ea anne OOOO ere! 
JAN. 12. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
169 
Barnacles.—In a Chorographical Description of 
West, orll-Jar Connaught, by Rhoderic O'Flaherty, 
Esq., 1684, published by the Irish Archeological 
Society in 1846, the bernacle goose is thus men- 
tioned : — 
“ There is the bird engendered by the sea out of 
timber long lying in the sea. Some call them clases, 
and soland geese, and some puffins; others bernacles, be- 
cause they resemble them. We call them girrinn. 
Martin, in his Western Isles of Scotland, says:— 
“ There are also the cleek geese. The shells in which 
‘this fowl is said to be produced, are found in several 
isles sticking to trees by the bill; of this kind I have 
| seen many,—the fowl was covered by a shell, and the 
head stuck to the tree by the bill, — but never saw any of 
them with life in them upon the tree; but the natives 
told me that they had observed them to move with the 
heat of the sun.”— See also Gratianus, Lucius, Ware’s 
Antiquities, &c. 
Eating sea-birds on fast days is a very ancient 
‘eustom. Socrates mentions it in the 5th century: 
“Some along with fish eat also birds, saying, that 
according to Moses, birds like fish were created out 
of the waters.” Mention is made in Martin’s 
Western Isles, of a similar reason for eating seals 
in Lent. Cormorants, “as feeding only on fish,” 
were allowable food on fast days, as also were 
otters. CEREDWYN. 
Vondel’s Lucifer. —I cannot inform your corre- 
spondent F. (No. 9. p. 142.), whether Vondel’s 
Lucifer has ever been translated into English, but 
he will find reasons for its not being worth trans- 
lating, in the Foreign Quarterly Review for April, 
1829, where the following passage occurs : — 
“ Compare him with Milton, for his Lucifer gives 
the fairest means of comparison. How weak are his 
highest flights compared with those of the bard of 
Paradise ! and how much does Vondel sink beneath him 
in his failures! Now and then the same thought may 
be found in both, but the points of resemblance are not 
in passages which do Milton’s reputation the highest 
honour.” 
The scene of this strange drama is laid in Heaven, 
and the dramatis persone are as follows : — 
Beelzebub 
Belial 
Apollion 
Gabriel (Interpreter of God’s secrets). 
Troop of Angels, 
Lucifer. 
Luciferists (Rebellious Spirits). 
Michael (Commander-in-chief). 
Rafael (Guardian Angel). 
Uriel (Michael’s Esquire). 
Act I. Scene 1. Beelzebub, Belial, Apollion, &c. 
I give this from the original Dutch now before 
me. Hermes. 
Dutch Version of Dr. Faustus. —Can any of your 
correspondents give me information as to the 
Disobedient Officers. 
author of a Dutch History of Dr. Faustus, without 
either author's name or date, and illustrated by very 
rude engravings? There is no mention of where 
it was printed, but at the bottom of the title-page 
is the following notice : — 
“ Compared with the high Dutch copy, and corrected 
in many places, and ornamented with beautiful copper 
plates.” * 
There is also a promise of a Latin copy soon to 
follow. HERMES. 
[The first German chap-book upon Faust appeared 
in 1587. A translation of it into Dutch was published 
as early as 1592, at Emmerich. It was again printed 
at Delft in 1607; and there have been several editions 
since that date. The curious history of this romance 
has been well investigated by H. Diintzer, Die Sage 
von Doctor Johannes Faust, in the 5th volume of Das 
Kloster ; and even more fully by the Freiherr v. Reichlien 
Meldegg, in the 11th volume of the same work. ] 
To Fettle.— Your correspondent L. C. R. (p. 
142.) is referred to the late Mr. Roger Wilbraham’s 
Cheshire Glossary, or (as he modestly termed it) 
An. Attempt, &c. This work, privately printed in 
1820, is the republication, but with very consider- 
able additions, of a paper in the Archeologia, vol. 
xix. 
The explanation of the present word is an in- 
stance of this expansion. 
Your correspondent and Mr. W. agree as to the 
meaning of this verb, viz. “to mend, to put in 
order any thing which is broken or defective.” 
Being used in this sense, Mr. W. differs from 
Johnson and Todd, and he is inclined to derive 
Fettle from some deflection of the word Faire, 
which comes from the Latin Facere. I must not 
crowd your columns further, but refer to the 
Glossary. 
May I point out rather a ludicrous misprint, 
(doubtless owing to an illegible MS.) at p. 120. 
For Mr. Pickering’s Lives, read Series of Aldine 
Poets. J. H. M. 
To Fetyl, v.n. To join closely. See G. factil. 
ligamen.— W yntown. 
Fettil, Fettle, s. Energy, power. — S. B. 
To Fettle, v.a. To tie up.—S. 
Fettle, adj. 1. Neat, tight.—S.B. 2. Low in 
stature, but well-knit.—S. B. 
Fetous, adj. Neat, trim. 
Fetusly, adv. Featly. 
Jamieson’s Dictionary, abridged 8vo. edition. 
Fettle, v. To put in order, to repair or mend 
any thing that is broken or defective. 
I am inclined to consider it as from the same 
root as Feat,— viz. Sue Got. fait, apt, ready. 
Swed. falt, disposed, inclined; fatta, to compre- 
hend.— Brockett’s Glossary. 
* Uyt den Hoogduitschen Exemplar overgezien, en 
op veele plaatzen Gecorrigeert, en met schoone Kopere 
Figuuren vercierd, 
