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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 50. 



the original music of Shakspeare's Plays, but it has 

 not been my oood fortune to meet with the air of 

 Concolinel. The communication of your corre- 

 spondent E,. is of the greatest interest, and I should 

 be for ever grateful if he would allow me to see 

 the manuscript in question, in order that I might 

 test the genuineness of the air " stated, in a recent 

 hand, to be the tune of Concolinel mentioned by 

 Shakspeare." 



This air has double claims on our attention, as 

 its existence, in any shape, is placed amongst the 

 "doubtful" points by the following note extracted 

 from the Rev. J. Hunter's New Illustrations of 

 Shakspeare, vol. i. p. 268. : — 



" CoKcoLiNEL. In the absence of any thing like 

 sufficient explanation or justilicatlon of this word, if 

 word it is, I will venture to suggest the possibility that 

 it is a corruption of a stage direction, Cantat Ital., for 

 Cuntat Italice ; meaning that here Moth sings an Italian 

 song. It is quite evident, from what Armado says, when 

 the song was ended, ' Sweet air ! ' that a song of some 

 sort was sung, and one which Shakespeare was pleased 

 with, and meant to praise. If Moth's song had been 

 an English song, it would have been found in its place 

 as the other songs are." 



I, for one, cannot subscribe to IVIr. Hunter's 

 suggestion that our great poet intended an Italian 

 song to be sung in liis play ; and for this reason, 

 that Italian music for a single voice was almost 

 unknown in this country in 1597, at which date we 

 know Love's Labour's Lost was in existence. Siu'ely 

 Concolinel is just as likely to be the burden of a 

 song as Calen o Custnre me, mentioned in Henri/ 

 the Fifth (Act iv. sc. 4.), of which there is now no 

 doubt. 



I may just mention, in passing, that I have dis- 

 covered tlie air of Calen o Cnsture me in a manu- 

 script that once belonged to Queen Elizabeth, and 

 have ample proof that it was an especial favourite 

 with her maiden majesty. The commentators were 

 at foult when they pointed out the more modern 

 tune of the same name in Playford's Musical Com- 

 panion, 1667. Edward F. Exmbault. 



3. Augustus Square, Regent's Park. 



Andreu-ess Tortura Torti (Yol. ii., p. 295.). — 

 On what forms ]\Ir. Bliss's third quotation, which 

 does appear in some shape in Bernard, De Consid. 

 ad Evgcn., iii. 4. 18., the BihUotlieca Juridica, &c., 

 of Ferraris observes, under the head oi Dispenscdio : 

 " Hinc dispensatio sine justa causa non dispensatio 

 sed dissipatio dicitur commuuiter a doctoribus, ut 

 observant et tenent Sperell;" then referring to 

 several Romish canonists, &c., the last being 

 Reiffenstuel, lib. i.. Decretal, tit. 2., n. 450., of 

 which I give the full reference, his volumes being 

 accessible in the British Museum, if not elsewhere. 



Novus. 



Swords worn in Puhlic (Vol. ii., p. 218.) — A 

 very respected and old friend of mine, now de- 



ceased, used to relate that he had often seen the 

 celebrated Wilkes, of political notoriety, walking 

 in the puljlic streets, dressed in black in what is 

 usually termed court dress, wearing his sword. 

 AVilkes died in 1797. In connexion with this 

 subject it may be interesting to your readers to 

 know that in 1701 it was found necessary to pro- 

 hibit footmen wearing swords. An order was 

 issued by the Earl Marshal in that year, declaring 

 that— 



" Whereas many mischiefs and dangerous accidents, 

 tending not onely to the highest breach of tlie jieace, 

 but also to the destruction of the lives of his IMa"" 

 subjects, have happend and been occasioned by Foot- 

 men wearing of Swords, for the prevention of the like 

 evill accidents and disturbance for tlie future, I doe 

 hereby order that no Foot-man attending any of the 

 Nobilitye or Gentry of Iiis Bla*'"' Realms, during such 

 time as they or any of them shall reside or bee within 

 the Cities of London or Westm', and the Liberties and 

 Precincts of the same, shall wear any Sword, Hanger, 

 Bagonet, or other such like offensive weapon, as they 

 will answer the Contempt hereof." Dated 30th Dec. 

 1701. 



F. E. 



Speech given to Man to conceal his Thoughts 

 (A^'ol, i., p. 83.). — The maxim quoted Ijy your 

 correspondent F. R. A. was invented, if I may 

 rely upon the ?!ofeioo/e of memory, by the Floren- 

 tine Machiavelli. The German v^riter Ludwig 

 Borne says : — 



" Macchiavelli, derdie Freiheit liebte, schrieb seinem 

 Ptinzen so, dass eralle rechtrchaflTenen Psychologen in 

 Verlegenheit und in solche Verwirrung gebracht, dass 

 sie gar nicht mehr wiissten, was sie sprachen und sie 

 behaupteten, IMacchiavelli habe eine politische Satyre 

 geschrieben." 



Le Style c'est rhomnie ! 



Janus Dousa. 



The Character " ^•," and Meaning of " Parse" 

 (Vol. ii., pp.230. 284.). — This character, being 

 different from any of the twenty-four letters, was 

 placed at the end of the alphabet, and children, 

 after repeating their letters, were taught to indicate 

 this symbol as and-per-se-and. Instead of spelling 

 the word and, as composed of three letters, it was 

 denoted by a special symbol, which was '■'■and by 

 itself, and." Hence the corruption, an amjmssy 

 and. 



The word parse is also derived from the Latin 

 per se. To parse a sentence is to take the words 

 per se, and to explain their grammatical form and 

 etymology. L. 



Wife of Edward the Outlaw (Vol. ii., p. 279.).— 

 With reference to the Query of E. H. Y. (Vol. ii., 

 p. 279.), there seems to be much confusion in all 

 the accounts of Edward's marriage. I think it 

 is evident, from an attentive consideration of the 

 various authorities, that the Lady Agatha was 



