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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 182. 



Afterwards, in the same book, a few stanzas further 

 on, he joins "crop" and "root" together. 



" Last of all, if these thlnges auayle not the cure, I do 

 commend and allow above all the rest, that you take 

 the iuyce of Celendine rootes, making them cleane from 

 the earth that doth vse to hang to the moores." — The 

 Booke of Falconrie, by George Turbervile, 1611, p. 236. 



" Chiefely, if the moare of vertue be not cropped, 

 but dayly rooted deepelyer." — The Fyrste Booke of the 

 Nobles or of Nobilitye, translated from Laurence Hum- 

 frey. 



The next and last example from the " Second 

 Booke" of this interesting little volume I will 

 quote more at large : 



" Aristotle mencioneth in his Politikes an horrible 

 othe vsed in certaine states, consistinge of the regi- 

 mente of fewe nobles, in maner thus : I will hate the 

 people, and to my power persecute them. Which is 

 the croppe and wiore of al sedition. Yet too much prac- 

 tised in oure Hues. But what cause is there why a 

 noble man should eyther despise the people ? or hate 

 them? or wrong them? What? know they not, no 

 tiranny maye bee trusty? Nor how yll garde of 

 cotinuance, feare is ? Further, no more may nobilitie 

 misse the people, then in man's body, the heade, the 

 hande. For of trueth, the common people are the 

 handes of the nobles, sith them, selues bee handlesse. 

 They labour and sweate for them, with tillinge, sayl- 

 inge, running, toylinge : by sea, by lad, with bads, w' 

 feete, serue them. So as w'oute theyr seruice, they 

 nor eate, nor drink, nor are clothed, no nor Hue. We 

 reade in y« taleteller Esope, a doue was saued by the 

 helpe of an ant. A lyon escaped by the benefit of 

 a mowse. We rede agayne, that euen ants haue theyr 

 choler. And not altogether quite, the egle angered 

 the bytle bee." 



The reader will notice in this citation another 

 instance of the verb miss, to dispense with. I 

 have now done for the present; but should the 

 collation of sundry passages, to illustrate the 

 meaning of a word, appear as agreeable to the 

 laws of a sound philology, as conducive to the in- 

 tegrity of our ancient writers, and as instructive 

 to the public as brainspun emendations, whether 

 of a remote or modern date, which now-a-days 

 are pouring in like a flood — to corrupt long re- 

 cognised readings in our idolised poet Shakspeare, 

 in order to make his phraseology square with the 

 language of the times and his readers' capacities — 

 I will not decline to continue endeavours such as 

 the present essay exhibits with a view to stem 

 and roll back the tide. W. 11. Arbowsmith. 



Broad Heath, Presteign, Herefordshire. 



A WOEK ON THE MACROCOSM. 



I intended to have contributed a series of papers 

 to " N. & Q." on the brute creation, on plants 

 and flowers, &c. ; and in a Note on the latter sub- 



ject I promised to follow it up. However, as cir- 

 cumstances have changed my intentions, I think 

 it may be well to mention that 1 have in hand a 

 work on Macrocosm, or World of Nature around, 

 us, which shall be published in three separate- 

 parts or volumes. The first shall be devoted to- 

 the Brute Creation ; the second shall be an Her- 

 bal, with a Calendar of dedicated Flowers pre- 

 fixed ; the third shall contain Chapters on the- 

 Mineral Kingdom : in the last I shall treat of the- 

 symbolism of stones, and the superstitions respect- 

 ing them. I purpose in each case, as far as pos- 

 sible, to go to the fountain-head, and shall give- 

 copious extracts from such writers as St. llde- 

 fonso of Toledo, St. Isidore of Seville, Vincent or 

 Beauvais, St. Basil, Origen, Epiphanius, and the 

 Christian Fathers. 



As the work I have sketched out for myself" 

 will require time to mature, I shall publish very 

 shortly a small volume, containing a breviary of 

 the former, which will give some idea of the man- 

 ner in which 1 shall treat the proposed subject. 



Many correspondents of "N. & Q." have evinced 

 great interest in the line I intend to enter upon. 

 (See Vol. i., pp. 173. 457. ; Vol. iv., p. 175. ^ 

 Vol. vi., pp. 101. 272. 462. 518.) Their Queries 

 have produced no satisfactory result. I myseir 

 made a Query in my " Chapter on Flowers," some- 

 months ago, respecting Catholic floral directories,, 

 and two works in particular, about which I was- 

 most anxious, and which were quoted in 7^he- 

 Catholic Florist, London, 1851, and 1 have re-, 

 ceived no answer. Mr. Oakley, indeed, wrote to 

 me to say that he " only edited it, and wrote a 

 preface," and that he forwarded my Query " to- 

 the compiler : " the latter personage, however, has- 

 not favoured me with a reply. 



In spite of all these discouragements, I have- 

 taken the step of bringing my contemplated work 

 before the readers of " N. & Q.," and I shall 

 gratefully acknowledge any communications re- 

 lative to legends, folk-lore, superstitions, sym- 

 bolism, &c. bearing on the subjects proposed. As- 

 I intend inserting a bibliographical list of the 

 chief works which come under the scope of each 

 volume, I might receive much valuable assistance- 

 on this point, especially as regards Oriental and 

 other foreign books, which might escape my re- 

 searches. As regards the brute creation, I have 

 gotten, with the kind assistance of the editor of 

 " N. & Q.," Hildrop's famous reply to Father- 

 Bougeant ; and I have sent to Germany for Dr.. 

 Kraus's recent work on the subject. 



EiRIONNACH.. 



DR. SOUTh's latin TRACT AGAINST SHERLOCK.. 



None of South's compositions are more striking- 

 or characteristic than his two English tracts 

 against Sherlock, his Animadversions on Sherlock's 



