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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2ndS. V. 124., May15. '58. 



But to return to Mr. Bohn's edition of Lowndes. 

 On p. 189., 2nd col., the remark on the Bible, 

 (Mark Baskett, London, small 4to., 1752), seems 

 to infer that no such edition was really printed in 

 England. Whereas Thomas says distinctly that 

 the pirated edition, printed at Boston, was an 

 exact counterfeit of the London edition. If it 

 had not been so, it could not have been circulated 

 in America. No copy of this American edition is 

 yet known ; and when discovered, will be dis- 

 tinguished from the original only by some pecu- 

 liarities of the type, or coarseness of paper. 



On p. 192., 2nd col., the first American edition 

 of the Douay and PJieraish version is said to have 

 been printed at Philadelphia, 1805, in 4to. I am 

 aware that Dr. Cotton, in his list, quotes from the 

 title-page of this volume the words, " First Ame- 

 rican, from the 5tli Dublin edition." But there 

 was a fourth edition published at Philadelphia in 

 1804, from the fourth Dublin edition; and per- 

 haps another edition previously. The real first 

 American edition of this version was published at 

 Philadelphia in 4to. by Carey, Stewart & Co., in 

 1790. 



I think I might point out farther mistakes, but 

 let these suffice for the present. 



Neo-Eboracensis. 



P.S. Dr. Cotton, in his collation of the cele- 

 brated " Liturgy of the Church of Scotland " (see 

 his work on Bibles and Parts thereof, Oxford, 

 1852, pp. 173, 174.), has shown that the Psalter 

 has been entirely reprinted ; and he gives the title 

 of the Psalter, as found in the first and second 

 editions. But he has not noticed that the title- 

 page of the first edition has been reprinted. I 

 refer to that edition which has the catchword 

 " Certaine" printed at the foot of the last page of 

 the prose Psalter. I have two copies with this 

 catchword, and one of the second edition. In one 

 of the former, the title is arranged exactly as given 

 by Dr. Cotton. In the other the word, "Pointed" 

 is omitted, and the sentence reads thus : " As they 

 shall be said or sung throughout 1 all the churches 

 of Scotland." Another peculiarity of this copy is, 

 that it has two leaves of the "Certaine godly 

 prayers," &c., which are omitted in almost all the 

 copies. In all three of my copies, and in another 

 of the second edition which I have before me, the 

 leaf Hh^ is the cancel, the last verse of the 109th 

 Psalm being entire and correct. In two of these 

 copies, which are in the original binding, this leaf 

 has been so rudely torn out that portions of the 

 inner margin remain. 



EARLT SATIRICAL VERSES. 



The following may be thought not unworthy of 

 preservation by some of your readers. I met with 

 them a few days ago on the fly-leaf of a friend's 



Camden's Britannia (Impensis Georg Bishop, 

 1600). They are written in the same handwriting 

 as the owner's name, which looks like " Leftenant 

 Alfords, 1605," but the last figure is blotted so as 

 to be almost illegible ; at any rate they are as old 

 as the early part of that century. It will be seen 

 that they are all of the ^rae ungallant nature as 

 the "Early Satirical Poem" in 1^' S. vii. 568.: — 



" Here lies the breif of badnes vices nurse ; 

 The bagg of vsury the Clergies Curse ; 

 The patronesse of pride Tradsmens decay ; 

 The staine of womanhood extortioners highway ; 

 The plague of Court A comon stingeing snake ; 

 All these and worse Ives here, the Lady Lake. 



"XXQ." 

 " A Lord's Advise to his Lady. 

 " Fals to thy self, my dear, when fals to me ; 

 Thy honor lost then thou art lost to me ; 

 Thou wilt A name giue thy posteritie. 

 And wilt A stain procure thy self Avhereby 

 Thou wilt be branded till the day thou dy, 

 When thy value Pleasurs gon and passed by. 

 Such whilst thou may avoyd and Q.y." 

 " Mundus vanus et profanus. Bull® comparatus 

 Feminis curis, curis feminis, ferainis perturbatus." 

 " The world is vaine and is prophane. 

 Compared to a bubble. 

 Full of women and care and women, 

 And women and care and trouble." 

 " All women haue virtues noble and excellent. 

 Who can say that : they do offend 

 Daj'ly : thej' serue God with good entent 

 Seldome: they displease their husbands vntell their 



lines end 

 Always : to please them they entend 

 Neuer : comonly such quallities haue women more or 



less. 

 Shall a man finde in them shrewdnes. 

 Why should any man be tyed to a foolish femall then, 

 Sine all the world beside, Birds and Beasts chang euery 



spring ? 

 Then why should onely man be bound who so many 



may be found ? 

 Would you not take him for A fool y' of one sort of 



meat would eat 

 When all the world affords sundry sorts of diuers meat ? 

 Or to any she be bound when so many may be found? 

 When grim Saturn ruled his throne freedomes »•«/»- 



so7rt[ ?] banisht strife. 

 No man did know his own nor caled any woman wife. 

 Nor to any she was bound when so many might be 



found. 

 Ten times happy were these men y* enioyd these 



golden daves, 

 Which till time reduce again I shall neuer Hymen 



rra[ise] 

 Nor to any she be bound when so many may be found." 



J. Eastwood, 



FOLK LORE. 



A Dream of Death fulfilled by Fear. — A 

 farmer's wife has been relating^to me the circum- 

 stances attendant upon the death of her father ; 

 and, as they bear a certain degree of similarity to 

 the later incidents of A. A.'s narrative of " Lord 

 Lyttelton and the Ghost" (2"'' S. v. 165.), they 



