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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 238. 



forbearance of any of your correspondents whose 

 "thunder" I may have unwittingly appropriated. 



J. S. Wabden. 



Errors in Punctuation (Vol. viii., p. 217.). — 

 Every one must agree with R. H. C. as to the 

 importance of correct punctuation ; and it may 

 easily be supposed how it must puzzle readers of 

 works whose language is in great part obsolete, to 

 meet with mistakes of this kind, when we find 

 modern writers frequently rendered almost unin- 

 telligible by similar errors. To take those whose 

 works have, perhaps, been oftener reprinted tban 

 any others of this century, Byron and Scott, the 

 foregoing passage in Childe Harold is a signal in- 

 stance ; and as another, the Sonnet translated by 

 Byron from Vittorelli, has only had corrected in 

 the very latest editions, an error in the punctu- 

 ation of the first two lines which rendered them 

 a mystery to those who did not understand the 

 original, as printed on the opposite page. In note 

 12 to the 5th Canto of Marmion, every edition, 

 British or foreign, down to the present day, 

 punctuates the last two or three lines as follows : 



" A torquois ring ; — probably this fatal gift is, with 

 James's sword and dagger, preserved in the College of 

 Heralds, London." 



Sir Walter is thus made to express a doubt, 

 which he never intended, as to the ring being 

 there. A comma after "ring," another after 

 "gift," and the omission of the dash, will restore 

 the true meaning of the sentence. J. S. Wardeic. 



Waugh of Cumberland (Vol. ix., p. 272.). — 

 John Waugh (D.C.L., Feb. 8, 1734) — born and 

 educated at Appleby, Fellow of Queen's College, 

 Oxford ; Rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill ; Prebend- 

 ary of Lincoln; Dean of Gloucester, — was con- 

 secrated to the See of Carlisle Oct. 13, 1723: he 

 died Oct. 1734, and was buried in the church of 

 St. Peter, Cornhill. He bore for arms : Arg., on 

 a chevron engrailed gules, three bezants. 



Mackenzie Waecott, M.A. 



" Could we with ink" 8fc. (Vol. viii. passim). — 

 Perhaps one more communication may find admis- 

 sion on the above interesting lines. I received 

 from a clerical friend, many years ago, a version 

 of them, which differs considerably from that 

 given in "N. & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 127. The varia- 

 tions I have marked by Italics : 



" Could you with ink the ocean fill, 



Were the whole world of parchment made,. 

 Were every single stick a quill, 



And every man a scribe by trade, 

 To write the love of God alone, 



Would drain the ocean dry, 

 Nor could the earth contain the scroll, 



Though stretch'd from sky to sky." 



My friend did not profess to know who wrote 

 these lines ; but he understood that they were an 

 attempt to render in English verse a sublime pas- 

 sage of the great St. Augustin. It is highly pro- 

 bable that this eminent Father was the original 

 author of the passage. It is extremely like one 

 of his grand conceptions ; but I have hitherto 

 searched his voluminous works for it in vain. 



F. C. H. 



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