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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XIL OCT. s, i%3.

These and a number of other rhetorical terms are used in reference to Harvey s lectureship on the subject at Cambridge.

Rodomont : Machiavel. "Sweet Radamant, sweet Machiavel" (542a). Probably Juniper means Rodomont.

" To bate Sir Rodomont an ace " (Harvey, ii. 296) ; "Such another Rodomont" (ii. 225). Machiavel is frequent in Harvey's pages (ii. 306, tfcc.).

Exigent. " True love's exigent" (542a). In this sense (needs, requirements) the earliest in ' N.E.D.' is Douay Bible (1609).

" Exigence " = exigents (Harvey, ii. 37, 138).

Anatomy" Would you make an anatomy of me ? " (543a.) The earliest example of sense of "skeleton " is 1594. The earliest of anatomie is 1658. The senses in Harvey are probably that in which Lyly used it in ' Pap with an Hatchett/ 1589 (* N.E.D.'s ' earliest). Very rarely used in transferred senses.

" An Anatomie of the minde " (Harvey, ii. 243) ; " Anatomy of variety " (ii. 245) : " Anatomie of Fortune " (ii. 243).

Orthography." Think you not I am true orthography 'j Jaq. Orthography ! anatomy !" (543a.) Used earlier than Harvey, but one of his favourite " jaw-breakers."

See Harvey, i. 21, 76, 103, 104, &c.

Inviolable: predicament: intimate. "Be

not so inviolable What predicament call

you this ? Why do you intimate so much ? '' (543a.) All as yet pedantic terms.

" Inviolable (Harvey, i. 40 ; ii. 201) ; "intimate," verb (ii. 87); "predicament" (i. 21, 170).

Bombard, "These bombard-slops, what is it crams them so ? " (543a.) The earliest transferred sense in ' N.E.D.' is Shakespeare's, of a bottle, in ' 1 Hen. IV.,' II. iv. 497, " That huge Bombard of Sacke" (1596), and 'Tem- pest.'

A favourite term with Harvey. He coins "Sir Bombarduccio" (ii. 18); " Such a Bom- bard-Goblin " (ii. 17) ; " Bombarder of terms " (i. 205). See also ii. 41, &c. Harvey is equally at home with the similarly used " bombasted," both very applicable to his own language.

Conundrum. "Stand not upon conun- drums now : thou knowest what contagious speeches I have suffered for thy sake " (544a). Not quoted in ' N.E.D.,' but it forms the only earlier example than Jonson's 'Fox' (" My crotchets and my conundrums "), 1005, except Nashe's personal and somewhat doubt- ful example. Middleton's 'Ram Alley' (1611, not in * N.E.D. 1 ) would come next.

Nashe says: "So will I drive him

[G. Harvey] toconfesse himself a conundrum,

who now thinks he hath learning enough to " &c. This is the earliest use in * N.KD.

'inexorable : infallible : intricate : superficial. "[Shew him the gold] Juniper. O in- exorable ! O infallible ! O intricate, divine, and superficial fortune " (544a). More pedan- try. All these long words occur, but very sparingly, in Shakespeare.

" Inexorable rigour " (ii. 194). The earliest impersonal use in 'N.E.D.' is 1600. 'Infal- lible ; ' (i. 287, 209 ; ii. 85 ; i. 76, &c.). " Intri- cate" (i. 26;ii. 114; i. 127; iii. 15, &c.). " Superficial " (i. 230 ; ii. 90 ; iii. 6).

Stigmatical. "I will have three or four most stigmatical suits" (544a). This term occurs in ' Com. of Errors,' 1591. It was used in the Harvey-Nashe war.

"Thou will be so cosmoligized, if thou beest catcht here, for calling our Masters of Arte stigmatical, that is, burnt with a hot Iron " (iii. 41). " Thou " is Nashe.

Superintendent : addicted." [He] shall not be superintendent upon me 1 ? he shall not be addicted? he shall not be incident" (548a). " Addicted to Theory " is one of the expres- sions Nashe reproaches Harvey for using (Grosart's 'Nashe,' ii. 262; ' Foure Letters Confuted,' 1593).

"The superintendent of the presse " (ii. 79, 183). " Addicted " (i. 228).

Princox : aggravate. "Stand away, prin- cox ! do not aggravate my joy " (548b). Princox is a favourite with Harvey. It occurs in ' Romeo and Juliet,' but not else- where in Shakespeare or Jonson. An old word. "Aggravate" had somewhat an affected use. Compare Bottom in * Mid- summer Night's Dream ' (1. ii. 84) and Falstaff in ' Merry Wives ' (II. ii. 296).

" Princocke " (i. 283 ; ii. 87), to Nashe : "I will not aggravate or discourse particulars " (i. 192), and at i. 118, 288, &c.

Alabaster. " His alabaster blade cannot fear me" (548b)._ Earliest in 'N.E.D.' is Sidney's 'Arcadia,' "alabaster throate." Shakespeare has " alabaster arms " (' Richard III.'). A new expression.

" Alabaster necke " (ii. 285).

Linguist." Has he his French linguist 1 " (549a.) Jonson has this new word in ' Every Man Out,' III. i. (1599).

"The many-tongued Linguist" (Thorius), ii. 15.

Elocution. " Dost thou fear a little elocu- tion?" (554a.) Perhaps he means "execu- tion."

Elocution is naturally a frequent word in the writings of a lecturer on the subject (i. 95, 219 ; ii. 51), &c.