ApriL 13. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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« Each sheapherd’s daughter, with her cleanly peale, 
Was come afield to milke the morning’s meale.” 
Browne’s Britannia’s Pustorals, 
B. iv. Se. 4. p. 75. ed. 1616. 
On 1. 29. (G.) :— 
‘“« And in the deep fog batten all the day.” 
Drayton, vol. ii. p. 512. ed. 1753. 
On 1. 40. (G.) :— 
“ The gadding winde.” 
Phineas Fletcher's 1st Piscatorie Eclogue, st. 21. 
On 1. 40. (D.) :— 
«“ This black den, which rocks emboss, 
Overgrown with eldest moss.” 
Withers Shepherd’s Hunting, Eclogue 4. 
On 1.68.(D.) The names of Amaryllis and 
Newra are combined together with other classical 
names of beautiful nymphs by Ariosto (Orl. Fur. 
xi. st. 12.) 
On 1.78. (D.) The reference intended by War- 
ton is to Pindar Nem. Ode vii. 1. 46. 
On 1. 122. (G.) :— 
“ Of night or loneliness it recks me not.” 
Comus, |. 404. 
On 1. 142. (G.) :— 
“ So rathe a song.” 
Wither’s Shepherd's Hunting, p. 430. ed. 1633. 
On 1.165. (G.) :— 
«“ Sigh no more, ladies; ladies, sigh no more.” 
Shakspeare’s Much Ado, ii. 3. 
On 1.171. (G.): — 
* Whatever makes Heaven’s forehead fine.” 
Crashaw’s Weeper, st. 2. 
J. F.M. 
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. 
Depinges (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 20. p. 826.). 
—I have received the following information upon 
this subject from Yarmouth. Herring nets are 
usually made in four parts or widths, ——one width, 
when they are in actual use, being fastened above 
another. ‘The whole is shot overboard in very 
great lengths, and forms, as it were, a wall in the 
sea, by which the boat rides as by an anchor. 
These widths are technically called “lints” (Sax. 
lind?); the uppermost of them (connected by 
short ropes with a row of corks) being also called 
the “*hoddy” (Sax. hod ?), and the lowest, for an 
obvious reason, the “deepying” or “ depynges,” 
and sometimes “ angles.” 
At other parts of the coast than Yarmouth, it 
seems that the uppermost width of net bears ex- 
clusively the name of hoddy, the second width 
being called the first dint, the third width the se- 
cond lint, and the fourth the third lint, or, as before, 
“depynges.” W.R.F. 
Lerig.—Without controverting Mr. Singer’s 
learned and interesting paper on this word (No. 
19. p.292.), 1 hope I shall not be thought pre- 
sumptuous in remarking that there must have 
been some other root in the Teutonic language for 
the two following nouns, leer (Dutch) and lear 
(Flemish), which both signify leather (lorum, Lat.), 
and their diminutives or derivatives leer-ig and 
lear-ig, both used in the sense of tough. 
Supposing the Ang.-Sax. “lerig” to be derived 
from the same root, 1t would denote in “ ofer linde 
lerig,” the leather covering of the shields, or their | 
capability to resist a blow. | 
I will thank you to correct two misprints in my 
last communication, p.299.; pisan for pison, and 
*Iodyvyns for Iwdvyns. 
By the bye, the word “ pison” is oddly suggestive 
of a covering for the breast (pys, Nor. Fr.). See 
Foulques Fitzwarin, &c. B.W. 
March 16th. 
Lerig (No. 19. p.292.).— The able elucidation 
given by Mr. Singer of the meaning of this word, 
renders, perhaps, any further communication on 
the point unnecessary. Still I send the following 
notes in case they should be deemed worthy of | 
notice. | 
« Ler, leer — vacuus, | 
Berini Fabula, v,1219. A.-S. ge-ler.” 
Junii Etymol, Anglicanum. 
« Lar, lar—vacuus.” 
Schiltert Glossarium Teutonicum. | 
Respecting “Lind,” I find in the version by 
Thorkelin of De Danorum Rebus Gestris Poema 
Danicum Dialecto Anglo-Saxonica (Haynie, 1815), 
that “Lind hebbendra” is rendered “ Vesilla 
habens;” but then, on the other hand, in Biorn 
Haldorsen’s Islandske Lexicon (Haynie, 1814), 
“Lind” (v. ii. p. 83.) is translated “ Scutum tilig- 
neum.” C.L.R. 
Vox et pretera nihil (No. 16. p. 247.).— The 
allusion to this proverb, quoted as if from the 
Anatomy of Melancholy, by “C. W. G.” (No. 16. 
p. 247.), may be found in Addison’s Spectator, 
No. 61, where it is as follows : — 
«In short, one may say of the pun asthe countryman | 
deseribed his nightingale—that it is ‘vox et praterea 
nihil” ” 
The origin of the proverb is still a desideratum. 
Naruan. 
Vou et preterea nihil (No. 16. p. 247.).—In a 
work entitled Proverbiorum et Sententiarum Per- 
sicarum Centuria, a Levino Warnero, published at 
Amsterdam, 1644, the xevir. proverb, which is 
given in the Persian character, is thus rendered in 
Latin, — 
“Tympanum magnum edit clangorem, sed intus 
vacuum est,” 
