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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 265. 



Editions of " The Dunciad." — It is very kind 

 of our Editor to offer to take the trouble of col- 

 lating the earlier editions of The Dunciad; but as 

 I was the person who commenced the discussion, 

 I beg leave to say that my inquiry was solely and 

 simply after any Dublin or other edition prior to 

 1728. The differences and discrepancies of sub- 

 sequent editions (which are traceable in almost all 

 Pope's separate publications of his various works, 

 as well as in The Dunciad), are matters of a 

 different kind, and do not affect my original in- 

 quiry ; but, for the satisfaction of other corre- 

 spondents, I transmit to the Editor all the separate 

 editions of The Dunciad in my possession. C. 



Early Editions of-' The DunciatZ."— Although, 

 thanks to the kindness of our contributors and 

 friends, a very large number of copies of The Dun- 

 ciad have been forwarded for our examination, we 

 have reason to believe that there were editions (we 

 speak more particularly of editions published in 

 1728 and 1729) of which we have not at present 

 received any copy. We shall therefore feel obliged 

 by any information as to the existence of copies 

 of The Dunciad dated in 1728 and 1729, in any 

 public or private libraries. We shall be farther 

 obliged by any bookseller, who may have a copy 

 of The Dunciad for sale, reporting to us its date, 

 price, &c. Ed. " N. & Q." 



Popes Skull. — Can any correspondent of " N. 

 & Q." throw light upon a story which was for- 

 merly current in the neighbourhood of Twicken- 

 ham as to the deseci-ation of Pope's grave, and the 

 removal of his skull ? This is said to have taken 

 place about twenty years since, when an eminent 

 distiller, having died in that parish, was buried in 

 Pope's grave in Twickenham Church. It used to 

 be reported that, on opening the grave, the only 

 remains discovered was the skull of the poet, and 

 that that was then removed. If so, where was it 

 removed to, and is it known to be now in ex- 

 istence ? P. S. 



Pope's " Sober Advice." — I have read with 

 great interest the various "Popiana" which have 

 appeared in " N. & Q.," but have been a little 

 disappointed, as an admirer of Pope, that no 

 farther allusion has been made to two interesting 

 Queries which appeared in your early Numbers, 

 and I hope therefore you will permit me to recall 

 attention to them. One is the allusion, hitherto 

 unexplained, contained in a passage of Pope's 

 Imitation of Horace's Epistle to Augustus : 



" The hero William and the martyr Charles, 

 One knighted Blackmore and one pension'd Quarles ; 

 Which made old Ben, and surly Dennis swear, 

 N^o Lord's anointed, but a Russiaji bear." 



The other and more important relates to the date 

 of the first publication of Pope's Sober Advice 

 from Horace to the Young Gentlemen about Town, 

 which Mr. Cbossley (Vol. iv., p. 122.) states to 

 have been published by Curll about 1716, in a 

 form in which neither Mrs. Oldfield nor Lady 

 Mary are introduced. Your correspondent C. 

 doubted Mr. Crosslky's accuracy, and there the 

 matter rests. Those who have read, with the 

 pleasure I have done, Mr. Crossley's bibliogra- 

 phical communications to " N. & Q," and have 

 shared with me the feeling that Mr. Crossley 

 generally speaks by the card, would, I am sure, be 

 glad to know whether farther examination has 

 convinced him that the Sober Advice was pub- 

 lished, though in an imperfect form, at so early a 

 period. S. A. H. 



WORDS AND PHRASES COMMON AT POLPERRO, BUT 

 NOT USUAL ELSEWHERE. 



(^Continued from p. 360.) 



Sabby, moist, only a little wet. It appears to 

 have the same root with the word sap, as the 

 juice of a tree ; but it is expressive of the con- 

 dition of anything only perceptibly moist. 



Sample, soft and flexible. A piece of leather, 

 or firm substance, by being soaked in oil or water, 

 is rendered sample. 



Scam. To scam^ a shoe, is to twist it out of 

 shape by wearing it wrongly. Is not this the 

 orgin of the word scamp, a fellow that is distorted 

 from the right ? 



Sclow, to scratch with the nails, as a cat does. 

 It is most commonly applied to the action of little 

 children, when they scratch each other with their 

 nails. Sclomb has much the same meaning. 



Scoad, to scatter about, or spill anything. In 

 common language, it is more frequently applied 

 to the spilling of liquids in a scattered manner ; 

 but it is the common word among farmers and 

 labourers for scattering or distributing with a 

 shovel the manure, or dressing, over the fields. 



Scoce, to exchange or barter one thing for 

 another. 



Sconce, understanding, intellect, the faculty of 

 comprehension. 



Scraw, or scroe. Fish are scrawed when they 

 are prepared in a particular way before cooking. 

 This scraiving consists in cutting them flatly open, 

 and then slightly powdering them with salt, and 

 sometimes with pepper. They are then exposed 

 to the sun or air, that as much as possible of the 

 moisture may be dried up. In this state they are 

 roasted over a clear burning coal or wood fire. 

 Thus prepared, and smeared over with a little 

 butter, they are said to be " scrawed." 



Scrump, to shrink up together. It is confined 

 to living beings, and is often applied to a child 



