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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«i 8. IX. Fkb. 25. '60. 



" I hope (adds Marchmont Needham) no Body can be 

 angry, that I fling away a trifling Line (or two) to wel- 

 come home this victorious Lady : She that hath endured 

 more Sieges in her dayes than the Towne of Dunkirk : 

 She that followed the Camp, and march't along in the 

 holy war (as Queen Elinor did of old) to save her little 

 Conqueror the charge of a Laundresse and a Surgeon : 

 She that leads victory in a string as well as Sir William, 

 and never shrink't yet to see him charge home in the 

 main battalia. Indeed she is a powerfull Prayer- woman ; 

 it's thought she gave the gift to Sir Arthur Hesilrige, 

 and first kindled that Coale of Zeal in him, which now is 

 like to consume all the Colliers of New castle." 



Lady Ann is also probably alluded to in the following 

 stanza from The New Litany, a broadside published in 

 the j'ear 1646 : — 



"From mouldy bread and musty beer, 

 From a holiday's fast and a Friday's cheer, 

 From a brotherhood and a she-cavalier, 



Libera nos Domine."] 



Jacob Du Rondel. — In the Additional MSS., 

 Brit. Mus., No. 1397., art. 1., is a drama — "La 

 Justification deSusanne" — by Du Rondel. Can 

 you give me any account of the author, or the 

 date of the piece ? Z. 



[It is entitled, " La Justification de Susanne, Tragi- 

 comedie Francoise et Latine, par Jacques Du Rondel, 

 Professeur en eloquence, Represente'e au College de Sedan, 

 par les escoliers de l'autheur. A Sedan, 1668." Jacob 

 du Rondel was professor of Rhetoric at Sedan ; but when 

 this university was broken up in 1681, he went to Hol- 

 land, became Professor of Belles Lettres at Maestricht, and 

 presented to the Museum, in Greek and Latin, with notes, 

 Dissert, de Gloria ; Reflexions sur un Chapitre de Theo- 

 phrasti de la Superstition ; Histoire du fcelus humain ; 

 Diss, sur le Chenix de Pythagore ; Tract, de Vita et Mori- 

 bus Epicuri, which he first published 1679, then 1686 in 

 French, and afterwards 1693, enlarged, in Latin; endea- 

 vouring therein to show that he [Epicurus] does not 

 deny Divine Providence. He left also much that has not 

 yet been printed, and died very old at Maestricht, 1715. 

 Histoire Critique de la Rcpublique des Lettres, quoted by 

 Jocher.] 



"Don Qcixote" in Spanish. — Are there any 

 very early editions of Don Quixote, in Spanish, in 

 the British Museum ? I wish to obtain the dates 

 of any editions issued before 1700. I have the 

 " Primera Parte," printed at Madrid, " En la Im- 

 prenta Real, Ano de 1668." Also the "Parte 

 Segunda," printed at Madrid, "por Mateo Fer- 

 nandez, Impressor del Rey," &c. : "Aiio. 1662." 

 The first Part : " A costa (Lat. ' sumptibus ') de 

 Mateo de la Bastida, Mercader de Libros." The 

 second Part : " A costa de Gabriel de Leon, Mer- 

 cader," &c. They are both quartos. I have, also 

 the Novelas Exemplares of Don Maria de Zayas, 

 apparently printed from the same types as ;he 

 others. What are the dates of early editions of 

 this last work ? C. le Poer Kennedy. 



St. Albans. 



[The British Museum contains the following early 

 Spanish editions of Don Quixote : Part I. Lisbon, 1605, 

 Svo. ; Madrid, 1608, 4to. ; Brucelas, 1611, 8vo. Part II. 

 Tarragona, 1614, 8vo. [spurious?]; Madrid, 1615, 4to. 

 Both Parts, Bruselas, 1662, 8vo. ; Amberes, 1672-3, 



8vo. ; Madrid, 1674, 4to. ; Amberes, 1697, 8vo. Ebert 

 notices the following editions of Novelas Exemplares : 

 Zaragoza, 1637, 4to. ; Madrid, 1659, or 1748, or 1795, 

 4to. ; Barcelona, 1705 or 1764, 4to.] 



" He who runs may read." — In the singularly 

 clear and able speech of the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, in introducing his Budget on Friday 

 last, occurs the oft-quoted saying, that " he who 

 runs may read." I suppose the quotation came 

 originally from the Old Testament. But if so, I 

 am inclined to think that the sense of the passage 

 differs from that in which it is generally quoted, 

 and in which Mr. Gladstone, for example, has 

 used it. At any rate, I shall be glad to have the 

 opinion of " N. & Q." on the subject. In Habak- 

 kuk, ii. 2., the passage occurs : — 



" Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that 

 he may run that readeth it." 



Not " he who runs may read," but " he may run 

 who reads." 



And in the Septuagint it is otras SicSkj; 6 avayt- 

 vwaKwv avra. 



The sense, therefore, I take to be — but I speak 

 without any means of consulting commentators — 

 " That he who sees the Divine message may per- 

 ceive that there is no time to be lost in flying 

 from the impending judgment," instead of the 

 ordinary acceptation, " that even a man running 

 past may be able to read it." 



It is possible Mr. Gladstone and others may be 

 quoting from a different original. I shall be glad 

 if my Query tends to discover what that is ; and 

 I shall be also, curious to see whether my criticism 

 is supported by the learned among your many 

 contributors. John G. Talbot. 



[The passage is a quotation from Cowper's Tirocinium, 

 ver. 80. :— 



" But truths, on which depend our main concern, 

 That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, 

 Shine by the side of every path we tread 

 With such a lustre, he that runs may read." 

 Vide " N. & Q." 1st S. ii. 374. 439. 497. ; v. 260. 306.] 



" The Christmas Ordinary." — There is a MS. 

 play in the British Museum (Addit. MS., 1458), 

 entitled " The Christmas Ordinary, a private 

 Shew, wherein is represented the Jovial Freedom 

 of this Feast at Trinity College in Oxon, by H. 

 B." Was the play performed at Trinity College, 

 and if so, at what time ? Are the names of the 

 performers given ? Is anything known of the 

 author ? Is this a different play from one pub- 

 lished in 1682, with a similar title, by W.R., M.A. 

 See Biog. Dram. Z. 



[The MS. play by H. B. is only a fragment (about 

 one-fifth) of " The Christmas Ordinary, a Private Show, 

 wherein is expressed the Jovial Freedom of that Festival, 

 as it was acted at a Gentleman's House among other 

 Revels. By W. R., Master of Arts. 8vo. 1682." In 

 the Preface, signed W. R., Helmdon, he speaks of the 

 play as " the first-born of a young academick head, which 

 since has been delivered of most excellent productions. 



