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LITERARY Mm, ARTISTS, ANTIUUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



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



No. 64.] 



Saturday, January 18. 1851. 



t Price, with Index to Vol. II., gd. 

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CONTENTS. 

 Note? : — Page 



Authorship of Henry VIII., by Samuel Hickson - - 33 



Tlie Cavalier's Farewell, by F. H. _ _ - .34 



Gray's Elegy, by Henry H. Breen - - - -3b 



The " Nineveh " Monuments and Milttm's Nativity Ode 



illustrated I'rom Lm-i;in - - - - -35 



Minor Notes: — G.iudentia di I.ucca — George Wither 

 tlie PoHt, a Printer — " Preached as a dying Man to dy- 

 ing Men'" — .\uthors ot Anonymous VN'orks — Umbrellas 36 



Qdebies: — 



Sonnet (query, bv Milt m) on the Library at Cambridge, 



by C. Howard Kenyon - - - - - 37 



Buryint: in Cliurch Walls - - - - - 37 



Minor Queries: — Mi-aning of Venwell or Venville — 

 Erasmus and F'arel— Early Culture of the Imagina- 

 tion — Sir Thomas Bnllen's Drinking Horn — Peter 

 Sterry — '' Words are Men's Daughters." &c. — Robert 

 Henryson — Gawyn Douglas — Darby and Joan — 

 William Chilcot — Benj. wheeler's Theological Lee. 

 tures — Sir Alexander Gumming — Cross between a 

 Wolf and Hound — Landwade Church, and Moated 

 Grange — Dr. Bcdton. Archbishop of Cashel— Genea- 

 logy of the Talbots, &c. Jtc. - - - - 38 



Replies : — 



Dragons - - - - - - - 40 



Orijin of the Family Name of Bacon, by ProBa Con- 



Scientia * - - - , - • - 41 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Cockade — Form of Prayer 



for King's Evil — " Aver," Hogs not Pigs— Pilgarlic 



— Collar of Esses — Filtliy Gingram — The Life and 

 Death of Clancie — " Rab. Surdam " — " Fronte Ca- 

 pillala" — Taylor's Holy Living — Portrait of Bishop 

 Henchman — Lines atiril)Uted to Charles Yorke — 

 Rodolph Uualter — " Annoy " used as a Noun — Cul- 

 prit, Origin of the SVord— Passage in Bishop Butler 



— Wat the Hare — The Letter 5 - Did Elizabeth 

 visit Bacon in Twickenham Park — Mock-Beggar — 

 Cardin;il Chalmers — Biiisey, God help me! — Mid- 

 wives Licensed — Or. 'X'lmothy Thristcioss — History 

 of the Bohemian Persecution — " Earth ins no Itage " 



Couplet in De Foe- Private Memoirs of Queen 



Eliz:ibeth — Abbot's House at Bucks leu — Bab in the 

 Bowster — Sir Cloude»Iey Shovel — Noli, me tangere 



— Cad - - - - - - - 42 



MiSCRLLiNEOtrs : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, ^c. 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - 



Advertisements ----- 



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AUTHORSHIP OF HENRY VIII. 



In my lii.st communication on the subject of 

 Henry VHL, I referred to certain characteristic 

 tricks of Fletcher's style of frequent occurrence in 

 that phiy, and I now beg leave to furnish you with 

 a few instances. I wish it, liowever, to be under- 

 sttjod, that I advance tliese merely as illustrative 

 specimens selected at random ; as there is scarcely 

 a line of the portions of (he play I assume to be 



I 



Fletcher's but would furnish some evidence to a 

 dilioent student of this writer's style : and that, 

 although I think each separate instance as strongly 

 characteristic of Fletcher as it is unlike Shiik- 

 spenre, it is only in their aggregate number that I 

 insist upon their importance. 



The first instance to which I call attention is 

 the use of the substantive "one" in a manner 

 which, though not very uncommon, is used by no 

 writer so frequently as Fletcher. Take the tbl- 

 lowing : — 



" So great ones." — Woman's Prize, II. 2. 



" And yet his songs are sad ones." 



Two Noble Kinsmeii, II. 4. 



and the title of the play, The False One. 

 Compare with these from Henry VIIZ. : — 

 " This night he makes a supper, and a great one." 



Act I. 3. 

 " Siirewd ones." — " Laine ones." — "so great ones." 



Ibid. 

 " I had my trial, 

 And must needs say a noble one." — .4ct II. I. 

 '' A wife — a true one." — Act III. 1. 

 " They are a sweet society of fair ones." — Act I. 4, 



Fletcher habitually uses "thousand" without 

 the indefinite article, as in the following instances : 

 '• Carried before 'em thousand desolations." 



False Onf. 11,3. 

 " Offers herself in thousand safeties to vou." 



Rollo, II. 1. 

 " This sword shall cut thee into thousand pieces." 



Knight of Malta, IV. 2. 



In Henry VIII. we have in the prologue ^ 



" Of thousand friends." 

 " Ca.=;t thousand beams upon me." — Act IV. 2. 



The use of the word " else" is peculiar in its 



position in Fletcher : — 



" 'Twere fit I were hanir'd else." — livli' a Wife, II. 



" I were to blame else." — Ibid. 



" I've lost my end else." — Act IV. 



" I am wide else." — Pilyrim, IV. I. 



In Henry VIII., the word occurs in precisely 

 the same position : — 

 " I'ray God he do 1 He'll never know himself, else." 



Act II. 2. 

 "I were malicious, else." — Act IV. 2. 



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