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Vol. IV. — No. 92.] Saturday, August 2. 1851. 



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CONTENTS.. 



Page 



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83 



83 



- 85 



Notes : — . 



Proverbial Pliilosopliy . - . - - 



Paraplirase on tlie 137th Psalm by Churciiill 



On the Description of the Medicean Venus in Childe 



Harold 



Minor Notes : — -On the Word " raised " as used by the 

 Americans — Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume — 

 A Ship's Berth .,.,.. 



Queries : — 



John a Kent and John a Cumber, by J. Payne Collier - 

 Swearing on the Horns at H'giigate . - - 



Minor Queries : — Proverb of James I Mrs. Hutchinson 



— Early Translation of Amadis de Gaule — Hogarth 

 and Cowper — Latin Translation of Butler's Analogy — 

 " Non quid responderent," &c. — " The Worm m the 

 Bud of Youth." &c. — Queen Brunehaut — Sculptured 

 Stones in the North of Scotland — Prophecies of 

 Nostradamus — . Quaker Expurgated Bible — Salmon 

 Fishery in the Thames — Cromwell Grants of Land in 

 Monaghan — Siege of Londonderry ... 



Minor Queries Answered: — The Twentieth of the 

 Thirty-nine Articles — Exons of the Guard — Curious 

 Monumental Inscription — Meaning of Deal — La Mer 

 des Histoires — " The noiseless Foot of Time " - 87 



Replies : — 



Passage in Virgil, by T. Henry, &c. -, - - 88 



The Vine of St. Francis . - - - - 89 



" Ju^jurandum per Canem ; " " Sedem Animse in Digitis 



ponunt : " " Fiat Justitia, ruat Coelum" - - - 90 



Hugh Holland and his Works, by Bolton Corney - 91 



Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest - - - - 92 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Coke and Cowper — Dun- 

 more Castle — Gooseberry Fool — Dryden and Oldham 



— Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott — I"enn Fa- 

 mily — Bummaree — Miss or Mistress — Book Plates - 93 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 94 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 94 



N.iticea to Correspondents - - - - - 94 



Advcnisementii - - - - - ..94 



PBOVERBIAL PHILOSOPHT. 



The following " sententious truths " are ex- 

 tracted from Bishop Jewel's grand performance, 

 A Defense of the Apologie of the Churche of 

 Evglunde, fol. 1.571, a work as remarkable for 

 " the pomp and charms " of its eloquence, as for 

 the profound erudition, and the consummate 

 ability, with which its "good doctrine" is exhi- 

 bited and enforced. In common, however, with 

 the other productions of this illustrious champion 

 of the Reformation, it has an additional and most 

 attractive feature ; one, indeed, which, less or 

 more, characterises all the literary achievements 



of the gigantic geniuses of the Elizabethan period, 

 the " very dust of whose writings is gold." * The 

 "Defense" abounds with proverbial folk-lore of 

 the rarest sort ; and this is so skilfully and appo- 

 sitely introduced, that the subject-matter presents 

 itself to tlie reader's mind rather as a corollary, 

 naturally deduced from a self-evident proposition 

 — for who would think for a moment of question- 

 ing the truth of what has the semblance of a po- 

 pular adage ? | — than as a nicely managed ar- 

 gument, which receives no other help from the 

 latter than that of illustration, employed for the 

 simple and single purpose, not of strengthening 

 such argument, but of rendering it comprehensible 

 by the " meanest capacities." 



With this little bit of criticism, let me take the 

 liberty of recommending to such of your readers, 

 and 1 trust they are many, who seek for know- 

 ledge and wisdom in the richly-stored tomes, es- 

 pecially of the divines, whose appearance imparted 

 a further glory to the days of our " good queen 

 Bess," to note down ihe " wise saws and modern 

 instances " which lie S(.-attered along their glowing 

 periods, like "dew-drops on the flow'ry lawn," 

 for the purpose of transferring them to your very 

 appropriate pages. 



* Bentley, of Bp. Pearson, in Dissert, on Phalaris. 



f I have somewhere met with an amusing instance 

 of this. It seems that Dean Swift, with a party of 

 friends, were invited to view the garden of a gentleman, 

 the walls of which were laden with peaches of a most 

 tempting ripeness, but which they were strictly for- 

 bidden to touch. Tliis injunction was followed, until 

 Swift ('twas like him) at length put forth his hand 

 and plucked, at the same time ohserving, with all be- 

 coming gravity, " As my deeply venerated grandmother 

 used to say, 



' Never fail to pluck a peach. 

 Whene'er you find one in your reach.'" 



'Twas enougli. The authority of the adage was suffi- 

 cient to overrule every other obligation ; and the rest 

 of the company, much to the disgust of tlie master of 

 the garden, immediately proceeded, with infinite gusto, 

 to follow the Dean's example, not for a moment doubt- 

 ing the propriety of the act. " The court awards it, 

 and the law doth give it." 



You IV.— No. 92, 



