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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



On Two Passages in " All's Well that Ends Well," by 



S. W, Singer ._-__- 



George Herbert and the I'hurch of Leighton Broms- 



wolii --.--.. 



Folk Lore: — Sacramental Wine — '■ Snail, Snail, come 



outofyimr Hole" — Nievie-nick nack 

 Recoids'at Malta ------ 



On an Ancient MS. of" Bedae Historia Ecclesiastica " - 

 Minor Queries : — The Potter's and Shepherd's Keep- 

 sakes — Writing-paper — Litt:e Ca-terton (Rutl.md) 

 Church — The Hijmnpotamus — Specimens of Foreign 

 English — St. Clare— Dr. Dodd — Hats of Cardinals 

 and Notaries Apostolic — Baron Munchausen's Frozen 

 Horn — Cuntracted Names ot Places 



Ql'ERIES: — 



Bibl ographical Queries - . . . . 



Enigmatical Epitapii . - - . - 



Shakspeare's ■* Merchant of Venice " - . - 



Minor Queries :— Was Lord Howard of Effingham a 

 Protestant ot a Papist ? —Lord Bexley : how descended 

 from Cromwell — Karl of Shaftesbury — Family of 

 Peyton — "La Rose nait en un Moment" — John 

 Collard the Logician — Traherne's Sher tfs of Glamor- 

 gan — Haybaiid^ in Seals — Kdnunid Prideaiix, and the 

 Fi^^t Post office — Willi.am Tell Legend— Arms of 

 Cottons buried in Landnade Church - Sir George 

 Buc's Treitise on the Stage — A C'racowe Pike — St. 

 Thomas of Trunnions — Paper mill near Stevenage — 

 Mouuds, Munts. Monnis — Church Chests — The 

 Cross-bill — lovanni Volpe — Auiiga — To speak in 



Lutestring — " Lavora, come se tu," &c Tomb of 



Chaucer — Family of Clench - , . 



Replies : — 



Cranmer's Descend.ants - . . - . 



Dutcli Popular Song-book, by J. H. van Lennep 

 Barons of Hugh Lupus - - - . . 



Sli.ikspeare's " .Antony and Cleopatra" . - . 



" Sun, stand thou still upon Giheim !" - 

 Replies to Minor Queries: — Ulm JIanuscript — Har. 

 iison's Chronology -—.Mistletoe on Oaks — Swearmg by 

 Swans — Jurare ad caput rnimalium —Ten Children 

 at a Birth — Kichard Standlast — "Jurat, crede mi- 

 nus" — Rab Surdain — Tlie Scaligers— Lincoln Mis- 

 sal — By uid-hye— Gngory tlie Great —True Blue — 



Drachuiarus — I'he Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex 



Red Hand — Antiii|iations of Modern Ideas by Defoe 

 — .Meaning of Waste-book — Oeus .lustilicatus — 

 Touchstone's Dial — King Dials — Cockade — Kud- 

 beck's .Atlautica, &c. . • - • . 



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ON TWO PASSAGES IN " ALl/s WELL THjVT ENDS 

 WELL." 



Aiiioiij,' the few pa.s.s:iges in Sliakspeare upon 

 wLich liule light hus been tiuowii, ailur all that 



has been written about tliein, are the following in 

 Act. IV, Sc. 2. of All's Well that Ends Well, 

 where Bertram is persuading Diana to yiehl to hia 

 desires : 



" Bert. I pr'ythee, do not strive against my vows ; 

 I was coinpell'd to her ; but I love thee 

 By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever 

 Do thee all rights of service. 



Dia. Ay, so you serve us, 



I'ill we serve you : but when you have our roses. 

 You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves. 

 And mock us with our bareness. 



Bert. How have I sworn ? 



Dia. 'Tis not the ma:iy oaths that make the truth ; 

 But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 

 What is not holy, that we swear not by, 

 But take the Highest to witness: Then, pray you, 



tell me. 

 If I should swear by Jove's great attributes, 

 1 lov'd you dearly, would you believe my oaths, 

 When I did love you ill? this has no holding. 

 To swear by him whom I protest to love. 

 That I will work against him." 



Read — " w/ien I protest to Love." 



Ii is evident that Diana refers to Bertram's 

 double vows, his marriage vow, and the subse- 

 quent vow or protest he had made not to kei^p it. 

 " If I should swear by Jove I loved you dearly, 

 would you believe my oath when I loved you ill? 

 This has no consistency, to swear by Jove, when 

 secretly I protest to Love that I will work against 

 him {i. e. against the oath I have taken to Jove)." 



Bertram had sworn by the Highest to love Lis 

 wife ; in his letter to his mother he says : 



" I have wedded her, not bedded her, and sworn to 

 make the not eternal : ' 



he secretly protests to Love to work against his sa- 

 cred oath ; and in his following speech he says : 

 " Be not so cruel-holy. Love is holy." 



He had before said : 



" do not strive against my vows ; 



I was compell'd to her ; but 1 love thee 

 By Love's own sweet constraint:" 



clearly indicating that this must be the true 

 sense of the passage. By printing when for whom, 

 and Love with a capital letter, to indicate the per- 

 sonification, all is matle clear. 



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