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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 6. 1855. 



by different authors without any intention or 

 suspicion of plagiarism : 



" Una. From her fayre head her fillet she undight, 

 And layd her stole aside : Her angel's face, 

 As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright. 

 And made a sunshine in a shady place." 



Spenser, Faery Queene, book i. canto 3. st. 4. 



" Romeo log. I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. 

 A grave? O, no; a lanthorn, slaughter'd youth, 

 For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes 

 This vault a feasting presence full of light." 



Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III. sc. 3. 



" Pausing in wonder I look'd on, 



"While, playfully around her breaking 

 The waters, that like diamonds shone, 

 She moved in light of her own making." 



Moore, Loves of the Angels, 

 " The lady, while her courser paw'd the ground. 

 Alighted ; and her beauty, as she trod 

 The enamell'd bank, bruising nor herb nor flower. 

 That place illumined." 



Rogers's Italy, ii. p. 13. 



" Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the dark- 

 ness, 

 Lighted less by the lamp than the shining face of the 

 maiden." 



Longfellow, Evangeline, part i. 3. 



The ancient Romans had a saying, — 



" Whom the gods love die young." 



" The doom 

 Heaven gives its favourites — early death." 



Quoted without reference in Miss Bunbury's 

 Life in Sweden, ii. p. 42. ' « 



" His princess never knew an earthly love ; 

 She vow'd herself to Heaven, and ^e died young." 

 L. E. L., Minstrel of Portugal, 



*' Whom the gods love die young, was said of yore, 

 And many deaths do they escape by this." 



Byron, JDon Juan, canto iv. st. 12. 



« Whom God loves best he soonest taketh to himself." 

 (The reference I do not know.) 



ti5e 



" Her 'prentice hand she taed on man. 

 And then she made the lasses, ! " 



i Burns, 



. Baronei family proved to hejihe most ancient : 



- "You must understand, therefore, that they were 

 formed when Natyre was in her infancy, and before she 

 was perfect at her work, and that the rest of mankind 

 were all created afterwards. . . . ,'. In a word, their faces 

 resemble, for all the world, wh^t children make when 

 they first learn to draw. Nature then, you will allow, 

 was in its first and earliest state when they were created, 

 conseqi\pntly they are the most ancient of all others." — 

 Boccaccio, Decameron, 6th day, Novel VI. 



- \ A. H. 



Stoke lowing ton. 



Minav fiattS. 



Bishop Patrick (?) and the Latitudinarians. — 

 As the delegates of the Clarendon Press have un- 

 dertaken an edition of Patrick, it may not be 



No. 310.] 



unseasonable to direct attention to the letter in 

 The Phoenix (ii. 498.), which is commonly re- 

 ferred to as giving the best account of the Lati- 

 tudinarians. The letter is from S. P. at Cam- 

 bridge to his friend G. B. at Oxford, and bears 

 date June, 1662. We know from Burnet, and 

 from Patrick's Autobiography, that Patrick was a 

 follower of Whichcot, Smith, and the "Cambridge 

 Platonists," or " Latitudinarians," and the time 

 agrees. 



It may be added, that an account of this re- 

 markable school is one of the many desiderata in 

 our literature. A mere history of the name lati- 

 tudinarian would be of great interest. A few 

 materials for such a sketch may here be referred 

 to, in the hope that they may elicit fuller in- 

 formation. Jurieu's Religion du Latitudinaire, 

 Rotterdam, 1696; Burnet's Own Time (fol. ed.), 

 vol. i. p. 188. ; Warwick's Memoirs, p. 89. ; 

 Duport's Musae Subsec, p. 58. The titles of a 

 feeble attack on the Latitudinarians by John 

 Warly, Fellow of Clare Hall, and of a defence by 

 Edward Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester, are given 

 by Watt. J. E. B. Mayob. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



"iVbi'se" in the sense of Music. — This term is 

 not, as by many supposed, limited to Shakspeare's 

 time, but occurs as lately as 1660, when a Parlia- 

 mentary committee drawing up a list of persons 

 and things to be provided for his Majesty's recep- 

 tion (Charles IL's Restoration), catalogues inter 

 alia : 



" Beale's galley and a standard. 



" Beale and Simpson, and a choice noise of trumpets. 



" Singleton's music." — Commons' Journal, May 10th. 



J. w. 



Omission of Editors. — Professor de Morgan's 

 remarks in Vol. x., p. 363., &c., on the omission 

 of Boswell's editors to rectify his blunders, re- 

 minds me of some similar instances in works fre- 

 quently edited. At present I will confine myself 

 to two cases: — One in White's Nat, Hist, of 

 Selbome, Letter xxii., Jan. 2, 1769 : 



" In reality, there are hardly any towers or steeples in 

 all this county. And perhaps, Norfolk excepted, Hamp- 

 shire and Sussex are as meanly furnished with churches 

 as almost any counties in the kingdom." 



I cannot say what is the case in Hampshire and 

 Sussex ; but I should imagine that any ecclesiolo- 

 gist would allow, that Norfolk is better furnished 

 with churches than any county except Northamp- 

 tonshire and Lincolnshire. Yet all editors have 

 allowed this passage to escape without comment. 

 The next instance is from Percy's Reliques, the 

 ballad of King Estmere, stanzas 8. and 42 : 



" And thus they renisht them to ryde. 

 On two good renisht steeds," &c. 



In the Glossary, Percy gives no explanation of 



