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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



" . . . . Till the moon, 

 Rising in clouded majesty, at length 

 Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light." 

 Par. Lost, iv. 606. 

 " My lovely mate shall tend my sparing stock." 



Fletch,, Furp. Island, i. 28. 



The Latin poets used the past for the present 

 infinitive ; probably to imitate the variety of the 

 Greek. In this also Spenser, and he aloue, I be- 

 lieve, followed thera : — 



" With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, 

 To have at once devoured her tender corse." 



Faerie Queene, i. 3. 5. 

 " But subtle Archimage that Una sought 

 By trains into new troubles to have tost." 



lb. i. 3. 24. 

 " 'Mongst whom his realms he equally decreed 

 To have divided." — Jb. ii. 10. 27. 



The last enallage which I shall notice is one to 

 which the rhetoricians have given a peculiar name. 

 It is that of the abstract for the concrete, of acts 

 for agents or objects. Of this the Latins made 

 great use (servitia, slaves, opera, workmen,) the 

 Greeks and Hebrews but little. It was a chief 

 support of Euphuism and Precieux ; and it 

 emerged in France with the Revolution, and has 

 been carried to an absurd excess. Shakspeare 

 used it most in Loves Labours Lost : — 



" Avauat, perplexity ! What shall we do ? " 



Act V. Sc. 2. 

 « Arm, wenches, arm ! encounters mounted are." — lb. 

 Here Jonson's — 



" Rather ourself shall be your encounter," 



Cynth. Rev., v. 2. 



might have taught Mr. Collier's Magnus Apollo 

 not to read encounter e?'s. 



" Celestial as thou art, ! pardon love this wrong. 

 That [he] sings heaven's praise with such an earthly 

 tongue." — 76. Act IV. Sc. 2. 



This is the punctuation in the folio ; love is the 

 lover, not the lady, as in " the king is my love 

 sworn" (Act V. Sc. 2.) ; and he is evidently the 

 word wanted to complete the sense and the metre. 



" Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule j'ou now. 

 That sport best pleases, that doth least know how, 

 AVhen zeal strives to content, and the contents 

 Dyes in the zeal of that whicji it presents. 

 Their form confounded makes most form in mirth. 

 When great things labouring perish in the birth." 



Act V. Sc. 2. 

 A change of punctuation and of a single letter 

 thus gives sense to a passage that has been hitherto 

 little better than nonsense. Sport, zeal, contents, 

 are plain enallages ; dyes in is dyes with, tinges, 

 imbues with ; presents is represents, acts, per- 

 forms ; the allusion in the last two lines is to the 

 failure of the king's mask. 



" . . . To the ports 

 The discontents repair " 



(^Antony and Chop., Act I. Sc. 4.), 



may justify the sense in which contents is taken ; 



and the following admirable correction in Mr. 

 Collier's folio is an example of a change of punc- 

 tuation, and of a letter : — 



" . . . He tells her something 

 That toakes her blood. Look on't." 



Winter's Tale, Act IV. Sc. 3. 

 Capell, in a similar manner, but by adding a 

 letter, gave sense to the following'passage. I had 

 done the very same myself before I knew of his 

 correction. It is strange that Mr. Knight alone 

 has had the taste and judgment to follow him. 



" The duke cannot deny the course of law ; 

 For the commodity that strangers have 

 With us in Venice. If it be denied 

 'Twill much empeach the justice of the state; 

 Since that the trade and profit of the city 

 Consisteth of all nations." 



Merchant of Venice, Act III. Sc. 3. 



For is on account of; commodity, the same as 

 trade, in one of the following lines ; and empeach, 

 call in question, cast a slur on, as in the preceding 

 scene and elsewhere. 



Meo periculo, I read : 



" But that the dread of something after death, 

 /' the undiscovered country, from whose bourn 

 No traveller returns, puzzles the will." 



Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 1. 



Thos. Keightlet. 



FEEES OR TBOSE PASTE. 



In The JSnde of the Lady Jane Dudley (now 

 usually styled Lady Jane Grey), originally pub- 

 lished as a small pamphlet in black letter, it was 

 stated that immediately before her decapitation 

 her two gentlewomen " helped her off with her 

 gown, and also with her /rose paast and necker-. 

 cher, geving to her a fayre handkercher to knytte 

 about her eyes." When the same narrative was 

 reprinted by Foxe, in his Actes and Monuments, 

 the words above indicated were spelt " frowes 

 past." 



Sir Harris Nicolas, in his Literary Remains of 

 Lady Jane Grey, p. 98., states that, after having 

 taken considerable pains to ascertain the meaning 

 of the article named, he was inclined to coincide 

 with a literary friend who suggested ^^fronts- 

 piece." 



In The Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen 

 Mary, where I had occasion to introduce the same 

 narrative, I suggested that, from the spelling given 

 by Foxe, it might be understood as a *'■ f row's 

 paste" or matronly head-dress. 



More recently, Mr. Blaauw, in vol. iii. of the 

 Sussex Archceological Collections, pp. 137-140., has 

 formed a long and interesting note upon the bride- 

 paste, which was a circlet or garland that used to 

 be kept in churches for use at weddings, just as a 

 common pall or hearse-cloth was kept for funerals. 

 On this occasion, after mentioning the interpre- 



