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CONTENTS. 



NoTrs : — • Page 



Milton and Miilatesti, by Bolton Corney - - - 237 



" That Swinnpy" 238 



Tom, Mythic and Material, by V. T. Sternberg - 239 



Shakspeare Correspondence, by T. J. Buckton, Thos. 



Keightley, &c 240 



Minor Notes: — Gray: " The ploughman homeward 

 plods " — Poetical Tavern Signs — " Aquse in Vinum 

 conversjB. Vidit et eriibuit lyraplia pudica Deum " — 

 Spurious Edition of Baily's "Annuities" — " Illus- 

 trium I'oetarum Flores " — French Jeux d'Esprit - 241 



'Queries : — 



Samuel Wilson - - - - - - 242 



Minor QuEUiES : — The Rothwell Family — Definition 

 of a Proverb — Latin Riddle — D. Ferrand : French 



Patois — " Fac precor, Jesu bcnigne," &c The 



Arms of De Sissonn-; — Sir George IJrown — Pro- 

 fessional Poems — "A mockery," &c. — Passage in 

 Whiston — Sli mlder Knots and Epaulettes — The Yew 

 Tree in Village Churchyards — Passage in Tennyson 



— "When thj Maggot bites" — Eclipses of the Sun 



— "An" Lefjre "u" long — Reversible Names — 

 Gilbert White of Selborne — Hoby, Family of; their 

 Portraits, &c. — Portrait of Sir Anthony Wingficld — 

 Lofcopp, Lufcopp, or Luvcopp — Humming Ale - 243 



Minor Queuies with Answers : — Dr. Richard Sher- 

 lock — Cardinal Fleury and Bishop Wilson — Dr.Uodd 

 a Dramatist — Trosachs — Quarter ... 24G 



Jacob Bohme, or Behmen, by J. Yeowell 

 Inscriptions on Bells, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. . 

 Passage in Milton -...-. 

 Designed false English Rhymes .... 

 Attainment of Majority, by Professor De Morgan 

 Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund 

 Mortimer, Earl of March), and Jane Seymour's Royal 

 Descent ...-.-. 



Photographic Corresfondence : — Three New Pro- 

 cesses by Mr. Lyte — Mailer's Processes: Sissou's 

 Developing Solution ..... 



Replies TO MiNoa Queries: — Alterius Orbis Papa— "AH 

 my eye" — "Clamour your tongues" — Spiked Maces 

 represented in Windows of t!ie Abbfty Church, Great 

 Malvern — Ampors and — Its — " Hip, hip, hurrah ! " 



— Derivation of " Wellesley " — Peniiy-come-quick 



— Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon — Wooden 

 Tombs and Effigies — Queen Anne's Motto — Lon- 

 gevity — Irish Bi-^hops as English Suffragans — Green 

 Pots used for drinking from by Members of the 

 Temple —Shape of CofTins— Old Fogies — Swan- 

 marks — Limerick, Dublin, and Cork— "CouM we 

 with ink," &c._ Character oftlie Song of the Night- 

 ingale— Adamson's " Lusitania Illustrata" — Adain- 

 soniana — Crassus' Saying, &c. - ... 



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Vol-. VIII. — No. 202. 



MILTON AND MALATESTI. 



About nine years after Milton visited Italy, lie 

 thus briefly noticed, in a letter to Carlo Dati, bis 

 surviving Florentine friends : 



" Carolo Dato patrlcio Florentino Tu in- 

 terim, mi Carole, valebis, et Cultellino, Francino, Fres- 

 cobaldo, MalatestEe, Clementillo minori, et si quern 

 alium iiostri atnantiorem novistl ; toti denique Gad- 

 dlanae academiaj, salutem meo nomine plurimam dices. 

 Interim vale. — Londino, Aprilis 21. 1G47." 



The above extract is from The prose worlis of 

 John Milton, as printed In 1806, and I shall add to 

 it the translation by Robert Fellowes, A.M., from 

 the same edition : 



" To Carolo Deodati, a Florentine noble In 



the mean time, my dear Charles, farewell, and present 

 my kind wislies to Cultellino, Francisco, Trescobaldo, 

 Malatesto, the younger Cleraantillo, and every other 

 inquiring friend, and to all the members of tlie Gaddian 

 academy. Adieu. — London, April 21. 1647." 



AVarton states, in a note on the minor poems of 

 Milton, that Mr. Brand discovered, on a book- 

 stall, a manuscript of La tina of Malatesti, dedi- 

 cated to Milton while at Floi-ence, and that he 

 gave it to Mr. Hollis, who sent it in 1758, to- 

 gether with the works of Milton, to the Accademia 

 della Crusca. Warton justly observes, " The first 

 piece would have been a greater curiosity in Eng- 

 land," With these facts the information of the 

 most recent biographers of Milton seems to ter- 

 minate. I am enabled, however, to prove that the 

 work is IN PRINT, and shall transcribe my authority 

 verbatim : 



" Malatesti, Antonio. La tina, equivoci rustical! (in 

 50 sonetti). Londra, Tommaso Edlin, 1757, in 8°. 



Non e fatla in Londra quesV ediz. net 1757, t7ia presso 

 che 80 a7i7ti dopo in Venezia, ed in nwnero dl 50 esemplari 

 in carta velina, due in carta grande iiiglese da discgno, ed 

 uno, unico, in pergajiena. 



II Malatesti aveva regalato una copia di quest! 

 grazlosissimi sonetti al celebre inglese Gio. Milton, 

 neir .nnno in cui egli visitava I'ltalia. Dopo la morte 

 del Milton pervennero in mano del sig. Erant, gen- 

 tiluomo inglese, il quale una copia ne fece trarre per 



