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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Richard Rolle of Hampote - ' - 



Notes and Queries MSS. - _ - - - 



MS. Fragments of Old Poetry - - - ,- 



Folk Lore:— Medical Use of Mice— Legend of Ilaydon s 



Giillv— The Crow Charm and the Lady-bnd Charm— 



School Superstitions — The Niglitniare— East Norfolk 



Folk Lore: 1. Cure for Fits ; 2. Cure for Ague — Lx- 



treme Ignorance and Superstition - " " °^ 



Minor Notes : — The Word ■' Kepndiate" — The First 



Panorama — Chaucer and Gray — Burns and Proper 



tius — Sliakspeare in Sweden - . - 



QCBBIES : — 



On the Elision of the Letter " !i" - - - - 



Anthonv MunHy, by Sir F. Madden 



Minor Queries : — Margaret Maultasch — Arms ot Halle 

 — Test of Strength of a Bow — Vox Populi — Meanuig 

 of Whig and Tory — " Fortune, Infortune, Fort une " 

 _Unde derivatur Stonelienge— Marriaue of Bisliojis — 

 The Si^n «■— Early German Virgil— Fairlight Church 

 —The Leman Baronetcy— Armorial Bearings— History 

 of Magnetical Discovery- George Chalmers— Ml^.take 

 as to an Eclipse — Statue of Mrs. .Torclan — " A Posie 

 of otl>er Men's Flowers " — Sir Edmund Ployden or 

 Piowden— Pone's Translations or Imitations of Horace 

 —John Bodley— Dr. Thomas Johnson — " You Friend 

 drink to me Friend"— The Latin Termination "aster" 

 _ Portrait of Dryden — Iiisciiption on a Claymore out 

 tn 1745 - - 



Replies : — 



De Rebus Septentrion.alibus, by W. E. C. Nourse - 



Hugh Holland and his Works, by Or. E. F. Rimbault - 



" Prenjie " in " Measure for Measure " - 



The Ten Commandments - - - - - 



The Republic of San Marino, by Walter Montagu 



Shakspeare's Use of " Eisell" - . - - 



R'ual Library - - ' - , T 



The Caxton Memorial, bv Beriah BotHeld 



Meaning of " Nervous, " by W. E. C. Nourse and 



E. J. Jon?5 - - ■,,"„„■ 



The Duke of Monmouth's Pocket-books, by C. Ross 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — Pone's "honest Factor " — 

 Banks Family— Dies Irse, Dies Ilia — Equestrian 

 Sta'ues— Monumental Symbolism-OrgansinChurches 

 _ Tennyson : " The Princess " — " Perhaps it was 

 right to' dissemble your love " — Sardonic Smiles — 

 Epitaph on Voltaire — Voltaire, where situated — 

 Children at a Birth — Milkmaids — "; Heu quanto 

 minus," &c. — The " Passellew " Family — Lady 

 Pctre's Monument — Spenser's Age at his Death — 

 Blessing by the Hand— Handel's Occasional Oiatorio 



— Moore's Almanack — Kiss the Hare's Foot — Deri- 

 vation of the Word " Bummaice " or "Bumarce" — 

 Sheri.lan and Vanbrugh — " Felix quern faciunt alieiia 

 pericula cautum"— " Alterius Orbis Papa"— Umbn-lla 



— To learn by Heart — " Suiim cuique tribuere " — 

 Frogs in Ireland — Round Towers — Lines on the 

 Temple — Killigrew Arms— Meaning of llernsh aw — 

 Tlieory of the Karth's Form — Coke and Coivper, how 

 pronounced — Registry of British Subjects Abroad, &c. 



MlSCELLANliOim : — 



Notes on Books, S:ile8, Cat:dngues, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 



Noliien to Correspondents . - - ■ 



Advertisements . - - - . 



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RICHARD EOLLE OF HAMPOI.E. 



If the following "Notes" do not demand too 

 much of your valuable space, they may possibly 

 interest the philological reader, and elicit a num- 

 ber of learned illustrations. They are drawn from 

 a MS. belonging to this University (Dd. I. 1.), of 

 which the main part is a course of metrical sermons 

 upon the Gospels throughout the year. The au- 

 thor of most, if not all, of the pieces, was the fa- 

 mous solitary, Richard Rolle, of Ilainpole, near 

 Doncaster, who died in 1348. 



1. The first sample I shall give is a curious il- 

 lustration of the way in which the preachers of 

 that age were wont to represent the harskness of 

 the great in their dealings with the poor : 



" For wil' ensample may we st>, 

 ))' al I'is world is but as )/• se 

 }'t bremli bari^ on banke wi)> bale, 

 And grete fischis etin l^erin j^^ smale. 

 For riche men of bis world ete 

 Jjt pore men \\W traueyle gete : 

 For wij' pore men farib )'" king 

 Riht as )'" wlial wi)' )'•' hering, 

 Riht as V^ sturgeoun etll' merling 

 And lobkeliiig etil' spirling. 

 So stroyen more men 1-° lesse 

 Wif> worldis wo and wrongwisnesse, 

 All )'" ska)'" )'' lesse suff'erin of more 

 Smyti)' as storm of i^' se ful sore." 



Pp. 115,. 116. 



2. The word kelmg (cod-fish) occurs again in 

 the following passage, where the subject of the 

 preacher is the Incarnation of our Lord ; 



" For right as bayt !•* hok hclij' 

 And so !>• gredi keling teli 1', 

 So telid I bus wil' flesch 8c blode 

 Gormniid !><' yreili on !'• rode : 

 Gormond l" gredi I him calle 

 Jj' swelewif' synful soulis ade, 

 J)' neuer is ful but euer redi 

 To liause hem as Gnwen (/red!. 

 Ms Gaweyn was hiicliid on a boke 

 i'at Hesch & blod on Marie toke 

 For birching ]'" bodi slas 

 And so slow llie Salhanas." — P. 193. 



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