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 10 s. x. NOV. 14, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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sense cannot die with him, but remains the exemplar and the grand property of the ages. What Shakespeare wrote repre- sents the dominating attitude and the supreme hand of the master, in relation to which " living art " occupies but the sub- ordinate position of a page.

There is a certain kinship with this in the thought of Ben Jonson's line,

Thou art a monument without a tomb. The context shows that the eulogist sharply distinguishes Shakespeare from the other mighty dead with whom alone it is possible to bring him into comparison. While they have passed away, leaving only a partial impression, he is altogether immortal, and it is impossible to conceive of him as in any sense within the tomb. He stands forth distinct, independent, complete in every part, nothing in him old or decayed, and endued for ever with radiant freshness for all men to see and admire. Mortality besets the others, and it is befitting that they should be within the ordinary confines ; immor- tality is his high prerogative, and he remains for the world an inevitable presence of monumental endurance and impressiveness. THOMAS BAYNE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 348). MB. RICHARD WELFORD will find his quotation in Shakespeare's ' Pericles,' Act I. sc. ii. 1. 79 :

'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. R. A. POTTS.

Surely the couplet which MR. D. BAYNE quotes is an exercise in alliteration, and should run

Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred, How high his Highness holds his haughty head !

G. W. E. R.

The following variant of the lines on Cardinal Wolsey may be found in ' Antho- logia Oxoniensis,' p. 87 (1846) : 'On Cardinal Wolsey.'

How high his Honour holds his haughty head, Begot by butchers, and by beggars bred !

' In Wolseium.'

Quam grayis incedit Majestas ore supino, Cui, laniis genita, de stipe victus erat ! No author's name appended, but the Latin translation is by George Booth, B.D. for- merly Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

The couplet is probably by Crabbe or in imitation of him. W. SCARGILL.

[MR. J. B. WAINEWRIC4HT also thanked for reply.]

OVOCA OR AVOCA (10 S. x. 308). Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, both natives of Ireland and lovers of their country, in their interesting work ' Ireland : its Scenery, Character,' &c., 1841-2, spell the word " Avoca." The Irish poet Thomas Moore (whom, by the way, Mr. Hall once told me he had known as * a dear and intimate friend), in his "melody" 'The Meeting of the Waters,' apostrophizes the " Sweet Vale of Avoca." If, on the other hand, we turn to such a prosaic work of reference as * Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland,' we find the village and river treated of under the name Ovoca (with an inset view, * Vale of Ovoca ' ), with a cross-reference only under the letter A. Perhaps the railway officials would have been most influenced by the last-named authority.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

The Great Western Railway Company is not singular in the spelling, as both forms are used indiscriminately in many other time-tables and guide-books. It is in co. Wicklow, not co. Wexford.

CHARLES SHELLEY.

EDWARD MORRIS, M.P. (10 S. x. 350). Edward Morris, a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a barrister of the Inner Temple, who was returned for Newport (Cornwall) at a by-election on 20 June, 1803 (and again at the general elections of 1806 and 1807), was the nominee of Hugh second Duke of Northumberland, who was then the " patron " of that borough, which had passed out of the hands of the Morices of Werrington a score of years before. He was one of the Committee of the House of Commons (including Fox, Grey, and Sheri- dan) which drew up the articles of impeach- ment against Lord Melville on 26 June, 1805 (Colchester's ' Diary,' vol. ii. p. 12) ; and as a writer he has the distinction of being mentioned in conjunction with Sheridan in * Vanity Fair ' (vol. ii. chap. xii. ), in the description of Gaunt House.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

THE BASTINADO AS AN ENGLISH MILITARY PUNISHMENT (10 S. x. 246, 355). L. L. K.'s reference to the bastinado in Turkey suggests a quotation from the ' History of the Rod ' (p. 240) :

" Flagellation in the form of the bastinade is in daily use amongst the Turks. Their mode of administering it is as follows : Two men support between them a long pole, which is kept in a horizontal position : about the middle of it are cords with a couple of running knots or nooses ;