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 m NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vil Jan. is, mix (W. T. Fernie, ' Herbal Simple*'). Celery w a cultivated variety of the common Mnallage (xmoll ache), or wild celery (Apium ' ffraiseoUrun), which grows abundantly in nioitt English ditches or in water. The root of the wild celery, smallage, or marsh parsley »a« reckoned by the ancients one. of the five great aperient root*, and was ' employed in their diet drink*. The great parsley is the large age, or large ache; by a strange inconsistency, the Romans adorned the heads of their guests and the t<rnb* of tlieir dead with crowns of the •./tallage. Common parsley (Apium petro- nHinutii) is only found in this country as a cultivated plant, and was introduced into England from Sardinia in the sixteenth cmtury. Ite adjective title petro-telinum signifies " growing on a rock." The Greeks held parsley in high esteem, milking therewith the victor's crown of dried and withered parsley at their Isthmian games, and the wreath for the adorning the tombs of their dead. Hence the proverb ftt'urOat. iriKivov (to need parsley) was applied to persons dangerously ill and not expected to live. The herb was never brought to table of old, being held sacred to oblivion and the defunct. Tom Jones. First Folio Shakespeare (11 S. vii. 8). -It seems a nity not to consult my ' Shakespeare Bibliography ' before sending to ' N. <fe Q.' such queries as these. A reference to p. 405 therein would reveal the earliest known mention of the first edition, in William (,'artwriglit's letter, dated 30 Nov., 1623, the week of publication. There aro several earlier pictorial repre- sentations of the volume than that quoted, not all of which, however, are so definitely labelled. A search among the many por- trailH mentioned on pp. 616 10 and 728, at the British Museum and elsewhere?, would bring to light- other examples. Speaking from memory, I mention these:— Shakespeare, WorkH, 1744. fl voIh., 4to. The portrait by If. (irnvulot exhibits two folios beneath llie oval ImihI. [I his w.ih reprinted in the 1771 edition, (i vols., 4L<>. | ' SliukeiiK'iire, Works, I7M7-8, 8 vols., 8vo. The irtrait i>y Audits dupiuta the poet, with pen in mid, at a table littered with books and nianu- snt-ipt*. On the Hoor is an open folio decked with flowers. ShakcH|iearo, Works, c. 1780. The portrait by (■"ok (after a painting attributed to Taylor or Jlurliagt') depicts an open folio labelled 'Shake Kpearc 8 Works.' i: Shakespeare, Works, e. 1770. The portrait by I. Fougeron shows the poet declaiming, apparently in front of his birthplace, and holding possiblf a folio, which is partly hidden by his loose doublet. As the folio was published posthumously, however, thU plate may safely be left out of the reckoning. In both the latter cases I ran give only an approximate date, as the loose portrait* in my possession have not all been identified. The portrait of the Earl of Southampton mentioned by Mr. Harris is reprinted in my work (see p. 638). In addition to the entries given above, one should not overlook the Westminster Abbey statue, which exhibits the poet with elbow resting on a pile of books ; engraved in 1744, and reprinted in 1750-51, 1752, and 1771. This monument, by the way, formed the model for that on "the face of the Stratford-on-Avon Town Hall, sculp- tured in 1768, the gift of Garrick. There are several fraudulent portraits, such as the Felton picture, purporting to date back to 1595. This delineates in the background a bookcase containing folios. In my possession is one of Zincke's frauds, which pretends to be a contemporary por- trait in oils of the poet. A folio upon a table near the figure is labelled ' As You Like It ' (an ironical comment on the eagerness with which collectors bought up so-called " original " portraits of Shake- speare about the end of the eighteenth century). William Jaggard. " Of sorts " (11 S. vii. 10).—I can claim no special authority to reply to Dr. Krueger's inquiry under this head, but, as it is my own somewhat colloquial expres- sion which exercises him, I will explain what, at any rate, I meant by " a bowl of sorts." We all, I suppose, have pretty much the same idea of the size and shape of what is generally termed a bowl; but as I did not intend to indicate a bowl of exactly this kind, but yet some sort or kind of bowl, I wrote a bowl " of sorts." The expression is now common, but I think it is a quite modern idiom. My impression is that it is not twenty years old. As I used it—and as it is often used—no disparage- ment, was intended : the bowl might have been superior to what we generally under- stand by a bowl ; still, most commonly the expression is ono of depreciation or dis- paragement. " A spaniel of sorts," for example, would be understood to mean a dog whose owner called him a spaniel, but which, critically regarded, would be con- sidered somewhat of a mongrel. D. O.