91 LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1863. ignorant of the author without being absolutely a fool." CONTENTS.-No. 81. Nevertheless, as we shall find, Dodsley was NOTES: · Hudibrastic Couplet, 61 - - Archbishop Leigh more to be excused than censured for his authoriton's Library at Dunblane, 63 - The " Faerie Queene" tative averment. He never dreamt for a moment, Unveiled, 65 - Traitor's Gate, Tower of London, 66. good soul, that any one would have the presumpMINOR NOTES:- Curious Anachronism by an Old Drama- tion to interpolate the text of Butler with the tist -- Errata in King's “Life of Locke" - Rolling the R's - Letters of Marque -- A Niece of Oliver Goldsmith, 67. lines in dispute, as unquestionably had been the case. A literary fraud had however been played QUERIES :-Apparitions, 68 — " Boadicea" - Robert Burns and George the Fourth Catherine de Medicis - Cow. off upon him, and the public generally, and that thorpe Oak, near Wetherby, Yorkshire -- German Drama too by one of his own former associates -Heraldic Queries - Cardinal Howard - Johnstone the Freemason - Longevity of Incumbents --"Macbeth Morrison's Crystal - Thomas, Duke of Norfolk - Elijah “ Who wrote like an angel, but talk'd like poor Poll.” Ridings - St. Germain - Sugar-tongs liko a Stork, 69. It was in the year 1762 that John Newbery QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:- Radnorshire Rhyme - Jacob's Staff Agricola's Victory - Sandtoft Register Cock first published a valuable collection, entitled pit, 70. « THE ART OF POETRY ON A NEW PLAN: illustrated REPLIES: Wonderful Animal, 71 - Miss Vane: “Dis. appointed Love," 72 - Guérin de Montaigu, Ib. -- Exche with a great Variety of Examples from the best English quer: or Exchecquer- Choque, 73 -- Horse Police - Theo- Prets; and of Translations from the Ancients : together dolite -- Yealand and Ashton Mayors' Robes - Monu. with such Reflections and Critical Remarks as may tend mental Brass - “Virgini Paritura" Bridport, &c. "Old Dominion Law of Laurişton - Queen Isabella, to form in our Youth an elegant Taste, and render the “the Catholic Rev. John Sampson -- Death of the Czar Study of this part of the Belles Lettres more rational and Nicholas -- Daffy's Elixir -- Ralegh Arms - St. YusteWalsall-legged - Earldom of Errol -" Miller of the Dee” pleasing." London, 2 vols. 12mo. 1762. ---Richard Westbrook Baker, 74. This work is admirably calculated to lead the Notes on Books, &c. youthful mind to an acquaintance with the writings of the best English poets, and appears to have Notes. been well received by the public; for at least four editions, with different title-pages, were published HUDIBRASTIC COUPLET. between the years 1762 and 1776.* In its comIt was in the autumnal month of August, 1784, selection of the choicest passages from each author; pilation a sound judgment was displayed in the as the story goes, that some wits over their wine whilst in the rules and observations which accomat Brooks's Club House in St. James's Street, pany them, the pen of a poetical genius of no orwere found wrangling among themselves respect dinary ability is clearly to be traced. ing the authorship of the famed couplet : The selection of the metrical specimens has « For he who fights and runs away always been attributed to John Newbery; but May live to fight another day.” for their revision and alterations we are indebted A wager of twenty to one was offered that the himself acknowledged to Dr. Percy. In the to the critical taste of Oliver Goldsmith, as he lines would be found in that inimitable produc perusal of the examples from the works of our tion, Butler's Hudibras. Pendente lite, they agreed that James Dodsley, the bookseller, should be poets, the reader, naturally enough, would infer the arbiter. that the extracts had been made in good faith, The worthy bibliopole, on being summoned, felt somewhat ruffled in temper on leaving his business to decide a point which, to The Second Edition I have not been able to trace. his own satisfaction at least, did not admit of any The Third and Fourth are clearly abridgments, with question. “Every fool," said he, “knows that considerable variations, but both contain the passage from Hudibras. These are entitled : they are in Hudibras ; " so true is it that men are Poetry made Familiar and Easy to Young Gentlemen too apt to be mistaken in the exact proportion as and Ladies, and embellished with a great variety of the they are positive. George Selwyn, who happened most shining Epigrams, Epitaphs, Songs, Odes, Pastorals, to be one of the dissentients, coolly replied, “Will &c. from the best Authors. Being the Fourth Volume of you be good enough then to inform an old fool, The Circle of the Seasons. Published by the King's Authority. Third Edition, London: Printed for Newwho is at the same time your wise worship's most bery and Carnan, No. 65, the north side of St. Paul's humble servant, in what canto they are to be Churchyard. 