Apeil 23. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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be fallen into a sound slepe, he feletli not the hardc- 

 ■Besse or other incommoditie of his cabon or couche." 



" The Saiynges of Publius, No. 58.," The Precepts 



of Cato, Sj-c, with Erasmus Annotations : London, 1550. 



« Wherfore both Philip and Alexander (if y* dead 

 Itaiie anie perceuerance) woulde not that the rootes 

 (rooters) out of them and theyre issue, but rather that 

 the puniiishers of those traitors, should enioye the king- 

 dom of Macedone." — »' The XVl Booke of Justine," 

 fol. 86., Golding's Translation of the Abridgement of the 

 Historyes of Trojus Pompeius : London, 1578. 



" And morouer bycause his setting of vs here in 

 ■this world is to aduaunce vs aloft, that is, to witte to 

 the heauenly life, whereof he giueth vs some perceyuer- 

 tince and feeling afore hande." — lo. Calvin, " Sermon 

 XLI., on the Tenth Chap, of Job," p. 209., Golding's 

 Translation: London, 1574. 



" And so farre are wee off from being able to atteine 

 to such knowledge through our owne power, that we 

 ilee it as much as is possible, and blindfold our own 

 eyes, to the intent we might put away all perceyuerance 

 and feeling of God's judgement from vs," — Id,, 

 " Sermon X L 1 1. ," p, 2 1 8. 



« For (as I haue touched already) God of his good- 

 nesse doth not vtterly barre vs from hauing any per- 

 ceyuerance at all of his wlsdome : but it behoueth vs to 

 teepe measure," — Id., " Sermon XLIII.," p. 219. 



I shall not cite any more from Golding, but 

 simply observe that the word occurs again and 

 again in his translations. The remaining three 

 examples exhibit the noun in a somewhat different 

 sense, viz, "notification," or " means of discerning:" 



" The time most apt in all the yeare, and afToording 

 greatest perseucrance for the finding out of the heads of 

 wells and fountaines, are the moneths of August or 

 September." — The First Booke of the Countrie Farme, 

 p. 8., by Stevens and Liebault, translated by Svrflet, and 

 edited by G. Markham : London, 1616. 



" He may also gather some perceitierance by the 

 <yther inarkes before specified ; that is to say, by the 

 prints of his foote vpon the grasse, by the carriages of 

 his head, his dung, gate," &c Id., booke vii. p. 685. 



*' And this lyfe to men is an high perseveraunce. 

 Or a lyght of faythe wherby they shall be saved." 

 " God's Promises," by John Bale ; Dodsley's 

 Old Plays (Collier's edition), vol. i. Part IL 

 Act L 

 By-the-bye, as a specimen of the value of this 

 edition, take the following passage of this very 

 play: 



*' O perfyght keye of David, and hygh scepture of 

 the kyndred of Jacob ; whych openest and no man 

 £peareth, that speakest and no man openeth." — Act VII. 

 p. 40. 



On the word speareth. the commentator treats 

 his reader to a note; in which he informs him 

 that speareth means " asketh," and in proof of 

 tiiis cites one passage from Chaucer, and two from 

 Douglas's Virgil. It might almost appear to be 



upbraiding the reader with stupidity to mention 

 that speareth signifieth "bolteth, shutteth;" and 

 that "speaketh" is a misprint for speareth. This 

 verb was a favourite with Bale. One word more 

 closes my budget for the present. 



More, a root. Still in use in Gloucestershire, 

 once of frequent occurrence. To the examples 

 alleged by Richardson, in his Dictionary^ add the 

 following : 



" I se it by ensannple 

 In somer tyme on trowes ; 

 Ther some bowes ben leved. 

 And some bereth none. 

 There is a meschisf in the more 

 Of swiche manere bowes." 

 The Vision of Piers Ploughman, edited by Thomas 

 Wright, vol. ii. p. 300. 

 At p. 302. you find the sentiment in Latin : 



" Sicut cum videris arborem pallidam et marcidam, 

 intelligis quod mtium hahet in i-adice" — "a meschief in 

 the more." 



The Glossary of the editor is silent. 

 " It is a ful trie tree, quod he, 

 Trewely to telle ; 

 Mercy is the more therof. 

 The myddul stok is ruthe ; 

 The leves ben lele wordes. 

 The lawe of holy chirche; 

 The blosmes beth buxom speche, 

 And benigne lokynge ; 

 Pacience hatte the pure tree," &c. 



Id., vol. ii. p. 330. 

 " It groweth in a gardyn, quod he, 

 That God made hymselve, 

 Amyddes mannes body. 

 The more is of that stokke, 

 Herte highte the herber, 

 That it inne groweth." 



Id., vol. ii. p. 331. 



There should not be any comma, or other stop, 

 at body, because the sense is — " The root of that 

 stock is amid man's body." 



Mr. Wright's Glossary refers to these last two 

 instances as follows : 



" More (A.-S.) 330, 331., the main or larger part, 

 body (?)" 

 At p. 334. we meet with the word again : 



" On o more thei growed." 

 And again, at p. 416. : 



" And bite a-two the mores," 

 May I, in passing, venture to inquire of the 

 editor on what authority he explains waselede 

 (p. 476.) to be " the pret. of waselen (A.-S.) to 

 become dirty, dirty oneself?" 



" This Troilus withouten rede or lore, 

 As man that hath his joies eke forlore, 

 Was waiting on his lady evermore, 

 ' As she that was sothfast croppe and more. 

 Of all his lust or joyes here tofore." 



Chaucer's Troilus and Creseide, b. v. 



