Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

_The Cuckoo._--In respect to the Query of "G." (No. 15. p. 230.), on the cuckoo, as the Welsh Ambassador, I would suggest that it was in allusion to the annual arrival of Welshmen in search of summer and other employment. As those wanderers may have entered England about the time of the cuckoo's appearance, the idea that the bird was the precursor of the Welsh might thus become prevalent. Also, on the quotation given by "PETIT ANDRÉ" (No. 18. p. 283.) of Welsh parsley, or hempen halters, it may have derived its origin from the severity practised on the Welsh, in the time of their independence, when captured on the English side of the border,--the death of the prisoner being inevitable.

GOMER.

_Ancient Titles_ (No. 11. p. 173.).--It may be interesting to your querist "B." to know that the seal of the borough of Chard, in the county of Somerset, has two birds in the position which he describes, with the date 1570.

S.S.S.

_Daysman_ (No. 12. p. 188., No. 17. p. 267.).--For quoted instances of this, and other obsolete words, see Jameson's _Bible Glossary_, just published by Wertheim in Paternoster Row.

S.S.S.

_Safeguard_ (No. 17. p. 267.).--The article of dress for the purpose described is still used by farmers' wives and daughters in the west of England, and is known by the same name.

S.S.S.

_Finkle_ (No. 24. p. 384.).--means _fennel_. Mr. Halliwell (_Dict._ p. 357.) quotes from a MS. of the _Nominale_, "fynkylsede, _feniculum_."

L.

_Gourders of Rain_ (No. 21. p. 335., No. 22. p. 357.).--Has the word "Gourders" any connection with _Gourtes_, a stream, or pool? See Cotgrave's _Dict._, and Kelham's _Dict. of the Norman Language_.

_Geotere_ is the A.-S. word for "melter;" but may not the term be applied to the pourer out of anything? Gourd is used by Chaucer in the sense of a vessel. (See _Prol. to the Manciple's Tale_.)

C.I.R.

_Urbanus Regius_ (No. 23. p. 367.).--The "delightful old lady" is informed that "Urbanus Regius" (or Urban le Roi) was one of the reformers, a native of Langenargen, in Germany. His works were published under the title of _Vitet et Opera Urbani Regii, &c._, Norib. 1562. His theological works have been translated into English, as the lady is aware.

W. FRANKS MATHEWS. Kidderminster, April 7. 1850.

_Horns_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--Rosenmüller ad Exodum xxxiv. 29.

"_Ignorabat quods plenderet entis faciei ejus_. Vulgatus
interpres reddidit. _Ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua_,
quia verbum _Karan_ denominativum nominis _Keren, cornu_;
opinatus est denotare, _cornua habere_; hine nata opinio, Mosis
faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed nomen [Hebrew: keren] ob
similitudinem et ad _radios_ transferri, docet Haliæ, m. 4. ubi
de fulminibus dicitur.... Hic denotat _emisit radias_, i.e.
splenduit." LXX. [Greek: dedoxastai]. Our version, _shone_.

R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic there is the like metaphor, of the sun's rays to a deer's horns. R. adds, that the Jews also attributed horns to Moses in another sense, figuratively for power, as elsewhere.

_Tauriformis._--The old scholiasts on Horace say that rivers are always represented with horns, "propter impetum et mugitum æquarum."

"Corniger Hesperidum fluvius."

An old modern commentator observes, that in Virgil "Rhenus bicornis," rather applies to its two æstuaries.

When Milton says (xi. 831.) "push'd by the horned flood," he seems rather to mean, as Newton explains him, that "rivers, when they meet with anything to obstruct their passage, divide themselves and become _horned_ as it were, and hence the ancients have compared them to bulls."

C.B.

["M." (Oxford) refers our correspondent to Facciolati,
_Lexicon_, ed. Bailey, voc. _Corun_.]

