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CHAUCER-Churches. CORPUS CHRISTI DAY. DEFOE (Daniel), his last Male Descendant. DOVECOTES, Ancient. EDWARD VII. EPIGRAMS. EPITAPHS. EXECUTIONS at TYBURN. FLAG (The National) of the United States-East FOLK-LORE. FONTENOY, Irish Brigade at the Battle of. FRASER (Simon, Lord Lovat). FUNERAL CARDS. HAND-RULING in Old Title-pages. HOP and MALT Substitutes. JOHNSON (Dr. S.), Spelling of his Name. MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. MOON-LORE. MONOLITH with Cup Markings in Hyde Park. SONGS and BALLADS. WELSH MANUSCRIPT PEDIGREES. London: JOHN C. FRANCIS, gth 8. VIII. SEPT. 21, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1901. CONTENTS.-No. 195. NOTES: - President McKinley - Shakespeariana, 237 44 SHAKESPEARIANA. 'HAMLET,' I. i. 117, 118.-I venture to suggest that we should here read A storm with rains of fire and dews of blood Disaster'd in the sun; and the moist star, &c., on the following grounds. 1. The repetition of the word "star" in the original is exceedingly awkward. 2. "Dews of blood" more appropriately balances "rains of fire" than "trains of fire." 3. Though stars may, indeed, have "trains of fire," it is difficult to account for their being associated with "dews of blood." Lanspisadoes," 246 4. For "A storm with rains of fire" compare QUERIES:-New Testament Diction - Nursery Rime 254 NOTES ON BOOKS :-Gutch's Folk-lore of North Riding' Notices to Correspondents. Botes. DEATH OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY. THE great calamity that has befallen No mind that's honest Pertains to you alone. We have no words but those of sorrow sorrow. With bowed head and hushed voice we bear our tribute to the illustrious dead who now shines a fixed star in his and our firmament. 'Julius Cæsar,' I. iii. 9, 10: But never till to-night, never till now, compare Julius 6. For "disastered" compare 'Antony and It may be added that the obvious resemblance of 11. 115 and 116 to Julius Cæsar,' II. ii. 18 and 24, and of 11. 121-5 to Julius Cæsar,' I. iii. 31, 32, naturally leads us to look to the play of 'Julius Cæsar' for elucidation of the difficulties presented by the text. ALFRED E. THISELTON. 'THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,' III. ii. 1-24. -To the suitors who had preceded Bassanio Portia was indifferent, but she loved love as plainly as him, and told her did Miranda or Desdemona; only, as the former was artlessly direct in her avowal, and the latter exquisitely feminine by inviting a declaration, Portia was conventionShe saved her dignity by ally correct. declaring that a maiden hath no tongue but thought, and then managed to think to such good purpose that her general remarks fully showed her heart, and how much she dreaded What she wished being misunderstood. Bassanio fully to understand was that her honourable purpose, her firm resolve to obey her father's wish, while being able to teach him how to choose right, was not supported by indifference-that it meant misery to her should the choice go wrong, and, since these naughty times put bars between the owners and their rights, if it prove, although his at heart, she was not to be so in reality, that fortune should be cast into the hell of his condemnation, not herself : So will I never be ; Heaven is not but where Emily abides, Bürger, Lenore.' The best speech in the third part of Henry VI., beginning "She-wolf of France," is marked by Malone as not having been written by Shakspeare. It contains the line which Greene, with the substitution of player" for woman," applied to Shak may have been Greene's own. I do not, however, say that it is his. I have not studied although, with feminine tact, while remain-speare; and this, with the rest of the speech, ing firm she appears to yield in a carefully worded promise of unavailing regret :So may you miss me; But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin, With such a possible mischance in store, by which she would lose his company, her love prompted her to secure a brief respite in which she could be happy. As her judgment really sanctioned this manner of choice (1. 41), If you do love me, you will find me out, perhaps she was not fully convinced that he loved her, and wished to postpone the trial until he should have learnt to do so. In any event, her speech is a plea for a short period of certain happiness, in which Bassanio should come more fully to know her, and to realize the strength of her love and the extent of her sacrifice in acting in accordance with her father's wish. E. M. DEY. SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF HENRY VI.' -Regarding the second and third parts of 'Henry VI, the division of Malone, though he had ground for it, is very unsatisfactory. I am glad, however, that he has assigned the most beautiful lines to Shakspeare: "Tis not the land I care for, wert thou hence; '2 Henry VI.,' III. ii. This thought may be found in a song of one of the troubadours, Arnaud de Marveil : "O that I inhabited a desert, were she but with me! That desert would then be my paradise." See Roscoe's translation of Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe.' I have a notion that the most praised passage of the much praised Omar Khayyam is similar to this but I will not attempt to quote what I do not remember distinctly. Similar thoughts, though not similarly expressed, are not uncommon : him with sufficient attention to form an opinion on the question. There seems to be an uniformity of style in the second and third parts of 'Henry VI.' that is not in the first part. The writers of those plays, if there were more writers than one, were more similar and equal than the writers of the first play. E. YARDLEY. P.S.-I may refer also to a thought expressed by Shakspeare in 'Romeo and Juliet,' III. iii. Romeo, though in a different manner, says much what Suffolk has said. Valentine's soliloquy in The Two Gentlemen of Verona,' III. i., contributed, equally with the speech of Suffolk, to the formation of the later and superior scene in 'Romeo and Juliet.' "BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER."