<k2 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 141. 



press the necessity of makitifr speed witli prepara- 

 tions for the receptlDU of " the noble duke his 

 master." I may mistake Mr. Singer's notion, 

 and I should, of course, be most unwilling to mis- 

 represent him. My opinion is, and was when I 

 printed the passage in question, that "dispatch," 

 with a period after it, related to what was to be 

 done with Edgar, if he were captured — that if 

 caught and found he should be executed ; for 

 ■what otherwise can be the meaning of the line in 

 a subsequent part of Gloster's speech, about — 

 " Bringing the murderous coward to the stake." 

 I cannot at all concur in Mr Singer's proposal 

 !*oread " And found" unfoun I ; fur, as I humbly 

 conceive, what Gloster intends to say is, that 

 Edgar should not remain uncaught ; and that 

 when found he should be dispatched. If "Dis- 

 patch" applied to preparations for the re(;epti(m 

 ).of the Duke of Cornwall, how happens.it that we 

 hear no more of them, and th?t he and Regan 

 walk in just afterwards without ceremony ? Be- 

 sides, we may easily imagine that Gloster, at the 

 moment he hears of Edgar's parricidal purpose, 

 would be in no mood to think of preparations. 



It will be observed that, according to my inter- 

 pretation of Gloster's language, the word " dis- 

 patch" ought rather to be dispatch' d: 



"Let him fly far; 

 Not in this land shall he remain uncaught ; 

 And found, dispatch'd." 



If I am right, I have no merit in this suggestion, 

 because the preceding quotation is given pi ecisely 

 .in that form, and with that punctuation, in my 

 .manuscrii)t- corrected folio of 1632; and it is one 

 , of the emendations in King Leur, wliicli tends to 

 clear away difficul ies, and to render our great 

 dramatist's meaning indisputable. 



I have the hi<rhest respect for Mr. Singer's 

 'judgment on such questions, and I hope he will 

 coincide with me in the above rea ling, as well as 

 in many others to be contained in the volume I 

 ^am at this moment busily engaged in preparing. 

 I may be allowed to add, that uiy corrected folio 

 confirms the change he has proposed in the first 

 line of Act IV. of King Lear: 

 "Yet better thus unknown to be contemn'd, 

 Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst," &c. 

 My folio, however, makes a further emendation, 

 by substituting yns for " yet : " as if Edgar entered 

 ■continuing a soliloquy he had commenced before 

 he made his appearance : 

 '"Tes; better thus unknown to be contemn'd," &c. 

 .Such appears to me to be the true text ; but if 

 lam in error, 1 shall at any tin)e be hap{)y to be 

 ■«et right, especially by Mb. Singer. 



J. Payne Collier. 



3Rc4)Ttc^ to :^tn0r ^mxizS, 



The Chevalier St. George (Vol. v., p. 610.).— 

 J. VV. H. does not ii.enti(m among the jjirinted 

 works which he has consulted, The Decline of the 

 Last Stuarts, Extracts from the Despatches of 

 British Envoys to he Secretary of State, printed 

 for the Roxburghe Club, London, 1843. The 

 volume is e iited by Lord Mahon from the oii- 

 ginals at the State Ra[)er Ollice. Spes- 



" iJAe a fair Lily" ^c. (Vol. v., p. 539.).— 

 "Like a lily on a river flo.iling, 

 She floats upon tlie river of his thoughts." 

 This quotation is from Longfellow's Spanish 

 Student, Act li. Sc. 3. In a note the author stiys 

 this expression is i'rofin Dante : 



" Si che chiaro 

 Per esser scenda della mente il flume." 

 Byron has also used the expression, though the 

 author does not recollect in which of his poems. 



H. C. 



"Roses all thafs fair <idorn" (Vol. v., p. 611.). 

 — Permit me to inform W. S. where he may find — 

 " Roses all that's fair adorn, 

 Rosy-finger'd is tiie morn ; 

 Rosy-arm'd the nympiis are seen, 

 Rosy-skiiuTd is IJoauty's (|ueen," &c. 

 I have it in XewbeiTy's smidl volume of the 

 Art of Poetry ; it is an almost litend translation 

 of an ode of Anacreon by Charles Wesley, of 

 which I possess two copies ; one of which is at 

 W.'s service, a line from whom will be immediately 

 attended to. Robt. Browning. 



28. Chepstow Place, Bayswator. 



Frehord (Vol. v., pp.595. 620). — There are 

 several estates in this county which were foi-merly 

 parks; tliey have ibr many years been broken up, 

 and cultivated: the projirietors of these old parks 

 claim a space extending eight feet si.x inches in 

 width on the outside of the boundary fences, which 

 space is locally called a deer-leap. Whether the 

 explanation of this term giv^eu by your corre- 

 spondent Kt. is the correct one, 1 am unable to 

 say ; but here it is generally understood to be a 

 space left on the outside of the boundary, to en- 

 able the j)roprietor to repair his fences without 

 trespassing on his neighbour's lands. 



William Fecg. 



Lewes. 



Ireland! s Freedom from Beptiles (Vol. iii., 

 p. 490.). — A {)amphlet of Dean Swift's, ConsiderU' 

 tions ahoid maiutainiitg the Poor, without date, 

 but assigned to 1726, amongst other grievances 

 complains of the practice of insuring houses ia 

 English oflices : 



" A third [abuse] is the Insurance Office against 

 fire, by wliich several thousand pounds are yearly re- 

 mitted to England (a trifle it seems we can easily 