_Horns_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--1. Moses' face, Ex. ch. xxxiv. (_karan_, Heb.), shot out beams or _horns_ of light (from _keren_, Heb.); so the first beams of the rising sun are by the Arabian poets compared to horns. Absurdly rendered by Aqu. and Vulg. (facies) _cornuta erat_. Whence painters represent Moses as having horns.--Gesenius, _Heb. Lex._ {420}

2. There appear many reasons for likening rivers to bulls. Euripides calls Cephisus taumomorphos, and Horace gives Aufidus the same epithet, for the same reason probably, as makes him call it also "longe sonans," "violentus," and "acer;" viz., the bull-like roaring of its waters, and the blind fury of its course, especially in flood time. Other interpretations may be given: thus, Milton, Dryden, and others, speak of the "horned flood," i.e., a body of water which, when it meets with any obstruction, divides itself and becomes _horned_, as it were. See Milt. P.L. xi. 831., and notes on the passage by Newton and Todd. Dryden speaks of "the seven-fold _horns_ of the Nile," using the word as equivalent to winding stream. It would be tedious to multiply examples.

3. Of this phrase I have never seen a satisfactory explanation. "Coruna nasci" is said by Petronius, in a general sense, of one in great distress. As applied to a cuckold, it is common to most of the modern European languages. The Italian phrase is "becco cornuto" (horned goat), which the Accademici della Crusca explain by averring that that animal, unlike others can without anger bear a rival in his female's love.

"Dr. Burn, in his _History of Westmoreland_, would trace this _crest_ of _cuckoldom_ to horns worn as crests by those who went to the Crusades, as their armorial distinctions; to the infidelity of consorts during their absence, and to the finger of scorn pointed at them on their return; crested indeed, but abused."--_Todd's Johnson's Dictionary_.

R.T.H.G.

_Why Moses represented with Horns._--You may inform your querist "L.C." (No. 24 p. 383.), that the strange practice of making Moses appear horned, which is not confined to statues, arose from the mistranslation of Exod. xxxiv. 30. & 35. in the Vulgate, which is to the Romanist his authenticated scripture. For there he reads "faciem Moysi cornutum," instead of "the skin of Moses' face shone." The Hebrew verb put into our type is _coran_, very possibly the root of the Latin _cornu_: and its primary signification is to put forth horns; its secondary, to shoot forth rays, to shine. The participle is used in its primary sense in Psalms, xix. 31.; but the Greek Septuagint, and all translators _from the Hebrew_ into modern European languages, have assigned to the verb its secondary meaning in Exod. xxxiv. In that chapter the nominative to _coran_ is, in both verses, undeniably _skin_, not _head_ nor _face_. Now it would obviously be absurd to write "his skin was horned," so that common sense, and the authority of the Septuagint, supported by the language of St. Paul in his paraphrase and comment on this passage in 2 Cor. iii. 7-13., ought to have been sufficient to guide any Christian translator as to the sense to be attached to _coran_ in the mention of Moses.

H.W. Oxford, April 16, 1850.

[We have since received replies to a similar effect, from "SIR
EDMUND FILMER," "J.E.," &c. "R.G." refers our Querist to Leigh's
_Critica Særa_, part I. p. 219. London, 1662; and "M." refers
him to the note on this passage in Exodus in M. Polus' _Synopsis
Criticorum_. To "T.E." we are indebted for Notes on other
portions of "L.C.'s" Queries.]

_The Temple or A Temple._--"Mr. Foss" says (No. 21. p. 335.) that in Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer and in all other copies he has seen, the reading is--

"A gentil manciple was there of a temple."

In an imperfect black-letter folio copy of Chaucer in my possession (with curious wood-cuts, but without title-page, or any indications of its date, printer, &c.), the reading is--

"A gentyl mancyple was there of _the_ temple."

That the above is the true reading ("the real passage"), and that it is to be applied to _the_ temple, appears to me from what follows, in the description of the manciple.

"Of maysters had he moo than thryes ten
That were of lawe expirte and curyous,
Of whyche there were a dosen in that hous
Worthy to be," &c.;

P.H.F. March 23, 1850.

