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No 82.] 



Saturday, May 24. 1851. 



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 I Stamped Edition, 4rf. 



CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Note upon a Passnp' in " Measure for Measure " 



Rhvraiiig Latin Version of the Song on Robin Good'- 

 fellow, by S, W. Singer - - - - - 



Folk Lore; — Devonshire Folk Lore: 1. Storms from 

 Conjuring ; 2. The Heatb-hounds ; 3. Cock scares the 

 Fiend ; 4. Cranmere Pool — St. Uiiciimber and the 

 offerinti of Oats — '* Similia similibus curantur" — 

 Cure of large Neck - _ . _ - 



Dibdit^s Library Companion- - - _ . 



Minor Notes : — A Note on Dress — Curious Omen at 

 Mirriage -^Ventriloquist Hoax -,-Barker, the origin^il 

 Panorama Pa ntec ..... 



Queries : — 



Minor Queries : — Vegetable Sympathy — Couct Dress 



— Dieu et mon Droit — Cachecr)pe Hell — The Image 

 of both Churches — D.mble Na es — " If this fail- 

 Flower," &c — Hugh Peacbill — Sir John Mnrsham 



— Legend represeiit.'d in Fretteiiham Church — King 

 of Ni leveh burns himself in. his Palace — Butihers not 

 Jurymen - Hedwiiig's Nest — Raith thrown upoji the 

 Ciitlin — Family of R<nve — Portus Canuni — Anns of 

 Sir John Davies — William Penn — Who were the 

 Writers in tiie Nortli Briton ? - 



Minor QticniEs Answered :—" Many a Word" — 

 Roman Catholic Church— Tick — Hylles' Arithmetic 



Replies : — 



Villenage .-.--.. 

 M^iclean not Junius - . . . . 



Replies to Minor Queries : — The Ten Commandments 



— Mounds, Muiu.s, Moimts — Sin Graal — Epitaph on 

 the Countess of Pembroke - - - . 



MiSCEI.LANtOIl.S ; — 



Notes on Books, &iles, Catalognes, &c. - 



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 Notices to Correspoadents 

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NOTE UPON A PASSAGE IN " MEASURE FOR 

 MEASURE." 



The Third Act of Measure fop Measure opeiis 

 with Isabelhi's visit to her brother (Chmdio) in the 

 •lunnjeon, wheie lie lies under sentence of death. 

 In accordance witli Chuidio's earnest entreaty, she 

 has sued for mercy to Anjrelo, the sanctimonious 

 deputy, and in the course of her allusion to tlie 

 only terms upon which Anjjelo is willing to reni.it 

 the sentence, slie info.ms him that he " must die," 

 and then continues : 



" This outwanl-saiiited dt-ptity, — 

 Whose settled visage and delilKTate word 

 Ni|)s youth i' tlie head, and follies doth eminew, 

 As falcon dotii the fowl, — is yet a devil,; 

 His filth within hein^ cast, he would appear 

 A puud as deep as hull." 



Whereupon (apcoi-ding to the reading of the folio 

 of 1623) Claudio, who is aware of Angelo's reputa- 

 tion for sanctity, exclaims in astonishment: 



" The prenzie Angelo ? " 

 To which Isabella replies (accordmg to the 

 reading of the same edition) : 



" O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, 

 The damned'st body to invest and cover 

 In prenzie guards I Dost thou think, Claudio, 

 If I would yield him my virginity. 

 Thou might'st be freed?" 



Claudio, still ineredidous, rejoins :; 



" O, heavens ! it cannot be."' 



The word prenzie has given rise to much anno- 

 tation, and it seems to be. universally agreed that 

 the word is a misprint. The question is, what 

 was the word actuallv written, or intended, by 

 Shakspeare ? Steevens and Malone suggested 

 " princely ; " Warburton, " priestly ; " and Tieck, 

 " precise." Mv. Kuight adopts "• precise," the 

 reading of Tieck, and thinks "that, having to 

 choose some word which wotild have the double 

 merit of agreeiiig with the sense of the passage and 

 be similar in the number and form of the letters, 

 nothing can be more unfortunate than the correc- 

 tion of " princely ;" JMr. Collier, on the other 

 hand, follows Steevens and Malone, and regds 

 " princely," observing that Tieck's reading ("pre- 

 cise") "sounds ill as regards the metre, the 

 accent falling on the wrong syllable. IMr. Collier's 

 choice is determined by the authority of the second 

 folio, which he considers ought to have consi- 

 derable weight, whilst Mr. Knight regards the 

 authority of that edition as very trifling; and the 

 onlv point of agreement between the two distin- 

 guished recent editors is with respect to VVarbur- 

 ton's word " priestly," which they both seem to 

 think nearly conveys the meaning of the poet. 



I have over and over again considered the several 

 emen<lati()ns whicii have been suggested, and it 

 seems to me that none of them answer all the 

 necessary conditions ; namely, that the word 

 ado|)ted shall be (1.) suitable to the reputed 

 character of Angelo ; Q2.) an apjjropiiate epithet 

 to the word " guards," in the reply of Isabella 

 above quoted ; (3.) of the proper metre in both 



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