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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 105., Jan. 2. '58. 



correspondent seems to me very improbable. 

 Morgan for Bevan, either in pronunciation or 

 transcription, is an easy change ; but by no pro- 

 vincial or barbarous pronunciation can I make 

 Mawhood sound like Mannick. Farther, we are 

 not considering one single example, as in the case 

 of Morgan, but many, as will appear on inquiry. 



Your correspondent is not, as I think, even 

 justified in his doubting and doubtful way of put- 

 ting his question ; which in itself raises doubts. 

 He has not, so far as I know, any authority for 

 his possibility that Mannick may have been a 

 family friend of the Popes, and an inmate of the 

 poets house. We know that he was a family friend 

 of the Racketts, and I think it probable that he 

 was an inmate of their house ; and if so, and if he 

 were the resident priest in the family, it was na- 

 tural, in the aiFectionate language and suffering 

 sympathy of those old persecuting times, that he 

 should speak of " we in the family." 



Who was Mannick I cannot say. Weston, in 

 his letter to Rackett, Sept. 9, 1717 {Athenaeum, 

 No. 1544.), adds in a P. S., " Pray all our re- 

 spects to Mrs. Raket, and my cousin Maniche.'''' 

 This cousinship may possibly be traced through 

 the marriage, a century earlier, of Thos. Bishop 

 with a daughter of Weston of Sutton, and the 

 late marriage of Mary, the daughter of Sir Cecil 

 Bishop, with T. Mannock of Bromley Hall, Essex. 

 The Mannocks were, I believe, an old Catholic 

 family — one of that name, as we learn from Lut- 

 trell, was, with a dozen others, apprehended in 

 April, 1696, at the time of the Assassination Plot, 

 and committed to prison. 



Weston, who, be it remembered, was not invited 

 but volunteered the visit, assumes as if it were a 

 matter of course that "cousin Manicke" would be 

 with the Racketts ; and good old Mrs. Pope, in one 

 of her enigmatical letters, thus couples them toge- 

 ther : " Mr. Mannock and Charles Rackett to 

 take his leave of us." We have therefore some- 

 thing like proof that Mannock did not reside with 

 the Popes, and did reside with the Racketts; 

 that he stood in very intimate relation with 

 the Racketts, but not that he was related. It 

 only tends to prejudice the judgment to say that 

 he is not mentioned in the will of Mrs. Cooper or 

 of Wm. Turner ; and your correspondent over- 

 looks the fact that he is mentioned thirty years 

 after in Mrs. Rackett's will (Athenceum, No. 1544.) 

 as her ^^good friend William Mannock." It is 

 impossible that Mrs. Rackett, with numberless 

 first cousins of the name of Mawhood, could have 

 mistaken his name. M. A. C. 



ENiWLLAGES. 



In confirmation of what I have already said on 

 the enallage of the past and present participles, 

 I will here add a few more examples. It is, by 



the way, very remarkable that they should most 

 abound in Shakspeare : — 



" The trembling forest quakes at his [the lion's] affrighted 

 roar." — Fletch., Purp. Island, ix. 20. 



" If virtue no delighted beauty lack." 



Othello, Act I. Sc. 3'. 

 " Whom best I love I cross, to make my gift, 

 The more delaved, delightful." 



Cymb., Act V. Sc. 4. 

 " . . . And the delighted spirit 

 To bathe in fiery floods." 



Pleasure for Measure, Act III. Sc. 1. 



" I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports." 



K. John, Act IV. Sc. 1. 

 " And gladly quaked hear more." 



Coriolanus, Act I. Sc. 9. 



" whose gratitude 



Towards her deserved children is enrolled." 



lb. Act III. Sc. 1. 

 " Thus ornament is but the guiled shore 

 To a most dangerous sea." 



Merchant of Venice, Act III. Sc. 2. 



" The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, 

 Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it 

 Than is mj^ deed to my most painted word." 



Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. 



As "word" answers to "the thing that helps," 

 t. e. the paint, I should feel inclined to understand 

 painted actively. I am also inclined to read un- 

 like for ugly ; for, as far as I know, ugly to only 

 occurs in the phrase ugly to the eye. To personify 

 paint and word would be rather too bold. 



I have, in fine, observed a similar enallage in 

 German, as in " er kam geritten, gelaufen," &c. ; 

 and even in Welsh, where, for example, siomedig, 

 "disappointed," and gwibiedig, "wandered," are 

 sometimes active. 



Another enallage of the Latins was that of the 

 past participle for the future in dus, or the ad- 

 jective in bilis ; in which also our poets have 

 followed them. I have noticed more than a 

 dozen instances in my Notes on Milton, and there 

 are many in Shakspeare, as : — 



" All unavoided is the doom of destiny." 



mchard III., Act IV. Sc. 4. 



" Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels." 



lb.. Act I. Sc. 4. 



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" The quality of mercy is not strained." 



Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Sc. 1. 

 " With most admired disorder." 



Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. 



" That on the unnumbered idle pebbles chafes." 



Lear, Act IV. Sc. C. 



I lately met, in Bp. Hurd's notes on Addison : 

 " But there was this lamented difference in their 

 stories." We commonly say " an undoubted truth," 

 " an undaunted man." 



The present participle sometimes takes the place 

 of the past, sometimes of the future. 



"In courtesy gives undeserving praise." 



Love's Labours Lost, Act V. Sc. 2. 



