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 XL MARCH 7, 1903.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 190S.

CONTENTS. No. 271.

NOTES -.Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' 181 Easter Day and the Full Moon Convivial Clubs and Societies, 182 "Cap" in the Hunting- Field Voltaire : Thomas Orde "Indigo" in Dante Mistress of Charles I., 184 First Cunard Steamers Motto of Chelsea Borough Council Simpson's in the Strand" Tottenham is turn'd French," 185 Letter of Byron " Parvanimity " Memorial to " Nether-Lochaber," 186.

QUERIES : -Button Valence School, 186 Quotations ' Vicar of Wakefteld ' " So many gods," &c. Keats : " Sloth " Portrait of Dante" Not worlds on worlds," &c. Voltaire: " L'Anatomie vivante" Hell-in-Harness, 187 Home or Hearne Copper Token Auction by Inch of Candle' A New Tale of an Old Tub,' &c. " Thou un- relenting Past" The Old Wife-Zodiac" Unram," 188 "Grandmotherly government" Coachman's Epitaph- Henderson Posts in Early Times Canute and the Tide- Isle of Axholme-Keemore Shells, 189.

REPLIES: Old Conduits of London, 189 Kieff, Kiev, Kiew Antiquity of Businesses German Reprint of Lei carraga Greek and Russian Vestments First Editions of 'Paradise Lost,' 191 " Cyclealities "Hotspur's Body "Witch," a Kind of Lamp, 192 Old Prince of Wales's Theatre Bishop Fleming Milton's ' Hymn on the Nativity,' 193 - Early Jewish Engravers Tennyson's ' Lord of Burleigh ' Mona Sortes Evangelicse : St. Euge- nia, 194" Keep your hair on" Keats's ' La Belle Dame sans Merci ' MacNair Family Arms Wanted Pasted Scraps Precedence, 195 Village Library " Tagnicati " Luck Money Old Pewter Marks Cornish Wreckers Smythies Family Wale, 196 Arms of Married Women, 197 "From the lone shieling" Historical Crux, 198 Bacon on Hercules, 199.

NOTES ON BOOKS : -Lanier's ' Shakespere and his Fore- runners ' Guiney's Henry Vaughan's ' Mount of Olive*,' Ac. 'The Antiquary.'

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.' THE notes here begun were set down as addenda and corrigenda to the Rev. A. R. Shilleto's edition (George Bell & Sons, London and New York, 1893). I should be glad, with the Editor's permission, to offer them to readers of ' N. & Q.' as a small contribution towards an improved edition of the 'Anatomy.' Unfortunately residence in Australia is in many ways unfavourable to such studies ; but in a limited field and with limited resources I have tried at least to secure accuracy.

I propose at starting to take several pas- sages where Mr. Shilleto suggests emenda- tions of the text which seem to me either unnecessary or demonstrably wrong.

Vol. i. p. 40, 1. 4, "that it is like ^ to be as prosperous a voyage as that of Guiana, and that there is much more need of Hellebore than of Tobacco." Shilleto in a foot-note to " Guiana" says "Possibly Guinea." No change is needed. See 'Purchas his Pilgrimage,' Part I. (1617), p. 1023, "What commoditie Tobacco and Sugars in those parts [ = Guiana and the neighbouring nations] may yeeld is incredible, especially in this smoky humour of the one sexe, and that daintier of the other." Purchas's margin has "An. 1610, the Tobacco that came into England amounted

to (at least) 60,000 pound, and not much lesse in other yeeres."

Vol. i. p. 135, 1. 9, " Anticyrce ccelo huic est opus aui dolabrd, he had need to be bored, and so had all his fellows, as wise as they would seem to be." On "bored" Shilleto writes Qu. Hellebored?" Why should the text be disturbed ? Compare vol. ii. p. 280, 1. 15 v Part II. sect. v. mem. i. subs, iv.), " 'Tis not amiss to bore the skull with an instrument, to let out the fuliginous vapours " ; p. 280, I. 3 from bottom, " the head to be shaved and bored to let out fumes " ; p. 281, 1. 6,

"Guianerius cured a Nobleman in Savoy,

by boring alone." Is not dolabra here an ''instrument" for opening the skull? The ' H.E.D.,' it may be noted, gives no instance of the use of a verb "to hellebore."

Vol. i. p. 284, 1. 2 from bottom (Part I. sect. ii. mem. ii. subs, vi.), " Pliny's Villa Lauren- tana." Shilleto's note is, "Should be Laria. Pliny had several villas near the Lake Larius (now Como), see Ep. ix. 7, 1." But Pliny had also a country-house near Lauren- turn, of which he gives an elaborate descrip- tion in Ep. ii. 17 ; the adjective should be Lauren tina.

Vol. ii. p. 181, 1. 10 from foot (Part II. sect. iii. mem. iii.), "no other drink than the water of [the] Choaspes that runs by Susa." The insertion of the definite article is un- necessary. Compare 2 Kings v. 12, "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel 1 "

Vol. ii. p. 238, 1. 13 from bottom (Part II. sect. iii. mem. viii.), " that illiterate Virginian simplicity and gross ignorance." Shilleto in a note has " Qu. Virgilian ? An allusion to Virg., ' Georg.' ii. 458-474." Virginian would appear to be right. Compare vol. i. p. 96, 1. 3 (' Democritus to the Reader '), " as uncivil as they in Virginia," and 1. 6, " Even so might Virginia, and those wild Irish, have been civilized long since." This "illiterate sim- plicity " is not yet extinct. I have heard a mathematician from Virginia proudly relate that when asked in a university examination for the date of Chaucer he had replied " 600 A.D." (A.D. is good).

Vol. ii. p. 292, last line (Part II. sect. v. mem. i. subs, vi.), " they are as red and fleet, and sweat, as if they had been at a Mayor's Feast." For fleet Shilleto suggests flush. Fleet is unimpeachable, see 'H.E.D.,' s.v. ' Flecked,' 2, " Of persons, their faces or cheeks : Marked with patches of red ; flushed," where the present passage from Burton is quoted. EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia. (To be continued.)