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 io* s. i. MAY -21, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Thou knowest no more of a woman's heart than doth a Norfolk gosling. xxi.

We shall put you in the way to walk with your beaver cocked in the presence, as an [i.e. if] ye were Earl of Kildare. xxiii. (Qy. Is this a proverbial saying ?)

I come as Harry Wynd fought, utterly for my own hand, and on no man's errand. xxxi. (See ' Rob Roy,' xx vi.)

Todlowrie, come out o' your den. xxxi. (Is this a proverbial saying?)

I ken nae Court in Christendom where knaves are not to be found ; and if men are to break the peace under pretence of beating them, why, it will rain Jeddart staves in our very antechamber. xxxiii. (See 4 The Abbot,' iv.)

Though they threatened to make me hug the Duke of Exeter's daughter [i.e. the rack]. xxxv. Peceril of the Peal:.

Until " Take him, Tppham," became a proverb, and a formidable one, in the mouth of the public. Chap. xx.

To forget the Manx custom of bolting the boiled meat before the broth, as if Cutlar Mac Culloch and all his whingers were at the door. xxii.

What, Master Peveril, is this your foreign breeding? or have you learned in France to take French leave of your friends? xxiii. (See 'Red- gauntlet,' xiv.)

One may see with half an eye, for all your laced doublet, that you have been of the family of Furnival's before your brother's death sent you to Court. xxvii. (Qy. meaning?)

Quentin Dunvard.

I am of the Douglases' mind, who always kept the fields, because they loved better to hear the lark sing than the mouse squeak. Chap. iv. (Also in 'The Fair Maid of Perth,' xxx.) St. Sonan's Well.

So far as society was concerned, on the road towards the ancient city of Coventry. Chap. xii. (See 'Guy Mannering/ xxxii.)

But, Captain MacTurk, since sae it be that ye are a captain, ye may e'en face about and march your ways hanie again to the tune of Dumbarton drums. xii. (See ' Waverley,' xxxiv.)

Your memory must have been like Pat Murtough's greyhound, that let the hare go before he caught it. xxx.

As for first cousins wheugh ! that 's all fair fire away, Flanigan '.xxxi. (Capt. MacTurk stating his views on " prohibited degrees" in duelling.)

My eye, and Betty Martin. xxxi. Redgauntlet.

The Aberdeen-man's privilege of "taking his word again," or what the wise call second thoughts. Letter vii.

And then bob it [.dance] away, like Madge of Middlebie. Letter xii.

" I was just coming to it." " As Tweed comes to Melrose, 1 think," said the litigant. Letter xiii.

He's dead foundered, man, as cripple as Eckie's mear [mare]. Chap. v.

"Just Fifish," replied Peter ; " wowf a wee bit by the East Nook or sae " [crazy]. vii. (See ' The Pirate,' ix.)

Geneva text. xiii. (See 'Old Mortality,' xi.)

As drunk as David's sow. xiv. (See ' The Pirate,' xxxiv.)

French leave. xiv. (See ' Peveril of the Peak,' xxiii.)

No Dutch courage for me. xv. (See ' The Hearb of Mid-Lothian,' xxx., and ' Woodstock,' xii.)

Cave ne ^literas Bellerophontis adferres. xvi, (See the or^fiara \vypa of King Proitos, ' Iliad,' vi. 168.)

Downright Dunstable. xvii. (See also ' Guy Mannering,' xvi.)

Giving Scarborough warning, first knock you down, then bid you stand. xix. Woodstock.

A ragged Robin. Chap. ii. (Note. The keeper's followers in the New Forest are called in popular language Ragged Robins.)

Trip like the noodles of Hogs-Norton when the pigs play on the organ. iii. (See ' Kenilwprth,' ix.)

He concluded that they had been fortifying them- selves against the horrors of the haunted mansion by laying in a store of what is called Dutch courage, xii. (See ' The Heart of Mid-Lothian,' xxx., and ' Redgauntlet,' xv.)

You taught him to know the Duke of Norfolk from Saunders Gardner [alluding to fencing]. xviii. (Qy. Who is Saunders Gardner?)

Quoit him down stairs instantly, Joceline. Know we not Galloway nags ? xix. (See ' 2 Henry IV.,' II. iv.)

I think he could eat a horse, as the Yorkshireman says, behind the saddle. xx.

So, sir, I'm making up for lost time, as the piper of Sligo said when he ate a haill sideo' mutton. xx. Again in Sam Weller's way. (See 'Kenilworth, iv.)

Chronicles of the Canongate.

Keeping a Highlandman's promise. Chap. vii. The Fair Maid of Perth.

Thou thought'st thpu hadst Jamie Keddie's ring, and couldst walk invisible? Chaps, v. and xxii.

" St. Johnston's hunt is up ! " This cry, the well- known rallying-word amongst the inhabitants of Perth, and seldom heard but on occasions of general uproar. xviii.

You know the proverb A Perth arrow hath a perfect flight. xxiv.

As for the ten miles, they are but a Highland leap when one bears a message between his -friend and his chief. xxvii.

I will act by the Douglas's own saying, "It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse squeak." xxx. (See ' Quentin Durward,' iv.)

We will have Jed wood justice hang in haste, and try at leisure. xxxii. (See ' Rob Roy,' xxxvi. "a Jeddart cast.")

JONATHAN BOTTCHIER.

Ropley, Alresford, Hants.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH : A SUBSTITUTED POR- TRAIT. The April number of the Pall Mall Magazine contains an article on ' Sherborne Castle,' by the Rev. A. H. Malan. It is illus- trated with a number of beautiful wood- engravings, to one of which I wish to draw attention, viz., to that of a portrait stated to- be copied from " a small oak panel of Sir Walter (Zucchero), the only likeness of ' the Builder ' in the house." It is a half-length, and has been taken apparently from a photo- graph. The figure is habited in plate armour;, head to the left, and on it a soft cap with