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NOTES AND QUERIES.

is it to ascertain whether we are holding a faith which addresses us as members of a class, a class of fine gentle- men, philosophers, divines, or one which addresses us as men, which explains the problems of our human life." The Religions of the World and their Relations to Christ- ianity, considered in Eight (Boyle) Lectures, p. 250.

BlBLIOTHECAR ClIETHAM.

HORSETALK.

(2 nd S. i. 335.)

I am glad to respond to the request of your correspondent J. K., to obtain examples of horse- talk. I can supply him with those used to agri- cultural horses in Scotland. There are three dialects of such talk in Scotland : one used in the midland, another in the southern, and the third in the northern counties. The midland counties and towns use the same terms.

The chuck, chuck, a sound made with the side of the tongue at one side of the mouth, by inhaling the air in impulses, is the signal, common in all the counties, for the horses to start into the walk, to go on, to go forward.

The word wo is used in all the counties for the horses to stop, to cease going. For them to remain to stand, the word stand is used in the southern, and still in the northern counties.

Back is used in all the counties for the horses to step backwards.

To come towards you, Hie is used in the southern, and hie here and come other in the northern counties. In towns one hears carters using for the same purpose, hip and vaw.

To go from you, Hup is used in the southern, and haud nff in the northern counties ; while in towns haap and wyud are used.

Lift is used when a horse is desired to lift his foot from any object upon which he may have set his foot.

A crack of the whip signifies an acceleration of speed. Reins greatly facilitate the turning round of horses at the land's end in ploughing ridges ; and the phrase hie in indicates to the horses that they are to go into the furrow in order to con- tinue the ploughing.

When a horse startles at anything, he is assured of safety by a lengthened wo-o-o.

When a horse forgets what he is doing, and becomes careless, he is reminded of his duty by a sharp hut. HENRY STEPHENS.

In Norfolk the word used for a horse to go to the right, is woosh ; or, as they often pronounce it, rather wooish. Forby pretends gravely to derive this from the French gauche, which is very refined nonsense ; as he labours very unsuccess- fully to explain how a word meaning the left, has come to be used in the very reverse sense for the

right. When they want a horse to go to the left, they say hait, or come ha, or come hather ; which, of course, is come hither. This, Forby says, was horse-language in the fourteenth century : for which he quotes Chaucer, " Heit Scot ! heit broc ! " But when he derives it from the French hay, one is tempted to laugh as before. F. C. H.

DIONYSIUS ANDREAS FREHER, COMMENTATOR UPON JACOB BOHME'S "PHILOSOPHY."

(l rt S. viii. 246., &c.)

As great interest is taken at the present day in the writings of Jacob Bb'hme (surnamed the Divine Clairvoyant), perhaps the following par- ticulars of the works in MS. of his great com- mentator, Freher, drawn up from the originals (copies of part of which are in the British Mu- seum, Additional MSS. 5767-5794), may be an acceptable information to the literary world, British and foreign, through, the medium of the "N. & Q." Much has been published in Ger- many, of late and former years, concerning Bbhme's Theosophy ; but no writer has yet ap- peared, down to Baader and Hamburgher, who may be at all compared with Freher (and his student, William Law), for a due apprehension and exposition of the mind and sense of Bb'hme, and the design of his revelations. The list of his writings, entitled Fundamenta Mystica Jacobi Bo- hemii Teutonici, Explicata, is as follows :

" 1. Serial Elucidations of J. B.'s Principles of Philo- sophy and Theology ; in Eight Vols. (A.D. 16981705), viz. :

" Vol. A. (1.) Of God considered" wjthout Nature and Creature. (2.) Of God, as manifesting Himself by Eternal Nature; with its Seven Properties, Two Prin- ciples, and Three Distinctions or Parts.

" Vol. B. Explanation of J. B.'s Tables of God extra Naturam. (3.) Answer to Objection concerning the Desire's Attraction of itself. (4.) Of the further Exterior Manifestation of God, or the Divine Nature, in the Crea- tion of Angels. Of the Objection concerning Material Causes. (5.) Of the Fall of Lucifer and all his Angels.

" Vol. C. (6.) Of the Creation of this Third or Tem- poral Principle of Nature, whereiu we have our Outward Being.

" Vol. D. (7.) Of the Fall of Man from his Primeval Glory, down into the Spirit and Grossness of this Astral Principle. (8.) Of the Natural Propagation of Man in this now cursed four- elementary World. (9.) Of Man's Regeneration, through the Blood and Death of Christ.

" Vol. E. (10.) Of the Eternal Word's becoming Flesh. Or of the Pure, Immaculate Conception and Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [The author's references are always to the 1G82 German edition of J. B.'s works.]

" Vol. F. (SECOND SKIUES.) Nothing and All, and Something. A Discourse concerning the true Sense of J. B.'s Eternal or Abyssal Nothing and All. How this posits itself as Something, in and by the Process of Eternal Nature. And showing how J. B."'s different and contra- dictory Descriptions of the Deity iu Unity and Trinity,