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 us. xii. AUG. 28, mo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Beckon, sb. (a. 1718, &c.). " A bekin wyth his hand to thaxne mayd he." xii. 146.

Bedew, v. (1374, 1491, then 1578, &c.) "The

flude of Allya beddeis their land

The feildis Quhilk ar beddeit with the river

Sarnus." vii. 133, 135.

BeJth, sb. (What is this ? The Lat. does not help):

In hir bowkit bysme, that hellis belth, The large fluddis suppis thrise in ane swelth.

iii. 145.

Benevolent (1502, '9, then 1667). " Ze Manes ... .Be ze benevolent quhen that I cum thair." xii. 143.

Best, one's (a. 1530, 1585, &c.). " I sal do my best." ix. 230.

Big (14 and 15 c.,then 1552, &c.). "Stern Tibris regnit, a man byg of banis " (Lat., Immani corpore). viii. 174.

Bisning, p.p. hissing. " The bisning beist, the serpent of Lerna " (Lat., Bellua Lerna3 Horren- dum stridens). vi. 27.

Bite Ihe earth (1718, 1771). "Thai Deit in

thair faderis sicht, bitand the end." i. 27.

Blitheness (1374, then 1578).

1. Inordinat Blythnes of peruersit mynd " (Lat. Mala mentis gaxidia). vi. 27.

1 J. ' Baill has banisht blythnes." viii. Pro- logu,-, 145.

Bloik, sb. (What is this ?). " Rolling in mind full mony cankarit bloik " (Lat., Multa movens). v. 260.

Bolr, variant of bore, a ship's hold. " The halt fyre brandis set on every boir " (Lat., Im- plessemque foros flammis. iv. 213.

Bois, bos, adj., hollow.

1. "With his bois trump as he Went.... blawand." vi. 20.

2. " On bcs turrettis and on touris hie " (Lat., Cavis turribus). ix. 213.

Boic-ed, hollowed out? (1483, then 1562). "In bo wit barges throw the large streme we slyde " (Lat., Cava trabe currimus aquor). iii. 130.

Brace, v., to press tightly." Women and moderis. .. .Thair zing childryng fast to thair bivistis did brace " (Lat., Pressere ad pectora natos). vii. 118.

Brae, a river-bank (14 and 15 c.). " Endlang the fluide of Eurot on the brae " (Lat., In Eurotae ripis). i. 50.

- Brod, v., to goad or prod (15 c., then 1566). " [We] broddis the oxin wyth speris." ix. 256.

Bront, burnt. "Ane cove.... By the Ciclopes fornais worn or bront " (Lat., Cyclopum exesa c;i minis). viii. 180.

lii'itluf, adj., brute (1450, 1535, &c.). " Wery <>f wii-k b;iyth byrd and brutell beist." viii. 161.

/{ni-ilmni. This Avord in Douglas seems to mr;m specifically a cestus. " He. . . .Twa kempis

burdoun.s brocht The prince Twa evinlie

burdounswalit " (Lat., Immani pondere cestus

Cestua paler extulit sequos). v. 247, 249. See also viii. 165, "His wechty burdoun, or his knorry mays " (Lat., Rapit arma manus nodisque gravatum Robur.). But in x. 304 it is a club.

Gyas That wyth his burdoun doun haill

n ait is dang " (Lat., Cissea durum, Immanemque Gyan, sternentes agmina clava).

Hot. withoul. "Xocht but the myelitis of goddia and pnrviance" (Lat., Haud sine numine divum). v. liiMi. Tlie expletive phrase "but lea, without lies, is frequent.

By and by, immediately (1407, then 1526). ".The command of the goddis, by and by, he execute." iv. 199.

By cost, cost, pret. " Na lytill thyng....Hes hym bycost the frendschip of Enee." x. 317.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Morniugton Crescent, N.W.

(To be continued.)

EXPERIMENTING MEDICALLY ON THE SOLDIER. The present war is by no means the first in which medical experiments have been tried on soldiers. A curious (yet typical) case occurred in 176062, when; Edward Hogben went to our army in Germany to try the effect of a specific for the " flux." Hogben was abroad with the troops from October, 1760, to April, 1762. He had to stand the expense of his medicine, his horse (which died), and a nurse for his patients at Warburg. All he seems to have got was 3s. a day " for something more than- five months in Bremen." Accordingly, he sent a memorial to the War Office asking for recompense, and it was backed up by a letter written by Lord Granby, 8 June, 1764, to the Hon. "Welbore Ellis, afterwards created Lord Mendip, who was then War Secretary- Lord Granby 's letter, which may be of use- to future historians of the R.A.M.C., i preserved at the Public Record Office (W. O. 1 : 987) :

" The bearer of this Edwd. Hogben came to the Army in Germany, as he informed me, by the directions of Lord Barrington [War Secretary],, to try a medicine which he was possess'd of, & which he said was an effectual remedy for the Flux. The medicine was tried several times under his own inspection in the hospitals, but not (according to the reports of the Physicians and Surgeons) with that success which was expected, from it. However, Mr. Hogben, I believe, never received any other gratuity than what he mentions in his memorial, <v, I believe, he wag at considerable expenses. Therefore, 1 cou'd not help complying with his entreaties to let his case be laid before you, as the fatigues & expence he wa* at in order to be of service, though unsuccessful,, may meritt some recompence."

J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W,

THE PATIENTS OF SHAKESPEARE'S SON- IN-LAW. In 1657 John Sherley, at the " Golden Pelican," in Little Britain, was selling a work, now rarely to be met with, entitled ' Select Observations on English Bodies,' translated from the Latin into Eng- lish, by James Cooke, Practitioner in Physick and Chirurgery.

Its original author was no other than " Mr. John Hall, Physician, of Stratford-on-Avon.