May 11. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
459 
BAuLT” has given from Paget's Common Place 
Book: — 
«© My love and I for kisses play’d,” 
occurs in the MS. volume from which James 
Boswell extracted “ Shakspeare’s Verses on the 
King,” but with a much better reading of the last 
couplet : — 
,“ Nay then, quoth shee, is this your wrangling vaine? 
Give mee my stakes, take your own stakes againe.” 
They are entitled, “ Upon a Lover and his Mis- 
tris playing for Kisses,” and are there without any 
name or signature. They remind us of Lilly’s 
very elegant “ Cupid and Campaspe.” 
The ballad, or rather ode, as Drayton himself 
entitles it : — 
«“ Fair stood the wind for France,” 
is to be found in the very rare voiume with the 
following title, Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall, Odes, 
Eglogs, The Man in the Moon, by Michael Drayton, 
Esquire. At London, printed by R. B. for N. L. 
and J. Flaskett. 12mo. (No date, but cirea 1600.) 
I think the odes are given in other volumes 
of the early editions of Drayton’s Miscellaneous 
Poems; but I speak without book, my collection 
being in the country. 
The selection from Herrick, noticed by Mr. Mil- 
ner Barry, was made by Dr. Nott of Bristol, whose 
initials, J. N., are on the title page. ‘‘ The head and 
front of my offending” is the Preface to Mr. Pick- 
ering’s neat edition of Herrick in 1846. 
S.W.S. 
March 12. 1850. 
[*©.E.” informs us that these pretty lines form 
No. ccxxxix. of A Collection of Epigrams. London. 
Printed for J. Walthoe, 1727, and of which a second 
volume was published in 1737: and “J.B.M.” adds, 
that they are also to be found in the Eneyclopedia of 
Wit, published about half a century since. ] 
Teneber Wednesday.—In Hall's Chronicle, under 
the date of 23rd Hen. VIIL., is this passage: 
«« When Ester began to draw nere, the Parliament 
for that tyme ended, and was proroged till the last day 
of Marche, in the next yere. In the Parliament afore- 
sayde was an Acte made that whosoeuer dyd poyson 
any persone, shoulde be boyled in hote water to the 
death ; which Acte was made bicause one Richard 
Roose, in the Parliament tyme, had poysoned dyuers 
persons at the Bishop of Rochester’s place, which 
Richard, according to the same Acte, was boyled in 
Smythfelde the Teneber- Wednysday following, to the 
terrible example of all other.” 
I conjecture that Teneber Wednesday is the 
Wednesday next before Easter, or ‘“ Feria quarta 
majoris Hebdomadw,” and that the name is de- 
rived from the Gospel for that day according to 
the ritual of the Church of Rome. 
“ Erat autem fere hora sexta, et tencbre facte sunt 
in universam terram usque in horam nonam. Et ob- 
scuratus est sol: et velum templiscissum est medium.” 
— Luke, xxiii. 44, 45. 
Should this conjecture be ill founded, I shall be 
glad to see it corrected; at any rate, I shall be 
obliged if any of your correspondents can supply 
other instances of the use of the term, or state 
what are or were the ceremonies peculiar to the 
day. C. H. Coorrr. 
Cambridge, April 4. 1850. 
P.S. Since the above was written, I have noticed 
that “ Tenable Wednesday” occurs three times in 
the Ordinance for “ weshing of all mannar of 
Lynnon belonging to my Lordes Chapell” in the 
Northumberland Household Book (pp. 243, 244.). 
In each instance it is placed between Lady Day 
and Easter Even. 
[If our correspondent refers to Mr. Hampson’s most 
useful work, Medii Avi Kalendarium, vol. i. p. 370., to 
the words Tenables, Tenabulles, Tenebre, he will find 
them explained “The three nights before Easter ;” 
and the following among cther illustrations : — 
“‘ Worshipfull frendis, ye shall cum to holi chirch 
on Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday at even for to here 
dyvyne service, as commendable custom of holi chirch 
has ordeyned. And holi chirch useth the iij dayes, 
Wednysday, Thursday, and Friday, the service to be 
saide in the eventyde in derkenes. And hit is called 
with divers men Tenables, but holi chirch Tenebras, as 
Raccionale Divinorum seth, that is to say, pay 2 
derkenes, to commemorate the betrayal of our Lord by 
night.” — Harl. MS. 2247. fo. 83.] 
The Buckingham Motto. — Permit me to suggest 
that your correspondents “S.” and “ P.” (No. 18. 
pp. 283, 284.) are labouring under a mistaken 
notion in supposing that the line 
Sovente me sovene, 
belongs to the French idiom, and answers to our 
phrase “Forget me not.” Such a sentiment 
would be sufliciently appropriate as the parting 
prayer or injunction of a lover, but does not 
possess the essential characteristic of a motto, 
which one selects for the purpose of declaring his 
own sentiments or conduct towards others, not to 
deprecate or direct those of others towards him- 
self. ; 
The language employed is, in part, pure Italian, 
not antiquated, but exactly such as 1s spoken by 
ersons of education at the present day ; and if 
“S.” would again examine the original MS., I 
make no doubt that he would find the line written 
Sovente mi sooviene (sovene), i. e. with the personal 
pronoun in the dative instead of the accusative 
case. The expression mi sovviene is equivalent to 
mi ricordo, but is a more elegant form than the 
latter ; and the meaning of the motto will be “I 
seldom forget,” —a pithy andsuggestive sentence, 
implying as much the memory of a wrong to be 
avenged as of a favour to be requited. 
A. Ricu, Jun. 
