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 12 s. in. JA*. 27, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Appearance, the Sign of the White Hart set off by 5 o'Clock, the Road extremely bad and the Night coming on we drove half an h. in the Dark : was very near being overset by a Waggon, how- ever at last we reached Bridgnorth a second* narrow Gateway. We put up at the Pig and Castle a very indifferent House it is 8 Miles f. Wenlock 20 from the Bridge at Salop. Bridg- north is .... f

Sunday the 20th. Set out at J p. 7 walked down the Steep Hill going out of Town, went upon the Walk very high overlooking the Bridge and Elver with a fine romantic View on the other Side. Got into the Carriage at the Bridge and finding that the Road thro' Enfield to Kidder- minster was 4 Miles farther and not a better Road, resolved to go the shortest, Lord Stafford's House not meriting so much trouble. The Road we soon found extremely bad and continued so all the Way, very sandy and hilly the last two Miles was somewhat better. We got to Kidder- minster by 11, it is 14 Miles from Bridgenorth, breakfasted at the Golden Lion, it is a tolerable, country Inn, heard that Mr. Mainy* lives at .. . . t near Bewdley. The House is old but verv good.

Kidderminster t Baited here three Hours,

set off at 2. The Road still extremely bad, hilly and very heavy the Country rich and pleasant, and the Road within 6 Miles of Worces- ter began to mend and it being a fine Day har- dened the Soil which was here common. . . . f

4 Miles f. Bridgnorth passed thro' the pretty Green of Hartlebury, and at 9 went thro' a neat Village called Annsberley. After a tiresome March with hungry Stomach, we arrived at the City of Worcester, the Entrance is pleasing, go by a pretty Row of Houses in the Skirts of the Town ; then come into Foregate Street in which there are some very good Houses adorned with a Multitude of pretty Faces. Took up our Quarters at the Hop Pole made a ravenous Meal it being i p. 5. After Dinner took a Walk by Moonlight down the Street into the Abbey Yard saw some comely Lasses and their Sweethearts did not molest them, marched back, supped and retired.

Worcester is 14 Miles f. Kidderminster, but is accounted 52 f. Shrewsbury.

PENRY LEWIS. (To be continued.)

[A note on the date of this journal will appear in our next issue.]

' ZORIADA ' (A.D. 1786) AND THE WORDBOOKS.

(See ante, pp. 5, 24, 47.)

Scourging, ii. 154, not Zoriada herself shall

protect you from my scourging arm ; (D. not after 1TO"6.)

Scratch, ii. 7...., and they were unanimously inclined to give old scratch and his imps the credit. . . (D. not 1858-1762.)

Set upon, i. 168. . . . ; how would the discovery have set upon your feelings,. . . . ? (D. not after 1726.)

t Omitted.

Setting, i. 102...., instead of entering and taking up his setting, he always pleaded great haste, (Apparently a misprint of " sitting." In other places we find " set " for " sat.")

Shade, iii. 53 . . . ., I can shade, and draw a little from nature, (D. not before 1797.)

Smart (sb.), i. 92. . . ., and, except the colour of his cloaths, was a smart of the first order ; (D. not 1821-1753.)

Smart (verb transitive), iii. 37. . . ., and that she would confine him, and taunt him, and smart him to her heart's content, (D. only from 1787 between 1844 and 1653, and then not, as here, in the moral sense.)

Softened, i. 157. . . ., by his downcast looks, and softened voice when he addressed her, (D. not before 1852, with " voice.")

Sophy, i. 3. On a sophy,..., lay an elegantly formed but somewhat singularly dressed young woman ... i. 9. . . . ; but, drawing a chair to the ide of the sophy, .(This spelling of " sopha," which occurs later in the book., e.g., ii. 159, not D.)

Spring (of a machine), i. 8. . . . ; the springs of the human machine cannot be so suddenly let down without sustaining great injury ; (D. not 1825-1771 ; nor at all in this combination.)

Stage-play, iii. 6 . . . ., and no stage play can out do Madam Zoriada's behaviour, (D. not 1843- 1693. T. uses it thrice, e.g. ii. 155 ; iii. 74 ; iv. 123.)

Stage-scene, i. 77. I was told a long story oj- some celebrated stage scene ; (D. not 1822-1664). ~

Stand out, iii. 134 . . . ., he hired a packet, and instead of crossing the Pas de Calais stood out for Brest, (D. not 1834-1718.)

Stark staring (mad), iii. 2...., who, from her mistresses behaviour, concluded she was gone stark staring mad, (D. only from 1693 and 1870.)

State-ideas, i. 97. She appeared to- have read a number of authors, and made herself mistress of a set of state ideas ; (Not D. : perhaps for " stated.")

Statute, i. 5. . . ., she is a stock, still as a statute. (D. not 1880-1719, as a mistake for " statue." T. has it i. 55, also in the mouth of an uneducated person.)

Stock, i. 5. . . . ; and as for Martha there, she is a stock, still as a statute.

Streamer, ii. 89 . . . . ; her hat had streamers of an immense length ; (Cf. T. iv. 3.)

Summer-umbrella, i. 33. He accordingly, on their quitting the house, expanded a summer umbrella over her head,

Take on, i. 159. . . ., and because my heart was not made of stone, but that I took on grievously whenever I saw her ill. ..(D. not 1830-1767.)

Taking, ii. 20 ... .to put your lordship into such a nutter and taking, (D. not 1797-1676.)

Tantony, i. 161...., and ran backwards and forwards there like a tantony pig, (D. not 1891- 1765.)

Tartly, i. 163, Mrs. Leland, who had words at will when she was offended, took Martha very tartly to task for her conduct. (D. not 1791- 1661".) I

Tilting-bout, iii. 9 . . . ., to stake his existence upon the chance of a tilting bout ; (D. only 1754. >

Touched, i. 1 only a^little touched in^het