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 10 th S. I. JA.V. 2, 1904.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

LONDON, SATUUDAY, JANL'ARY S, 190/,.

CONTENTS.-No. 1.

UOTBS : The Tenth Series Marlowe and Shakespeare. 1 Horn and the ' Incendium Divini Amoris,' 2 French

in Italian Aucung uuuu ou iujui\y WFMUMU isiuw, -1 " Sit loose to " " Yaws "Dr. Bright's Epitaph Horn Dancing Mrs. Corney History "made in Germany," 5 "Coup de Jarnac" Somerset Dialect Tacitus ann the ' Gesta Romanorum ' " Lombard " " Kinging for Gofer " " Magsman "Shakespeare Allusion Railway Relic - Green, 6.

QUERIES : Sadler's Wells Play alluded to by Wordsworth Milestones Fellows of the Clover Leaf ' Astrwa Vic- trix' Speech by Earl of Sussex Mayers' Song, 7 -Right Hon. E. Southwell Francis Hawes : Sir T. Leman "Ample" Quesnel " Virtue of necessity " "Om ga" " Not'all who seem to fail "Council of Constance, 8 Ejected" Priests " Don't shoot" Bagshaw " From whence" "Going the round " Marriage Registers Interment in other People's Graves Bishop John Hall, 9" O come, all ye faithful," 10.

REPLIES : Lord Stafford's French Wife, 10 "Tatar "or "Tarter," 11 'Abbey of Kilkhampton,' 12 "Molubdi- nous slowbelly "Euchre Wykehamical Word " Toys " Island of Providence, 13 Celtic Titles Madame du Deffand's Letters George Eliot and Blank Verse, 14 Practice of Piety 'Jacobin : Jacobite Flaying Alive- Fable as to Child-murder- Queen Elizabeth and New Hall Folk-lore of Childbirth Dr. Pa-kins, 15 ' My Old Oak Table' Dr. Dee's Mirror, lH-Orowns in Church Tower "God's silly vassal " Beadnell, 17 Epigram on Madame de Pompadour Banns of Marriage" Papers"" Boast " Birch-sap Wine, 18.

7JOTES ON BOOKS : Besant's 'London in the Time of the Stuarts ' ' The Blood Royal of Britain ' ' A Patience Pocket- Book.' Notices to Correspondents.

and the Editor, himself a veteran, can point to a bodyguard that has served under most or all of his predecessors. That he can with absolute assurance indicate any signature as appearing in the earliest and in the latest volumes may not be said. There are those, however, whose work is of frequent occur- rence in the First and the Ninth Series, and will, it is to be hoped and expected, be ex- tended to that this week begun. We need only mention LORD ALDEXHAM, MR. EDWARD PEACOCK (under various signatures), and MR. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN as among those who virtually bridge over the period between the inception of ' N. & Q.' and the point it has now reached. So far as those at the helm are aware, the only cause for regret is the difficulty of stretching our pages so as to include all of temporary or permanent value that knocks at the door. Meantime the imitators and descendants of 'N. & Q.' constitute a numerous and stalwart band, and there are few counties or districts the folk-lore or speech of which is not in course of being preserved and calendared.

EDITOR.

THE TENTH SERIES. IN congratulating his readers upon the dawn of another year and the beginning of a fresh Series the Editor takes the oppor- tunity of pointing to the amount of work that has been accomplished during the fifty- tfive years in which ' N. & Q.' has been before the public. It is impossible to calculate how .many busy pencils have been occupied in making the notes which, in obedience to the suggestion of Capt. Cuttle, have been .crystallized in his pages, or how much scholarship has been advantaged by the habit of annotation which ha's been begotten. It is now a commonplace to say that no -serious study can often be conducted with- out the one hundred and odd volumes of tribution. Out of the queries that have ^appeared and been answered books have -been extracted, and there are not wanting works of reference which would never have been attempted had the information pre- served in our pages been inaccessible. That the study of antiquities, like that of the law, is conducive to long life is testified by the -signatures still to be found in our pages,
 * X. fe Q.' being constantly laid under con-

MARLOWE AND SHAKESPEARE. A CAREFUL perusal of the first sestiad of ' Hero and Leander ' reveals numerous turns of expression out of the ordinary, many of which were subsequentl} 7 used by Shake- speare, and by him (usually) but once. I do not own any edition of Marlowe's poem with numbered lines, but the interested reader will, I think, find little difficulty, as I have arranged the extracts consecutively as they occur.

Ifose-cheektd Adonis kept a solemn feast.

' Hero and Leander.' Ro-ie-cheek\l Adoni-y hied him to the chase.

' Venus and Adonis,' 3.

Why art thou not in lore, and loved of all ? Though thou be fair, yet be not thine own thrall..

'H. andL/

How lore makes young men thrall, and old men dote. 'V. and A.,' 873.

And stole away the enchanted ya:?r'-, mind.

'H.andL.' Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind.

' Lov. Uomp.,' 1'2S.

Xor that night-wandering, pale and loaiery >//.

' H. and L.' Nine changes of the watery star.

'Winter's Tale,' 1. ii. 1.

lucens'd with savage heat, gallop amain.

' H. and I,.'

Sick-thoughted Venus makes amai*< unto him.

' V. and A.,' .3.