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 12 s. vm. MAY 7, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 377 A printed bookplate, found in ' A Collec- tion of Many Select and Christian Epistles,' by George Fox, 1698, reads as follows : James Smith. of Aylesbury, in the County of Bucks. His Book, 17 Thou Finder Kind, Have this in Mind, For unto thee it's known. Within thy Heart, Who e'er thou ar't, Each Man would have his own. VALE OF AYLESBURY. SCOTCH HANDS (12 S. viii. 331). The earliest reference given by the * N.E.D.' is 1883, quoting an article on cookery in The BOOK BORROWERS (12 S. viii. 208, 253, 278, 296, 314, 334, 350). I am much gratified that my note at the first reference has produced a crop of interesting additions which is apparently not as yet exhausted. One of its products has been that the lines copied by Benjamin Bury on his bookplate and attributed by me somewhat unguardedly to his authorship have other claimants for their originality. Thus as a latest instance Mrs. Emily Janson writes from South Kensington, under date April 25 : I see in The Guardian- of March 4 that the lines " If thou art borrowed by a friend " are attributed to the late Benjamin Bury. I have firm belief that my grandmother, Martha Hall, composed them, but this is my only evidence. She always told me she had composed them, and Girl's Own Paper, in which the writer de- scribes the glazing of a tongue : " Little rolls of butter, made with the two little wooden bats known as Scotch hands were laid across." ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Here the term " Scotch " appears to have no direct Scottish association, but bears the colloquial meaning, to mark or decorate : scotch, to cut slightly ; scote, to plough up (vide Halliwell's * Diet, of Archaic Words ') ; scotch, to score or cut (Nares, ' Glossary '). Used also in this sense by Izaak Walton, and in several plays of Shake- speare, e.g. : . . . We'll beat them into bench-holes, I have yet room for six scotches more. ' Antony and Cleopatra.' He scotch'd and notch'd him, like a carbonado. ' Coriolanus.' The wooden implement used for shaping butter conforms roughly to the shape of the human hand and also resembles the oaken horn-books of Shakespeare's day. W. JAGGARD, Capt. COWPER : PRONUNCIATION OF NAME (12 S. viii. 110, 179, 237, 299, 338). Revert I have every reason to believe that is true. Henry Dennett Cole would only be 14 when my grand- mother wrote them in her proofo sheets " (of a serial story in The Lady's Magazine of 1810). That these lines under discussion have gained a wide celebrity is clear from this correspondence, notably from the statement of MR. R. E. THOMAS, but their authorship seeihs as liable to evasion as the disputed sites of Brunanburgh or Homer's birthplace. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Eectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. In 1887 I made a note of the follow- ing lines, at that time on the inside of the cover of the copy of Britton's ' Cathe- dral Antiquities ' in the Birmingham Re- ference Library. On going to-day, however, to verify them I find that the volumes have been rebound and the lines have not been preserved. To whomsoe'er this book I lend, I give one word no more : They, who, to borrow condescend, Should graciously restore. And whosoe'er this book should find, (Be't trunk-maker or critick,) I'll thank him if he'll bear in mind That it is mine : George Whitwick. George Whitwick of Plymouth was born ing to my previous note, my friend has in 1802 and died in 1872. He carried on an extensive architectural practice in the West courteously informed me that his relatives were interested only in property opposite of England and was the author of ' The ! Cowper's Court. He says they were a Palace of Architecture, a Romance of Art j " Cumberland family, and that the local and History,' and ' Hints to Young Archi- ! pronunciation is certainly ' Cooper.' ' So tects,' a popular little book of which several editions have appeared. Whether he was the author of the above lines which Mr. R. S. Mansergh (see the fifth reference) has adapted or whether both have copied from a common source, I am not able to say. BENJAMIN WALKER. Langstone, Erdington. I must, perforce, cry " Peccavi ! " But how the conversion of " Cow " into " Coo " came about would seem, as our eccentric friend Lord Dundreary was wont to lisp across the footlights, to be " one of those things no feller can find out." CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.