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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 109. 



Cephas's version should be preferred. But when 

 we find afterwards the words koX y Kolrri afilavros, 

 it is impossible to deny this hortatory force to the 

 sentence ; for those words cannot mean " the un- 

 defiled bed : " and to transLite them " the (or 

 their) bed is undefiled " — which is the only version 

 which they will here bear, but one — would give but 

 a feeble sense. That sole remaining sense is, " the 

 bed (let it) be undefiled;" subaudite foro) in the 

 verse is, '' Let marriage be honourable in all " 

 (men or things), " and the bed be undefiled ; but 

 (or for) whoremongers and adulterers God will 

 judge." Had our translators known that tj koItt] 

 djxiavTos could not mean " the bed undefiled," they 

 would at once have been driven to see that the 

 verse is a commandment : and the commandment 

 that marriage should be held honourable in all 

 men (or in all respects), would have served the 

 purpose of their doctrines quite as well as the 

 affirmative form which they have given to their 

 present version. I say, it would have served their 

 purpose ; but I say more : they heeded not what 

 did or would serve their purpose. They looked 

 only for the truth, and disregarded all else in their 

 pursuit of it. With regard to the controversy 

 about eV -TrScri, it is immaterial which version be 

 adopted. Mr. Walter is right in the rule which 

 he enunciates, if he means that in those cases of 

 adjectives in which the masculine and neuter forms 

 are the same, "man" or "men," not "thing" or 

 things," must be understood : but it is not always 

 observed, even in classical writers, either in Latin 

 or in Greek. There is no reason why it should be 

 broken here; and I do not believe it is broken. 

 It must have been only by a slip of Cephas's pen 

 that he called Trao-i a feminine adjective. It un- 

 doubtedly refers to both sexes. I wish E. A. D. 

 had given the Greek of the passages from Chrysos- 

 tom and Ausfustine, of which he has communicated 

 the Oxford translation, which is as likely to err, 

 perhaps, as any other. Jerome's Latin, like the 

 Vulgate, though the words are not precisely the 

 same, gives a literal version of the Greek, without 

 supplying any verb at all, either eat or sit, and, 

 since the Latin has not that expressive power in 

 cases like this which the article gives to the Greek, 

 leaves the passage obscure and undecided. 



TuEOPHYLACT. 



ilcpltc^ to IHtiior (Queries. 



" Crowns have their Compass" S/'c. (Vol. iv., 

 p. 294.). — The lines alluded to by your correspon- 

 dent Mr. Absalon form an inscription on a por- 

 trait of King James [. in the Cracherode Collec- 

 tion. (Vide Beloe's Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 210.) 

 " Crownes have their compasse, length of dayes their 

 date, 



Tiiumphcs tfieir tombes, felicitie her fate; 



Of more than earth can earth make none partaker, 



But knowledge makes the king most like his Maker." 



I am aware that this reference does not go to 

 the " root of the matter," if Mr. Absalon wishes 

 to ascertain the author's name ; but it may serve 

 as a clue to further discovery. 



Margaret Gatty. 



Ecclesfield. 



It is quite obvious what lines your correspon- 

 dent alludes to, though the above quotation which 

 he gives as the commencement of them is not 

 quite correct, nor were they written with the 

 object he supposes. 



I send a correct copy of them below, taken from 

 Mr. Payne Collier's very interesting Life of Shah- 

 speare, to whom they have always been attributed ; 

 and, it is said, with every show of reason. It is 

 supposed they were written by him in the shape 

 of a complimentary allusion to King James I., in 

 grateful acknowledgment of the patronage be- 

 stowed by that monarch upon the stage. The 

 subject is fully discussed at pp. 202, 203. of Mr. 

 Knight's volume, whence, indeed, the above infor- 

 mation is derived ; and he publishes the liues, as 

 follows, stating them to be copied from a coeval 

 manuscript in his possession : — 



" SHAKSrEARE ON THE KING. 



"Crowns have their compass — length of days their 

 date — 

 Triumphs their tomb — felicity, her fate — 

 Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, 

 But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker." 

 Some one, to make the allusion more complete, 

 that is, to over-do it, changed " a king" into " the 

 king" in a subsequent publication of the lines. 

 But this, as IMr. Payne Collier very justly feels, 

 completely spoils the whole complexion of the 

 epigram, and perverts a fine allusion into a raw 

 personality. J. J. A. 



The Rev. Richard Farmer (Vol. iv., pp. 379.* 

 407.). — The observations of Bolton Cornet upon 

 my incidental mention of Dr. Farmer, are, I think, 

 wholly unwarranted, both in substance and man- 

 ner, especially as he himself furnishes ample con- 

 firmation of its truth. 



Taking his quotations in due of der — 



1. The certificate of Dr. Farmer's character for 

 learning and ability is unnecessar)-, because neither 

 was impugned ; nor does an allegation of atrocity 

 in taste ami judgment necessarily imply deficiency 

 in mere book-learning. 



2. As for Isaac Keed's opinion in favour of 

 Farmer's Essay, it might be met by many of 

 directly opposite tendency, and of at least equal 

 weight. 



3. In the only point really in question, Bolton 

 CoRNBY "cannot deny that Farmer related the 

 anecdote of the wool-man'' (that being the re- 



* At page 379., second column,, fifth line from 

 bottom, for '-thrice" read "twice." 



