Dec. 21. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



501 



and I think they say so because G, O, spells "Go." 

 Is it so, can anybody say ? 



I am, your youngest correspondent, 



Katie. 



[Better etymologists than Katie have made far worse 

 guesses tliaii our youngest correspondent. But m 

 Brand's Popular Antiquities, by Ellis, vol. i. p. 294. ed. 

 iy4l (the passan;e is not in the last edition), is the fol- 

 lowing curious illustration of the phrase Ge-ho. 



'■ A learned friend, whose communications I have 

 frequently had occasion to acknowledge in the course 

 of this work, say^, the exclamation '■Geho, Geho,' which 

 carmen use to their horses, is probably of great an- 

 tiquity. It is not peculiar to this country, as I have 

 heard it used in France. In the story of the Jlilkniaid, 

 who kicked down her pail, and witli it ail her hopes of 

 getting rich, as related in a very ancient collection of 

 apologues, entitled Dialnc/us Creatiirarum, printed at 

 Gonda in 1480, is the following passage; ' Et cum sic 

 gloriaretur, et cogitaret cum quanta gloria duceretur 

 ad ilium virum super equuni dicendo gio gio, cepit 

 percutere terram quasi pungeret equam calcaribus.' " 



Brand's l-arned correspondent was, doubtless, the 

 late Mr. Douce, from wlirim the writer of this Note 

 has often lieard the same illustration.] 



Ladi/ Nor-ton (Vol. ii., p. 480.). — An account of 

 lady Norton may be seen in Memoirs of several 

 ladies of Great Britain, irho have been celebrated 

 for their icritings or skill in the learned lunguas;es 

 arts and sciences. Bv Georire Ballard. O.Kfbrd, 

 17o2. 4°. Siie IS said to have written two books, 

 viz. : The npplause of virtue. la four parts, etc. 

 London, 1705. 4°. pp.262; SlwA Memento imn-i : 

 or meditations on death. London, 1705. 4° pp. 108. 

 She was living in .advanced years, abont 1720. 



The same biographical repertory contains a,n 

 account of her daughter, lady Gethin — of whom 

 some particulars were given l)y myself in a small 

 volume of essay.s printed for private circulation, 

 under the title of Curiosities of literature illus- 

 trrited, in 1837. On that occasion I ventured to 

 exi)ress my Itelief that lady Gethin did not com- 

 pose one sentence of the remains ascribed to her ; 

 but I hope the claims of lady Norton to patristic 

 learnin'4 may more successfully bear the test of 

 critical e.\auiination. lioi.xox Cobney. 



iilt^rfTIaiicDuS. 



NOTES ON HOOKS, SALICS, CATALOGUES, ETC. 

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 to the learned Keeper of the Manuscripls in the 

 British iMu--eum, .Sir Frederick IMadden, for giving us 

 Tilt Iluly liilile ciiiitaining the Old ami New Tistniiitiits 

 with llie y-i/Mcri/phal Hwiltn, in tlie eiirliist English ver- 

 tionn made from llie Liitin I'ulgute, hi/ .Jnhii Wycliffe and 

 his /(Mowers. Never <h(l the University I'ress put 

 forth a more vahi.ible or more important work than 

 these four handsome ipiartos, (i)ublishe(i, too. at the 

 marvellously small price of (ive guineas), in which are 



now printed, for the first time, in an entire form, those 

 Versions wliich may be regarded as the earliest in the 

 Engl sh language which embrace any considerable 

 proportion of the Holy Scriptures. By this publi- 

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 the disgrace which has so long attached to this country 

 — which boasts, and justly and proudly boasts, of being 

 the country of Bibles — for its long-continued neglect 

 of these early versions of the vernacular Scriptures. 

 How great was the influence which they exercised 

 upon the religious opinions and sentiments of the na- 

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 and 15'26, how great an amoimt of scriptural truth 

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 posing its abuses and errors, and how they thereby 

 laid a deej) foundation for the reform of the six- 

 teenth century, may be clearly seen by a perusal of the 

 Preface to this great woik; on which the learned edi- 

 tors have employed their learning and industry for 

 two and twenty years, to their own high credit, 

 and to the vindication of English scholarship. But 

 our limited space will not admit of our detailing 

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 Scriptures lias upon the attention of our readers, or of 

 pointing out all the great services which its editors 

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 introduced by a preface full of new and most interest- 

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 our readers will agree with us in giving honour to all 

 who have had hand or heart in the production of these 

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