386 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 107. 



titles of the ninth and tenth precepta, the queen 

 has again written, 



Ex lihris Mari(E 



Scotorum Begins. 



On the next leaf begin the works of Sallust, 

 with the commentaries and other apparatus. The 

 sheets are in eights, so that the book is more pro- 

 perly large 8° than 4", signatures a — s (but s is 

 only a half-sheet). The pref\itory matter (in- 

 cluding the title) is contained on a single sheet, 

 sig. A, of six leaves only. This is expressed by 

 the printer's register at the end — 



" Ilegestum huius operis 



A.a.b.c.d.e.f. g.h.i.k.l.m. n.o.p. q.r.s. 



Oiis sunt quaterniones prefer A q. est ternio . s . vero 



duenno." 



The colophon has not been completely given by 

 C. ; it is as follows : 



" C Crispi Sallustii Catilina (sic) et Jugurthina cum 

 rellquis coUectaiieis ab Ascensio : ut ciimq3 explanatis ; 

 hie suum capit finem. Lugduiii diligenti recognitione 

 Impressus per Antoniu Blachard* anno doraini M. 

 quingetesimo. xxiii. pridie Cak'nd. Sextiles." 



These particulars may enable your readers to 

 identify this edition, which is, I believe, very rare. 



After the colophon are two pages occupied by 

 remarks on Sallust by "Jacobus a cruce Bono- 

 niensis : " leaving the last page in the volume 

 blank, except that in the centre is a woodcut of 

 larger size than that already mentioned, which is 

 on the title-page, but representing the same sub- 

 ject, viz. SS. Peter and Paul hoMiug the sacred 

 handkerchief. 



On the upper right-hand corner of this last page 

 are the verses quoted by C, and correctly quoted, 

 except that mew and puella; in the first line are 

 mee and piielle in the original. 



There is not the smallest shadow of probability 

 for supposing these vei'ses, or any of the other 

 MS. annotations which occur in the volume, to be 

 in the handwriting of Mary Queen of Scots. She 

 wrote a large and not by any means a scholarlike 

 hand, which is very well known ; whereas these 

 verses and the other annotations, are in a small 

 and crampt sc.holarlike hand of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, as unlike the handwriting of !Mary as any 

 that can be imagined. In fi\ct I was not aware, 

 imtil I read C.'s letter in " Xotes and Queries," 

 that anybody had ever supposed it to be hers. 



The note recording the donation of this book by 

 James I. to Bishop Hall, occurs fol. xc. It is in 

 a large schoolboylike hand, and is correctly quoted 

 by C. 



The book contains numerous woodcuts, which 

 have no discoverable relation to the text, and are 

 inserted merely to mark the commencement of 



* Not Blanchard, as C. has printed the name. 



the books, or diiferent pieces of which the volume 

 consists. Many of these are repeated several 

 times. 



The ornamental letter to which C. refers is the 

 letter O, the first in the book. The grotesque 

 character of it noticed by C. would not be easily 

 observed except it were specially pointed out. 

 C. may be assured that it was not particularly 

 pointed out to Her Majesty when she did us the 

 honour of inspecting this and some other literary 

 treasures of our library in 1849. 



James H. Todd. 



Trinity Coll. Dublin. 



STANZAS IN CHILDE HAROLD, 



(Vol. iv., pp. 223, 285. .32.3.) 



I trust that a few words more will not be deemed 

 overmuch in pointing out what I think will be 

 found to be the source of T. W.'s difficidty. We 

 need not go to French or German translators, be- 

 cause it is reasonable to suppose that where any 

 sense can be made out of the text as it stands, the 

 last thing a foreigner would do would be to com- 

 plete an elliptical expression, I agree with Mr. 

 Collins, who says the expression " is very good 

 sense;" and from his adding "much more By- 

 ronie," I expect he will agree witli me in addins 

 also, " but very bad taste." T. 'W. seems to have 

 felt this ; and nothing can be more conclusive than 

 his criticism upon this point. I trust that there 

 are few men of taste who have not as utter an ab- 

 horrence of tyranny as Lord Byron ; but I think 

 that, strongly as men of genius may be supposed to 

 feci, ksv would have lugged in the tyrants on such 

 an occasion ; as it seems to me it was just in the 

 nature of the noble poet, with or without cause, to 



j do. What Byron says is perfectly true; it is simply 



I out of place: nevertheless, as the text stands, it is 

 said with force. But adopt T. W.'s variation, and 



[ can aflattei- truism be conceived ? And, after all, 

 the objection not removed ; for the allusion 

 would be equally out of place : unless, indeed, 



] your correspondent could make out of the text 

 that 

 ' Thy waters wasted them while they were free," 

 And wasted them, afterwards, during their slavery. 

 Or, has continued to waste them since. 



Samuel Hickson. 



I will not dwell on T. W.'s last remarks about 



Byron's " Address to the Ocean," farther than to 



observe, that it is difficult to conceive how he can 



I understand the French translation which he quotes, 



' in such a way that it shall tally with the view 



I which he has put forward. The translation says, 



" the waves wasted their shores in the days of 



liberty, as they have done since under many a 



tyrant." This is very different from making the 



line mean either " the waves wasted the tyrants," 



