NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 38.] SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * *{113} CONTENTS NOTES:-- Meaning of Delighted as used by Shakspeare, by S. Hickson Authors of "The Rolliad," by Lord Braybrooke Notes on Milton Derivation of Easter, by J. Sansom Folk Lore--Passages of Death, by Dr. Guest--Divination at Marriages Francis Lenton the Poet, by Dr. Rimbault Minor Notes:--Lilburn or Prynne--Peep of Day--Martinet-- Guy's Porridge Pot QUERIES:-- Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding, by John Miland Stukeley's "Stonehenge," by Henry Cunliffe Athelstane's Form of Donation--Meaning of "Somagia," by J. Sansom Minor Queries:--Charade--"Smoke Money"--"Rapido contrarius orbi"--Lord Richard Christophilus-- Fiz gigs--Specimens of Erica in Bloom--Michael Scott the Wizard--Stone Chalices REPLIES:-- Ulrich von Hutten and the "Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum," by S.W. Singer Caxton's Printing-office, by J.G. Nichols The New Temple Strangers in the House of Commons Replies to Minor Queries:--Morganatic Marriage-- Umbrellas--Bands--Scarf--Jewish Music--North Sides of Churchyards unconsecrated--"Men are but Children" &c.--Ventriloquism--Cromwell's Estates --Magor--Vincent Gookin--All-to brake MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. Books and Odd Volumes Wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements * * * * * NOTES. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "DELIGHTED," AS SOMETIMES USED BY SHAKSPEARE. I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do not recollect to have met with in any other writer. I say a "peculiar word," because, although the verb _To delight_ is well known, and of general use, the word, the same in form, to which I refer, is not only of different meaning, but, as I conceive, of distinct derivation the non-recognition of which has led to a misconception of the meaning of one of the finest passages in Shakspeare. The first passage in which it occurs, that I shall quote, is the well known one from _Measure for Measure_: "Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot, This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the _delighted_ spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world." Act iii. Sc. 1.