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Title: Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 92, August 2, 1851

A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists,

Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Author: Various

Editor: George Bell

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Vol. IV.—No. 92.

NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION

FOR

LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

VOL. IV.—No. 92.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2. 1851.

Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.

CONTENTS.

NOTES:—

Proverbial Philosophy 81

Paraphrase on the 137th Psalm by Churchill 82

On the Description of the Medicean Venus in Childe Harold 83

Minor Notes:—On the Word raised as used by the Americans—Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume—A Ship's Berth 83

QUERIES:—

John a Kent and John a Cumber, by J. Payne Collier 83

Swearing on the Horns at Highgate 84

Minor Queries:—Proverb of James I.—Mrs. Hutchinson—Early Translation of Amadis de Gaule—Hogarth and Cowper—Latin Translation of Butler's Analogy—Non quid responderent, &c.—The Worm in the Bud of Youth, &c.—Queen Brunéhaut—Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland—Prophecies of Nostradamus—Quaker Expurgated Bible—Salmon Fishery in the Thames—Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan—Siege of Londonderry 85

MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—The Twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles—Exons of the Guard—Curious Monumental Inscription—Meaning of Deal—La Mer des Histoires—The noiseless Foot of Time 87

REPLIES:—

Passage in Virgil, by T. Henry, &c. 88

The Vine of St. Francis 89

Jusjurandum per Canem; Sedem Animæ in Digitis ponunt; Fiat Justitia, ruat Cœlum 90

Hugh Holland and his Works, by Bolton Corney 91

Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest 92

Replies to Minor Queries:—Coke and Cowper—Dunmore Castle—Gooseberry Fool—Dryden and Oldham—Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott—Penn Family—Bummaree—Miss or Mistress—Book Plates 93

MISCELLANEOUS:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 94

Notices to Correspondents 94

Advertisements 94

List of Notes and Queries volumes and pages

Notes.

PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.

The following sententious truths are extracted from Bishop Jewel's grand performance, A Defense of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande, fol. 1571, a work as remarkable for the pomp and charms of its eloquence, as for the profound erudition, and the consummate ability, with which its good doctrine is exhibited and enforced. In common, however, with the other productions of this illustrious champion of the Reformation, it has an additional and most attractive feature; one, indeed, which, less or more, characterises all the literary achievements of the gigantic geniuses of the Elizabethan period, the very dust of whose writings is gold.[1] The Defense abounds with proverbial folk-lore of the rarest sort; and this is so skilfully and appositely introduced, that the subject-matter presents itself to the reader's mind rather as a corollary, naturally deduced from a self-evident proposition—for who would think for a moment of questioning the truth of what has the semblance of a popular adage?[2]—than as a nicely managed argument, which receives no other help from the latter than that of illustration, employed for the simple and single purpose, not of strengthening such argument, but of rendering it comprehensible by the meanest capacities.

[1] Bentley, of Bp. Pearson, in Dissert. on Phalaris.

[2] I have somewhere met with an amusing instance of this. It seems that Dean Swift, with a party of friends, were invited to view the garden of a gentleman, the walls of which were laden with peaches of a most tempting ripeness, but which they were strictly forbidden to touch. This injunction was followed, until Swift ('twas like him) at length put forth his hand and plucked, at the same time observing, with all becoming gravity, "As my deeply venerated grandmother used to say,

'Never fail to pluck a peach,

Whene'er you find one in your reach.'"

'Twas enough. The authority of the adage was sufficient to overrule every other obligation; and the rest of the company, much to the disgust of the master of the garden, immediately proceeded, with infinite gusto, to follow the Dean's example, not for a moment doubting the propriety of the act. The court awards it, and the law doth give it.

With this little bit of criticism, let me take the liberty of recommending to such of your readers, and I trust they are many, who seek for knowledge and wisdom in the richly-stored tomes, especially of the divines, whose appearance imparted a further glory to the days of our good queen Bess, to note down the wise saws and modern instances which lie scattered along their glowing periods, like dew-drops on the flow'ry lawn, for the purpose of transferring them to your very appropriate pages.

The remark of our old lexicographer, Florio[3], that daily both new words are invented, and books still found that make a new supply of old, may, in its latter part, very fitly be applied to our proverbial philosophy; for, great as is the light which has already been thrown upon the subject, it must be admitted that a more systematic examination than they have yet received, of the works of the Elizabethan writers, would elucidate it to an extent that can scarcely be appreciated.

[3] Worlde of Wordes, Ital. and Eng. Pr. 1598.

With these observations I offer you my little string