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NOTES AND QUEKIEa 



[No. 263. 



Herberts Poems. — Can you inform me which 

 is the first edition of Herbert's Poems, that printed 

 at Cambridge without date, or the one with the 

 date of 1633 on the title-page? The former one 

 was recently sold at Sotheby's, in rich old morocco 

 binding, for 19Z. 17s. 6(i. ; the latter is in my pos- 

 session. Verat. 



Islington. 



[We have before us a Cambridge edition of 1633, with 

 the words " Second Edition " printed on the title-page. 

 The imprint is as follows : " Printed by T. Buck and R. 

 Daniel, printers to the Universitie oi Cambridge, 1G33. 

 ^ And are to be sold by Fr. Green." This seems to be 

 the edition noticed by Dibdin in his hihrary Companion, 

 p. 702. He says, " The second and best edition of Her- 

 bert's Poems appeared in 1633, in a slender duodecimo 

 volume. I have seen more than one beautiful copy of 

 this pious volume, which has brought as much as 4/. 4s., 

 in a delicately-ruled and thickly-gilt ornamented condi- 

 tion ; and in some such condition there is good reason to 

 believe that Charles I. possessed it. Indeed his own copy 

 of it, in blue morocco, with rich gold tooling, was once^ I 

 learn, in the library of Tom Martin of Palgrave."] 



" Philologia Sacra." — I have in my possession 

 a folio volume called Philologia Sacra, or the 

 Tropes and Figures of Scripture. It was pub- 

 lished in London in 1681. The author's initials 

 are B. K. Can any of your readers give me some 

 information with regard to the writer of this book, 

 or tell me whether it is scarce, as I have not, to 

 the best of my memory, met with another copy of 

 it elsewhere ? T. W. D. Brooks, M.A. 



[Our correspondent seems to possess only ih^ first book 

 of Benjamin Reach's celebrated work, TPOnOAOriA, or a 

 Key to open Scripture Metaphors, 2 vols, fol., 1681-2 ; re- 

 printed in 1 vol., 1779. It consists of four books. Book I. 

 Philologia Sacra, or the Tropes and Figures of Scripture. 

 This book has been attributed to Thomas Delaune. II. 

 III. Metaphors and Similes. IV. Tropes and Figures. 

 The last three are by Reach. The work is now scarce ; 

 the first edition was marked in Ogle's Catalogue, 1814, at 

 3^ 3s., and we have seen the second editicai marked at 

 2L 16*. Benjamin Reach was a Baptist minister, who 

 appears to have suffered for his principles; born 1640, 

 died 1704 ; and was of considerable note among his bre- 

 thren. His quaint phraseology sometimes provokes a 

 smile. In one place he says that " the Deity is not dis- 

 pleased with those who look asquint at him ; " and in an- 

 other, that " our blessed Saviour, although a Physician, 

 was so disinterested that he never took a penny of all 

 those he cured."] 



Currcm a Preacher. — In p. xvl. of the Me- 

 moir prefixed to Davis's edition of The Speeches 

 of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran 

 (8vo., London, 1847), I have lately met with the 

 following paragraph : 



" Being designed for the Church he studied divinity. 

 . . In his time he wrote two sermons. [One was written 

 for his friend, Jlr. Stack, to preach before the judges of 

 ■assize at Cork.] The other was preached in College chapel 

 as a punishment, and in it he gloriously mimicked the 

 censor. Dr. Patrick Duigenan ! — an eruption worthy of 

 him who satirised Newmarket, when twelve years old. 

 We cannot look at the College pulpit without fancying 



we see the giggling eye, and hear the solemn voice of that 

 wild boy." 



What is the meaning of this ? Did Curran ever 

 occupy "the College pulpit" in the College chapel? 

 or has a sermon been ever preached there "as a 

 punishment?" If not, how did the writer of the 

 Memoir make such an assertion ? Abhba. 



[Curran having committed some breach of the College 

 regulations, was condemned by Dr. Duigenan to pro- 

 nounce a Latin oration in laudem decori from the pulpit of 

 the College chapel. He had not proceeded far before it 

 was found to contain a mock model of ideal perfection, 

 which the doctor instantly recognised to be a glaring 

 satire upon himself. Such is the version of the story as 

 furnished by his son.] 



Drinking from Seven Glasses. — In John Buncle, 

 a Unitarian romance, of which HRzlitt gives us a 

 highly amusing account in his Round Table, the 

 author says : 



" Gallaspy was .... well made and extremely hand- 

 some .... but extremely wicked. He was the most pro- 

 fane swearer I have known : fought everything, and 

 drank seven in a hand ; that is, seven glasses so placed 

 between the fingers of his right hand, that, in drinking, 

 the liquor fell into the next glasses, and thereby he drank 

 out of the first glass seven glasses at once. This was a 

 common thing, I find from a book in my possession, in 

 the reign of Cliarles II." 



Hazlitt, in a note, asks, — 



" Is this all a rhodomontade, or literal matter-of-fact, 

 not credible in these degenerate days ? " 



This is my Query. J. P. 



[We have already given some account of the author of 

 The Life of John Buncle, Esq., the eccentric Thomas 

 Amory, and of the extravagant tone of his writings. (See 

 Vol. X., p. 30.) In addition to what is stated above re- 

 specting this marvellous Irishman, Gallaspy, he farther 

 tells us that " when he smoaked tobacco, he always blew 

 two pipes at once, one at each comer of his mouth, and 

 threw the smoak of both out of his nostrils . . . He only 

 slept every third night, and that often in his cloathes in 

 a chair, where he would sweat so prodigiously as to be 

 wet quite through ; as wet as if he had come from a pond, 

 or a pail of water had been thrown on him. This was 

 Jack Gallaspy." The writer of this rhodomontade was 

 evidently a duly qualified candidate for a lunatic asy- 

 lum.] 



Arthurs Grave. — In the centre of an ancient 

 earthwork (near Launceston, Cornwall), called 

 Warbstow Barrow, is a long mound of grass- 

 grown earth, vulgarly known as King Arthur's 

 grave. Is there any reason for this appellation ? 



Anon. 



[This oblong tumulus is also called the Giant's grave, 

 situated in the centre of a double vallum, of which an 

 engraved plan is given in Lysons' Cornwall, p. ccxlix. , 

 Arthur, the British chief, after he was mortally wounded 

 at the battle of Camlan in Cornwall, was conveyed by 

 sea to Glastonbury, where he died and was buried. The 

 Arthur entombed in Warbstow Barrow clearly belongs to 

 romance and fiction, most likely the fantastic monarch of 

 the Round Table.'] 



