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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 40. 



Let dirt and mud tliy lazie waters seize, 

 Tliy weeds still grow, thy waters still decrease ; 

 Nor let thy wretched love to Gripus ever cease." 



P. 13. ed. 1633. 



See also the "ISI.isque, " in Beaumont and 

 Fletcher's Maid's Tragedi/, Act I, vol. i. p. 17. 

 edit. 1750. 



On 1.936. (G.): — 



" And here and there were pleasant arbors pight, 

 And shadie seats and sundry flowring banks." 

 Spenser's F. Queen, vol. ii. p. 146. ed. 1596. 



On 1.958. (G.): — 

 " How now! back friends! shepherd, go off a little." 



As You Like It, iii. 2. 



On 1. 989. (D.) See Bethsabe's address to 

 Zephyr in the opening of Feele's David and 

 Bethsahe : — 



" And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes." 

 On 1.995. (D.): — 



" Her gown should be goodliness 

 Well ribbon'd with renown, 

 Purfil'd with pleasure in ilk place 



Furr'd with line fashioun." 

 Robert Hcnrysini's Garment of Good Ladies. 

 See Ellis' Spec, of Early Eng. Poets, i. 302. 



J. V. M. 



FOLK XORE. 



High Spii'its considered a Sign of impending Ca- 

 lamity 07' Death (Vol. ii., ]>. 84.). — 

 " U'eslmoreland. Health to my lord, and gentle cousin, 

 Mowbray. 

 Mowbray. You wish me health In very happy 

 season ; 



For I am, on the sudden, something ill. 

 Archbishop of York. Against ill chances, men are 

 ever merry ; 



But heaviness foreruns the good event. 

 West. Therefore be merry, cos ; since sudden sorrow 

 Serves to say thus, — Some good thing comes 

 to-morrow. 

 Arch, Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. 

 Mow. So much the worse, if your own rule be true." 

 Second Part of King Henry IF., Act iv. Sc. 2. 



In the last act of Romeo andJtdiet, Sc. 1., Romeo 

 comes on, saying, — 

 " If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, 

 My dreams presage some joyful news at hand : 

 My bosom's lord sits lightly on his throne; 

 And, all this day, an unaccustom'd spirit 

 Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts." 



Immediately a messenger comes in to announce 

 Juliet's death. 



In Act iii. Sc. 2., of King Richard III., Hastings 

 is represented as rising in the morning in unusually 

 high spirits. This idea runs through the whole 

 scene, which is too long for extraction. Before 

 dinner-time he is beheaded. X.Z. 



Norfolk Popidar Rhymes. — On looking over an 

 old newspaper, I stumbled on the following rhymes, 

 which are there stated to be prevalent in the dis- 

 trict in which these parishes are situated, viz. 

 between Norwich and Yarmouth : — 

 " Halvergate hares, Reedham rats, 

 Southwood swine, and Cantley cats; 

 Acle asses, Moulton mules, 

 Beighton bears, and Freothorpe fools." 



They seem to proceed simply on the alliterative 

 principle mentioned by J. M.B. (Vol. i., p. 475.) 

 as conmion to many popular proverbs, &c. Two 

 others I subjoin from my own recollection, which 

 differ in this particular : — 



" Blickling flats, Aylsham fliers, 

 Marsham peewits, and Hevingham liars." 



These are four villages on the road between 

 Norwich and Cromer. A third couplet alludes 

 merely to the situation of a group of villages near 

 the sea-coast, — 

 " Gimingham, Trimingham, Knapton, and Trunch, 



Northrepps and Southrcpps, hang all in a bunch." 



E.S.T. 



Throwing Salt over the Shoidder. — This custom 

 I have frequently observed, of taking a pinch of 

 salt without any remark, and flinging it over the 

 shoulder. I should be glad to know its origin. 



E.S.T. 



i., p. 19., a cor- 

 " charmins: for 



Charming for Warts. — In Vol. 

 respondent asks if the custom of 

 warts " prevails in England. 



A year or two ago I was staying in Somerset- 

 shire, and having a wart myself, was persuaded to 

 have it " charmed." The village-charmer was 

 suuunoned ; he first cut off a slip of elder-tree, 

 and made a notch in it for every wart. He then 

 rubbed the elder against each, strictly enjoining 

 me to think no more about it, as if I looked often 

 at the warts the charm would fail. 



In about a week the warts had altogether dis- 

 appeared, to the delight of the operator. N.A.B. 



NOTES ON COLLEGE SALTING ; TURKISH SPY ; DR. 

 DEE : FROM " LETTERS FROM THE BODLEIAN, 

 &C." 2 VOLS. 1813. 



Having been lately reading through this inte- 

 resting collection, I have "noted" some references 

 Xo subjects which have been discussed in your 

 columns. 



1 . College Salting. Salt at Eton Montem (Vol. i., 

 pp. 261. 306. 321. 384. 390. 492.). — I am not 

 quite clear as to the connection between these two 

 subjects : but an indentity of origin is not impro- 

 bable. A letter from Mr. Byrom to Aubrey, " On 

 the Custom of Salting at Eton," Nov. 15. 1G93, is 

 m vol. 11. p. 16/. : 



