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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. IL OCT. 29, 190*.

Beautiful thought in British poetry. They must be well known, but perhaps they have not been all collected. I have arranged them -so as to show how the poets were indebted one to another :

Now gentle gales,

Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Their balmy spoils. Milton, 'Paradise Lost.'

And west-winds with musky wing

About the cedarn alleys fling

Nard and Cassia's balmy smells. ' Comus.

Cool zephyrs through the clear blue sky 'Their gathered fragrance fling.

Gray, ' On the Spring.'

And the light wings of Zephyr, opprest with

"Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom. Byron, 'Bride of Abydos.'

Like a rose embowered

In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflowered,

Till the scent it gives

Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy- winged thieves. Shelley, 'Ode to a Skylark.'

The milk-white rose

With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed. '2 King Henry VI.'

The milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. Burns.

E. YAKDLEY.

' THE Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA ' : FRIAR PATRICK. In looking over the brief file of a namesake of yours, Notes and Queries, pub- lished in this city some twenty years ago, but which seems to have lived scarcely as many weeks as you have lived years, I find this bit of Shakespearian annotation, signed "Appleton Morgan," the well-known Presi- dent of the New York Shakespeare Society :

" While possibly a little too ready to prefer a .morsel, however minute, of circumstantial evidence to acreages of opinion in Shakespeare matters, I should be puzzled to know what opinion to form of what is undoubtedly (it seems to me) an item of circumstantial evidence of something if one eould only guess of what ! Videlicet, ' Romeo and Juliet ' was printed in quarto by John Danter, in 1597 ; ' The Two Gentlemen of Verona ' was never (so far as we can ever know) printed in quarto or otherwise until the First Folio in 1623. In this 1623 version (the only one we have), at V. ii. 36, ' Friar Lawrence ' is printed for ' Friar Patrick. 3 If this is to be accounted for by the fact that the copy-holder, or copy-reader i.e., the person who read the copy for the compositor to set up the type (which was the way things were printed in those days) had lately read ' Romeo and Juliet,' and was led to the slip of the tongue by the similarity of the situation where fSylvia should meet her lover at Friar Patrick's cell, to the meeting of Romeo and Juliet at Friar Lawrence's, then the error is curious, but adds nothing to our store of information about Shake- speare things (except perhaps that the copy-holder who read lor the First Folio compositors in 1623

had served in that same capacity in Banter's printery in 1597).

"But, if the error was in the copy he read from say in an original manuscript made by Shake- speare himself, or even in a transcription made by a copyist then it seems to prove that ' Romeo and Juliet' came before 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona,' instead of, as we have always been so fully persuaded, that ' The Two Gentlemen of Verona' was a sort of first form of, or thumb-nail sketch for, ' Romeo and Juliet.'

"It is all very interesting, but unfortunately like so many Shakespeare items so very elusive ! If we only had a stage history of ' The Two Gentle- men of Verona,' that copy-holder's error might lead us to important discoveries."

Has there ever been any explanation of the crux above noticed by Dr. Morgan 1

HENRY GROSS LANGFORD. 1244, Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.

"MlCHLNG MALLICHO" (9 th S. xi. 504; 10 th S. i. 162). Perhaps the following, from 'The Dialect of the English Gypsies,' by B. C. Smart, M.D., and H. T. Crofton, second edi- tion (London, Asher & Co., 1875), may be worth noting :

" Malleco, False. Borrow, ' Lavo - HI,' 1874 ; ? Dr. Paspati, ' Tchinghianes ou Bohemiens de 1'Empire Ottoman,' 1870, maklo, stained."

See p. 160, and for interpretations of con- tractions, pp. 157-8. The above is in the ' Appendix to the Gypsy-English Vocabulary.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.

'1 HENRY IV.,' III. i. 131 (10 h S. ii. 64). In reply to PROF. SKEAT'S remark as to " turn- ing with the foot," I would suggest that Stow's distinction is between a lathe to which motion was given by a boy turning a multiply- ing wheel, and one actuated, as was more com- monly the case, by the workman's foot. The sound in the first operation would be nearly continuous, whilst the motion of a lathe caused to revolve by the foot in the very crude fashion shown in engravings of the period was necessarily irregular and inter- mittent, and the noise of the scrating corre- spondingly loathsome.

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

CHARLES READE'S GRANDMOTHER. All lovers of engravings know and admire Charles Turner's brilliant mezzotint of the second Mrs. Scott with two of her children, which was first published in 1804. The original picture by John Russell, R.A., which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy four years previously, is apparently lost. Surely English domestic life was never more delightfully portrayed. Yet in the letter- press written to accompany a " reproduc- tion " of the print in what must be regarded