_Ecclesiastical Year_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--The following note on the calendar is authority for the statement respecting the beginning of the ecclesiastical year:--

"Note that the Golden Number and the Dominicall letter doeth
change euery yeere the first day of January. Note also, that the
yeere of our Lord beginneth the xxv. day of March, the same
supposed to be the first day upon which the world was created,
and the day when Christ was conceived in the womb of the Virgin
Mary."

As in the Book of Common Prayer, Lond. 1614, p. 2. Bishop Cosins remarks, "beginneth the 25th day of March."

"Romani annum suum auspicantur ad calendas Januarias. Idem
faciunt hodierni Romani et qui in aliis regnis papæ authoritatem
agnoseunt. Ecclesia autem Anglicana sequitur suppotationem
antiquam a Dionysio Exiguo inchoatum, anno Christi 532."

Nicholl's Commentary on the Book of Common Prayer, additional notes, p. 10. Fol. Lond. 1712, vid. loe.

In the Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1716, the note is,--

"_Note._--The supputation of the year of our Lord in the Church
of England beginneth the five-and-twentieth day of March."

This note does not now appear in our Prayer Books, being omitted, I suppose, in consequence {421} of the adoption of the new style in England in 1752. The daily course of lessons used to begin, as it does now, with the Book of Genesis and of St. Matthew, in January; the collects, epistles, and gospels with those for Advent.

M. Oxford.

_Paying through the Nose_ (No. 21. p. 335.).--I have always understood this to be merely a degenerated pronunciation of the last word. Paying through _the noose_ gives the idea so exactly, that, as far as the etymology goes, it is explanatory enough. But whether _that_ reading has an historical origin may be another question. It scarcely seems to need one.

C.W.H.

_Quem Deus vult perdere, &c._ (No. 22. p. 351.).--The correct reading is, "Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius." See Duport's _Gnomologia Homerica_, p. 282. (Cantab. 1660.) Athenagoras quotes Greek lines, and renders them in Latin (p. 121. Oxon. 1682):

"At dæmon homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam."

The word "dementat" is not to be met with, I believe, in the works of any real classical author. Butler has employed the idea in part 3. canto 2. line 565. of _Hudibras_:

"Like men condemned to thunderbolts,
Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts."

C.I.R.

_Shrew_ (No. 24. p. 381.).--The word, I apprehend, means sharp. The mouse, which is not the field-mouse, as Halliwell states, but an animal of a different order of quadrupeds, has a very sharp snout. Shrewd means sharp generally. Its bad sense is only incidental. They seem connected with scratch; screw; shrags, the end of sticks or furze (Halliwell); to shred (A.-S., screadan, but which must be a secondary form of the verb). That the shrew-mouse is called in Latin _sorex_, seems to be an accidental coincidence. That is said to be derived from [Greek: urax]. The French have confounded the two, and give the name _souris_ to the common mouse, but _not_ to the shrew-mouse.

I protest, for one, against admitting that Broc is derived from _broc_, persecution, which of course is participle from break. We say "to badger" for to annoy, to teaze. I suppose two centuries hence will think the name of the animal is derived from that verb, and not the verb from it. It means also, in A.-S., _equus vilis_, a horse that is worn out or "broken down."

C.B.

_Zenobia_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--Zenobia is said to be "gente Judaea," in Hoffman's _Lexicon Universale_, and Facciolati, ed. Bailey, Appendix, voc. _Zenobia_.

M. Oxford.

_Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 24. p. 389.).--There is Woolaston, in Gloucestershire, four miles from Chepstow, chiefly belonging now to the Duke of Beaufort.

C.B.

_Vox et præterea Nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247., and No. 24. p. 387.).--This saying is to be found in Plutarch's _Laconic Apophthegms_ ([Greek: Apophthegmata Lakonika]), Plutarchi _Opera Moralia_, ed. Dan. Wyttenbach, vol. i. p. 649.

Philemon Holland has "turned it into English" thus:--

"Another [Laconian] having plucked all the feathers off from a
nightingale, and seeing what a little body it had: 'Surely,'
quoth he, 'thou art all voice, and nothing else.'"--_Plutarch's
Morals_, fol. 1603. p. 470.

