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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xii. AUG. 29, iocs.

Alacrity. " Alacrity of spirit " (524a) : occurs in 'Richard III.' of Shakespeare (1593). A rare word at this date. One ex- ample (in physical sense) earlier in 'N.E.D.'

"Alacrity of courage " (Harvey, i. 222).

Consanguinity. " A fellow fit for con- sanguinity" (528a). Relationship, affinity? Earliest in 'N.E.D.,' figuratively, is 1651 (Cartwright).

In Harvey, i. 142.

Ingenuity. "The ingenuity, quantity or quality of the cudgel " (531a). The earliest uses in 'N.E.D.' are : senses connected with ingenuous, Florio, 1598 ; senses connected with ingenious, Ben Jonson, 1599 ('Every Man Out'). Harvey coined it, 1592, and Nashe abused it, 1593.

" Young blood is hot : youth hasty : in- genuity open " (Harvey, i. 179). This is one of the terms that Nashe in his ' Foure Letters Confuted' (Grosart, ii. 262), 1593, strings together as pedantic and barbarous, invented by Gabriel Harvey. An interesting list.

Anagram." The anagrams and the epi- taphs " (531a). This word was introduced from the Greek, in classical use by Putten- ham, 1589. Note here the identification of Juniper with a fencing pedant.

Nashe (who is included in this burlesque) used this word in ' Have with You ' (Grosart, iii. 123), 1596, the only other earlier example 1 know.

Ptigrimize," A.n thou wilt but pilgrimize it along with me " (531 b).

Harvey has moralize and censor iall moral- izers (ii. 275-6). Harvey was a great coiner of verbs in ize. I find tyrannize and temporise early (1580) in i. 100, 124. Nashe, in * Foure Letters Confuted,' 1593 (Gros., ii. 262), objects to Harvey's sirenize ("sirenized Furies," Harvey, i. 212). Harvey has Tarletonize (i. 168); and "Had he [Nashe] begun to

Aretmize, when Elderton began to ballet

or Tarlton to extemporize." The earliest example in 'N.E.D.' of this last verb is Byron's 'Beppo.' Harvey's passage is at 11. 96. Curiously enough, Nashe tells us in his introduction to Sidney 's 'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) that " reprehenders complain of my ...... Italionate coyned verbes, all in ize"

Robert Tofte in his 'Alba' and 'Laura' (1597-8) was a free coiner of verbs in ize.

Capricious. " A few capricious gallants Juniper. Capriciotu ! stay, that word 's for

whaV'^^Vb > C ragi ! be n fc ca P rici <*:

Harvey has "capricious Dialogues of

rankest Bawdry" (goatlike, lustful), i. 290-

the capricious flocke " (Nashe's lecherous

friends), n. 52; he uses "capricious" in

same sense (ii. 91) ; "a queint and capricious nature " (ii. 278) ; " capricious and tran- scendent witte " (i. 201); " capricious veine " (ii. 53) ; " capricious humour " (ii. 54) ; " capricious panges " (ii. 54). All these are earlier than the earliest in ' N.E.D.,' from Carew (1594), who explains the term. R. Tofte has "capritious Humor" in 'Alba' (1598). Shakespeare has the word once in 'As You Like It.' And Jonson ridicules it again in 'Every Man Out' (adverb, caprici- ously), &c. (earliest in 'N.E.D.,' 1746). This word alone goes a long way to establish Juniper as Harvey. See above capricio. Fleay supposed this word, in the mouth of Emulo in 'Patient Grissil' (1599), to belong to Samuel Daniel (' Chron. of Eng. Drama,' i. 97). H. C. HART.

(To 1>e continued.)

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.' (See 9 th S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii. 2, 62.)

FEOM the list of Juvenal quotations given at the fifth of these references vi. 285 was accidentally omitted. To this line belong the words " iram atqueanimos a crimine sumunt" ('Anatomy,' vol. i. ed. Shilleto, p. 365, 1. 9 from foot ; Part. I. sect. ii. memb. iii. subs. xv. ; p. 138, 1. 6, in 6th edit.).

Vol. iii. p. 178, 1. 9 (Part. III. sect. ii. memb. iii. subs. i. ; p. 519 in 6th edit., where, owing to the error already mentioned, the member is given as iv.) :

Quisquis amat ranam, ranam putat esse Dianam. A. R, S., in his note on this, asks : "Is the reference in Diana to the famous Diana of Poitiers, mistress of Henri II.?" Certainly not. The lady lived in the sixteenth century, while the line may be found (in the form " Si quis amat," &c.) on p. 66, vol. i. of Miillerihoff and bcherer's 'Denkmaler deutscher Poesie und Prosa aus dem viii.-xii. Jahrhundert.' (3rd edit, by E. Steinmeyer, Berlin, 1892). 1 am indebted to my colleague Dr. E. J. Eitel tor kindly drawing my attention to the Latin proverbs, mostly in leonine hexameters, which are given in alphabetical order on pp. 59-66 of the above volume.

The references for several quotations passed over by Shilleto have already been incidentally supplied in these notes. But before beginning the general task of identifying passages, the source of which Shilleto failed to recognize or to discover, I think something should be said about the translations which Shilleto gives.

Probably most lovers of Burton would agree with the ^vimer in the Athenceum (6 Jan., 1894) that "nobody ignorant of Latin