Feb. 4. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



107 



one would be kind enough to answer these he 

 would greatly oblige "W. W. H. 



[Our correspondent will find bis Query briefly and 

 satisfactorily answered by Henault, in his Abrege 

 de VHisloire de France, p. 476. His words are : 

 " Henri IV. roi de Navarre, ne k Pau, le 13 Decem- 

 bre, 1553, et ayant droit a la couronne, comme de- 

 scendant de Robert, Comte de Clermont, qui etoit fils 

 de St. Louis, et qui avoit epouse l'heritiere de Bourbon, 

 y parvient en 1589." The lineal descent of Henri 

 from this Count Robert may be seen in L'Art de 

 verifier les Dates, vol. vi. p. 209., in a table entitled 

 " Genealogie des Valois et des Bourbon ; St. Louis IX., 

 Roi de France."] 



" He that complies against his will" Sfc. ; and 

 " To kick the bucket." — Oblige T. C. by giving 

 the correct reading of the familiar couplet, which 

 he apprehends is loosely quoted when expressed — 



" Convince a man against his will," &c. 

 or, 



" Persuade a man against his will," &c. 



Also by stating the name of the author. 



Likewise by giving the origin of the phrase 

 " To kick the bucket," as applied to the death of 

 a person. 



[The desired quotation is from Butler's Hudibras, 

 part in. canto Hi. 1. 547-8. : 



" He that complies against his will, 

 Is of his own opinion still." 



As to the origin of the phrase " To kick the bucket," 

 the tradition among the slang fraternity is, that " One 

 Bolsover having hung himself to a beam while stand- 

 ing on the bottom of a pail, or bucket, kicked the vessel 

 away in order to pry into futurity, and it was all up 

 with him from that moment. — Finis!" Our Querist 

 will find a very humorous illustration of its use (too 

 long to quote) in an article on " Anglo-German Dic- 

 tionaries," contributed by De Quincy to the London' 

 Magazine for April, 1823, p. 442.] 



St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. — There is a church 

 in the city of London called St. Nicholas Cole 

 Abbey : what is the origin of the name or deriva- 

 tion ? Ellfin ap Gwyddno. 



[This Query seems to have baffled old Stowe. 

 He says, " Towards the west end of Knight Rider 

 Street is the parish church of St. Nicolas Cold Abby, 

 a comely church, somewhat ancient, as appeareth by 

 the ways raised thereabout ; so that men are forced to 

 descend into the body of the church. It hath been 

 called of many Golden Abby, of some Gold (or Cold) 

 Bey, and so hath the most ancient writing. But I 

 could never learn the cause why it should be so called, 

 and therefore I will let it pass. Perhaps as standing 

 in a cold place, as Cold Harbour, and such like." For 

 communications on the much-disputed etymology of 

 Cold Harbour, see " N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 60. ; Vol. ii., 

 pp. 159. 340. ; and Vol. vi., p. 455.] 



TRENCH ON TROVERBS. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 387. 519. 641.) 



The courteous spirit which generally distin- 

 guishes the communications of your correspon- 

 dents, renders the " N. & Q." the most agreeable 

 magazine, or, as you have it, " medium of inter- 

 communication for literary men," &c. I was so 

 much pleased with the general animus which 

 characterised the strictures on my proposed 

 translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., that I was almost 

 disposed to cede to my critics, from sheer good- 

 will towards them. But the elder DTsraeli speaks 

 of such a thing "as an affair of literary conscience," 

 which consideration prescribes my yielding in the 

 present instance ; but I trust that our motto will 

 always be, " May our difference of opinion never 

 alter our inter-communications ! " 



I must however, at the outset, qualify an ex- 

 pression I made use of, which seems to have in- 

 curred the censure of all your four correspondents 

 on the subject ; I mean the sentence, " The trans- 

 lation of the authorised version of that sacred 

 affirmation is unintelligible." It seems to be per- 

 fectly intelligible to Messrs. Buckton, Jebb, 

 Walter, and S. D. I qualify, therefore, the 

 assertion. I mean to say, that the translation of 

 the authorised version of that sacred affirmation 

 was, and is, considered unintelligible to many in- 

 telligent biblical critics and expositors ; amongst 

 whom I may name Luther, Mendelsohn, Heng- 

 stenberg, Zunz, and many others whose names 

 will transpire in the sequel. 



Having made that concession, I may now pro- 

 ceed with the replying to my Querists, or rather 

 Critics. Mr. Buckton is entitled to my first con- 

 sideration, not only because you placed him at the 

 head of the department of that question, but also 

 because of the peculiar mode in which he treated 

 the subject. My replies shall be seriatim. 



1. Luther was not the first who translated 

 VC& V fi v b BV p " Denn seinen Freunden gibt 

 er es schlafend." A far greater Hebraist than 

 Luther, who flourished about two hundred years 

 before the great German Reformer came into 

 note, put the same construction on that sacred 

 affirmation. Rabbi Abraham Hacohen of Zante, 

 who paraphrased the whole Hebrew Psalter into 

 modern metrical Hebrew verse (which, according 

 to a P. S., was completed in 1326), interprets the 

 sentence in question thus : 



spa hx irv p ^ 

 i tpn *6 inso wwm rtnth 



" For surely God shall give food 



To His beloved, and his sleep shall not be withheld 

 from him." 



2. It is more than problematical whether the 

 eminent translator, Mendelsohn, was influenced by 