1769.” 32mo, pp. 224. found ?" Dodsley, feeling confident that he was "Logic, Ontology, and the Art of Poetry; being the right, immediately opened the volume, but un- Fourth and Fifth Volumes of The Circle of the Sciences, luckily for himself could not discover the required considerably enlarged, and greatly improved. London, Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, jun. at No. 65 in passage in it. After passing a tedious night in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1776, 12mo." the pursuit of the pugnacious fugitive, he was at † Prior's Life of Goldsmith, i. 389; Forster's Life of last compelled to confess, “that a man might be Goldsmith, i. 298, edit. 1854. ipsissima verba, especially as not the least intimation is given, either in Newberry's Dedication to the Earl of Holderness or in bis Advertisement to the Reader, of any variorum readings. · Part III. of Butler's Hudibras was first printed in 1678. In canto iii. lines 241–246 of that edition, Ralph and his Quixotic superior, having been unhorsed and beaten, very prudently refrain from another encounter, but resolve “ To make an honourable retreat, Of conduct in the martial art." The same reading will be found in the editions of 1684, 1689, 1693, and 1700. Goldsmith, however, in the Art of Poetry on a New Plan, ii. 147, ,has not faithfully copied the original text; and forgetting, for once, what Shakspeare has taught us, that " Brevity is the soul of wit," bas paraphrased a couplet into four lines. The variations in the following passage, as cited by him, I have distinguished by small capital letters : “Who can forbear (says he) smiling at that sound and salutary reasoning, whereby Squire Ralpho demonstrates the prudence and advantage of a timely flight, rather than staying to be slain in battle? It is generally allowed, that a well conducted retreat is almost as honourable as a victory; but perhaps the wisdom of running away from an enemy was never proved by such arguments as are contained in the following lines : - I, with reason, chose What victory could e'er be won, Those win the day that win the race. But it is time to have done; for to select all the beautiful passages of this inimitable poem, we should be obliged to transcribe almost the whole." To most readers it is well known that the sentiment conveyed in the above memorable lines may be found in the verse made either by or for Demosthenes, as his best apology for running away at the battle of Chæronea, and leaving his shield behind him; and which sentiment subsequently was adopted by Aulus Gellius, Erasmus, Jeremy Taylor, and by the author of the Satyre Menippée, 1594. Since the publication of Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual in 1834, where it is stated that these lines occur in the Musarum Deliciæ, p. 101, ed. 1656, our literary antiquaries have comfortably consoled themselves with the idea that Sir John Mennis was the author of them; but although most of our public and private libraries have been carefully searched with the lantern of Diogenes, no copy as yet has been discovered containing them. To get over the difficulty, the editor of the new edition of Lowndes tells us (p. 1535) that “ in some copies a cancelled leaf (reprinted in the new edition) is found, in which are the lines ;" but he has not informed us that, during his long experience in literature, the original leaf had either been seen by himself or by any one else. Goldsmith died in 1774, just ten years before the inquiry was started respecting the origin of 4. The Puritan turned Jesnit. this familiar couplet. Great, indeed, would have 5. Zeal Examined. 