W.B.R.

_Law of Horses._--The following is from Oliphant's _Law of Horses, &c._, p. 75. Will any of your readers kindly tell me whether the view is correct?

"It is said in _Southerene_ v. _Howe_ (2 Rol. Rep. 5.), _Si home
vend chivall que est lame, null action gist peur ceo, mes_
caveat emptor: _lou jeo vend chivall que ad null oculus la null
action gist; autrement lou il ad un conterfeit faux et_ bright
eye." "If a man sell a horse which is lame, no action lyes for
that, but _caveat emptor_; and when I sell a horse that has _no_
eye, there no action lies; otherwise where he has a counterfeit,
false, and _bright eye_."

Thus it appears that a distinction is here made between a horse having _no_ eye at all, and having a counterfeit, false or _bright_ one. And probably by _bright eye_ is meant _glass eye_, or _gutta serena_; and the words "counterfeit" and "false" may be an attempt of the reporter to explain an expression which he did not understand. Because putting a false eye into a horse is far in advance of the sharpest practices of the present day, or of any former period.

Note.--_Gutta Serena_, commonly called glass-eye, is a species of blindness; the pupil is unusually dilated; it is immovable, bright, and glassy.

G.H. HEWIT OLIPHANT. April 16. 1850.

_Christ's Hospital._--In reply to "NEMO" (No. 20. p. 318.), a contemporary of the eminent Blues there enumerated, informs him, that although he has not a perfect recollection of the ballads then popular at Christ's Hospital, yet "NEMO" may be pleased to learn, that on making search at the Society of Antiquaries for Robin Hood Ballads, he found in a folio volume of Broadsides, &c., one of the much interest and considerable length in relation to that school. The Ballad must also be rare, as it is not among those in the two large volumes which have been for many years in the British Museum, nor is it in the three volumes of Roxburgh Ballads recently purchased for that noble library. {422}

The undersigned believes that the only survivor of the scholars at Christ's Hospital mentioned by "NEMO," is the Rev. Charles Valentine Le Grice, now residing at Trerieffe, near Penzance.

J.M.G. Worcester, March 22. 1850.

[We are happy to say that one other, at least, of the Christ
Hospital worthies enumerated by "NEMO" still survives--Mr. Leigh
Hunt, whose kindly criticism and real poetic feeling have
enriched our literature with so many volumes of pleasant
reading, and won for him the esteem of a large circle of
admirers.]

_Tickhill, God help me!_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--"H.C. ST. CROIX" informs us that a similar expression is in use in Lincolnshire. Near to the town of "merry Lincoln" is a large heath celebrated for its cherries. If a person meets one of the cherry-growers on his way to market, and asks him where he comes from, the answer will be, if the season is favourable, "From Lincoln Heath, where should 'un?" but if, on the contrary, there is a scarcity of cherries, the reply will be, "From Lincoln Heath, God help 'un."

"DISS" informs us, too, that this saying is not confined to Tickhill, Melverly, or Pershore, but is also current at Letton, on the banks of the Wye, between Hereford and Hay. And "H.C.P." says the same story is told of the inhabitants of Tadley, in the north of Hampshire, on the borders of Berkshire.

_Robert Long_ (No. 24. p. 382.).--Rear-Admiral Robert Long died 4th _July_, 1771, having been superannuated on the half-pay of rear-admiral some time before his death. His seniority in the navy was dated from 21st March, 1726, and he was posted in the Shoreham. He never was _Sir_ Robert. An account of the charity he founded may be seen in the _Commissioners' Reports on Charities_, vol. iii. iv. vi.

G.

_Transposition of Letters_ (No. 19. p. 298.).--Instances of shortened names of places. Bensington, Oxfordshire, now called Benson; Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, now called Stadham; and in Suffolk the following changes have taken place; Thelnetham is called Feltam; Hoxney, Oxen.

C.I.R.

