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KOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N" 86., Aug. 22. '57. 



Saunted, vanished suddenly or imperceptibly. 



Scart, a Hermaphrodite. Scareht — Jamieson. 



Scrogyy, lean, scragged. 



Skory-horned, old and wrinkled, metaphorically, from the 



rings or marks on the horns of an old cow. 

 Shive, a slice, as " a shive of bread." 

 Slid, smooth, slippery, as " a slid stane." 

 Spirlie, slender, wiry ; an unhealthy plant or shrub grows 



spirlie. 

 Sybo, a green, half-grown onion. 

 Tacket, a tack or small nail. 

 Taircle, to catch a glimpse or sight of, to recognise quickly 



and unexpectedly. Ex. " I taircled upon him in the 



crowd, just as he' was stepping out of the ship." 

 Teemse, a searce, sieve, boulter. 

 Tew, to labour diligently and perseveringly. 

 Tinkle tankle, an icicle. 



" Tinkle tankle, lang tail. 

 Whan will the scule skail ? 

 The scule will skail at twal o'clock, 

 I ken by the tinkle o't." 



Nursery Rhyme, Clydesdale. 



Toot, fit. Ex. " It's as toot you as me." 



Toots, tut, interjection. 



Tove, to steam, burn, or smoke briskly. 



Winlin, a sheaf or bottle of straw. Ex. " He starts at a 

 strae, and lets a winlin gae." Prov. He is concerned 

 about trifles, and neglects matters of importance. 



J. Mn. 



BICHABD SAVAGE AND AABON HILL. 



That Savage was indebted for assistance to 

 Aaron Hill none need be told who are acquainted 

 with his works, or have read the account of his 

 life. 



According to Dr. Johnson his obligations were : 



For giving publicity to Savage's story in The 

 Plain Dealer, a periodical paper in which he was 

 concerned with Mr. Bond, for the purpose of 

 promoting the subscriptions to a " Miscellany of 

 Foems," some of which (including the " Happy 

 Man," which was published as a specimen) he 

 furnished. 



For a prologue and epilogue to the tragedy of 

 Sir Thomas Overbury. And for some corrections 

 of that play, which seem, however, to have been 

 only partially adopted. 



The services here recounted, though exhibiting 

 much good feeling on the part of Hill, are very 

 trifling in a literary point of view. 



In the Life of Aaron Hill, prefixed to his Dra- 

 matic Works (2nd edit. 1763) it is stated : 



" The poem called ' The Bastard ' Mr. Hill wrote to 

 serve Mr. Savage, and at the same time drew up a letter 

 of dedication, both of which were sent to Sir Robert 

 Walpole." 



Mention is then made of the " Miscellany of 

 Poems " by subscription, after which the writer 

 proceeds : 



"And some years after, in hopes of raising for him a 

 more excellent and powerful friend, he wrote a poem, call- 

 ing it ' The Volunteer Lauxeat.' " 



Then follows the poem on her Majesty's birth- 

 day, 1731-2. 



" After some abridgement this was likewise presented 

 to the Queen, and had so happ}-- an eifect upon her great 

 humanity, that it procured Mr. Savage 50/., with liberty 

 of acquiring annually the same sum by the same means." 



I do not imagine that the assertions here made 

 will in any way affect the estimation (such as it 

 is) in which Savage is held, but the fact that two 

 of his pieces are unhesitatingly claimed for Aaron 

 Hill may be worth recording. 



With regard to the birth-day ode, Savage, it 

 will be remembered, speaks of himself as the 

 author, in a letter to the Gentleman s Magazine, 

 in which he gives an account of the origin of his 

 title as Volunteer Laureat. 



While on this subject I beg leave to remind 

 your readers of an outstanding Query from an- 

 other correspondent (2"** S. iii. 247.), namely, Was 

 Savage really the son of the Countess of Maccles- 

 field ? 



The Life of Hill to which I have referred bears 

 date 1759, and is subscribed with the initials I. K. 

 Who was I. K. ? Charles Wxlie. 



The Curse of Minerva. — 



" Look to the East, where Ganges' swarthy race 

 Shall shake your tyrant empire to its base ; 

 Lo ! there Rebellion rears her ghastly head. 

 And glares the Nemesis of native dead ; 

 Till Indus rolls a deep purpureal flood, 

 And claims his long arrear of northern blood. 

 So may ye perish ! Pallas, when she gave 

 Your free-born rights, forbade ye to enslave." 



Byron. 



The above effusion would be improperly intro- 

 duced in any one of the ordinary political journals, 

 as suggesting sympathy, or, at any rate, foregone 

 conclusion, with the miserable occurrences of 

 Bengal. But as a curious literary coincidence, 

 " N. & Q." may publish it. Anon. 



Junius: Edition of 1772. — I have not been 

 able to find the following among the numerous 

 editions of Junius registered in " N. & Q." : 



" Junius. Stat Nominis Umbra. Vol. I. Dublin : 

 printed for John Milliken, College Green, and Caleb 

 Jenkin, Dame Street, m.dcclxxii," 



The first volume, which is all I have seen, ap- 

 pears to be a reprint of Woodfall's, and contains 

 the " Dedication to the English Nation," the 

 "Preface" of Junius, and 29 letters, 12mo., 

 pp. xxiv. 149. If this Dublin piracy is unre- 

 corded, your Junius correspondents will be obliged 

 to you for inserting this note. B. H. C. 



New's " The Coronet and the Cross." — The 

 Rev. A. H. New has lately published rather an 

 interesting work, entitled The Coronet and the 



