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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, jjo 87., Aua;29. '57. 



yet they may seem proportionable to his youth, and may 

 serve as a Memorial to encline him to be as indulgent to 

 poor Scholars as his Father and Grand-Father have been 

 before him. And by this means I give not only a Legacy, 

 but entangle it upon other men that deserve their Kind- 

 ness. To my honourable Friend Sir Allen Broderick I 

 give my Cedar Table, to add a fragour to his Excellent 

 •writing. To my kind Friend Mr. Thomas Killigrew, I 

 give all my Doves, that something may descend upon a 

 Courtier that is an Emblem of Kindness and Truth. To 

 my servant Mary Web, if she be with me at the time of 

 my death, I give all ray Linnen that belongs to my per- 

 sonal use, and Forty Shillings above her Wages, if it does 

 not appear that she hath occasioned my death, which I 

 have often lived in fear of, but being alone could never 

 help ; although I have often complained of my sad Condi- 

 tion to my nearest Relations, 'twas not fit to trouble 

 others. To Mr. Isaac Walton, I give all my Writings 

 under my Father's liand, which may be of some use to his 

 Son, if he makes him a scholar. To the Reverend Bishop 

 of Chichester [Henry King], I return that Cabinet that 

 was my Father's, now in my Dining-Room, and all those 

 Papers which are of Authors Analysed by my Father, many 

 of which he hath already received with his Common-Place 

 Book, which I desire may pass to Mr. Walton's Son, as 

 being more likely to have use for such a help, when his 

 age shall require it. These /bur Sides of this Small Paper 

 being written by m3' own hands, I hope will be a Suffi- 

 cient Testimony that this is my last Will. And such 

 Trivial things were not fit for a greater Ceremony than 

 my own Hand and Seal, for I have lived alwaies without 

 all other Witnesses but my own Conscience, and I hope I 

 have honestly discharged that. I have in a Paper an- 

 nexed something at this present ; and may do some things 

 hereafter, which I presume my most honourable good 

 Lord of Portland will see performed. 



" John Doiwe. 

 "Witnesses fMARLEBURGH. 

 witnesses. |will. Glascocke. 



" When I made this Will I was alone ; afterwards I 

 desired my good friends the Earl of Marleburgh, and Mr. 

 ^ Glascocke, to witness it, which was in Nov. the 2nd, 1661. 



" JoHM Donne. 



" ' Non Curo quid de me Judieet haeres.' — Hor." 



J. 0. 



[Our best thanks are presented to J. O. for this curious 

 document; but it is not the will of Dr. John Donne, Dean 

 of St. Paul's, inquired after by W. L., but that of his son, 

 who is described by Anthony h. Wood, in his usual sar- 

 castic manner, as no better than " an atheistical buffoon, 

 a banterer, and a person of over-free thought, yet valued 

 by Charles H." This will is printed in the Appendix to 

 Sir Harris Nicolas's Life of Izaak Walton, p cxlix., pre- 

 fixed to The Complete Angler, edit. 1836. John Donne, 

 jun., was born in 1604, educated at Westminster and 

 Christ Church College, Oxford. He took the degree of 

 LL D. at Padua, and at Oxford, June 30, 1638. "That 

 he was a clergyman," observes Dr. Zouch, " and had some 

 preferment in the diocese of Peterborough [the rectory of 

 Upford], we learn from a letter written to him by Dr. 

 John Towers, Bishop of Peterborousih, his diocesan, 

 wherein his lordship thanks him for the first volume of 

 his father's Sermons, telling him that his parishioners 

 may pardon his silence to them for a while, since by it 

 he hath preached to them, and to their children's chil- 

 dren, and to all our English churches, for ever." This 

 letter, dated July 20, 1640, is prefixed to the third volume 

 of his father's Sermons ; but afterwards to the time of his 

 death, he dales "From my house in Covent Garden." He 

 died in the winter of 1662, and was buried near the stand- 



ing dial, at the west end of St. Paul's Church, Covent 

 Garden. 3 



^t^liti ta Minat UkutxUi. 



Bottle (2°^ S. iv. 87.)— The French bouteille, 

 the Italian bottiglia, and the Spanish botija, are 

 the modern forms of the Low Latin buticula. 

 This word is the diminutive of butta, a cup, cask, 

 or other vessel for holding wine ; of which a full 

 account is given by Ducange in v. butta. The 

 latter word corresponds with the German butte or 

 biitte, concerning which see Adelung, in v. The 

 Low Latin butta passed into Byzantine Greek, 

 which had the words j8oi>rTis and hovrriov for cup : 

 Meurs. Gloxs. Grmeobarb. in /Sourf/j. 



The phrase " bottle of hay " is not, as Mr. 

 Keightley supposes, a (jorruption of " bundle of 

 hay," but is derived from the French " botte de 

 foin," or rather from the old word battel or boteau, 

 which is explained by Roquefort {G/ossaire de la 

 Langwe Ronuzne), " une botte, une poignee, ua 

 faisceau, plusieurs choses attachees ensemble." 

 This word seems to be derived from botidus or 

 botellus, which signified in ancient Latinity a 

 sausage, a collection of stufled meat. Botvlixs is 

 cited by Gellius from the Mimes of Ldberius (xvi. 

 7.), and both botulus and botellus are used by 

 Martial (xiv. 72.; v. 78.; xi. 31.). Botellus, 

 from its meaning of sausage, afterwards acquired 

 the signification oi bowel, whence the ^taX.budello, 

 and the French boyau (Ducange, in botellus). 



The same erroneous conjecture as to the cor- 

 ruption of " bottle " from " bundle " of hay had 

 been previously made by Skinner. See Richard- 

 son in bottle. 



The phrase " bottled spider," in Shakspeare, 

 which Mr. Keightlet finds it difficult to explain, 

 and which he proposes to alter into " bloated 

 spider," occurs in the following passage : 



"Poor painted queen, vain flourish of m3' fortune 1 

 Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider, 

 Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about? " 



Rich. III., Act I. Sc. 3. 



where Johnson explains the epithet as meaning 

 that a spider resembles a bottle as having a pro- 

 tuberant belly. This explanation is adopted by 

 Todd, in his edition of Johnson s Dictionary, and 

 it appears to be satisfactory. It is confirmed by 

 the use of botija, which is stated in the Dictionary 

 of the Spanish Academy to be a term applied in 

 jest to a short fat man, from the shape of a wine 

 cask or jar. If any alteration is needed, it would 

 be better to read bottle-spider, according to the 

 same idiom as bottle-nose. L. 



The Winged Burgonet (2"'^ S. iv. 129.) — This 

 unlucky piece of spurious armour w/^/i< have been 

 sent to Manchester ; but certainly not by the 

 Tower authorities, as I have seen it for sale in a 



