Mak. 15. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I niiiy add, tli;it the word is wr'uten sivnn in a 

 cliirter of Ehvard the Confessor, printed by 

 Hickes in his Thesaurus, vol. i. p. 159., as follows : 



*' — ic anil f firidd? troow. -) -p gridde swun of acvesan 

 tSaes nextaii wudes '5t! lip to kyngesbyrig," &e. 

 Which Hickes thus renders : 



" Dono tertiam cjuainque arborem, et teitiam qiia'n- 

 qiie sarcinaui jiimentariaai fructuum, qui nascuntur in 

 sylva nioxime ad kyngesbyrig sita," Sec. 



II.M.W. 



Sir George Downing (Vol. iii., p. 69.). — The 

 following extract of a letter in Cartes' Letters, ii. 

 319., cimfirms the accuracy of the nieuioraudum 

 as to Sir G. Downinoi's parentaiji;. sent you bv 

 J. P.O. The letter is from T. Howard to Charles iT., 

 written April 5, 16G0, on the eve of tlie Resto- 

 ration. Downing had otfered to Howard to serve 

 the King, — 



"alleging t) b." engaged in a contrary party by bis 

 father, wlio was banished into New F^nglaiid, where he 

 was brouglit up, and had sucked in pviiicip'es that 

 since his reason had made him see were erroneous." 



CH. 



Miching malicho (Vol. iii., p. 3.). — Your cor- 

 res[)ondeiit Ma. Collier is probably not aware 

 that his sug'^estion respecting tlie meaning of 

 Malicho had been anticipated upwards of twenty 

 years since. In the unpretending edition of Shak- 

 speare by another of your corresjiondenis, Mr 

 Singer, printed in 182.5, 1 fuid the ibllowing 

 note : — 



" Miching malicho is lurking mischief, or evil doi.'ig. 

 Ti> mich, for to skulk, to lurk, was an old EiiLclish 

 verb ill common use in Siiaks])eare's time ; and M<i!ichi>, 

 or Md'iech'), misdeed, he has borrowed fron the 

 Spanish. Many stray words of Spanish and Italian 

 were then affectedly use I in common convers ition, as 

 "e have seen French used in more lecent times The 

 Quarto spells the word Mdlicho. Our ancestors were 

 not paiticular in orthography, and often spelt accord- 

 ing to the ear." 



I have since looked at Mr. Collier's note to 

 which he refers, and find that he inteiprets mich- 

 iiig by stealing, which will not suit the content ; 

 and abundant examples may be adduced that to 

 mich was to skulk, to lui-h, as Mr Singkr has very 

 properly explained it. Thus Minslieu : — 



"To MicHK, or secretly hide himself out of the way, 

 as TauA.N'T.s d )e from Schoole, vi. to h.df., to cover." 

 and again — 



" A mlcher, vi. Truant." 



Mr. Collier's ti>xt, too, is not satisfactory, for 

 he has tibandoiieil the old word Malicho, and given 

 Mallecho, which is as far frotn the true iiirin of the 

 Spanish word as the old reading, whicii lie shoultl 

 either liave pre.-ier\'ed or printed A'lal/icchu, as 

 Min.^lieu givi;s it. 



1 am glad to see from your pages l.liat I\Ir. 

 SiNUBU has not entirely abandoned Sliakspearian 



illustrati >n, tor in my difficulties I have rarely 

 consulted his edition in vain ; and, in my humble 

 opinion, it is as yet the most pra(;tically useful 

 and readable edition we have. Fiat Justitia. 



Cor LingucB, ^-c. (Vol. iii., p. 168.). — The lines 

 quoted by J Bs. occur in the jioem "De Palpone et 

 Assentatore," printed in the volume oi Latin Poems, 

 Ciunmonly attributed to Walter Mapes, edited by 

 Mr. T. Wright for the Camden Society, 1841, at 

 p. 112., with a slight variation in expression, as 

 follows : — ♦ 



" Cor lingufE foederat naturae sancfio, 



Tani]nain legitimo quodam connubio ; 



Ergo cum dissonant cor et locutio, 



Sermo concipitur ex adulterio." 

 Tilr. Wrigiit's only source quoted for the ]ioem 

 is MS. Cott(m. Vespas. E. xii. Of its authority he 

 remarks (Prefacte, p. xx.), that the writer's name 

 was certainly ^Valter, but that he appears to have 

 lived at Wimborne, with which place Walter 

 Map is not traced to have had any connexion ; 

 and if Mr. Wright's c<mjecture be correct, that 

 the youiiir king alluded to in it is Henry IH., 

 it must of course have been written some years 

 after Walter Map's death. J. G-. N. 



Under th- Rose ("Vol. i., pp. 214. 458.; Vol. ii., 

 pp. 221. 323.). — Iain surprised that no one has 

 noticed Sir T. Browne's elucidations of this phrase. 

 {Vulg. Err. lib. v. cap. 21. § 7.) Besides the 

 explanation referred to by Arch^eus (Vol. i., 

 p. 214.), he says : 



'• Tne exprejsio.i is commendable, if the rose from any 

 niturall propertie tnay be tlie symb;)le of silence, as 

 Nazieiiiene seems to imply in these translated verses — 

 ' Utque latet Rosa verna suo putamine clausa. 

 Sic OS vincla ferat, validisriue arctetur liabenis, 

 ludicatque suis prolixa siKntia labris.' " 

 He explains " the Gerinane custome, which 

 over the table describeth a rose in the seeling " 

 (Vol. ii , pp 221. 323.), by miking the phrase to 

 i-el'er only to the secrecy to be observed " in so- 

 ciety and eompotation, from the ancient custome 

 in Syinposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of 

 ■ roses abimt their heads." Ache_ 



" Impatient to speak and not see" (Vol. ii., 



[ p. 490.). — There is no doubt of the line iiiter- 



i pretation of your correspondent ; but. it is not 



; illustrated by the Latin. Also, I a|>prelieiid, " in- 



docilis pati" is not put for " in locilis patiendi." 



It is a common use of to — proud to be praised; 



angry to be so ill-treated. 



It illustrates a line in Hotspur, the construction 

 of which Warburton would liave altered: 

 " I then, all smarting, and my wounds being cold, 



Tu he so pestered," &c , i. e. at being. 

 May I mention a change in Troilus and Cressida 

 which I have long entertained, but with doubt : 

 " And with an accent tun'd in self-same key, 

 Retires to chiding fortune." 



