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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 269. 



lished in 1729, for we have seen many copies of 

 it, and have not seen or heard of a copy of a 

 quarto published in that year that does not pro- 

 fess to be printed for A. Dod, Yet the following 

 advertisement appears in the Monthly Chronicle 

 for April, 1729. Whether such a quarto was ever 

 issued, or whether it was originally intended that 

 the one we liave described should have been pub- 

 lished by Gilliver, we must leave to future in- 

 quirers to determine. 



" A compleat and correct edition of The Dunciad, 

 with the Prolegomena, Dissertations, and Arguments of 

 Martinus Scriblerus, Testimonia Scriptorum, Nota; Va- 

 riorum, Index Auctorum, Appendix of some curious 

 pieces, Virgil Eestor'd, or a Specimen for a new edition 

 of that poet, a parallel of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, &c. 

 Wherein the errors of all the former editions are cor- 

 rected, the omissions supplied, the name rectify'd, and 

 the reasons for their insertion given: the History of 

 Authors related, and the Anonymous detected, the ob- 

 scure passages illustrated, and the imitations and allusions 

 to modern poets collected. With a Letter to the Pub- 

 lisher. By W. C. Esq. Printed for L. Gilliver in Fleet 

 Street, 4to., price 6s. 6d." 



(G.) THE DUNCIAD, VARIORUM. WITH THE 



PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS. Then a vignettc 

 of the ass — an exact copy of that in the 4to. — 

 with the words deferor in vicum vendentem 

 THUS ET ODORES, at the bottom, london, printed 

 FOR A. DOB. 1729. 8vo. 



This is in all probability the first 8vo. variorum 

 edition. We had, at first, very little doubt that 

 the poem itself had been actually printed from 

 the same types as the Dod 4to., 1729, just de- 

 scribed, since, although many of the errors of the 

 4to. have been corrected in the 8vo., others re- 

 main. 



Thus both the 4to. and 8vo. read, book i. 1. 6. : 



" Still Dunce second reigns like Dunce the first." 



the word the before second being omitted in both. 

 JBook i. 1. 38. reads : 



" Of Curl's chaste press, and Lintot's rubric's post." 



instead of " rubric post." 



But as these and others are described as errors 

 in the address " M. Scriblerus Lectori," both in 

 the 4to. and 8vo. editions — it may be said they 

 were intentional and prove nothing, — we must 

 therefore point to two literal errors, which at all 

 events serve to confirm the impression made upon 

 us by our first examination of the type, namely, 

 that the text has in both cases been printed from 

 the same type. Thus book ii. 1. 339. is in both 

 editions printed, — 



" My Henley's periods, or my Blackmore's numbers," 



the en being in Italics. And book iii. 1. 342. being 

 again in both cases, — 



" The sickening stars fade off the a' thereal plain." 



the " a'th" instead of " th' sethereal." 



To compress the text of the 4to., by the re- 

 moval of whites and spaces, into the 8vo., was very 

 easy, and we were originally of opinion that it had 

 been so. But although the work was probably 

 from the same fount of type, it is the opinion of 

 practical printers whom we have consulted, that it 

 has actually been recomposed, and that the coin- 

 cident blunders are the result of strictly follow- 

 ing copy. 



A certain ground, however, for believing that 

 this was the first variorum 8vo. is furnished by 

 a leaf of errata which it contains, and which is 

 thus headed ; 



" Addenda to the Octavo Edition of the Dunciad, printed 

 for A. Dob (Price Two Shilli7igs'), which have been pub- 

 lisVd in the News-Papers as Defects and Errors, but were 

 really wanting in the Quarto Edition it self, and have only 

 been added to another Edition in Octavo, printed for Gil- 

 liver, for which he charges the Ptiblick Three Shillings. 

 Edition printed for A. Dob." 



And these Addenda are accordingly all to be 

 found in Gilliver's and Dod's octavos. 



Lastly, it may be noticed that in the various 

 pieces contained in this volume, and the order in 

 which they follow each other, it corresponds ex- 

 actly with the Dod 4to. 



( Jb be concluded in our next.^ 



LEGENDS AND SUPERSTITIONS RESPECTING BEES. 



(^Continued from Vol. ix., p. 167.) 



Since writing my last Note, I have met with 

 two curious books which furnish exact parallels to 

 Mr. Hawker's Cornish Legend. The first is en- 

 titled — 



"The School of the Eucharist Established upon 

 the Miraculous Respects and Acknowledgments which 

 Beasts, Birds, and Insects, upon several occasions, have 



rendered to the Holy Sacrament of the Altar By 



F. Toussain Bridoul, of the Society of Jesus. Printed 

 in French at Lille, 1672 ; and now made English, and 



published The Second Edition Lond. 1687, 



pp. 45, 8vo." 



This book consists of a series of extracts in alpha- 

 betical order from various writers ; it commences 

 with — 



«A. 

 Abeilles, Bees. 



" 1. Bees honour the H. Host divers ways, by lifting it 

 from the earth, and carrying it in their hives as it were 

 in procession. 



" A certain peasant of Auvergne, a province in France, 

 perceiving that his Bees were likely to die, to prevent this 

 misfortune, was advised, after he had received the Com- 

 munion, to reserve the Host, and to blow it into one of 

 his hives. As he tried to do it the Host fell on the 

 ground. Behold now a wonder ! On a sudden all the 

 IBees came forth out of their hives, and ranging them- 

 selves in good order, lifted the Host from the ground, 

 and carrving it in upon their wings, placed it among the 

 combes. ' After this the man went out about his business, 