6. Persuasive to Moderation to Church Dissenters. been the saving of ink and paper, not only in the 7. Account of the Bloodshed occasioned by the Jesuits. Europeun and Gentleman's Niagazines, but in the 8. Sufferings of the Protestant Ministers in Hungary. Two Series of Notes and Queries, had poor Goldy 9. Lex Talionis. been permitted, in the visible order of things, to 10. Five Pence. have made one of the literary gathering at Brooks's 11. Marionis Enchiridion Loc. Com. Theol. Club, when doubtless he would have humbly 12. Mayerus de Vulneribus Ecclesiæ Romanæ. 13. Apuleius Castigated. confessed, that during a convenient temporary 14. La Sylvie Tragicum Pastorale [by Jean Mairet, seclusion with his friend Newbery in Canonbury 1621?] Tower he had unwittingly penned these celebrated 15. Les Bergeries de Maistre. lines, the authorship of which, for eighty long 16. Thorndike's Way of Composing Differences. years, has baffled the researches, and puzzled the With regard to the first, all I know is, that Leo, ingenuity of the whole literary brotherhood. or Leone, was an Italian Jew, a physician by pro J. YEOWELL. fession, who became a Christian, and published 4, Minerva Terrace, Barnsbury. some mystical Dialogi di Amore at Rome in 1535, frequently reprinted and translated. His Life must be a book of extreme rarity. Some writers ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON'S LIBRARY AT DUN. say that his real, or original, name was Rabbi Judah BLANE. Abarbanel ; if so, probably a relative of the celeOn the 17th of last September I paid another 1508. Brunet, amongst others, calls him Abar brated R. Isaac Abarbanel, who died at Venice in visit to Dunblane, and spent three weeks there, banel. during which time I made a catalogue of Arch. bishop Leighton's books, and took copious ex- phlet: No. 2 seems connected with the following pamtracts from his fly-leaf memoranda. The catalogue is ready for the press, but I have given up the burgh to the Ministers of London, concerning the Re “ Letters from Several Ministers in and about Edinintention intimated in a former paper (“N. & Q." establishing of the Covenant. Edinb. 1659,” 4to. 3rd S. i. 6) of publishing it in a separate volume, as it seems more desirable to include it in my No. 4 is, no doubt, Dr. John Owen's treatise, The Puritan turned Jesuit, Lond. 1643, 4to. I forthcoming edition of the works. In the catalogue the lost books are denoted by italics, and the scope of this attack on his "Puritan" brethren should be glad, however, to get some notion of every book containing any of Leighton's writing by the great Independent divine? is marked by an obelisk (t) prefixed, or by two when there is much writing. A few illustrative Senensis de Hereticis Capitali Supplicio non Affi One of Leighton's books is entitled Minus Celsus notes are appended to the rarer and more remark- ciendis, s. I. 1584, 12mo. Is not the name fictitious, able books. I am happy to say that but one hundred of the brated Hungarian Bishop, Andrew Dudith? and was not this book really written by the celearchbishop's books have been lost, and these include pamphlets and small works; besides, there write La Tradition de l'Eglise touchant l’Eucha Did the great Port-Royalist, Antoine Arnauld, are some twenty-four odd volumes missing: Of ristie, 2 vols. 8vo, Paris , 1659 ?, He did write these hundred works, but sixteen were lost during a supplement to it, entitled Table Historique des the fifty years that elapsed between 1793 and 1843, when the two catalogues were respectively l'ouvrage intitulé, Tradition de l'Eglise sur l'Eu Ss. Pères, fc., dont les passages sont compris dans printed ; * and of the odd volumes but two, viz. charistie. vols. iii. and vi. of S. Austin's Works. The books of Leighton's library now extant number Leighton had a great reverence for one whose character and career in many respects strikingly about 1230; of these, 206 contain his MS. notes and memorabilia. resembled his own, the pious Dom Barthelemy des The following are some of the lost works, chiefly mended the Stimulus Pastorum of the Portuguese Martyrs, Archbishop of Braga. He often recompamphlets, which as yet I have not been able to prelate, and used to lament that he never could identify in any bibliographical works within reach, and therefore should be thankful for assistance: get a copy of the original Latin, but was obliged to be content with the French version, now in