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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 97. 



" Quattio Comedie del divino Pictro Aretino. 

 Cioe II Jlarescaleo 6 Pedante. — La Cortigiana. — La 

 Talanta. — Lo Hippocrito. 



" Habeo et leg! : sed nondum compraro potui II 

 Filosofo : quJE tamen ipiius, Coraoedia dicitur etiam 

 exstaie. 



" Memorniitur etiam dux illius Tragoediaj, L'Hor- 

 tensia. — Tiagcedia di Christo. 



" Comedie, Dialoglii capricciosi, Le Lettcre, e 

 Capitoli deir Unico ; Historie del suo tempo. La 

 quinla essenza del suo unico ingegno; e lo speccliio 

 di tutte I'arti Corlegiane. 



" Due Comedie argutissime et facetissime di Mac- 

 cliiavelli Politico : La Mandragola. — La Clitia." 



" II Legcere Nutrisca lo Ingegno." 

 " Suppositi d'Ariosto : Comoediam singularitcr 

 laudate a P. Jovio in Elogiis ; cum Plautinis facile 

 eontendens Invptitionis, atque successus amenitate; si 

 utriusque sjBculi mores non iiiepte comparentur. 

 Syiiciisis £Etatum necessaria, ad Comoediarum, Histori- 

 arum, aliorumque Sciiptorum excellentia in examinan- 

 dam, atqiie JLidicandam solerti censuva." 



" Aiciprologo quasi di tutte le Comedie, il primo 

 dell' Arelino; et il terzo e quarto dello' stesso." 



" Ut Comoedias, sic Tragcedias; qui tres aut quatuor 

 intime novit, novit fere oinncs. Tanti valet liic aureus 

 libellus. J\Ieo tandem judicio, Poetarum sapieiitissi- 

 mus, Euripides: vel ipse Sophocle magis Attice ner- 

 vosus et profundus, ut Seneca Latine." 



" Ecce reliquiae et fragmciita Mcnandii, Epichavrai, 

 Alexidis, reliquiorunique Gra?corum Comicorum. 

 Cum toto Aristophaue. Et fortasse scnties nova 

 veteriljus non esse potiora. Nee usquam prudentiores 

 Gnomas invenies, ue apud Theognidem quidem aut 

 Isocratem. 



" Placent etiam Comoediac quas non sunt Comoedin? ; 

 et Tragoedife qua; non sunt TragoediiE : Ut utriusque 

 generis mult^ egregia; apud Hornerum, et Virgilium 

 in Heroicis; Erontiinim et Polya^num in Stratcgematis ; 

 Stephanum in Apologia Herodotl : Rabelesium in 

 Horoicis Gargantuas: Sidnelum in novissima Arcadia;: 

 Domenichum in Facetiis. Quomodo antiquorum unus 

 Grn;corum dixit; — Delicatissimos esse Pisces qua? non 

 sunt Pisces, et carncs lautissimas qua> non sunt earnes. 

 Daniihi Fabulasnon Fabulas, Apologos non Apologus. 

 Et seiisi optima Apoplitliegmata qua; nun sunt Apopli- 

 tliegmata: Optima Adagia qufe non Adagia. 



" Iniitiliter Tragoedias legit qui ncscit pliilosophicas 

 sententias a Tyrannicis dislinguere. Alia scliolarum 

 doctrina, alia rcgiiorum discipliiia. Pi)litico opus est 

 judicio ad disiinguendum pvudenlissimas sententias a 

 reliquis. Nee semper Tyrannus barbarus; nee semper 

 pueta, aut pliilosophus sajjiens : solertis judiciis fuerit, 

 non quis dicat, sed quia dicatur respicerc, et unuiqje 

 optima seligero." 



" Euripidis Jocasta; apud Gaseoignum summa fere 

 Tragcediarum omnium." 



'• Ut de hac Terentii tralatione seiitirem lionorificen- 

 tius ; fecit Aldus exquisita editio." 



I thouijht these notes wortb transcribing, not 

 only as showing the attention paid by the learned 

 students of this time to tJie drama, as \yell ancient 

 as modern, but more especially for the mention 

 made of the Jocasfa of George Gascoigne, and the 

 Antigone of Sophocles, translated, as he says, by 

 Watson, Bishop of Worcester, and not by Thomas 

 Watson, as Warton supposed. It may be doubted 

 whether tiiis translation was into English; but 

 Harvey seems to imply that it was acted, as well 

 as the Jocasta. Bishop AVatson was celebrated for 

 his dramatic skill, in his Latin tragedy of Absalon, 

 by Roger Ascham, who says, — 



" When M. Watson, in St. John's College at Cam- 

 bridge, wrote liis excellent Tragedie of .^bsalon, 

 M. Cheke, lie, and I, bad many pleasant tatkes to- 

 giiher, in comparing tlie prtceptes of Aristotle raid 

 Horace with the examples of Kuiipides, Sophocles, and 



Seneca M. Watson bad another nianer of care of 



perfection, with a ftare and reverence of tbe judgement 

 of the best learned : who to this day would neuer suffer 

 yet his Absalon to go abroad, and that onelie bicause 

 (in locis paribus) Anapcesiits is Iwise or thrise used in- 

 stead vf Iambus." 



In a volume in the Bodleian Library marked 

 Z. 3., Art. "Selden," is " Tlie Life of Howleglas," 

 printed by Copland : at the bottom of the last 

 page is the following MS. note : 



" This Ilowleglasse, with Scoggin, Skelton, and 

 (L-zario^?) given me at London of JM. Spenser, 

 XX Uecembris, 1578, on condition y' I slioold l;estowe 

 y'^ readinge on them, on or before y' first day of Janu- 

 ary immedi:;tely eusuinge: otherwise to forfeit unto 

 him my Lucian in fower volumes. Whereupon I was 

 y' rather induced to trifle away so many bowers as were 

 idely overpassed in running through y" aforesaid foolish 

 bookes ; wherein methought y* not all lower together 

 seemed comparable for fine and crafty feates with Jon 

 Wilier, whose witty shiftes and practises are reported 

 among Skeltou's Tales." 



Mr. ]\Ialone, from whose memoranda I copy 

 this, says, " I suspect it is Gabriel Harvey's hand- 

 writing." 



I have a copy of the Organon of Aristotle in 

 Greek, which bears marks of Gabriel Harvey's 

 diligent scholarship. It is copiously annotated 

 and analysed by him when a stutient at Cambridge, 

 and he has registered the periods at which he 

 completed the study of each part. 



S. W. Singer. 



Slickleham, Aug. 15. 1851. 



" No finer or pithier Examples than in j* excellent 

 Comedies and Tragedies follouing, full of sweet and 

 wise discourse. A not:ible Dictionario for the 

 Grammer." 



THE ANTIQUITY OF KILTS. 



This has been the subject of many discussions, 

 and has rccenlly found a place in the columns of 

 " Notes and Queries." I do not propose to take 

 any part in the present discussion, but it may be 

 of some service to historical students for me to 



