June 18. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



593 



confidence in the negligence or want of recollec- 

 tion in your readers seems not have been wholly 

 misplaced, if we may judge from Mr. Arbow- 

 smith's admiring foot-note in last Number of 

 "N. & Q.,"p. 568. A. E. B. 



Leeds. 



SHAKSPEABE S USB OF THE IDIOM " NO HAD AKD 

 "no hath NOT." 



(Vol. vii., p. 520.) 



"VVe are under great obligations to the Rev. Mb. 

 Arrowsmith for his very interesting illustration 

 of several misunderstood archaisms ; and it may 

 not be unacceptable to him if I call his atten- 

 tion to what seems to me a farther illustration 

 of the above singular idiom, from Shakspeare 

 liimself. 



In As You Like It, Act I. Sc. 3., where Rosa- 

 lind has been banished by the Duke her uncle, we 

 have the following dialogue between Celia and her 

 cousin : 



" Cel. O my poor Rosalind ! whither wilt thou go ? 

 Wilt thou change fathers ? I will give thee mine. 

 I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am. 



Bos. I have more cause. 



Cel. Thou hast not, cousin : 



Pr'ythee be cheerful : know'st thou not, the duke 

 Hath banish'd me, his daughter ? 



Jios. That he hath not. 



Cel. No hath not 9 Rosalind lacks, then, the love 

 Which teacheth thee that thou and I are one. 

 Shall we be sunder'd," &c. 



From wrong pointing, and ignorance of the 

 idiomatic structure, the passage has hitherto been 

 misunderstood ; and Warburton proposed to read, 

 " Which teacheth me" but was fortunately opposed 

 by Johnson, although he did not clearly under- 

 stand the passage. I have ventured to change am 

 to are, for I cannot conceive that Shakspeare 

 wrote, " that thou and I am one ! " It is with 

 some hesitation that I make this trifling innovation 

 on the old text, although we have, a few lines lower, 

 the more serious misprint of your change for the 

 charge. I presume that the abbreviated form of 

 ihe=y^ was taken for y^\ and the r in charge mis- 

 taken for 71 ; and in the former case of am for are, 

 indistinctness in old writing, and especially in such 

 a hand as, it appears from his autograph, our great 

 poet wrote, would readily lead to such mistakes. 

 That the correction was left to the printer of the 

 first folio, I am fully persuaded ; yet, in compari- 

 son with the second folio, it is a correct book, not- 

 withstanding all its faults. That it was customary 

 for men who were otherwise busied, as we may 

 suppose Heminge and Condell to have been, to 

 leave the correction entirely to the printer, is cer- 

 tain ; for an acquaintance of Shakspeare's, Resolute 

 John Florio, distinctly shows that it was the case. 



We have thii pithy brief Preface to the second 

 edition of his translation of Montaigne : 



« To the Reader. 

 " Enough, if not too much, hath beene said of this 

 translation. If the faults found even by myselfe in the 

 first impression, be now by the printer corrected, as he 

 was directed, the work is much amended: if not, know 

 that through mine attendance on her Majesty, I could 

 not intend it ; and blame not Neptune for my second 

 shipwracke. Let me conclude with this worthy man's 

 daughter of alliance : ' Qne t'ensemble done lecteur ?' 

 Still Resolute JpuN Florio." 



S. W. SiNGEE. 

 Mickleham. 



Shakspeare (Vol. vii., p. 521.). — May I ask 

 whether there is any precedent (I think there can 

 be no excuse) for calling Shakspeare's plays " our 

 national Bible " ? A Clergyman. 



The Formation of the Womaii, Gen. ii. 21,22. — 

 The terms of Matthew Henry on this subject, in 

 his learned Commentai-y, have become quite com- 

 monplace with divines, when speaking of the ordi- 

 nance of marriage : 



" The woman was made of a rib out of the side of 

 Adam ; not made out of his head, to top him ; nor out 

 of his feet, to be trampled upon by him ; but out of 

 his side, to be equal with him ; under his arm, to be 

 protected; and near his heart, to be beloved." 



Like many other things in his Exposition, this is 

 not original with Henry. It is here traced to the 

 Speculum Humana; Salvationis of the earliest and 

 rarest printed works. Some of your readers can 

 probably trace it to the Fathers. The verses which 

 follow are engraven in block characters in the first 

 edition of the work named, and are copied from 

 the fifth plate of specimens of early typography 

 in Meerman's Origines Typographic^ : Hague, 



MDCCLXV. : 



" Mulier autem in paradiso est formata 

 De costis viri dormientis est parata 

 Deus autem ipsam super virum honestavit 

 Quoniam Evam in loco voluptatis plasmavit, 

 Non facit earn sicut virum de limo terras 

 Sed de osse nobilis viri Adas et de ejus carne. 

 Non est facta de pede, ne a viro despiceretur 

 Non de capite ne supra virum dominaretur, 

 Sed est facta de latere maritali 

 Et data est viro pro gloria et socia collateral!. 

 Quae si sibi in honorem coUata humiliter prjestitissct 

 Nunquam molestiam a viro unquam sustinuisset." 



O. T. D. 



Singular Way of showing Displeasure. — 

 " The earl's regiment not long after, according to 

 order, marched to take possession of the town ( Lon- 

 donderry) ; but at their appearance before it the citi- 

 zens clapt up the gates, and denyed them entrance. 



