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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 38. 



Halliwell at tliG end of a volume containing The 

 Ma)-7-iage of Wit and Vi'i.nlom, published by the 

 Shakspeare Society. In his prefatory remarks 

 that gentleman says, — 



" Besides his printed works, Lenton wrote the Po- 

 etical History of Queetie Hester, witli the translation of 

 the 83rd Psalm, reflecting upon the present times. 

 MS. dated 1649." 



This date must be incorrect, if our entry in the 

 Staunton obituary relates to the same person ; 

 and there is every reason to suppose that it does. 

 The autograph ]\1S. of Lenton occurred in Heber's 

 sale (Part xi. No. 724.), and is thus described : — 



" Hadassiah, or the History of Queen Hester, sung 

 in a sacred and serious poenie, and divided into ten 

 chapters, by F. Lenton, the Queen's Majesties Poet, 

 1638." 



This is undoubtedly the correct date, as it is 

 in the handwriting of the author. Query. What 

 is the meaning of Leuton's title, " the Queen's 

 Majesties Poet"? Edward F. Eimbault. 



iHiuar |2at£;S. 



Lilhurn or Prynne? — T am anxious to suggest 

 in " XoTES AND Queries" whether a character in 

 the Second Canto of Part iii. oi Hudihras (line 421), 

 beginning, — 



" To match this saint, there was another, 

 As busy and perverse a brother, 

 An liaberdaslier of small wares. 

 In politics and state affairs," 



has not been wrongly given by Dr. Grey to Lil- 

 burn, and whether Prynne is not rather the person 

 described. Dr. Grey admits in his note that the 

 application of the passage to Lilburn involves an 

 anachronism, Lilburn having died in 1657, and this 

 passage being a description of one among 

 " The quacks of government Avho sate" 



to consult for the Kestoration, when they saw ruin 

 impending. CIL 



Peep of Day. — Jacob Grimm, in Lis Deutsche 

 BIythulogie, p. 428., ed. L, remarks that the ideas 

 of light and sound are sometimes confounded ; and 

 in support of his observation he quotes passages 

 of Danish and German poets in which the sun and 

 moon are said to pipe (pfeifen). In further illus- 

 tration of this usage, he also cites the words 

 I' the sun began to peep," from a Scotch ballad 

 in Scott's Border Mimtrelsy, vol. ii. p. 4;'0. In 

 p. 431. he explains the words " par son I'aube," 

 which occur in old French poets, by " per sonitum 

 aurora? ; " and comj)ares the English expression, 

 "the peep of day." 



The Latin pipio or pipo, whence the Italian 

 pipare, and the French pepier, is the ultimate 

 origin of the verb to peep ; which, in old English, 



bore the sense of chirping, and is so used in the 

 authorised version of Isaiah, viii. 19., x. 14. Llal- 

 liwell, in his Archaic Dictionary, explains "peep" 

 as " a flock of chickens," but cites no example. 

 To peep, however, in the sense of taking a rapid 

 look at anything through a small aperture, is an 

 old use of the word, as is proved by the expression 

 Peeping Tom of Coventry. As so used, it corre- 

 sponds with the G<iYi\\a.n guchen. Mr. Itichardson 

 remarks that this meaning was probably suggested 

 by the young chick looking out of the half-broken 

 shell. It is quite certain that the " peep of day " 

 has nothing to do with sound ; biit expresses the 

 first apjiearance of the sun, as he just looks over 

 the eastern hills. L. 



Martinet. — Will the following passage throw 

 any light on the origin of the word Martinet ? 



" Une discipline, devenue encore plus exacte, avait 

 mis dans I'armee un nouvel ordre. II n'y avait point 

 encore d'Jnspecteurs de cavalerie et d'infanterie, comme 

 nous en avons vu depuis, mais deux hommes uniques 

 chacun dans leur genre en fesaient les fonctions. Mar- 

 tinet mettnit alors I'infanterie sur le pied de discipline oii 

 elle est aujourd'hui. Le Chevalier de Fourilles fesait la 

 meme change dans la cavalerie. II y avait un an que 

 Martinet avait mis la baionnette en usage dans quelques 

 regimens," &c Voltaire, Siicle de Louis XIV. c. 10. 



C. Forbes. 



July 2. 



Guys Porridge Pot. — In the porter's lodge at 

 Warwick Castle are preserved some enormous 

 pieces of armour, which, according to tradition, 

 were worn by the famous champion " Guy, Earl of 

 Warwick ;" and in addition (with other marvellous 

 curiosities) is also exhibited Guy's porridge pot, 

 of bell metal, said to weigh 300 lbs., and to contain 

 120 callous. There is also a flesh-fork to ring it. 



]\L\ Nichols, in his History of Leicestershire, 

 Part ii. vol. iii., remarks, — 



" A turnpike road from Ashby to Whitwick, passes 

 through Talbot Lane. Of this lane and the famous 

 large pot at Warwick Castle, we have an old tradi- 

 tionary couplet : 



" ' There's nothing left of Talbot's name. 

 But Talbot's Pot and Talbot's Lane.' 



" Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick, died in 

 1 439. His eldest daughter, Margaret, was married to 

 John Talbot Earl of Slirewsbury, by wliom she liad 

 one son, John Viscoimt Lisle, from whom the Dudleys 

 descended, Viscount Lisle and Earl of Warwick." 



It would therefore appear that neither the ar- 

 mour nor the pot belonged to the "noble Guy" — 

 the armour being comparatively of modern manu- 

 facture, and the pot, it nppears, descended from 

 the Talbots to the Warwick family : which pot is 

 generally filled with punch on the birth of a male 

 heir to that noble family. W. Eeadek. 



