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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 92., Oct. 3, '67. 



" Alone he rode without his paragons ; 

 For, having fiicht her bells, her up he cast 

 To the wide world, and let her fly alone, — 

 He nould be clog'd ; so had he served many one," 

 Faerie Queene, Book in. Canto x. stanza 35. 



"Haggard," says Halliwell, is metaphorically 

 "a loose woman." Query, What suggested the 

 parallel between the loss of a hawk's bells and a 

 woman's honour ? X. X. X. 



THE GUILIiOTINE. 



In a former Number of "N. & Q." (P^ g^ xii. 

 819.) it was mentioned that Dr. Guillotin was not 

 the inventor of the famous instrument to which 

 his name is now irrevocably attached. It appears 

 indeed, though in a ruder form, to have been in 

 use centuries ago. The primitive guillotine by 

 which the Duke of Argyll was executed is still at 

 Edinburgh. I remember to have seen an example 

 in some old book, which I cannot now quote ; but 

 I have before me at this moment the Catcdogus 

 Sanctorum of Peter de Natalibus, printed at 

 Lyons in 1542, in which there is a woodcut of a 

 machine very similar to the guillotine. It occurs 

 at the history of St. Theodore, Martyr, comme- 

 morated on the 9th of November. The holy 

 martyr appears below with his face downwards, 

 and his neck on a sharp- edged board between two 

 upright posts. Into the upper part of these is in- 

 serted a wooden frame, with the blade of an axe. 

 The executioner is applying some instrument, by 

 which he is evidently causing the sharp blade to 

 descend with its frame through two grooves in the 

 posts, so as to decapitate the martyr. 



It is well known to those acquainted with the 

 Catalogus Sanctorum, that no reliance can be 

 placed on the greater part of the woodcuts, which 

 often do service for several different saints, and 

 perhaps after all apply to none of them ; and this 

 is the case in the present instance, for St. Theo- 

 dore finished his martyrdom by fire. But the 

 example is here adduced as a very early repre- 

 sentation of an instrument of decapitation, so like 

 the guillotine that the principle must have been 

 known, if not the instrument itself employed, as 

 early as the sixteenth century. F. C. H. 



CHATTERTONIANA : BOWIiEYS GHOST. 



Many of the readers of " N. & Q." will, I ven- 

 ture to believe, agree with the undersigned, that 

 the following imitation of the forged phrases of 

 Chatterton, addressed to the Bishop of Dromore, 

 the erudite editor of the lleliques of Ancient 

 Poetry, and the no less characteristic ones ad- 

 dressed to the Rev, Thomas Warton, to whom we 

 are so deeply indebted for the revival of a taste 

 for the works of our early poets, are worthy of a 



place in its columns. I am not aware that they 

 have before appeared in print. They came into 

 my hands a few weeks since from a friend, who 

 found them among the papers of the late Rev. 

 John Eagles, the author of The Sketcher, and a 

 volume of inimitable Essays, which have been 

 collected and recently republished by the Messrs. 

 Blackwood from their Magazine. They are in 

 the handwriting of Mr. Eagles's father, who was a 

 cotemporary of Chatterton, and with the literati 

 of Bristol who took part in the Rowleian contro- 

 versy. Mr. Eagles, senior, was a scholar and a 

 poet of no mean reputation, and, like his son, the 

 author of several essays, as elegant in their com- 

 position as those of Addison and writers of that 

 class. I am led to believe that this jeu d'esprit 

 was composed by this gentleman. It is in his 

 handwriting^ and it has several verbal corrections 

 made by him. He has left the references in 

 figures to the obsolete words unfinished, which 

 I have endeavoured to complete from a Chatter- 

 tonian Glossary ; which is another reason for my 

 belief that the lines were the effusion of the mind 

 of the senior Mr. Eagles, They are entitled, — 



" Rowley's Ghost to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop 

 of Dromore and the Rev. Thomas Warton. 

 " Envy that always waits on Virtue's Train, 

 And tears the graves of quiet sleeping souls, 

 Hath brought me, after many hundred years, 

 To show myself again upon the earth." 



Grim the Collier of Croydon. 

 " Sayr Piercy ! why with malice deslavate ' 

 And sable spright as Zabulus and Querd^ 

 My swarthless ' Bodie dequaced * by Fate ; 



Ah ! why foreslaj'e ' my Fame, my Rennomes '^ meed ; 

 Thou, who the Mj'ustrelles Barganets' chevyse 

 To me no drj'bblette share of poesie alyse.^ 

 " Whose recreant Flight is AUa's song ysped — 

 My yellow Rolle why bitted doughtre-mer 9 — 

 May furched "^ Levynne^^ play around thie Hedde, 



And near thy Dwelling may the Merk-plant i" rear 

 Its lethal 13 Liff — the Owlette round thee yell, 

 And where thy Bonos may rest, no Cross-stone ever tell." 



" And Warton too ! Oxeuford's learned Clerk, 

 Who loves to troll the Jug of nappy ale, 

 Who seeks for auncient Lore in ages dark. 



And from old Rust hath varnish'd many a Tale ; 

 He looks askance on me — and strikes me out 

 From the long Bede-Rolle of the wryting Rout. 



" For this ashrewed Manne, at dead of night, 

 I'll shake thie Curtain, and with fell dismaie 

 Scare gentle slumber from thy Arms outright. 



And chace the dreme of Selyness awaie. 

 To foul contention turn thie social cheer, 

 Ne moe swete Vernage quaiFe, ne batten on browne Beerc. 



1 Deslavate, disloyal, unfaithful. 



2 Querd, the evil one, the devil. 

 ' Swarthless, dead, expired. 

 •* Deqnaced, sunk, quashed. 

 •^ Rennomes, honour, glory. 

 '' Bai-gonetts, song or ballad. 

 ^ Doughtre-mer, from beyond sea. 

 '^^ Furched, forked. 'l Levynne, lightning. 

 '2 Merk-plant, nightshade. . ^^ Lethal, deadly. 



Forslaye, slain, 

 s Alyse, allow. 



