NOTES AND QUEEIES: 



A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION 



FOR 



LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



•• "Wlien found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttlk. 



Vol. VL— No. 146.] Sa^turday, August 14. 1852. 



f Price Fourpence. 



i Stamped Edition, Qd. 



147 



CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



DifTerences between Copies of the Folio 1632 of Shak- 



speare's Plays, by J. Payne Collier - - - 141 



Cant or Slang Lansuage, by Tliomas Lawrence - 142 



Inedited Letters of Nelson, by Kenneth R. H. Mac- 

 kenzie, &c. ..---. 141 

 Passage in Lycidas ..---- 143 

 yolk Lore : — The Spirit at Boliiigbroke Castle — Folk 

 Lore in the Fifteenth Century — Weather Prophecy 



— Folk Lore from an old Newspaper (1759) —Super- 

 stition in the Nineteenth C'-ntury— Cure for Wens - 144 



Notes on Madeira, by James Yate Johnsini - - 145 



Liveries in the Time of James L, by J. Lewelyn Curtis 14G 

 Minor Notes: — Inscription over Plato's Door — Cock 

 and Bull Story — Etvmology of the Word " Apron " — 

 Use of Coal as Fuel — Saints who destroyed Serpents 146 



QUERIES : — 



Dr. Mesmer in England, by D. J. Latzky 



Repeating Clocks, and Barlow their Inventor, by George 



Barlow 147 



" The British Apollo " - - - - .148 



Sir Thomas Parr's or Sir William Pelham's Tomb at 



Kendal, by William S. HeSleden - - - 148 

 Minor Queries : — Portraits of Wolsey — Was Bossuet 

 married?- Nottingham Goose Fair — " I bide my 

 Time " — Biting the Thumb— Camden's Definition of 

 Cockney — Judge Jeffries — Robert Stanser, Second 

 Bishop of Nova Scotia, I81G to 1824— Colonial News- 

 papers—Church Brasses subsequent to l()88— The Old 

 Roson — Queries on Popular Phrases — Etymology of 

 Llewellyn — Voydinge Knife — Sir John Mason — 

 Yolante de Dreux, Widow of Alexander III., King of 

 Scots — Mary Queen of Scots' Daughter by Earl of 

 Bothwell — Lightning — Was Penn ever a Slave- 

 holder ? 149 



MiNOH Queries Answered: — Authorship of " Voiage 

 du Monde de Descartes " — Etymology of Sycophant 



— Taboo — Sliaston, where? — Etymology of Devon, 



&c Charles Inglis, First Bishop of Nova Scotia, 1787 150 



Replies : — 



The Flemish Clothiers in Wales - - - - 151 



Springs and Wells, Monkish Burials, &c. - - 152 



" Oh, go from the window ! " by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 153 

 Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger, by Rev. 

 A. Gatty ....-.- 153 



"Bosom multiplied" . . _ . - 154 



On the Patronymics Ray or Wray ... 154 



The Demonstrative " that" in the Opening of" Measure 

 for Measure " - - - - . .155 



Rhymes upon Places, by William Bates ... 156 

 Portrait of George Fox, by J. Lewelyn Curtis - - 156 



St. Margaret, by Thomas L Walker, &c. - - 156 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Donne versus Francis Davi- 

 son — Henry Lord Dover — " Experto crede Roberto" 

 — Vellum-bound Books— Monody on the Death of Sir 

 John Moore — The Hereditary Standard Bearer — 

 Baxter's '■ Saint's Rest " — The Name of Dodo — 

 " Sacrum pingue dabo," &c. — Age of Trees — Scot of 

 Satchells— Ex:erior Stoups — " Royd " — Pickigni, &c. 1.57 

 Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 161 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted ... - 162 



Notices to Correspondents ... - 162 



Advertisements - - ... - 103 



Vol. VI. — No. 146. 



DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COPIES OF THE FOLIO 



1632 OF shakspeare's plays. 



I have examined as many copies of ihe folio 

 edition of Shakspeare which came out in 1632 as I 

 could conveniently lay my hands upon, and I find 

 that my manuscript-corrected copy, in the printed 

 portion of it, differs from them in two not unim- 

 portant passages ; it may differ in other places, but 

 I have not yet discovered them ; and what I wish 

 to learn is, whether any of your readers possess, or 

 are acquainted with, copies similarly circumstanced 

 to that now lyinj^ before me ? 



The first variation occurs in the Duke's well-re- 

 membered speech in Measure for Measure, Act III. 

 Sc. 1., beginning "Be absolute for death," &c., 

 Avhere he says : 



" Friend liast thou none, 

 For thine own bowels, which do call ihee fire, 

 The mere effusion of thy proper loins, 

 Do curse the gout," &c. 



The above is as the passage is given in every other 

 copy of the folio 1632 I have inspected, but that 

 in my hands with early manuscript corrections ; 

 there the second of the above lines stands as fol- 

 lows : 



" For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire" 



most clearly and unmistakeably printed. Is any 

 other copy known with the same peculiarity ? 

 There can be no doubt that " sire " and not fire is 

 the true reading; and all editors subsequent to 

 1685, the date of the last of the four folios, have 

 adopted it. 



The other instance of variation is, in some 

 respects, under similar circumstances, as will be 

 seen presently. It is met with in Richard II., 

 Act I. Sc. 3., where, as far as my knowledge ex- 

 tends, according to all copies of the folio 1632, 

 excepting mine, the King, banishing Norfolk, tells 

 him, 



*' The sly slow hours shall not determinate 

 The dateless limit of thy dear exile." 



It has been customary, I believe, to print " sly 

 slow," fly-slow, on the example and recommend- 

 ation of Pope ; but Steevens questions the pi o- 

 priety of doing so, and I, hastily perhaps, adopted 



