NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 40.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1850. [Price Threepence Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {145} CONTENTS. NOTES:--Page Translations of Juvenal--Wordsworth Dedication to Milton by Antonio Malatesti, by S.W. Singer Pulteney's Ballad of "The Honest Jury," by C.H. Cooper Notes on Milton Folk Lore:--High Spirits considered a Sign of impending Calamity or Death--Norfolk Popular Rhymes--Throwing Salt over the Shoulder--Charming for Warts Notes on College Salting; Turkish Spy; Dr. Dee: from "Letters from the Bodleian, &c.," 2 vols. 1813 Minor Notes:--Alarm--Taking a Wife on Trial--Russian Language--Pistol and Bardolph--Epigram from Buchanan QUERIES:-- Calvin and Servetus Etymological Queries Minor Queries:--Countess of Desmond--Noli me tangere--Lines in Milton's "Penseroso"--"Mooney's Goose"--Translation of the Philobiblon--Achilles and the Tortoise--Dominicals--Yorkshire Dales REPLIES:-- Tobacco in the East "Job's Luck," by Coleridge, by J. Bruce Eccius Dedolatus Replies to Minor Queries:--Hiring of Servants--George Herbert--Lord Delamere--Execution of Charles I.--Charade--Discursus Modestus--"Rapido contrarius Orbi"--"Isabel" and "Elizabeth"--Hanap--Cold Harbour MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. Books and Odd Volumes Wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements * * * * * NOTES. TRANSLATIONS OF JUVENAL--WORDSWORTH. Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of Johnson's "From China to Peru," where, however, I sincerely believe our great moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by its temporary notoriety and popularity, reminds me of a conversation, many years since, with the late William Wordsworth, at which I happened to be present, and which now derives an additional interest from the circumstance of his recent decease. Some mention had been made of the opening lines of the tenth satire of Juvenal: "Omnibus in terris, quae sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram, et Gangem pauci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remotâ Erroris nebulâ." "Johnson's translation of this," said Wordsworth, "is extremely bad: "'Let Observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru.' "And I do not know that Gifford's is at all better: "'In every clime, from Ganges' distant stream, To Gades, gilded by the western beam, Few, from the clouds of mental error free, In its true light, or good or evil see.' "But", he added, musing, "what is Dryden's? Ha! I have it: "'_Look round the habitable world_, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.'