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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. i. MARCH 5, UOA.

several likely parts of the book. Will some reader kindly refer me to the right chapter to find it ? Perhaps Edward FitzGerald is more correct in his reference to the quotation, which runs thus ('Letters of Edward Fitz- Gerald to Fanny Kemble,' 1895 edition, p. 125) :

" You wrote me that Portia was your beau-ideal of Womanhood Query, of Ladyhood. For she had more than 5001. a year, which Becky Sharp thinks enough to be very virtuous on, and had not been tried. Would she have done Jeanie Deans's work ? She might, I believe, but was not tried."

HlPPOCLIDES.

WEBSTER'S 'BASQUE LEGENDS.' Can the names of the Basques who recited the ' Basque Legends' published by Mr. Wentworth Webster be ascertained ] Has the original Basque ever been published, or does it exist in manuscript ? I can find no answer to these questions in Vinson's ' Bibliographic de la Langue Basque.' RALOHC NEDOV.

HAREPATH. About five miles south of Torrington are two hamlets, North and South Harepath, and twelve and a half west of Exeter is another Harepath. Do these denote the former existence of a West Saxon frontier road running through these points ?

E. L. HERAPATH. Bude.

QUOTATIONS. Can any reader kindly tell me where the following quotations are to be found ?

God give us peace ! not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh, and brow with purpose bent Enough if something from our hande have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour. And better death than we from high to low Should dwindle and decline from strong to weak

THOMAS A. CURTIS.

PENN'S 'FRUITS OF SOLITUDE.' In 'Sora c Fruits of Solitude,' by William Penn, with an introduction by Edmund Gosse (1903), p. 162 one reads: "When the poor Indians hea us call any of our Family by the Name o Servants, they cry out, What, call Brethre' bervants! We call our Dogs Servants, bu never Men." What authority was there fo penning these words ?

P. 115. Is not "betrays" a misprint c betray ?

Ibidem Penn wrote, "Excellent Oualitie for Lapland, where, they say, Witches though not many Conjurors, dwell." Wh had said this of Lapland ?

P. 56. "To shoot well Flying is well : bu to chose it, has more of Vanity than Judg ment. What does chose mean here 1 I ha\

ought it in vain in Wright and Murray,

nd in doing so remarked that the word

house or cAowse=deception, fraud, is not


 * corded by the former as used in any

nglish dialect. It is, however, to be found

i some slang dictionaries, and was in use

t Temple Grove School, East Sheen, when

was a boy there in the years 1867-71, under

Ir. Waterfield. EDWARD S. DODGSON.

[Does not Penn mean that it shows vanity to

refer (choose) to shoot at a bird when it is flying

nstead of when it is still ?]

S,

TIDESWELL AND TIDESLOW. (9 th S. xii. 341, 517 ; 10 th S. i. 52, 91.)

WHETHER my view of the prefix in Tides- well be correct or not, it has elicited some aluable remarks on its derivation by PROF. SKEAT, in whose opinion it represents the name of an individual, as shown by its jenitive termination in s. But while I fully acknowledge his great authority, there appears to be something wanting in our present amount of information on the fol- owing points before it can be wholly con- irmed.

Our knowledge of the place-name is con- ined to the entry in the Domesday record, and probably in the Saxon period it would ixhibit as much variation as in the instance of Bakewell. Thirkell low in Mr. Bateman's list apparently registers a family or tribal name, and yet it is not shown in the genitive. Again, none of the Derbyshire names of places ending in -well or in -loiv noted in Domesday Book contains the genitive s among the latter Baslow cannot be cited as an exception, as it is simply a contraction of Basse-lau nevertheless family names are probably contained in some of them. On the other hand, Browns low, regarded by MR. ADDY as an evidence of a personal name, is recorded by Mr. Bateman, in the examina- tion of that tumulus, as Brown low (' Ten Years' Diggings,' 245), and the latter form seems to be corroborated by another example at Hartington. In one case the genitive sign is omitted, in the other it is added. An objection may be made to the latter owing to its recent date: but the principle of the accidental, &c., addition or the elimination of a letter is applicable to all periods. Hence the possibility of Tide- well having been the original designation tide as the genitive of tid, an intermitting spring. It may be observed that A.-S. surnames are usually composed of two syllables. It is singular