Aug. 19. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



143 



the Authors Notes. Written by Mr. Pope: London, 

 printed for the Company, 1735. _ 



There are considerable variations from the 

 later editions ; the arrangement is different, the 

 *' Atossa " is not included ; it contains the " Essay 

 on Man," seven Ethic Epistles, of which the sixth 

 is the epistle to Lord Oxford, and the seventh that 

 to Arbuthnot. It also contains the " Imitations 

 of Horace," and the "Satires of Donne," the 

 originals of both being added at the bottom in 

 Italics. At the end are ten of the epitaphs ; 

 those upon Craggs, Newton, Buckingham, Atter- 

 bury, and " one who would not be buried in West- 

 minster Abbey," not being included. 



I have little doubt of its being a pirated and 

 spurious edition. E. J. Sage. 



^ntxiti. 



THE COLLIERS CREED. 



In an able paper (No. 23. of the 2nd vol.) of 

 the Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome, the 

 object of which is to prove that the Holy Scrip- 

 tures are the only rule of Faith, by the Word of 

 God, by Reason, by the Fathers, and by the 

 Confession of the Romanists themselves, the 

 writer (p. 178.) quotes the acknowledgment of a 

 Popish writer, Gregory de Valentia, in these 

 words : 



" If a man he askt why he believes, for example, that 

 God is one in Nature, and three in Person: let him 

 answer, because God hath revealed it. If again he be 

 demanded how he knows God has revealed it, let liim 

 answer that he believes it infallibly by Faith, the infal- 

 lible proposition of the Church moving him thereunto. 

 If yet he be askt how he knows the proposition of the 

 Church to be infallible, let him say, because the Scripture 

 hath revealed it ; which he believes, not upon the credit 

 of any other revelation, but for itself." 



And the author of the paper adds : 



" But this was before the easie, ridiculous salvo of the 

 Collier's Creed was invented." 



What is the " Collier's Creed " referred to ? 

 In 1679, the date of this paper, Jeremy Collier, 

 the Nonjuror, had not made himself known as a 

 controversialist. The Weekly Pacquet is too ge- 

 nerally underrated, for though virulent enough, 

 as might be expected from the character of the 

 age, and the stirring subject of the publication, it 

 is full of very valuable matter, and is ably written. 

 I would except, however, the last leaf appended 

 to each number, under the name of the " Popish 

 Courant," which is mere ribaldry. I possess five 

 volumes, the date of the last number being July 13, 

 1683.* Was it continued beyond this time ? 



H. L. 



[* This is the last Number in the British Museum.] 



QUERIES ON THE "FAIRY QUEEN. 



An American reader will be greatly obliged by 

 an answer to any of the following Queries relat- 

 ing to the Fairy Queen. 



Book I. canto vi. 1. 3. Are there instances of 

 bewail being used in the sense of select? 



Book II. canto ii. 44. 4. Entrold, introld, or en- 

 rold. How is this word to- be understood ? 



Book II. canto ix. 22. I have not much doubt 

 that Digby's and Upton's mystical interpretation 

 of this stanza is quite gratuitous ; and I had my- 

 self understood it pretty much as a writer in the 

 AthencBum, before I saw the reference to his article 

 furnished by one of your correspondents. But 

 the last verse might be thought to countenance a 

 more subtle explanation. Will some one, who has 

 the book at hand, furnish a passage from Paulinus 

 (Hebdornades, lib. iii. cap. ii.) cited by Thomas 

 Moore (Works, vol. ii. p. 169., note f), in which 

 it is attempted to be shown " that man is a dia- 

 pason or octave, made up of a diatessaron, which 

 is his soul, and a diapente, which is his body." 



Book II. canto ix. 41. 7. What is castory ? Was 

 the secretion of the beaver (castoreum) ever used 

 for a dyCj or could it be so employed ? 



Book II. canto x. 12. 9. Are there other in- 

 stances of inquyre used in the sense of name (ask 

 for by the name of) ? 



Book in. canto iii. 13. 6. What authority does 

 Spenser follow in this stanza ? and where did he 

 get the names Matilda and Pubidius ? 



Book III. canto v. 28. 6. Persue. Should not 

 this word be issue ? 



Book III. canto v. 48. 9. Does by art, in this 

 verse, mean only in a wonderful manner ? or may 

 levin be explained leaven, that is, an artificial 

 caustic ? 



Book HI. canto viii. 22. 2. Are there other in- 

 stances of drover meaning boat ? 



Book in. canto ix. 46. 3. What is Overt gate by 

 North ? 



Book IV. canto iv. 29. 6. Cuffling. Must this 

 word be altered to cuffing? or, if allowed to stand, 

 how is it to be explained ? 



Book V. canto vi. 19. 6. What is the origin of 

 the phrase well shot in years ? 



Book V. canto ix. 34. 5. Does boone signify ho- 

 mage, service ? (Compare boon- days, &c.) 



I would add, by way of note, that the word gelt 

 (book IV. canto vii. 21. 3.), which is not (rightly) 

 explained in any of the editions, is the Irish geilt, 

 a wild man or woman, a crazy person. The feeble 

 Todd says gelding. Also, that most of the editors 

 have changed Sabaoth, at the end of the last line 

 of the Fairy Queen, into Sabbath, without reason. 

 The God of Sabbaoth, as Spenser has it, was the 

 same, in his apprehension, as the God of Sabbath, 

 or of rest, as the seventh verse shows. F. J. C. 



