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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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taken for the abbreviation of and; and “ now” 
was misread, new. ‘That Mr. Utterson himself 
took particular pains with this little work is clear, 
because, in my copy, he has introduced more 
than one MS. emendation, to remedy the inaceu- | 
racy of his printer. 
markable error, within two leaves of the end ; 
and I notice it the more willingly, because it is in 
a direct, but unavowed plagiarism from Shak- 
speare ; which, although the book was in Malone’s 
hands, seems to have escaped observation. The 
grammatical peculiarity of the following couplet 
from Shakspeare’s Luerece, 1594, has been re- 
marked upon : : 
* And every one to rest himself betakes, 
Save thieves and ¢ares, and troubled minds that wakes.” 
Barnefield, in the next year, has it thus, avoid- 
ing apparent tautology : 
“ Now silent night drew on, when all things sleepe, 
Save thieves and cares.” 
Mr. Utterson’s compositor misprinted “ cares,” 
eares, materially perverting the passage; and in 
the first stanza of the same page, he put “ cups” 
for corps: 
« And Agamemnon’s cups her meate must be.” 
I never saw Malone’s copy of Cynthia, and my 
corrections are from my own transcript of Mr. 
Heber’s exemplar. 
Edward Guilpin’s Skialetheia, or the Shadowe of 
Truth, published in 1598, is another of the reprints 
from the Beldornie press. If I am not mistaken, 
it was nearly the last work issued, before the 
death of the amiable and accomplished proprietor. 
He received the transcript from Oxford, and un- 
fortunately had it put in type before he had any 
opportunity of collating it with the original; 
which we know to be by Guilpin only by quo- 
tations from it, with his name, in England's Par- 
nassus, 1600. It consists of epigrams and satires. 
In Epig. xv., we have “case” for sort, in the 7th 
line; and the next piece of the same kind is twice 
addressed to “Rimes” instead of Rivus. In 
Epig. xxxvut., this line is met with : 
“ Who piertly iests, can caper, daunce, and sing ;” 
which ought to be — 
“ Who piertly jets, can caper, daunce, and sing.” 
Supposing that, by some chance, we had no 
original to refer to, we’ might never have known 
what the author really wrote; and might have 
considered a proposition to substitute jets (%. e. 
struts) for “jests,” as purely impertinent and 
needless. We could not, however, but have treated 
what follows, in the first satire, as a corruption : 
“ Would sauce the idiome of the English tongue, 
Give it a new touch, bucher dialect.” 
What could we have made out of “ bucher” but 
butcher ? And yet that word would not at all 
There is a small, but re- | 
answer the purpose. What, then, says the copy 
of 1598 ? 
“ Give it a new touch, Jivelier dialect.” 
It is not difficult to see how a person, tran- 
scribing carelessly, might make livelier look like 
“bucher.” Again, in Satire 2., we meet with 
this passage as reprinted? 
oe 3 6 What fooles are we, 
So closely to commit Idolatry! 
What, are we Ethnicks that doe honour beasts?” 
Instead of which, Guilpin wrote and printed: 
Ue é 3 What fooles are we, 
So grossly to commit Idolatry! 
What, are we Ethnicks, that we honour beasts?” 
We will take another instance from Satire <., 
where these lines occur : 
« And dogged humor dog-dayes-like dothe prove, 
Teaching loves glorious world with glowing tong.” 
For “teaching,” of the reprint, the old copy 
has Scorching : love’s glorious world was scorched 
with glowing tongue. See, in the next place, 
how the mistake of a single letter directly con- 
tradicts what the poet intended: 
“ Millions of reasons will extenuate 
His fore-ceited malice.” — Sat. 6. 
Now, whatever Guilpin meant by “ fore-ceited 
malice,” it is very evident that he meant that mil- 
lions of reasons will not extenuate it. His words, 
truly given, are, 
« Millions of reasons nill extenuate.” 
“Nill” is the old abbreviation of ne will, or 
will not; and the printing of “ will,” instead of 
nill, makes the author say exactly the contrary of 
what he really did say. One more proof shall 
suffice for Shialetheia: it is taken from the last 
Satire, and close to the end of it. The line, as 
reprinted, is this : 
« Tf that some weevil, mouth-worme, barley-cap.” 
As originally printed in 1598, it is this: 
« Tf that some weevil, mault-worme, barly-cap.” 
Every body knows what a malt-worm is, espe- 
cially in connexion with “ barley-cap;” but Mr. 
Utterson’s edition misrepresents the text. 
Hoping that I shall not be deemed ungrateful 
to a real and great benefactor of letters, in point- 
ing out these blemishes, I shall hereafter en- 
deavour to continue the subject. I shall probably 
have occasion to speak of some of my own delin- 
quencies of a similar description. 
J. Payne Corrier. 
Maidenhead. 
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH. 
I have been greatly pleased with the informa- 
tion to be found from time to time in “N.& Q.” 
respecting Sir John Vanbrugh, of whom T have 
