Sept. 24. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tlie substantive delicia; Englished delight, they 

 rendered the adjective delicatus delighted. The 

 fact that they did use the words delight and deli- 

 cate as synonymous, Is proved by a passage In " a 

 boke named the Gouernour deuised by Syr Thomas 

 Elyot, Knyght, Londini, 1557 ;" In which, at folio 

 203., p. 1., we find Titus, the son of Vespasian, 

 who was ordinarily termed " the delight of man- 

 kind," called " the delicate of the woi'ld." 



We are therefore to conclude that the words 

 delicate and delighted were used Indifferently by 

 writers of the age of Shakspeare, as well as by 

 those previous to him, to express the same thing ; 

 and that by the phrase " delighted spirit " In 

 Measure for Measure, " delighted beauty " In 

 Othello, " delighted gifts " In Cymheline, we are 

 to understand, exquisitely tender, delicate, or 

 precious. 



I cannot agree with Dr. Kennedy that delicice, 

 delicatus come from deligere rather than delicere ; 

 since, if my memory does not deceive me, the 

 former Is as often, if not oftener, used by good 

 writers to express to drive away, to upset, to re- 

 move from, or detach — as to select or choose — 

 which is the only meaning the word has akin to 

 delicice ; whereas delicere is actually used by one 

 of the earlier Latin poets for to delight. 



The word dainty, I may Inform Dk. Kennedy, 



is from the obsolete French dein or dain, delicate ; 



which probably came from the still older Teut. 



deinin, minuta (vid. Schilter). H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



Epitaph from Stalbridge. — The following 

 epitaph from the churchyard of Stalbridge, Dor- 

 setshire, may perhaps be thought worthy of pre- 

 servation, if it be not a hackneyed one : 

 " So fond, so young, so gentle, so sincere, 

 So loved, so early lost, may claim a tear : 

 Yet mourn not, if the lite, resumed by heaven, 

 Was spent to ev'ry end for which 'twas given. 

 Could he too soon escape this world of sin? 

 Or could eternal life too soon begin ? 

 Then cease his death too fondly to deplore, 

 What could the longest life have added more ? " 



C. W. B. 



Curious Extracts. — Dean Noioell — Bottled 

 Beer.—-1 was somewhat hasty In assuming (see 

 Vol. vii., p. 135.) that bottled beer was an unknown 

 department In early times, as the following extract 

 will show. It Is from Fuller's Worthies of Eng- 

 land, under " Lancashire," the subject of the no- 

 tice being no less a person than the grave divine 

 Alexander No well, dean of St. Paul's, author of 

 the Catechism, whose fondness for angling Is also 

 commemorated by Izaak Walton. Fdler, having 



noticed the narrow escape which Nowell had from 

 arrest by some of Bishop Bonner's emissaries In 

 Queen Mary's reign, having had a hint to fly 

 whilst fishing In the Thames, " whilst Nowell was 

 catching of fishes, Bonner was catching of Nowell," 

 proceeds to say, — 



" Without offence It may be remembered that, leav- 

 ing a bottle of ale, when fishing, in the grass, he found 

 it some days after no bottle, but a gun, such the sound 

 at the opening thereof: and this is believed (casualty 

 is the mother of more inventions than industry*) the 

 original of bottled ale in England." — Nuttall's edit., 

 vol. ii. p. 205. 



Balliolensis. 



A Collection of Sentences out of some of the 

 Writings of the Lord Bacon (i. 422. edit. Mon- 

 tagu), with the ensuing exceptions, is taken out 

 of the Essays, and In regular order : 



No. 1 . p. 33. of the same volume. 



No. 2. p. 21. 



No. 3. p. 5. 



No. 4. p. 8. 



No. 51. My reference Is Illegible: the words 

 are, — " Men seem neither well to understand their 

 riches nor their strength : of the former they be- 

 lieve greater things than they should ; and of the 

 latter, much less. And from hence, certain fatal 

 pillars have bounded the progress of learning." 



No. 68. pp. 173. 272. 321. 



No. 69. p. 185. 



No. 70. p. 176. 



No. 71. Vol. vl., p. 172. The Charge of Owen, 

 &c. 



Nos. 72, 73. Vol. vii., p. 261. The Speech be- 

 fore the Summer Circuits, 1617. S. Z. Z. S. 



Law and Usage. — In The Times of September 1, 

 the Turkish correspondent writes as follows : 



" Mahmoud Pasha declared in the Divan of the 17th 

 that ' he would divorce his wife, but would not advise 

 a dishonourable peace with Russia.' Tliis is an ex- 

 pression of the strongest kind in use amongst the 

 Turks." 



It is worth a Note that, In spite of polygamy 

 and divorce, a common proverb Is monogamic, 

 and divorce Is spoken of as the greatest of un- 

 likelihoods. M. 



Manichcean Games. — Take any game played 

 by two persons, such as draughts, and let the play 

 be as follows : each plays his best for himself, and 

 follows It by playing the worst he can for the 

 other. Thus, when it is the turn of the white to 

 play, he first plays the white as well as he can ; 

 and then the black as badly (for the other player) 

 as he can. The black then does the best he can 

 with the black, and follows it by the worst he can 



* Fuller might have quoted the Greek proverb, TiJ^I 

 rexfrjs ^arep^e Kal rexvTj Tvxris. 



