June 4. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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■" Behold how ready we are, how willingly the women 

 of Sparta will die and live with their husbands." — The 

 Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes, p. 29. 



Except in Shakspeare's behalf, it would not 

 have been worth while to exemplify so unambi- 

 guous a phrase. The like remark may also be 

 extended to the next word that falls under con- 

 sideration. 



Kindly, in accordance with kind, viz. nature. 

 Thus, the love of a parent for a child, or the con- 

 verse, is kindly : one without natural affection 

 (pLo-Topyos) is unkind, kindless, as in — 



" Remorselesse, treacherous, letcherous, kindles villaine." 

 Handet, Act II. Sc. 2. 



Thence kindly expanded into its wider meaning of 

 general benevolence. So under another phase of 

 its primary sense we find the epithet used to ex- 

 press the excellence and characteristic qualities 

 proper to the idea or standard of its subject, to 

 wit, genuine, thrifty, well-liking, appropriate, not 

 abortive, monstrous, prodigious, discordant. In 

 the Litany, " the kindly fruits of the earth " is, in 

 the Latin version, "genuinus," and by Mr. Boyer 

 rightly translated " les fruits de la terre chaqu'un 

 selon son espece;" for which Pegge takes him to 

 task, and interprets tofZZy "fair and good," through 

 mistake or preference adopting the acquired and 

 popular, in lieu of the radical and elementary 

 meaning of the word. (Anotiymiana, pp. 380-1. 

 Century viii. No. lxxxi.) The conjunction of 

 this adjective with gird in a passage of King 

 Henry VI. has sorely gravelled Mr. Coi.lieb : 

 twice over he essays, with equal success, to ex- 

 pound its purport. First, he. cit., he finds fault 

 with gird as being employed in rather an unusual 

 manner ; or, if taken in its common meaning of 

 taunt or reproof, then that kindly is said ironically; 

 because there seems to be a contradiction in terms. 

 (Monck Mason's rank distortion of the words, 

 there cited, I will not pain the reader's sight with.) 

 Mr. Collier's note concludes with a supposition 

 that gird may possibly be a misprint. This is the 

 misery ! J\Ien will sooner suspect the text than 

 their own understanding or researches. In Act I. 

 Sc. 1. of Coriolanus, dissatisfied with his previous 

 note, Mr. Collier tries again, and thinks a kindly 

 gird may mean a gentle reproof. That the reader 

 may be able to judge what it does mean, it will be 

 necessary to quote the king's gird, who thus ad- 

 ministers a kindly rebuke to the malicious preacher 

 against the sin of malice, i. e. chastens him with 

 Lis own rod : 



" King. Fie, uncle Beauford, I have heard you 

 preach, 

 That mallice was a great and grievous sinne : 

 And will not you maintaine the thing you teache. 

 But prove a chief offender in the same? 



Warn. Sweet king : the bishop hath a kindly gyrd." 

 First Part of King Henry VI., Act III. Sc. 1. 

 1st Fol. 



A gird, akin to, in keeping with, fitting, proper 

 to the cardinal's calling ; an evangelical gird for 

 an evangelical man : what more kindly ? Kindly, 

 connatural, homogeneous. But now for a bushel 

 of examples, some of which will surely avail to in- 

 sense the reader in the purport of this epithet, if 

 ray explanation does not : 



" God in the congregation of the gods, what more 

 proper and kindly ?" — Andrewes' Sermons, vol. v. 

 p. 212. Lib. Ang.-Cath. Theol. 



" And that (pride) seems somewhat kindly too, and 

 to agree with this disease (the plague). That pride 

 which swells itself should end in a tumour or swelling, 

 as, for the most part, this disease doth." — Id., p. 228. 



" And so, you are found ; and they, as the children 

 of perdition should be, are lost. Here are you : and 

 where are they? Gone to their own place, to Judas 

 their brother. And, as is most k>ndli/, the sons to the 

 father of wickedness ; there to be plagued with him for 

 ever." — /(/., vol. iv. p. 98. 



" For whatsoever, as the Son of God, He may do, it 

 is kindly for Him, as the Son of Man, to save the sons 

 of men." — Id., p. 253. 



" There cannot be a more kindly consequence than 

 this, our not failing from their not failing : we do not, 

 because they do not." — Id., p. 273. 



" And here falls in kindly this day's design, and the 

 visible ' per me,' that happened on it." — Id., p. 289. 



" And having then made them, it is kindly that vis- 

 cei"a misericordiae should be over those opera that came 

 de visceribus." — Id., p. 327. 



" The children came to the birth, and the right and 

 kindly copulative were; to the birth they came, and 

 born they were: in a kind consequence who would 

 look for other?"— /(/., p. 348. 



" For usque adeo proprium est operari Spiritui, ut 

 nisi operetur, nee sit. So kindly (proprium) it is for 

 the spirit to be working as if It work not, It is not." — 

 Id., vol. iii. p. 194. 



" And when he had overtaken, for those two are but 

 presupposed, the more kindly to bring in nreXaScTO, 

 when, I say. He had overtaken them, cometh in fitly 

 and properly sTrtAa/iSoj'eTot." — Id., vol. i. p. 7. 



" No time so Amrf/y to preach de Filio hodie genitoas 

 hodie." — Id., p. 285. 



" A day whereon, as it is most kindly preached, so 

 it will be most kindly practised of all others." — Id., 

 p. 301. 



" Respice et plange : first, * Look and lament ' or 

 mourn ; which is indeed the most kindly and natural 

 effect of such a spectacle." — Id., vol. ii. p. 130. 



" Devotion is the most proper and most kindly work 

 of holiness." — Id., vol. iv. p. 377. 



Perhaps the following will be thought so appo- 

 site, that I may be spared the labour, and the 

 reader the tedium of perusing a thousand other 

 examples that might be cited : 



" And there is nothing more kindly than for them 

 that will be touching, to be touched themselves, and to 



