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 ii s. ix. MAY 16, i9u.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16 1 19U.

CONTENTS. No. 229.

JTOTES : ' King Lear ' : Rearrangements of the Text, 381 Webster : a Question of Authorship, 382 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 384 A Bonner Ordi- nation in Elizabeth's Reign Lander's ' Imaginary Conversations': "Salomon" "Nuts to" a Person " Three blue beans," 386 Early Words for the 'N.E.D.' Nos. 413, 414, Strand Legal Definition of a Lawful Kiss, 387.

QUERIES : Robert Plumpton : Isabel Anderton Edward Hubbald of the Tower" Speak to me, Lord Byron," 388 Old Etonians T. Britton Joseph Branwell Sir John Sackfylde C. P. Colley : L. Crosley : R. Crymble: R. Gem : R. W. Knight : I. G. Ogden : J. B. Perryn R. ,E. S. Shaw : J. Shawford G. Quenton Loch Chesney Biographical Information Wanted W. Quipp, 389 " Vossioner " R. Ridley Heraldic J. Fessard : T. Gardiner : E. Harman : T. Hawkins : R. James, 390 " W. J." : Morfit : Milbourne " Waters " and Lieut Warneford-Benjamin Zobell-Kill Family, 391.

REPLIES : Lesceline de Verdon, 391 " Bushel and Strike," 392 Gothaven, 393 Mrs. Behn's ' Emperor of the Moon ' Shakespeare and the Warwickshire Dialect, 394 Bird Name: 'Emigration of Birds' A Charter of Richer de 1'Aigle " Corvicer," an Old Trade Register of Deaths of Roman Catholics Old Etonians, 395 " Blizard " as a Surname Authors of Quotations Wanted " Kibob "Registers of Hawkhurst, Kent, 396 General Beatson English Shrines Sir Jacob Adolphus-Major- General Miller Wildgoose, 397 Heart- Burial " Bore " The Roll of the Baronets Webster and the ' N.E.D.,' 398.

NOTES ON BOOKS:- 'Club Makers and Club Members' 'The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain ' ' Great Malvern Priory Church ' ' The Antiquary.'

Notices to Correspondents.

'KING LEAR': REARRANGEMENTS OF THE TEXT.

THE references in the following notes are as in ' The Cambridge Shakespeare.'

Li. 51-4:

That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril, Our eldest-born, speak first.

Gon. Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter ....

The following arrangement seems prefer- able :

That we our largest bounty may extend Where nature doth with merit challenge it. Goneril, our eldest-born, speak first.

Gon. [Dear] Sir,

I love you more than words can wield the matter ....

The Quartos read : " Where merit doth most challenge it." There seems to be no clear reason for following the Folio in leav- ing out " it," if the meaning is : " Where nature accompanied by merit challenges it,"

i.e., our largest bounty. " Do " was intro- duced before " love " by Capell. The Quartos read " words," the Folio " word." For the introduction of " Dear " before " Sir," see I. i. 161.

I. i. 162-4 :

Kent. Do ;

Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease.

The Quartos read " Doe," which the Folio omits. It seems to have been ar- ranged in a separate line first by Steevens (ed. 1793), but without adequate reason. The scansion is excellent in

Kent. Do ; kill | thy physi | cian and | the

fee | bestow.

The Quartos read " the fee " ; the Folio " thy fee."

I. iv. 273-7 :

Alb. My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant Of what hath moved you.

Lear. It may be so, my lord.

Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful.

Malone's arrangement of 11. 2747 in three lines is in every respect preferable to the above :

Lear. It may be so, my lord. Hear, nature.

hear ;

Dear goddess, hear ! suspend thy purpose if Thou didst intend to make this creature fruitful.

It is surely better to treat 1. 274, "Of what hath moved you," as a short line standing by itself at the end of a speech, than to print 275 as a short line. Of course the words " It may be so, my lord," con- stitute an example of the very numerous cases of what Abbott, * Gram.,' 513, calls the " amphibious section.'

I. iv. 324 :

'Tis politic and safe to let him keep At point a hundred knights, yes, that on ever} dream ....

Surely we ought to arrange :

'Tis poli | tic and safe | to let him keep at point-

A hundred knights, &c.

Pope, more suo, omitted " at point."

II. ii. 164. See ante, p. 245.

II. iv. 91-3 :

How unremoveable and fix'd he is In his own | course.

Lear. Ven | geance ! | plague ! death ! |

confusion !

There seems no good reason for treating 11. 92-3 as two lines ; and likewise for not reading with the Quartos " death, plague."