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 MS. VI- Oc-r. 13. 1900.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 291 part he took with Leech in illustrating Punch’s Pocket-Book,’ an advertisement o which appeared in a later number. M. H. SPIELMANN. “OLD ENGLAND ” (9"’ S. vi. 230).-T he ‘Dictionaréy of Phrase and Fable’ says, “This term was rst used in 1641, twenty-one years after our American colony of New Virginia received the name of New England.” An early literarv use of the expression occurs in Fielding’s ‘The Grub Street Opera,” III. ii. : Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England’s roast beef ! D. ST. M. M. This term was first used in 1641, twenty- one years after our American colony of New VlPglHl& received the name of N mfg E&1‘gl§.dnd. OLD MZASONIC ENGRAVING (9**‘ S. vi. 230).-- I find the names of both Neely and Bradshaw in a local directory in the year 1845. In that year N eel¥"s name appears for the first time and not a ter. His occupation is given as a traveller, i.e., commercia traveller. I think ME. Fo1zsHAw might safely take 1845-6 as the date of the issue of the engraving. RICHARD LAwsoN» Urmston. SHAKESPEARE AND THE SEA (9“‘ S. i. 504; ii. 113, 189, 455 5 iii. 36, 173; v. 462 ; vi. 56, 136, 212).-Noth1ng will be gained by pro- longing this controversy; I therefore note, as briefiy as possible, some final points. 1. I tried to show that in the passages cited Shakespeare drew upon Latin poetr, and I attributed this to Renaissance inguences. A arallel from Lucan, which I selected as retort that one coinci- So I quoted the word two more extracts- Shakespeare probably was obviously quoted parallel of ‘ tacturos P tiypical, provoked the ence was worthless. “ typical,” and ave one from Ovid, wdwich knew. This passage for the close verbal sidera summa’Futes ” and “ tacturas Tartara nigra putes.” his MR. YARDLEY ignores, and he annotates very superfluously the phrase “ montes aquarum.” 2. Take the offending lines of ‘Othello,’ which begin The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds. The qualifying “seems,” which is repeated two l1nes later, tones down the exaggeration exactly as Ovid’s “putes” does. I have always been a fair-weather sailor, so perha s I am showing my ignorance, but I strongl)y suspect that the words “seems to pelt the clouds ” describe roughly, but quite correctly, the general effect to an onlooker of storm- lashed waves running mountains high. The rest of the assage merely amplifies the quoted line. gs far as I can see, MR. YARDLEY makes his point by pressing the hyperbole with crude literalism. 1 su pose he would deride the vivid and (for the seventeenth century) sailor-like speech in ‘Pericles,’ III. i., “But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss the moon, I care not.” The ex ression here has a proverbial ring, partly eclibing popular phrases about the moons remoteness and the impossibility of reaching it. It gives a very ood clue to the passages which trouble MR. §ARDLEY. 3. One of his quotations to illustrate Shakes re’s artificiality and ignorance is from th? famous apostrophe to Sleep in ‘ 2 Henry 1V.,’ III. i. It seems hardly credible t§1atYthe lines which immediately precede 11. ARDLEY’S excerpt are Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal u the ship-bo ’s eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rudse imperious surge? This. I suppose, was the sort of information which Shakes re icked up from a sailor or found in a hggk. In the latter case, I hope Ma. RUSHTON’8 researches will unearth that volume for us. But the next moment Shake- speare, iving free pla to l1is fancy, wrote himself down an ass. 'lyo few men is it given to sift his work so finely, and Mn. YARDLEY’S treatment of the citations from Lucan and Ovid suggests a doubt whether his strength lies in cnticism. PERCY Smrson. “CHEVAL DE ST JEAN” (9**‘ S. vi. 229).- “St. John of Tuscany, A.D. 5%, havingto pass over the isthmus of Corinth (when he was Pope), borrowed a horse, and the horse which had been honoured by having a saint on its hack, would never allow any other person to ride thereon.”-‘ Acta Sanctorum,’ vol. v. p. 239. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowiield, Reading. “ SEEK ” on “SEEKE” (9"‘ S. v. 26; vi. 211%- At variance with fact, it has been stated t at I spoke of “four uotations in the ` H.E.D.”’ for this word. I said distinctly that the phrase in which it is embedded “occurs twice” there. The quotations given for " blow the seek ” were of my furnishingx For two others-I now find there were t ree- which it seemed unnecessary to send, see Bishop Richard Mountagu’s ‘ Immediate Addresse,’ &c. (1624), p. 35, and ‘A Gagg for the New Gospel1’? (1624), “To the Reader,” and p. 181. F. H. Marlesford. “TASHLICH” (9“' S. vi. 128, 195).-Might I add a word or two to MR. J AcoBsoN’s reply 'l