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 12 S. V. FEB., 1919.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Co'nsummate (vb.). Accented consu'mmate 4i until within the last few years." True, generally. But Wordsworth (d. 1850) has only co 'nsummate. And though P ope ( d . 1 7 44 ) or a co-worker has consu'mmate (* Odyssey,' xx.), Shakespeare (d. 1616) has 'To co'nsummate this business happily

(' K. John,' V. vii. 96). There shall we co'nsummate our spousal rites

(' Titus Andronicus ').

In fact, Dr. Johnson's 1755 note is, <{ anciently accented on the first syllable."

Co'ntrary. The Poet Laureate of this .hour :

Now fate that look'd contra'ry hath fulfill'd

(' Demeter,' 1. 899). By faint contra'ry wind stay'd in her cruise.

(' Elegy ' in 1890).

Spenser (d. 1599), as one might expect at his date, has

Forcibly driven with contra'ry tides. Yet Shakespeare indeed has nearly always co'ntrary.

E'xculpate. Robert Bridges in 1890 (' Affliction of Poland ') had not shifted the accent to the first syllable :

What marvel in me wrought

Shall quite excu'lpate thee ?

Expre'ss (adj.). Shakespeare has, once, Express :

As bid me tell my tale in e'xpress words

(' K. John,' IV. ii. 234).

But, e.g., Sir H. Taylor in modern days :

Save at the e'xpress instance of the Earl

(' Philip van Artevelde,' ii. 6).

Extre'me (adj.). No note is taken of a poetic tradition e'xtreme from Shakespeare's plays to Swinburne : Or snows on the e'xtreme hills, or iron land Where no spring is (' Atalanta').

And breathless gates and e'xtreme hilla of heaven

(id.).

For e'xtreme loathing and supreme desire (ib.).

In the e'xtreme range and race of life

('Bothwell,' I. L).

Sir H. Taylor, in 1834, had quoted con temporary verse :

And heartless weariness of e'xtreme age.

Quintessence. Quintessence in Shake speare, Ben Jonson, Ford, Milton, Davies, Donne down to Archbishop Alexander:

An Oxford of a more majestic growth,

A Rome that sheds no blood, and makes no

slave ; The perfect flower and quintessence of both.

Dr. Johnson in 1755 had given quintessence, but had cited poets against himself.

Two notes on other subjects may be added :

Management (Fr. management}. In this sense obsolete, says the 'N.E.D.,' quoting Burke's * Letter,' 1790 : " You certainly do not always convey to me your opinions with the greatest tenderness and manage- ment " / and giving as the last example of the word Mill's 'British India,' 1818. Cardinal Newman writes, 1864 :

" The truest expedience is to answer right out when you are asked : the wisest economy is to have no management : the best prudence is not to be a coward " (end of Note F to * Apologia ').

One-sided. The earliest reference given is 1833. None is given for one-sidedness. Mill, concerning Wordsworth, writes to Sterling, October, 1831 :

" The next thing that struck me was the extreme comprehensiveness and philosophic spirit which is in him. By these expressions I mean the direct antithesis of what the Germans most expressively call one-sidedness " Einaeitigkeit.

W. F. P. STOCKLEY. Woodside, Tivoli, Cork.

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF RICHARD EDWARDS, 1669-79.

(See 12 S. iii. 1, 44, 81, 122, 161, 205, 244 262, 293, 323, 349, 3"/7, 409, 439, 470, 498; iv. 39, 96, 151, 209, 267, 321.)

LETTER XCIV.

Samuel BulUvant to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3759.)

Singee March 12th 1672/3 Mr Richard Edwards and Respected Freind

I have not of late heard fr[om you] and (if I bee not mistaken) you are my D[ebtor for] a Letter or 2, but my business being of no grea[t con]sequence, suppose your more solid affaires [ma]y occation your silence. I understand your health by Mr Elwes (which am glad to heare). The peon that came up with the rarities returning, I would [not] omitt this oportunity of sending to you. In my last to you I desired you to send mee word whether [you] received a silver coja* directed to you to send fo[rward to] Mr Clavell. Tis now 3 months since I sent itf [?] I have no newes


 * See Letter V.

t See Letter LXIII.