-When a story substantially transmitting historical fact is repeated at intervals during two score years, there is a tendency to increasing corruption of the simplicity of the original narrative with every repetition. Such has been the case with the tradition of the hackneyed saying "Blood's thicker than water." It is surely not one of the least important functions of 'N. & Q' to recall the foundation of such legends and restore their integrity by exposing the aberrations. The latest instance of an inaccurate version is supplied by an incidental remark in the Daily Telegraph of Friday, 16 August, in a paragraph introducing an anecdote entitled Now, Shoot if you Dare!' The writer says, "The incident at the battle of the Taku Forts, when Commodore Tatnall joined in the fray with the cry, 'Blood's thicker than water!' is well known." Is it? In the first place it scarcely needs to be pointed out that such an interference is in the highest degree improbable. The commander of a ship of war of a neutral power taking part in active belligerent operations against a (technically) friendly power would do so at the peril, at 66 9th §. VIII. SEPT. 21, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Now the least, of losing his commission. most cursory reference to the Times special war correspondent of that day-Tuesday, 21 August, 1860-I believe the reporter was the (now) doyen of British war correspondents, the venerable veteran then Mr. (now Sir) William Howard Russell*- will show that Commodore Tatnall was not reported to have 'joined in the fray," neither was he credited with the original utterance of the saying so frequently repeated since: as a phrase it was of respectable antiquity, to my personal remembrance, even in 1860. What really was said to have happened was substantially as follows. I quote from remembrance of the communication from China as it appeared in the Times. I venture to think the bald facts more essentially dramatic than any of the numerous subsequent paraphrases. While the bombardment of the Taku Forts was hotly proceeding Commodore Tatnall, U.S.N., in command of a frigate cruising under the stars and stripes in the Gulf of Pechili, put off in a well-manned launch to pay a visit of courtesy to the British admiral on board his flagship-an ordinary act of politeness between naval officers of rank of different nationalities, although perhaps not of frequent occurrence during actual active hostilities. The British crew, stripped to the buff as low as the waist-the custom in those "at days when working the guns-were quarters," busily occupied loading, ramming, firing, and sponging. While paying his respects to the admiral the United States naval officer dismissed his boat's crew until he should require their services to return to his own vessel, allowing them, all but a couple of tars left in charge of the launch hanging on to the side, to go forward and make the acBrother quaintance of the British Jacks Jonathan fraternizing with Brother John Bull. When the commodore desired to rejoin his vessel some difficulty was experienced in collecting the dispersed crew of the launch; at last they appeared strolling aft towards the gangway, hastily pulling on shirts and jackets as they came along, under charge of the coxswain. To Tatnall's sharp inquiry as to where they had been loitering the cox knuckled and scraped and falteringly explained, “For'd, sir, giving this ship's com"Workpany a hand at working the guns!" ing the guns!" angrily roared the commodore. "Don't you know we're neutrals, sir?" "Beg pardon, sir," replied the cox, with another I am not quite sure whether it was not Mr. Bowlby who represented the Times on this occasion-the clever young war correspondent who was afterwards treacherously murdered by the Chinese. "couldn't help it, sir; [The origin of this saying was discussed 7th S. xi. JOHN QUINBY, FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, "half starved with cold and lack of food," in OXFORD.-The story how this Lutheran died, the steeple of his college, where he was imprisoned as a heretic by Dr. London, the warden, will be found in Strype's 'Ecclesiastical Memorials,' i. 376, and in Narratives of the Reformation,' Camden Soc., 1859, p. 32. The latter reproduces Archdeacon Louthe's manuscript, which Strype followed. It seems of this story, which Louthe set down for to me to be worthy of notice that the truth Foxe's benefit some fifty years after the event, is in no small degree confirmed by a letter, undated, but ascribed to 1536, which Robert Talbot, the antiquary, wrote to Thomas Cromwell's servant Morison, and the substance of which appears in the 'Calendar Talbot, who figures in of Letters, &c., in the Reign of Henry VIII.,' vol. xi., No. 1185. Louthe's story as a Lutheran who started back," but was nevertheless "expulsed by the warden," probably made some attempt to get his fellowship restored to him, and the letter contains his version of how he came to lose it : "My adversaries will object that I put the matter in the hands of Dr. Hunt, and must be bound by but straitly exacted by the sub-warden of the House what he has done. I answer, I did it not sponte, that then was, whose name is Sutton, and Dr. Whyzte and Dr. Hunt; which three were sent to warden, whose prisoners we then were, and required me and my fellow, Sir Quynby, deceased, by the us for the saving of the college's privileges to put our rights respectively in the two doctors' hands. Mr. Sutton and Dr. Whyte, who are still alive, will not deny this upon oath......P.S. If you once bring all well your part shall be worth a doublet cloth of satin." This letter not only confirms the story of Quinby's imprisonment, but supplies, I think, an adequate explanation of the entry, "recessit 1528," which was put against his name in the New College Register. I have heard it said that the fact that the entry was not "obiit 1528" militates against the story of his being starved to death. Talbot's letter, however, suggests that a consent to resign was wrung from Quinby before he "slept sweetly in the Lord." In that case an entry which ignored the scandal could be justified by the authorities as strictly correct. John Quinby's memory has been kept alive by his defiant jest about "warden pie," which |