the 1. La Vita di Leo Hebr. 2. Warning anent the Re- 8 [sic. Re-establishing?] library. Will some one kindly inform me respectScottish Discipline. ing the first and chief subsequent editions of this 3. Confessions of the Protestant Divines concerning book so much prized by Leighton? The Vie de Episcopacy. D. Barthelemy has been attributed to each of the I am indebted to the kindness of Sir James Camp- celebrated brothers, Antoine and Louis Isaac Le bell, Bart., one of the Trustees, for a loan of the catalogue Maistre, but is said to bave been really written by of 1793, perhaps the only existing copy. Thomas Du Fossé. What known of Du Fossé ? . ipsissima verba, especially as not the least intimation is given, either in Newberry's Dedication to the Earl of Holderness or in his Advertisement to the Reader, of any variorum readings. 'Part III. of Butler's Hudibras was first printed in 1678. In canto iii. lines 241–246 of that edition, Ralph and his Quixotic superior, having been unhorsed and beaten, very prudently refrain from another encounter, but resolve “To make an honourable retreat, Of conduct in the martial art." The same reading will be found in the editions of 1684, 1689, 1693, and 1700. Goldsmith, however, in the Art of Poetry on a New Plan, ii. 147, has not faithfully copied the original text; and forgetting, for once, what Shakspeare has taught us, that "Brevity is the soul of wit," has paraphrased a couplet into four lines. The variations in the following passage, as cited by him, I have distin. guished by small capital letters: “Who can forbear (says he) smiling at that sound and salutary reasoning, whereby Squire Ralpho demonstrates the prudence and advantage of a timely flight, rather than staying to be slain in battle? It is generally allowed, that a well conducted retreat is almost as honourable as a victory; but perhaps the wisdom of running away from an enemy was never proved by such arguments as are contained in the following lines : I, with reason, chose What victory could e'er be won, Those win the day that win the race. But it is time to have done; for to select all the beautiful passages of this inimitable poem, we should be obliged to transcribe almost the whole." To most readers it is well known that the sentiment conveyed in the above memorable lines may be found in the verse made either by or for Demosthenes, as his best apology for running away at the battle of Chæronea, and leaving his shield behind him; and which sentiment subsequently was adopted by Aulus Gellius, Erasmus, Jeremy Taylor, and by the author of the Satyre Menippée, 1594. Since the publication of Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual in 1834, where it is stated that these lines occur in the Musarum Deliciæ, p. 101, ed. 1656, our literary antiquaries have comfortably consoled themselves with the idea that Sir John Mennis was the author of them; but although most of our public and private libraries have been carefully searched with the lantern of Diogenes, no copy as yet has been discovered containing them. To get over the difficulty, the editor of the new edition of Lowndes tells us (p. 1535) that “in some copies a cancelled leaf (reprinted in the new edition) is found, in which are the lines; but he has not informed us that, during his long experience in literature, the original leaf had either been seen by himself or by any one else. Goldsmith died in 1774, just ten years before 1621?] the inquiry was started respecting the origin of 4. The Puritan turned Jesuit. this familiar couplet. Great, indeed, would have 5. Zeal Examined. 6. Persuasive to Moderation to Church Dissenters. been the saving of ink and paper, not only in the 7. Account of the Bloodshed occasioned by the Jesuits. European and Gentleman's Niagazines, but in the 8. Sufferings of the Protestant Ministers in Hungary. Two Series of Notes and Queries, had poor Goldy 9. Lex Talionis. been permitted, in the visible order of things, to 10. Five Pence. have made one of the literary gathering at Brooks's 11. Marionis Enchiridion Loc. Com. Theol. Club, when doubtless he would have humbly 12. Mayerus de Vulneribus Ecclesiæ Romanæ. confessed, that during a convenient temporary 13. Apuleius Castigated. 