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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

paste, profusely flavoured with aniseed, placet on one of the plates ; the tongs are closed anc restored for a moment to the brazier, anc then they are lifted and opened and the gauffres dropped out. Tastes vary ; but 1 may go so far as to say that I have tasted many articles less tolerable than is a hot aniseed gauffre, eaten under the eyes Andrea della Robbia's putti. Q. V.

" WHO STOLE THE DONKEY ? " (9 th S. i. 267,

395, 495.) R. R.'s interesting communication seems to imply a Flemish society of "millers' answering to the Italian carbonari.

THOMAS J. JEAK.ES.

PUDDLEDOCK (9 th S. i. 329, 478 ; ii. 157).! have frequently heard the title of " Dowager Duchess of Puddledock " given, in contempt, to a woman who, being a nobody, aped the manners of a lady of quality. C. C. B.

COUSIN (9 th S. ii. 105). Dugdale probably meant by " cousins " nothing more than kins- women. A reference to the sadly neglected ' Historical English Dictionary ' would have shown your correspondent that, in the older language, " cousin " was not restricted to its modern sense of " son or daughter of [one's] uncle or aunt," but meant any collateral relative more distant than a brother or sister ; a kinsman or kinswoman," and was "very frequently applied to a nephew or niece." Numerous examples are given, which it would be a waste of space to reproduce. Attention, however, may be directed to one or two others not noticed in the 'H.E.D.' In Lyly's 'Euphues' (Arber's reprint, p. 370) I find the word applied to a niece : Flavia says to Philautus, " My neece shal be your Violet," and the explanatory remark is appended, "This Ladyes cousin was named Frauncis, a fayre Gentlewoman." In Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' Maria calls Olivia Sir Toby's cousin (I. iii. 5); conversely Olivia addresses Sir Toby, her uncle, as cousin (I. v. 131), and asks, "Where's my cousin Toby?" (III. iv. 68.) And besides being applied to a brother-in-law in ' 1 Henry IV.' (III. i. 51), "cousin" is actually used as a compellation instead of "grandson" in 'King John' (III. iii. 17), for Shakespeare makes the Bastard Faulconbridge the natural son of Richard I., and Faulconbridge accordingly addresses Queen Elinor as grandam, and she him as cousin. F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKSPEARE (8 th S. xii. 63, 222, 281, 413 ; 9 th S. i. 69, 449). To make the record for the season complete I now give particulars of two more First Folios, which

have been sold at Sotheby's since the Ash- burnham copy. Neither of them is mentioned in former lists.

22 June, 1898, was sold a copy described as having

"the portrait cut round and mounted on a facsimile title ; wants the verses by Ben Jonson ; a leaf defective and mounted, many soiled and stained, and last leaf very imperfect and mended ; measures 12J in. by 8 in., crimson morocco extra, gilt gaufr edges, sold with all faults."

Bought by Tregaskis for 190^.

30 July was sold a copy, the property of an Irish baronet, in the original calf, " want- ing the portrait and title-page " :

"Pp. 1, 255, 267, 173, 225 slightly defective. The foremargins of pp. 231 and 5, and 21 (of ' Coriolanus ') and 141 also defective. The bottom corner of p. 357 repaired, and a small portion of the top corner of the last leaf wanting ; otherwise a sound genuine copy. It measures 12| x 8^ in., and is one of the copies with the misprints in the pagina- tion in the ' Taming of the Shrew ' and ' All s Well that Ends Well.' On the inside of the end cover is the contemporary signature of Dr. Richard Morris,, viii. July, 1650."

Bought by Quaritch for 205/.

Both the above are very clumsily described. Why say " wanting the portrait and title- page"? What it really wants is the title containing the portrait. And what is the difference between " a page " being slightly defective and having a small portion want- ing ? How can " a page " have a bit torn out and not the whole leaf? Why does the cata- loguer constantly call a leaf " a page " ?

When the first of the above is said to have "the portrait cut round and mounted on a facsimile title " it means that the title is " made up," but whether with a genuine later portrait or merely with a modern copy the curiously misty and ambiguous phraseology leaves in doubt. Surely such an important book as the First Folio should not be de- scribed in this slipshod manner. R. R. Boston, Lincolnshire.

" TABLE DE COMMUNION " (9 th S. i. 25, 251 ; 11. 33). Surely MR. ANGUS is right. In }he ' Dictionnaire Archeologique ' of 1'Abbe Migne it is stated that in course of time the chancels (cn.nc.dli or grills) became what are now termed tables of communion (tables de communion), that is, they were diminished in leight so as to permit of the faithful receiy- ng the Communion on their knees. Otte in- ns ' Archaologisches Worterbuch ' (p. 405, second ed.) defines table de communion ^ as he laity receive the Holy Communion. There is no better authority on Church matters in France than Mgr. X. Barbier de-
 * he rail in front of the altar space at which