and Walnuts (vol. i. p. 149.) has the following pas- 

 sage concerning this old worthy : — 



" Mr. Doyley, a very respectable warehouseman, whose 

 family, of the same name, had resided in the great old 

 house next to HodsoU tlie banker's, from the time of 

 Queen Anne. This house, built by Inigo Jones, which 

 makes a prominent feature in the old engraved views of 

 the Strand, having a covered up and down entrance, 

 which projected to the carriage-way, was pulled down 

 about 1782. On the site of which was erected the house 

 now occupied in the same business. The dessert napkins, 

 termed Doyleys, are so called, having originated with this 

 ancient firm." 



Peter Cunningham, in his charming Handbook 

 of London (edit. 1850, p. 476.), describing the ce- 

 lebrated houses in the Strand, says : 



" No. 346. (east corner of Upper Wellington Street), 

 Doyley's warehouse for woollen articles. Dryden, in his 

 Limberham, speaks of ' Doilj' Petticoats ; ' and Steele, in 

 The Gitardian (No. 102.), of his ' Doily suit ; ' while Gay, 

 in his Trivia, describes a Doyly as a poor defence against 

 the cold." 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



East Window in Wells Cathedral (1" S. iv. 

 331.) — T. Wt. writing of the serpent repre- 

 sented with a human head, refers to the east 

 window in the Ladye Chapel in Wells Cathedral, 

 and quotes the inscription on the scroll, about and 

 below that figure. I should esteem it a particular 

 favour if your correspondent would give me the 

 inscriptions on the other scrolls in the window, as 

 well as such other information as he may possess 

 with reference to other stained glass in the ca- 

 thedral. Ina. 



Wells. 



Ventre St. Gris (2"'' S. ii. 382.) — Such, and 

 not ventre, was Henry IV.'s celebrated oath, and 

 the whole was, no doubt, a corruption into in- 

 offensive sounds of some words too sacred to be 

 distinctly uttered, of which there are so many ex- 

 amples in the vulgar tongue of both France and 

 England : — parbleu, morbleu, corbleu, palsamblcu, 

 sandidis, in French ; in English, zounds, odds 

 boddikins, *'odds-my-life, egad, ecod, and King 

 Charles's " odd's fish," which may serve as a pen- 

 dant to King Henry's ventre Saint Gris. 



I do not guess at the words thus travestied, but 

 T. P. may be right, and Saint Gris may represent 

 sang real. But I think it very unlikely ; and still 

 more improbable is its having any connexion with 

 sangaree. C. 



Motto for an Index (2"'' S. ii. 413. 481.) — I 

 would suggest " Ex uno disce omnes," or " E 

 pluribus unum." Henry T. Riley. 



