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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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rian languages, chiefly perhaps by means of the 

 wine and fruit trade. In the Fairy Mythology 

 (p. 464.), I have given some instances, and to 

 these I will now add bidk (bulto), jest (chiste ?), 

 musty (mustio), cargo. We have, like them, dis- 

 embark instead of debark ; and, like them, we use 

 convoy of the protector, not the protected. 



Ceylon. — This name also comes to us from the 

 Portuguese. Its origin may be well-known, but 

 I have never met with it. The native name of 

 the island seems to have been Cingala- or Singala- 

 deeb, whence the Arabs made their Sarandeeb by 

 transposition, ^nd the usual change of I to r; 

 while the Portuguese, nearly keeping the original 

 sounds and transposing, made Ceilao ; whence we, 

 as usual, changing with the Spaniards the final 

 nasal into n, formed Ceylon. Tscos. Keightley, 



VISIT OP AN ANGEL. 



Angels' visits are said to be " few and far be- 

 tween." But one or two are upon record. I met 

 with the following story in Clark's Mirrour^ or 

 Looking- Glasse, both for Saints and Sinners. The 

 original account, which occupies nearly three folio 

 pages, is too long to copy verbatim.* I have con- 

 densed it as much as possible, keeping to the old 

 language, which is very prolix, only when neces- 

 sary. 



" A true and faithful relation of one Samuel Wallas's, who 

 was restored to his perfect health, after 13 years' sickness 

 of a Consumption ; * * * * upon this cure he recovered his 

 former strength, whereby he was enabled to follow his 

 trade, being a Shooniaker, and living at Stamford in 

 Linconshire : whereof he gave this account f, witft much 

 affection, and sensibleness of the Lord's mercy and good- 

 ness to him, upon April 7. 1659." 



Samuel Wallas was sitting by his fire-side, on 

 the Whitsunday of 1659, after the evening ser- 

 mon. He had been able that afternoon to get out 

 of bed without help. His wife was gone into the 

 country to seek some relief, and he alone remained 

 in the house. He was reading a book, " intituled 

 Abraham's Suit for Sodom." About 6 o'clock he 

 heard " some body wrap at the door." He crept 

 to open it, and " saw a proper grave old man," 

 who asked him for a cup of small beer. He in- 

 vited him to enter, which, after some conversa- 

 tion, the old man did. Wallas drew him the beer 

 in a "little Jug-pot;" and he drank it, walking 

 several times up and down the room, " all this 

 while neither of them speaking a word to each 

 other." 



^ At length the old man asked Wallas what his 

 disease was. He replied, " a deep consumption ; 

 and our doctors say, it's past cure." He inquired 



* It is not in all the editions of the work. My copy 

 was printed about 1670. 



t The account that follows is not, as this heading might 

 imply, in his own words. 



what they gave him for it ; and Wallas answered 

 that on account of his poverty he was not able 

 to follow their prescriptions, and so he had com- 

 mitted himself into the hands of God. Upon this 

 the old man told him what he should do to be 

 cured. First, and above all, he must " Fear God, 

 and serve him." On the following morning he 

 was to go into his garden, and get three red sage 

 leaves, and one leaf of bloodwort ; put them into 

 a cup of small beer, let them stay for three days, 

 and then drink as often as he needed it. On the 

 fourth day the leaves were to be thrown away, 

 and three fresh ones put in their place. This he 

 was to do for twelve days, "neither more nor 

 less;" but above all, he was to "Pear God, and 

 serve him." During this period he was not to 

 drink ale or beer ; and at the end of the time he 

 would be cured. 



Wallas, dotibtlng the truth of the advice, in- 

 quired if this treatment was good for all consump- 

 tions. To this the old man answered, " I tell thee, 

 observe what I say to thee, and do it : but above 

 all, whatsoever thou doest, fear God and serve 

 him. Yet (said he) this is not all, for thou must 

 also change the air for thy health sake." Wallas 

 inquired what he meant by changing the air. He 

 was told he must go three or four miles oiF, the 

 farther the better, as soon as the twelve days were 

 over, or else he would have a very grievous fit of 

 sickness. But above all else, he was to "Fear 

 God, and serve him." 



Wallas then asked if it would not do to walk in 

 the neighbouring fields two or three times a day, 

 instead of leaving the town. He was told that it 

 would not, because that was the air in which the 

 infection had been taken. The stranger also told 

 him that his joints would be weak as long as he 

 lived. 



The old man then rose to go. Wallas wanted 

 him to take some bread and butter, or cheese. 

 But this he refused. " Christ," said he, " is suf- 

 ficient for me : neither but very seldom do I drink 

 any beer, but that which comes from the Rock. 

 And so, friend, the Lord God in Heaven be with 

 thee." 



Soon after saying this he left. Wallas went to . 

 shut the door after him, " and saw him pass along 

 the street some half a score yards" from the house. 

 But, although several people were standing oppo- 

 site the door, the old man was not seen by any of 

 them. 



Wallas used the remedy prescribed, "and by 

 the end of the twelve days, he was as healthful 

 and strong as ever he was." But when he sat 

 down, "his knees would smite together, so that he 

 still found a weakness in his joynts." One day, 

 before the expiration of the twelve days, he drank 

 a little beer, at the solicitation of some friends, 

 and immediately he became dumb for twenty-four 

 hours. 



