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Notes : — Page 



Couid Shakespeare have designated Cleopatra " Yond 



ribald-rid Nag of Fgypt?" by S. W. Singer - - 273 



Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, by C. Forbes - - 274 



Minor Notes : — "In the Svveat of thy Bro»' " — .Anec- 

 dote of Old Times — Forpign English — Britannicus 



— Ilnneymoon — Fees at Westminster Abbey — Turn- 

 ing the Tables -...-. 275 



Queries : 



Authors of the RoIIiad — Pursuits of Literature, hy Daw- 

 son Turner _-,_-_ 27G 

 Account of a large .incient Wood-engraving - - 277 

 Minor Queries : — Viaggi di Enrico Wanton — Glouces- 

 ter Alarm — Where is Criston, Co. Somerset? — 

 "There was a Maid of Westmoreland" — Anthony 

 Bridi»es — Bailaam and Josaphat — " Stick at Nothing " - 

 — " Ejusdem Farinae" — Batail — The Knights of Malta 



— General Pardons — " Too wise to err" - - 277 



Replies : — 



Thomas May - - . - - .279 



Duchess of Buckingham . - . - . 280 



S.nn Grail - - - - - . - 281 



The Frozen Horn ..-.-- 282 

 Bab at the Bowster .--.-- 282 

 Oliver Cromwell and his Dealings with the Dsvil - 2S2 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Gig Hiil — Epigram against 

 Burke — Engraved Portrait— Salgado's Slaughter-house 



— Mathew's Mediterranean Passage — Tlie Mitre ;ind 

 the "Cloven Tongues" — Slums — "God's Acre" — 

 Wages in the last Century — Tradesmen's Signs — 

 Standfast's Cordial Comforts. &c. — St. Fancras^ 

 Lini'S on Woman's Will _ Scandal against Queen 

 Eliz.ibeth — Cogseshall Job — Whale caught at Green- 

 wich before the Death of Cromwell — Fronte Capillata, 

 &c. — John Sanderson, or the Cushion-dance- George 

 Steevens and William Stevens — Tradescant — Origin 

 of Harlequins — .'' Predeceased * and " Designed " — 

 *' Quadrijugis invectus eqiiis,"&-c — St. John's Bridge 

 Fair — Anticipations of Modern Ideas by Defoe — Lord 

 Hnwird of Effinghiim — Separation of the Sexes in 

 Church — \'o.\ Populi Vox Dei — Mazer Wood — Tra- 

 ditions from remote Periods through few Hands — 

 Latin Epigram on the Duchess of F.holi — "Harry 

 Parry, when will you marry?" — Visions of Heli — 



" Laus tua non tua Fraus," &c Passage from Cym- 



beline — Engiaved Warming-pans — Symbolism of the 

 Fir-cone — Dr. Robert Thomliiison — Touching for 

 the Evil — Drax Free School, 4c. 



MiscEi.LANi:or.<i : — 



Notes on Biioks. Sales, Catalogues, S.c. - 

 Books .and Odd Volumes wanted 

 Notii:es to Correspondents - - - 



Advertisements - . . . . 



- 283 



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203 

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294 



COULD SHAKSFEARE HAVE DESIGNATED CLEOPATEA 

 " YOND RIBALD-RID NAG OF EGYPT ? " 



To judge of this question ftiirly, it will be ne- 

 cessary to cite tiie p;issap;e in which it occurs, as 

 it stands in the folio, Act III. Sc. 8., somewhat at 

 larjje. 



" Eiio. Nau,!;ht, naught, all naught 1 I can behold no 

 longer : 

 Th' Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral, 

 With all their sixty, fly, and turn the rudder ; 

 To seet, mine eyes are blasted. 



Enter Scar us. 

 Scar. Gods and goddesse.s, all the whole synod of 



them ! 

 Eno. What's the passion ? 

 Scar. The greater cantle of the world is lost 



With very ignorance ; we have kiss'd away 



Kingdoms and provinces. 

 Eiio. How appears the fight ? 

 Scar. On our side like the token'd pestilence, 



Where deatli is sure. Yond ribaudred Nagge of 



Egypt. 



Whom leprosy o'ertake, i' the midst o' the fight 

 When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd. 

 Both as the same, or rather ours the elder. 

 The Breeze upon her, like a cow in June, 

 Hoists sail and flies. 

 Eno. That I beheld : 



Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not 

 Endure a further view. 

 Scar. She once being loof'd, 



The noble ruin of her magick, Antony, 

 Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard. 

 Leaving the fight in height, flies after her; 

 I never saw an action of such shame ; 

 Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before 

 Did violate so itself 

 Eno. Alack, alack !" 



The notes in the variorum edition begin by one 

 from Johnson, in which he says : 



" The word is in the old edition ribaudred, which I 

 do not understaiid, but mention it in hopes that others 

 may raise some happy conjecture." 



Then Steevens, after having told us that a ribald 

 is a lewd fellow, says : 



" Ribaudred, the old reading, is I believe no more 

 than a corruption. Shakspeare, who is not always very 

 nice about his versification, might have written, 



' Yon ribiild-rid nag of Egypt ' — 

 i. e. Yon strumpet, who is common to every wanton 

 fellow." 



Malone approves Steevens's n'Wfc?-nt?, but adds, 



" By ribald. Scams, T think, means the lewd Antony in 

 particular, not every lewd fellow.' 



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