NOTES AND QUEIIIES: 



A MEDIUI OF INTER-COMMUNICATION 



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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTiaUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" "Wlieii found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. 



No. 54.] 



Saturday, November 9. 1850. 



r Price Threepence 

 I StHmped Edition ^d. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes : 



Enclish and Norman Songs of the Fourteenth Century, 



by Rev. James Graves - - - - - 



Misplaced Words in Shaksneare's Troihis and Cressida 



M;ister John Shorne, by W. J. Thorns - - - 



Corrisenda of Printer's Errors - - - - 



Folk-lore of Wales : No. 3. Mc-ddygon Myddvai— No. 4. 



Trwyn Pwcca ._---- 



Coi)nexi"n of Words: the Word " Freight" - 



Minor Notes : —Smith's Obit\iary — George Wither the 



Poet, a Printer — Corruption of the Text of Gibbon's 



" Decline and Fall " — Traditional Story concerning 



Cardinal Wolsey ------ 



385 

 3S6 

 387 



388 



388 

 389 



389 



Queries : — 



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Early Sale of Gems. Drawings, and Curiosities - 

 Minor Queries :_Qiiotations wanted— Deatli of Rirhard 

 II. — Sir W. Herschel's Observations and Writings — 

 Swearing by Swans _ Antomachia — Poa cynosu- 

 wides — Vijievards — Martin, Cockerell, and Hopkins 

 Families — Camilea's Po»m on the Marriage of the 

 Thames and Isis — National Airs of England — Poor 

 Piilgarlick — Inscription on a Portrait — Burton's 

 Parliamentary Diary — Tobacconists — " The Owl is 

 abroad "— Scandal against Queen Elizabeth — Letters 

 of Horning — Cromwell poisoned - . - 



Replies : — 



Collar of SS. 



Daniel De Foe, by W. Crafter . - - - 



" Anliquitas SsBciili Juventus Mundi " . - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Sir Gammer Vans — 

 Hipperswitches — Cat and Bagpipes — Forlot, Flrlot, 

 or Fcirlet — Sittin2 durin;; the Lessons — Engelmann's 

 Bibliotheci Auctor Class. — News —Derivation of 

 Orchard - - - . - - - 396 



391 



393 



395 

 395 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odd Voliunes Wanted 

 Noticrs to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



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iJatc^. 



ENOLISa AND NORMAN SONGS OF THE FOURTEENTH 

 CENTURY. 



In a vellum book, known as The Bed Book of 

 Onsory, and preserved in the sircliives of that see, 

 is contained a collection of Latin rclij;it)U8 poetry, 

 written in a flood hold hand of the 14th century ; 

 prefixed to several of the hymns, in a contempo- 

 rary and identical hand, are sometimes one some- 

 times more lines of a song in old English or Nor- 

 man French, which as they occur I here give : 



" Alas hou sbold y syng, yloren is my playnge 

 Hou shol.ly wiz zat olde man! ^^^^.^^ ^^ ^, ^ „ 

 To leven and let my leman J 



" Harrow ieo su thy : p fol amo' de mal amy." 



" Have m'oie on rae frere : Barfote zat ygo." 



" Do. Do. nightyngale syng fill myrie 

 Slial y nevre fur zyn love lengie karie." 



" Have God day my lemon," &c. 



" Gaveth me no garlond of greene, 

 Bot hit ben of Wythones yuioght." 



" Do Do nyztyngale syng wel miry 

 Shal y nevre for zyn love lengre kary." 



" Hew alas p amo' 

 Oy moy myst en tant dolour." 



" Hey how ze chevaldoures woke al nyght." 



It is quite evident that these lines were thus 

 prefixed (as is still the custom), to indicate the air- 

 to which the Latin hymns were to be sung. This 

 is also set forth in a memorandnm at the com- 

 mencement, which states that these son^s,Cuntilene, 

 were composed by the Bishop of Ossory for the 

 vicars of his cathedral church, and for his priests 

 and clerks, 



" ne giittura eorum et ora dec sanctificata pollu- 

 anfur cantilenis teatralibus tm-pibus et secularibus : et 

 cum siut eantatores, provideant sibi notis convenienti- 

 bus, sL'cundum quod dictamina requiruiit." — Lib. 

 Hub. Ossor. fol. 70. 



"VVe may, I think, safely conclude that the lines 

 above given were the commencement of the 

 cantilene teatrales turpes et seculares, which the 

 good bishop wished to deprive his clergy of all ex- 

 cuse for singing, by providing them with pious 

 hymns to the same airs ; thinking, I suppose, like 

 John Wesley in after years, it was a pity the devil 

 should monopolise all the good tunes. 1 shall 

 merely add that the author of the Latin poetry 

 seems to have been Richard de Ledrede, who filled 



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