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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 167. 



^'^ Essay for a New Translation of the Bible" and 

 *' Letters on Prejudice.''^ — A friend of mine has 

 requested me to inquire through " N. & Q." who 

 are the authors of the undermentioned books, in 

 his possession ? 



An Essay for a New Translation of the Bible, 

 one volume 8vo. : " printed for R. Gosling, 1727." 

 Dedicated to the Bishops : the dedication signed 

 " H. R." — Letters on Prejudice, two volumes 8vo. : 

 " in which the nature, causes, and consequences of 

 prejudice in religion are considered, with an appli- 

 cation to the present times :" printed for Cadell in 

 the Strand; and Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1822. 



W.W.T. 



David Garrick. — In the sale catalogue of Isaac 

 P.eed's books is a lot described as " Letter of 

 David Garrick against Mr. Stevens, with Observ- 

 ations by Mr. Keed, MS. and printed." Can any 

 of your correspondents inform me in whose pos- 

 session is this letter with Reed's observations ; 

 whether Garrick's letter was published ; and, if so, 

 what public library contains a copy ? G. D. 



Aldiborontophoskophomio. — Will you or some 

 of your readers inform me in what play, poem, or 

 tale this hero, with so formidable a name, is to be 

 found ? F. R. S. 



Quotations wanted. — Will you or some of your 

 correspondents tell where this sentence occurs: 

 " It requireth great cunning for a man to seem to 

 know that which he knoweth not ? " Miss Edge- 

 worth gives it as from Lord Bacon. I cannot find 

 it. Also, where this very superior line : " Life is 

 like a game of tables, the chances are not in our 

 power, but the playing is ? " This I have seen 

 quoted as from Jeremy Taylor, but where ? I 

 have looked his works carefully through : it is so 

 clever that it m'mt be from a superior mind. And 

 "where, in Campbell, is " A world without a sun ? " 

 This, I believe, is in Gertrude of Wyoming. 



Excuse this trouble, Mr. Editor ; but you are 

 now become the general referee in puzzles of this 

 kind. A. B. 



Arago on the Weather. — I saw some of Arago's 

 meteorological observations in an English ma- 

 gazine some time ago, taken, I believe, from the 

 Annuaire. Can any one give me a reference to 

 them ? Elsno. 



" Les Veus du Hairon," or " Le Vceu du Heron." 

 — ^Is any more known of this curious historical ro- 

 mance than Sainte Palaye tells us in the third 

 volume of his Memoires sur TAncienne Chevalerie ? 

 He gives the original text (I suspect not very cor- 

 rectly) from, he says, a MS. in the public library 

 ik Berne. It is a poem in old French verse (some- 

 thing like Chaucer's English), of about 500 lines, 

 descriptive of a series of vows, by which Robert 



Comte d'Artois, then an exile in England, engaged 

 Edward III,, his queen and court, to the invasion 

 of France : 



" Dont maint bon chevalier fu jete fort souvin ; 

 Mainte dame fu vesve, et maint povre orfelin ; 

 Et maint bon maronier accourchit son terrain ; 

 Et mainte preude femme mise a divers destin; 

 Et encore sera, si Jhesus n'i met fin." 



The first lines of the poem give the place and 

 date of the transaction, " London, September, 

 1338," in King Edward's " palais marbrin," The 

 versification is as strange as the matter. The 

 author has taken great pains to collect as many 

 words rhyming together as possible. The first 

 twenty-six lines rhyme to "in ;" the hundred next 

 to " is ; " then fifty to " ent," and so on : but the 

 lines have all their rhythm, and some are smooth and 

 harmonious. Has any other MS. been discovered ? 

 Has it been elsewhere printed? Has it been 

 translated into English, or has any English author 

 noticed it ? K these questions are answered in the 

 negative, I would suggest that the Camden, or 

 some such society, would do well to reprint it, 

 with a translation, and Sainte Palaye's commen- 

 tary, and whatever additional information can be 

 gathered about it ; for although it evidently is a 

 romance, it contains many particulars of the court 

 of England, and of the manners of the time, which 

 are extremely curious, and which must have a 

 good deal of truth mixed up with the chivalrous 

 fable. C. 



Inscriptions on a I>agger-case. — I have in my 

 possession a small dagger-case, very beautifully 

 carved in box -wood, bearing the following in- 

 scriptions on two narrow sides, and carved repre- 

 sentations of Scripture subjects on the other two 

 broad sides. 



Inscriptions. 



" DIE EEN PENINCK WINT KNDE BEHOVT DIE 

 MACHT VKRTEREN ALS HI WORT OWT HAD." 



"ICK DAT BEDOCHT IN MIN lONGE DAGEN SO 



DORST ICK HEX IN MIN OVTHEIT NIET BEGLAGEN." 



On the other sides the carvings, nine in number, 

 four on one side, one above another, represent the 

 making of Eve, entitled " Scheppin;" the Tempt- 

 ation, entitled " Paradis ; " the Expulsion, " En- 

 gelde ; " David with the head of Goliath, " Da- 

 vide." At the foot of this side the date " 1599," and 

 a head with pointed beard, &c. beneath. On the 

 other side are five subjects : the uppermost, entitled 

 " Hesterine," represents Queen Esther kneeling 

 before Ahasuerus. 2. " Vannatan," a kneeling 

 figure, another stretching his arm over him, at- 

 tendants following with offerings. 3. " Solomone," 

 the judgment of Solomon. 4. " Susannen." 5. 

 " Samson," the jaw-bone in his hand ; beneath 

 " SLANG ; " and at the foot of all, a dragon. 

 The case is handsomely mounted in silver. 



