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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. xii. OCT. 24, 1903.

body provides in various of the public parks and open spaces under its control for al ordinary games and pastimes, including shinty and tambourello. I find shinty in the equivalent of shinny, " the game of hockey or bandy-ball," but tambourello is not men tioned. What is the game? A. F. R.
 * Century Dictionary,' where it is given as an

"WOODVINE," In 1628 I find a bailiff tenant in the west of England writing to his absentee owner about the " woodvine" wil make part payment for it, has paid 91. for it, and so on. What does the term mean 1

LOBUC.

GERMAN PROPHECY. Can any of your readers inform me where the following pas- sage, attributed to Goethe, is to be found? "Eine bedeutende, das Volk aufregende Weissagung, als werde an einem gewissen Tage ein ungeheurer Sturm das Land ver- wiisten, traf ein." To what prophecy does it refer? E. A. DUNN.

2, Middle Temple Lane.

MANGOSTEEN MARKINGS. The mangosteen, a fruit of the Straits Settlements, is marked outside, showing unerringly the number (which varies) of the partitions into which the inside is divided. Where is this fact re- corded ? S, KEITH DOUGLAS.

PAMELA: PAMELA.

(9 th S. xii. 141.)

IN his interesting note under this heading MR RICHARD HORTON SMITH observes that in Sidney s 'Arcadia,' in which Pamela occurs as the name of the elder of the two princesses there is no clue to the pronunciation of the word. Inere is, however, contemporary evidence to show that it was pronounced Pamela. In the last sonnet (Amour 51) of Dray ton s Ideas Mirror. Amours in Quator- zains,' 1594, of which a solitary copy survives m the library at Bntwell Court, there is a reference to Sidney's lovers, Dorus and amela. But though this copy is unique, I happen to have in my O wn collection of Draytoniana a leaf of the book which contains this- sonnet, which is the more valuable as Drayton excluded it from his collected works It has been reprinted by John Payne Collier in his edition of the 'Poems of Michael Drayton ' (Roxburghe Society), p. 175, and in his 'Bibio^mnhf^

'Additions, Notes, and Corrections'), p. xi*;

in neither case, however, with absolute correctness. I therefore venture to sub- join a copy of the sonnet from the leaf in my possession :

Goe you my lynes, Embassadors of loue, With my harts trybute to her conquering eyes, From whence, if you one teare of pitty moue For all my woes, that onely shall suffise.

When you Minerua in the sunne behold, At her perfection stand you then and gaze, Where, in the compasse of 'a Marygold, Meridianis sits within a maze.

And let Inuention of her beauty vaunt, When Dorus sings his sweet Pamelas loue, And tell the Gods, Mars is predominant. Seated with Sol, and weares Mineruas gloue. And tell the world, that in the world there is A heauen on earth, on earth no heauen but this.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

The name is not an uncommon one in this neighbourhood. I buried a parishioner, aged seventy years, who bore the name, last December. The spelling on the burial certi- ficate was Pamella, and when I pronounced it Pamela I was at once corrected, and told that it ought to be called Pamella with the accent on the middle syllable ; and this pro- nunciation certainly agrees best with the lines quoted from Pope :

The gods, to curse Pamela with her prayers,

Gave the gilt coach and dappled Flanders mares. But it does not agree with Richardson's use of the name. C. S. TAYLOR.

Banwell, Somerset.

0-WORDS IN THE 'NEW ENGLISH DIC- TIONARY' (9 th S. xii. 165, 209), DR. MURRAY, I hope, will pardon persistence in the belief that the value of the great dictionary would be enhanced by more recent quotations, especially when the latest could easily be made " the best/' Certainly better examples of usage could be found for many of the words specified (ante, p. 165) than the- latest quoted under them.

The first instance was oology (1883). The quotation is : " Australian birds, whose nidification and oology had previously been in perfectly known." None of the definitions its such a use of the word, which, in fact, ias been used (misused?) for eggs. The author (E. P. Ramsay) did not intend to personify the birds in the manner of the >lder ornithology (see ' Ornithology, 5 1655).

DR. ^MURRAY might also excuse " sus- picion," or rather expression of interrogative doubt, that possibly "an earlier instance" could be found for a word, if he realized how nany could be illustrated by earlier quota- tions. Ophidia, for instance, is only traced backward to " 1848 in Craig." It was reallv