14. Là Sylvie Tragicum Pastorale [by Jean Mairet, seclusion with his friend Newbery in Canonbury Tower he bad unwittingly penned these celebrated 15. Les Bergeries de Maistre. lines, the authorship of which, for eighty long 16. Thorndike's Way of Composing Differences. years, bas baffled the researches, and puzzled the With regard to the first, all I know is, that Leo, ingenuity of the whole literary brotherhood. or Leone, was an Italian Jew, a physician by pro J. YEOWELL. fession, who became a Christian, and published 4, Minerva Terrace, Barnsbury. some mystical Diulogi di Amore at Rome in 1535, frequently reprinted and translated. His Life must be a book of extreme rarity. Some writers ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON'S LIBRARY AT DUN- say that his real, or original, name was Rabbi Judah BLANE. Abarbanel; if so, probably a relative of the celeOn the 17th of last September I paid another brated R. Isaac Abarbanel, who died at Venice in visit to Dunblane, and spent three weeks there, 1508. Brunet, amongst others, calls him Abar banel. during which time I made a catalogue of Arch. No. 2 seems connected with the following pambishop Leighton's books, and took copious extracts from his fly-leaf memoranda. The catalogue phlet: “ Letters from Several Ministers in and about Edinis ready for the press, but I have given up the burgh to the Ministers of London, concerning the Reintention intimated in a former paper (“N. & Q." establishing of the Covenant. Edinb. 1659,” 4to. 3rd S. i. 6) of publishing it in a separate volume, as it seems more desirable to include it in my No. 4 is, no doubt, Dr. John Owen's treatise, The Puritan turned Jesuit, Lond. 1643, 4to. I forthcoming edition of the works. In the catalogue the lost books are denoted by italics, and the scope of this attack on his Puritan" brethren should be glad, however, to get some notion of every book containing any of Leighton's writing is marked by an obelisk (T) prefixed, or by two by the great Independent divine? when there is much writing. A few illustrative One of Leighton's books is entitled Minus Celsus notes are appended to the rarer and more remark- ciendis, s. I. 1584, 12mo. Is not the name fictitious, Senensis de Hereticis Capitali Supplicio non Affiable books. I am happy to say that but one hundred of the and was not this book really written by the celearchbisbop's books have been lost, and these in brated Hungarian Bishop, Andrew Dudith ? clude pamphlets and small works; besides, there write La Tradition de l'Eglise touchant l’Eucha Did the great Port-Royalist, Antoine Arnauld, are some twenty-four odd volumes missing. Of ristie , 2 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1659 ? He did write these hundred works, but sixteen were lost during the fifty years that elapsed between 1793 and a supplement to it, entitled Table Historique des SS. Pères, &c., dont les passages sont compris dans 1843, when the two catalogues were respectively l'ouvrage intitulé, Tradition de l'Eglise sur l'Euprinted; * and of the odd volumes but two, viz. charistie. vols. iii. and vi. of S. Austin's Works. The books of Leighton's library now extant number Leighton had a great reverence for one whose about 1230; of these, 206 contain his MS. notes character and career in many respects strikingly and memorabilia. resembled his own, the pious Dom Barthelemy des The following are some of the lost works, chiefly mended the Stimulus Pastorum of the Portuguese Martyrs, Archbishop of Braga. He often recompamphlets, which as yet I have not been able to prelate, and used to lament that he never could identify in any bibliographical works within reach, get a copy of the original Latin , but was obliged and therefore should be thankful for assistance: to be content with the French version, now in the 1. La Vita di Leo Hebr. 2. Warning anent the Re- g (sic. Re-establishing?] library. Will some one kindly inform me respectScottish Discipline. ing the first and chief subsequent editions of this 3. Confessions of the Protestant Divines concerning book so much prized by Leighton? The Vie de Episcopacy. D. Barthelemy has been attributed to each of the I am indebted to the kindness of Sir James Camp. celebrated brothers , Antoine and Louis Isaac Le bell, Bart., one of the Trustees, for a loan of the catalogue Maistre, but is said to bave been really written by of 1793, perhaps the only existing copy. Thomas Du Fossé. What is known of Du Fossé ? |