_The Complaynt of Scotland_.--I believe there has not been discovered recently any fact relative to the authorship of above-mentioned poem, and that the author is,

"Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount,
Lord Lyon King-at-Arms."

W.B.

_Note Books_ (No. 3. p. 43., and No. 7. p. 104.)--I beg to state my own mode, than which I know of none better. I have _several_ books, viz., for History, Topography, Personal and Family History, Ecclesiastical Affairs, Heraldry, Adversaria. At the end of each volume is an alphabet, with six columns, one for each vowel; in one or other of which the word is entered according to the vowel which first appears in it, with a reference to the page. Thus, _bray_ would come under B.a; _church_ under C.u.; and so forth.

S.S.S.

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MISCELLANIES.

_MSS. of Casaubon._--There is a short statement respecting certain MSS., now existing, of the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of the Parker Society--Whitaker's _Disputation on Holy Scripture_, edited and translated by Professor Fitzgerald, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dublin, which I conceive is one of those facts which might be of service at some future time to scholars, from having been recorded in your columns:--

Whitaker having observed--

"One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures
are of no more avail than Aesop's fables, apart from the
testimony of the church."--(Parker Soc. transl., p. 276.)

Professor Fitzgerald appends the following "note:"--

"Casaubon, Exercit. Baron. I. xxxiii. had, but doubtfully,
attributed this to Pighius; but in a MS. note preserved in
Primate Marsh's library, at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, he corrects
himself thus: 'Non est hic, sed quidam Hermannus, ait Wittakerus
in Præfat. Controvers. I. Quæst. S. p. 314.' If a new edition of
those Exercitations be ever printed, let not these MSS. of that
great man, which, with many other valuable records, we owe to
the diligence of Stillingfleet and the munificence of Marsh, be
forgotten."

T. Bath

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ON A VERY TALL BARRISTER NAMED "LONG."

Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum,
Dic mihi, te quæso, num _Breve_ quicquid habes?

W.(1.)

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"NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR."

_On a very bad book: from the Latin of Melancthon_.

A thousand blots would never cure this stuff;
One might, I own, if it were large enough.

RUFUS.

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_Close Translation._--The following is a remarkable instance; for it is impossible to say which is the original and which the translation, they are so nearly equivalent:--

"Boys and girls, come out to play;
The moon doth shine as bright as day;
Come with a whoop, come with a call,
Come with a good will, or come not at all." {423}

"Garçons et filles, venez toujours;
La lune fait clarté comme le jour;
Venez au bruit d'un joyeux éclat;
Venez de bon coeur, ou ne venez pas."

W.(1.)

_St. Antholin's Parish Books._--In common with many of your antiquarian readers, I look forward with great pleasure to the selection from the entries in the St. Antholin's Parish Books, which are kindly promised by their present guardian, and, I may add, intelligent expositor, "W.C."

St. Antholin's is, on several accounts, one of the most interesting of our London churches; it was here, Strype tells us (_Annals_, I. i. p. 199.), "the new morning prayer," i.e., according to the new reformed service-book, first began in September, 1559, the bell beginning to ring at five, when a psalm was sung after the Geneva fashion, all the congregation, men, women, and boys, singing together. It is much to be regretted that these registers do not extend so far back as this year, as we might have found in them entries of interest to the Church historian; but as "W.C." tells us the volumes are kept regularly up to the year 1708, I cannot but hope he may be able to produce some notices of what Mr. P. Cunningham calls, "the Puritanical fervour" of this little parish. "St. Antling's bell," and "St. Antling's preachers," were proverbial for shrillness and prolixity, and the name is a familiar one to the students of our old dramatists. Let "W.C." bear in mind, that the chaplains of the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland, with Alexander Henderson at their head, preached here in 1640, commanding crowded audiences, and that a passage was formed from the house where they lodged into a gallery of this church; and that the pulpit of St. Antholin's seems, for many years, to have been the focus of schism, faction, and sedition, and he may be able to bring forward from these happily preserved registers much interesting and valuable information.

D.S.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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"The height
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