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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 44. 



" Thlrilty, God so ordoied tlic matter betwixt tliein, 

 that this adhfesion and agglutination of one to the other 

 sliould be perpetuall. Kor by taking a bone from tlie 

 man (who was yiimiiim osseus, exceeded, and was some- 

 what monstrous by one bone too much) to strengtlien 

 the woman, and by putting Hesh in steede thereof to 

 mollifie the man, he made a sweete complexion asid 

 temper betwixt them, like harmony in musicke, for 

 their amiable cohabitation. 



" Fourthly, that bone which God tooke from the 

 man, was from out tlie mid^t of him. As Christ wrought 

 saluation in medio terrcp, so God made the woman d 

 »iedio viri, out of tlic very midst of man. The species 

 of tlie bone is exprest to be cosla, a rib, a bone of the 

 side, not of tlie head ; a woman is not ilnminn, the ruler ; 

 nor of any anterior pnrt : she is not prcplatu, preferred 

 before the man; nor a bone of the foote ; she is not 

 scrva, a handinaid ; nor of any l>inder part ; she is not 

 posl-posita, set behind the man : but a bone of the side, 

 of a middle and indifferent part, to show that she is 

 socia, a companion to tlie husband. For qui jiivffunliir 

 lateribus, socii sunt, they that walke side to side and 

 cheeke to cheoke, walke as companions. 



" Fifthly, I might adde, a bone from vnder the arme, 

 to put the man in remembrance of protection and de- 

 fense to the woman. 



" Sixthly, a bone not far from his heart, to put him 

 in mindc of dilection and loue to the woman. Lastly, 

 a bone from the left side, to put the woman in minde, 

 that by reason of her frailty and infirmity she standeth 

 in need of both the one and the other from her 

 husband. 



" To conclude my diKcourse, if these things be duely 

 examined when man taketh a woman to wife, reparat 

 lattis suum, what doth he else but remember the maime 

 that was sometimes made in his side, and desireth to 

 repaire it? Repetit coitamsnam, he n.(|uireth and fetchctli 

 back the rib that was taken from him," &c. &c. — From 

 pp. 28. .^O, of " Vitis Fnlatina, A sermon appointed to 

 be preached at Whitehall, upon Tuesday after the 

 marriage of the Ladie Elizabeth, her Grace, by the I}, 

 of London. London: printed for John Bill, 1014." 



The marriiige actually took place on the 14th of 

 Februaiy, 1612. In the dedication to the Prince 

 of Wall's, afterwards Charles I., tlie Bishop (Dr. 

 I John Kiiiu) hints that he had delayed the pub- 

 lication till the full meaning of his text, which is 

 I'salm -xxviii. vcr. 3, slioiild have been accom- 

 plished by the birth of a son, an event ■which bad 

 liecii recently announced, and that, too, on the very 

 day when this Psalm oecitrred in the course of the 

 i Church service. 



I The sermon is curious, and I may hereafter 

 I trouble you with some notices of these "Wedding 

 I Sermons," which are evidently contemplated by 

 the f'ramers of our Liturgy, as the concluding 

 homily of the office for matrimony is by the Kubric 

 to be read " if there be no sermon." It is ob- 

 servable that the first Rubric especially directs 

 that the woman shall stand on the man's left hand. 

 Any notices on the stibject from your corre- 

 spondents would be acceptable. 



In the first series of Southey's Common Place 

 Book, at page 226., a passage is quoted from Henry 

 Smith's Sermons, which dwells much upon the 

 formation of the woman from the rib of man, but 

 not in such detail as Bishop King has d(me. Notices 

 of the Bishop may be found in Keble's edition of 

 Hooker, vol. ii. pp.24. 100. 103. It appears that 

 after his death it was alleged that he maintained 

 Pofiish doctrines. This his son, Henry King, 

 canon of St. Paul's, and Archdeacon of Colchester, 

 satisfactorily disproved in a sermon at Paid's Cross, 

 and again in the dedication prefixed to his " Ex- 

 jMsition upon the Loi-d's Prayer," 4to., London, 

 1634. .See W^ood^s AlJievce Oxoii., fol. edit. vol. ii. 

 p. 294. 



As for the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth, 

 afterwards celebrated for her misfortunes as Queen 

 of Bohemia, it was celebrated in an epithalamium 

 by Dr Donne, Woi-ks, 8vo. edit. vol. vi. p. 550. 

 And in the S(mier's Tracts, vol. iii., pp. 35. 43., may 

 be found descriptions of the " shewes" and a poem 

 of Taylor the Water Poet, entitled "Heaven's 

 Blessing and Earth's Jov," all tending to show the 

 great contemporary interest which the event occa- 

 sioned. BAI.LIOLENSIS. 



Cinderella, or the Glass Slipper. — Two centuries 

 ago furs were so rare, and theix'fore so highly 

 valued, that the wearing of them was restricted 

 by several sumptuary laws to kings and princes. 

 Sable, in those laws called vair, was the subject of 

 countless regulations: the exact quality jierniitted 

 to be worn by persons of different grades, and the 

 articles of dress to which it might be applied, were 

 deiined most strictly. Perrault's tale of Cinde- 

 rella originally marked the dignity conferred on 

 her by the fairy by her wearing a slipper of vair, 

 a privilege then confined to the highest rank of 

 princesses. An error of the press, now become 

 inveterate, changed vair \uio verre, and the slipper 

 of sable was suddenly converted info a glass 

 slijiper. Jaeltzbekg. 



Mistletoe on Oalts. — In Vol. ii., p. 163., I ob- 

 served a citation on the extreme rarity o{ mistletoe 

 on oalis, li-ojn Dr. Giles and Dr. Daubeny ; and with 

 rci'erence to it, and to some remaiks of Professor 

 Ilcnslow in the Gardeners' Chronicle, I communi- 

 cated to the latter journal, last week, the fiict of 

 my having, at this jiresenl time, a bunch of tliat 

 plant growing in great luxuriance on an oak aged 

 upwards of seventy years. 



I beg leave to repeat it for the use of your work, 

 and to add, what I previously apjiended as likely 

 to be interesting to the archaeologist of AVales or 

 the ]\iarches, that the oak bearing it stands about 

 half a mile N.W. of my residence here, on the 

 earthen mound of Badnniscourt, once a moated 



