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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 234. 



pointed for the remission of sins, and was typical 

 of the great sacrifice of the Lamb of God, who 

 was to be slain for the sin of the world. The 

 whole verse would thus stand, according to Arch- 

 bishop Magee's interpretation : 



" If thou doest well, slialt thou not have the excel- 

 lency or pre-eminence? and if thou doest not well, a 

 sin-offering lieth before the door [i. e. is prepared, or 

 at hand, for thee] ; and unto thee shall be his subjec- 

 tion, and thou shalt rule over him [i.e. over Abel]." 



Luther's translation is at variance with this : 



" Wenn du fro mm bist, so bist du angenehm ; bist 

 du aber nicht fromm, so ruhet die Siinde vor der Thur. 

 Aber lass du ihr nicht ihren Widen, sondern herrsche 

 uber sie." 



In the margin of Luther's Bible is a reference 

 in this verse to Horn. vi. 12., plainly showing that 

 he considered it as an admonition to Cain to strug- 

 gle against sin, lest it should gain the dominion 

 over him. 



Bishop Sandford farther observes : 



" I think that neither Davison nor the other com- 

 mentators have completely examined Gen. iv. 7. in all 

 its expressions and bearings. I am surprised at Ma- 

 gee's omitting the argument from St. Paul's declar- 

 ation, that by his irXeiaivduaia Abel obtained witness 

 that he was righteous. .... I must repeat my wish 

 to have the word nriQ well examined." 



A. B. C. 



P. S. — Dr. Glocester Ridley (quoted by Bishop 

 Van Mildert, in the notes to his Boyle Lectures) 

 takes the view afterwards adopted by Archbishop 

 Magee, as to the meaning of the passage. (See 

 The Christian Passover, in four sermons on the 

 Lord's Supper, by Glocester Ridley, 1742, p. 14.) 



ROLAND THE BRAVE. 



Can any of your readers and correspondents, 

 versed in " legendary lore," reconcile the two 

 different tales of which " Roland the Brave " is 

 the hero ? The one related in Mrs. Hemans's 

 beautiful ballad describes him as reported dead, 

 and that his fair one too rashly took the veil in 

 " Nonnenwerder's cloister pale," just before his 

 return. The story proceeds to tell how in grief 

 her lover sought the battle-field, and finally fell, 

 with other brave companions, at Roncesvalles. 



I have been surprised, when perusing Dr. 

 Forbes's highly amusing narrative of his holiday 

 in Switzerland (pp. 28-9.), to find that he iden- 

 tifies Roland with the hero of Schiller's beautiful 

 ballad, who rejoiced in the unromantic appellation 

 of Ritter Toggenburg. That unhappy lover, ac- 

 cording to the poet, being rejected by his fair one, 

 who could only bestow on him a sister's affection, 

 sought the Holy Land in despair, and tried to 

 forget his grief; but returning again to breathe 



the same air with his beloved, and finding her al- 

 ready a professed nun, built himself a hut, whence 

 he could see her at her convent window. Here 

 he watched day by day, as the poet beautifully 

 says ; and here he was found, dead, " still in the 

 attitude of the watcher." 



" Blickte nach dem Kloster driiben, 



Blickte Stunden lang 

 Nach dem Fenster seiner Lieben 



Bis das Fenster klang, 

 Bis die Liebliche sich zeigte, 



Bis das theure Bild 

 Sich in 's Thai herunter neigte 



Ruhig, engelmild. 

 • - . • * 



»' Und so sass er viele Tage 



Sass vieP Jahre lang, 

 Harrend ohne Schmerz und Klage 



Bis das Fenster klang, 

 Bis die Liebliche sich zeigte, &c. &c 



" Unde so sass er, eine Leiche 

 Eines Morgens da, 

 Nach dem Fenster noch das bleiche 

 Stille Antlitz sah." 



Was this Ritter Toggenburg, the hero of Schil- 

 ler's ballad, the nephew of Charlemagne, Roland, 

 who fell at Roncesvalles ? Is not Dr. Forbes in 

 error in ascribing the Ritter's fate to Roland? 

 Are they not two distinct persons ? Or is Mrs. 

 Hemans wrong in her version of the story ? I 

 only quote from memory : 



" Roland the Brave, the brave Roland ! 

 False tidings reach'd the Rhenish strand 

 That he had fall'n in fight I 

 And thy faithful bosom swoon'd with pain, 

 Thou fairest maid of Allemain. 

 Why so rash has she ta'en the veil 

 In yon Nonnenwerder's cloister pale ? 

 For the fatal vow was hardly spoken, 

 And the fatal mantel o'er her flung, 

 When the Drachenfels' echoes rung — 

 'Twas her own dear warrior's horn ! 



She died ; he sought the battle plain, 

 And loud was Gallia's wail, 

 When Roland, the flower of chivalry, 

 Fell at Roncesvalles I" 



I shall be glad to have a clear idea of the true 

 Roland and his story. X. Y. Z. 



CLAY TOBACCO-PIPES. 



An amusing treatise might be written on 

 the variations in shape of the common tobacco- 

 pipe since its first introduction into the country. 

 Hundreds of specimens of old pipe-heads might 

 soon be procured, and especially in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London, where the same ground 

 has been tilled for gardening purposes perhaps 



