NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 46.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1850 [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. * * * * * {241} CONTENTS. NOTES:--Page The Meaning of "Risell" in Hamlet, by S.W. Singer. 241 Authors of the Rolliad. 242 Notes and Queries. 242 The Body of James II., by Pitman Jones. 243 Folk Lore:--Legend of Sir Richard Baker--Prophetic Spring at Langley, Kent. 244 Minor Notes:--Poem by Malherbe--Travels of Two English Pilgrims. 245 QUERIES:-- Quotations in Bishop Andrewes, by Rev. James Bliss. 245 Minor Queries:--Spider and Fly--Lexicon of Types--Montaigue's Select Essays--Custom of wearing the Breast uncovered--Milton's Lycidas--Sitting during the Lessons--Blew-Beer--Carpatio--Value of Money--Bishop Berkeley, and Adventures of Gaudeatio di Lucca--Cupid and Psyche--Zund-nadel Guns--Bacon Family--Armorials--Artephius--Sir Robert Howard--Crozier and Pastoral Staff--Marks of Cadency--Miniature Gibbet. 245 REPLIES:-- Collar of S.S. by Rev. H.T. Ellacombe and J. Gough Nichols. 248 Sir Gregory Norton. 250 Shakspeare's Word "Delighted," by Rev. Dr. Kennedy. 250 Aerostation, by Henry Wilkinson. 251 Replies to Minor Queries:--Long Lonkin--Rowley Powley--Guy's Armour--Alarm--Prelates of France--Haberdasher--"Rapido contrarius orbi"--Robertson of Muirtown--"Noli me tangere"--Clergy sold for Slaves--North Side of Churchyards--Sir John Perrot--Coins of Constantius II.--She ne'er with treacherous Kiss--California--Bishops and their Precedence--Elizabeth and Isabel--Bever's Legal Polity--Rikon Basilike, &c. 251 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 255 Notices to Correspondents. 255 Advertisements. 256 * * * * * NOTES. THE MEANING OF "DRINK UP EISELL" IN HAMLET. Few passages have been more discussed than this wild challenge of Hamlet to Laertes at the grave of Ophelia: "Ham. I lov'd Ophelia! forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? --Zounds! show me what thou'lt do? Woo't weep? Woo't fight? Woo't fast? Woo't tear thyself? _Woo't drink up Eisell?_ eat a crocodile? I'll do't". The sum of what has been said may be given in the words of Archdeacon Nares: