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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[L'o. 153. 



" Balnea, vi?ia, Venus " (Vol. vi., pp. 74. 233.). — 

 On what authority does A. B. M. assign this epi- 

 gram to Martial ? Are we to rest contented with 

 loose references to his and Darwin's works ? 

 ' Oh ! how I wish that our worthy Editor would 

 stereotype on the first page of every number : 



" Each man has his hobby, and mine is, not to suffer 

 a quotation to pass without verification. 



" It is fortunate that I am not a despotic monarch, 

 as I would certainly make it felony, without benefit of 

 clergy, to quote a passage without giving a plain re- 

 ference." — Notes and Queries, vol. i. p. 230. 



and then hand over every Note or Query that dis- 

 regarded the warning to the High Priestess of 

 Vesta — his housemaid. 



I could point out passages in "N. & Q." in 

 which references have been made to Rabelais, La 

 Rochefoucauld, and, worse than all, to Burton's 

 Anatomy of Melancholy ! and which have been 

 allowed to pass without editorial comment or re- 

 buke. I do not know what my opinions on this 

 slipslop, slovenly, unworkmanlike, unscholarlike 

 style of reference may be worth; but I know this, 

 — that I am neither ashamed nor afraid to express 

 them. C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



[There is so much good common sense in the sug- 

 gestion of our correspondent, as to the necessity of 

 precise references ; and we have ourselves often suf- 

 fered so much inconvenience from their omission, that 

 we shall certainly, as a general rule, act in future upon 

 his suggestion. — Ed.] 



Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby (Vol.vi., p. 174.). 

 — The portrait of Lady Venetia Digby inquired 

 for is perhaps that in the Dulwich Gallery, marked 

 242 in the Catalogue. It was formerly inserted as 

 of " Lady Penelope Digby," but was changed from 

 something I once read about it, I think in Car- 

 penter's book on Vandyke. S. P. D., Jun. 



Camoens' Version of the IS7 th Psalm (Vol. vi., 

 pp. 50. 248.). — P. C. S. S., an old student — in 

 other words, an old admirer — of Camoens, ventures 

 to differ from Mr. Singer in the opinion which 

 ^ that gentleman seems to indicate at p. 248. of the 

 present volume of " N. & Q." He does not con- 

 sider the beautiful Redondillas to which Mr. S. 

 refers as the version of the Psalm (" Super flu- 

 mina " ) mentioned at p. 50. by your correspon- 

 dent Rt. He is rather inclined to believe that 

 Rt. must have alluded to the 239th Sonnet of 

 Camoens. The Redondillas, as Mr. S. justly 

 observes, are only an " expanded paraphrase," 

 founded on a supposed resemblance between the 

 forlorn condition of Camoens when he wrote them, 

 and that of the children of Israel when they were 

 banished wanderers " by the waters of Babylon." 



These charming verses were composed (as Fai'ia 

 and the other commentators inform us) on the 

 banks of the Mecon, after the poet's escape from 

 shipwreck, in 1560, on his voyage from Macao to 

 Goa. P. C. S. S. can hardly agree with Rt. in 

 deeming the Portuguese version of the 137th 

 Psalm to be "the most successful in any lan- 

 guage." He has always entertained a strong pre- 

 ference for the Latin Elegiacs of George Buchanan. 

 Perhaps his partiality for them may be something 

 of a personal nature ; for he still possesses a gold 

 medal, which, in his academical days (Eheu fugaces, 

 Posthume, Posthume ! ), he was so fortunate as to 

 obtain for an attempt at a Greek version of 

 Buchanan's admirable translation. P. C. S. S. 



Lintots House (Vol. vi., p. 198.). — Bernard 

 Lintot, on the title-page of Gay's Trivia, 8vo. 

 (1712), tells us that his residence was the " Cross- 

 Keys between the Temple Gates in Fleet Street.^ 

 Mr. Cunningham, in his Hand-Book (p. 348.), de- 

 scribes "Nando's" as "a coffee-house in Fleet 

 Street, east corner of Inner Temple Lane, and 

 next door to the shop of Bernard Lintot, the 

 bookseller." If Lintot's shop was betweeyi the 

 Temple Gates, as he himself tells us, it could not 

 have been next door to Nando's. Query, Was it 

 the shop afterwards in the possession of Jacob 

 Robinson, the bookseller, on the west side of the 

 gateway leading down the Inner Temple Lane ? 

 Robinson was living there in 1737 : how much 

 earlier I know not. This house and shop (which 

 is now in the occupation of Groom, the confec- 

 tioner), is one of the very few remaining relics, in 

 its kind, of old London. Edward F. Rimbault. 



Norfolk Dialect (Vol. ii., pp. 217. S65.).—Gotch, 

 a jug or pitcher. Forby's derivation of this from 

 Italian, gozzo, a throat, seems far-fetched. A 

 more probable derivation is from the Anglo-Saxon 

 geotan, to pour, p. guton, pp. goten, gegoten. The 

 word gote (a gote or pipe, Dugdale, History of 

 Fens and Embanking) is still used in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire fens. Tyd Gote, " the four Gotes," is 

 from the same root. In Lincolnshire this word is 

 spelt and pronounced gout, — Winthorpe Gout, 

 Trusthorpe Gout; and in the Kent and Sussex 

 marshes they seem to use the word gut in the same 

 sense. The word gush connects this with the 

 German g-eesseH, Tpret. gdsse,gegossen ; from whence 

 comes gosse, a gutter or drain : also goss-stein, a 

 sink or gutter-stone. Gosse, by the usual meta- 

 thesis of s for t, is our word gote. E. G. R. 



Passages in Bingham (Vol. vi., p. 172.). — I beg 

 leave to inform Mr. Richard Bingham, Jr., that 

 the Jifth book in his list, viz. Tractatm de delicto 

 communi et casu privilegiato, vel de legitima Judi- 

 cum secularium potestate in personas ecclesiasticas, 

 per Benignum Milletotum [s. 1.], 1612, is in the 



