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 io-s.iv.AcG.i2.i905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 121 LONDON. SATURDAY. AVGl'ST 11. 1905. CONTENTS.-NO. ss. HOTBS :—Montaigne, Webster, and Marston, 121—A Name- lets Book, 123—Tripos: Tripos Verses, 124 —"Mao of Noten "—The Old Theatres ot London—Inedited Poem by Charles Klngsley— Daniel and Peter Stuart—Footpaths, 125—"Tobacco": Its Pronunciation—"Pomple," 12rt. QUKKIBS: —Berenice. Wife of Ptolemy III. —Henry Alvarez : Henry Alway, 128—Lamb's Panopticon—Hooper —Long—Tbe War Office in Fiction—Authors of Quotations Wanted — • Lochiel'i Warning ' — Titian's 'Venus with Mirror '—" Dying beyond my means "—Edward Harring- ton Impey—" Perrywbtmpterlng," 127—Newspaper Lead- Ing Articles—Warwickshire Charter—Hearsey : Gavine— "The fate of theTracyi "—Sir Thomas Browne on Oblivion —Chimney-Stacks, 128. 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MONTAIGNE, WEBSTER, AND MARSTON: DR. DONNE AND WEBSTER. (See ante, p. 41.) ANOTHER instance which Montaigne ad- duces to prove that our senses sometimes deceive us is that connected with the motion of a ship at sea :— Forsomuch as our sight, being altered, represents unto itselfe things alike ; and we imagine that things faile it as it doth to them : As they who travell by sea, to whom mountaines, fields, townes, heaven and earth, seeme to goe the same motion, and keepe the same course they doe.—Book ii. c. xiii. pp. 310- 311. Webster makes use of this instance of illusion in the following speech, addressed to Camillo:— Flamineo. So perfect shall be thy happiness, that, as men at sea ihink land and trees and ships go that way they go, so both heaven and earth shall seem to go your voyage.—'The White Devil,' 11. 267-71, pp. 8-9. Ben Jonson was well acquainted with the Essays':— Peace, Luxury, thou art like one of those Who, being at sea, suppose Because they move, the continent doth so. 'The Forest,' xi. Epode. A parallel, but varied, is to be found in 1 Albumazar,' III. iv. With reference to the stories that Mon- taigne tells concerning the callousness of some men when about to suffer the punish- ment of death, Marston skipped this one. which comes between the two that I quoted in my former paper :— Another wished the hang-man not to touch hia throat, lest hee should make him swowne with laughing, because hee was so ticklish."—Book i. c. jcl. p. 117, col. 2. But Webster did not forget it, although in the absence of the original one would hardly recognize the allusion in the following, which needs a little explaining, but not much. The Duke of Florence has caused Brachiano to be strangled, and Flamineo is commenting on the crime and its author : — He doth not come, like a gross plodding slave. And buffet you to death ; no, my quaint knave. He tickles you to death, makes you die laughing ' The White Devil,' 11. 2950-2, p. 43, col. 1. Of course, Brachiano was tickled about the throat, and we may assume for a moment that he died laughing. Mouticelfo. Why did the Duke of Florence with such care Labour your pardon ? Say. Lodomco. Italian beggars will resolve you that, Who, begging of an alms, bid those they beg of Do good for their own sakes, &c. 'The White Devil,' 11. 2254-8, p. 34, col. 2. The origin of Lodovico's allusion is clear :— I had much rather not to live at all then to live by almes. I would I had the priviledge to demande of them, in the same stile I have heard some beg in Italy: Fate bene per roi: "Do some good for your selfe."—Book iii. c. v. p. 455, col. 2. I said in my articles on Sir Philip Sidney and Webster that it is more than probable that the repetitions that have been noticed in Webster by various editors are due to notes taken by the author in his various readings. Here is another case to support my opinion. Montaigne says:— We share the fruits of our prey with our dogges and hawkes, as a meed of their paine and reward of their industry.—Book ii. c. xii. p. 232, col. 1. Vlt. Cor. Your dog or hawk should be rewarded better Than I have been. ' The White Devil,' 11. 2098-9, p. 32, col. 1. Bosola,. There are rewards for hawks and dogs when they have done us service ; but for a soldier, &c.—' The Duchess of Malfi,' I. i. 64-6, p. 59 col. 2. Dyce quotes Reed, who says that Dryden borrowed from the following passage of Webster :— Flamineo. What hast got, But, like the wealth of captains, a poor handful. Which in thy palm thou beiir'st as men hold water? Seeking to gripe it fast, the frail reward Steals through thy fingers. 'The White Devil,' 11. 1102-6, p. 19, col. 1