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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,
GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 82.]
SATURDAY, MAY 24. 1851.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
Note upon a Passage in "Measure for Measure" 401
Rhyming Latin Version of the Song on Robin Goodfellow,
by S. W. Singer 402
Folk Lore:--Devonshire Folk Lore: 1. Storms from
Conjuring; 2. The Heath-hounds; 3. Cock scares the
Fiend; 4. Cranmere Pool--St. Uncumber and the
offering of Oats--"Similia similibus curantur"--Cure
of large Neck 404
Dibdin's Library Companion 405
Minor Notes:--A Note on Dress--Curious Omen at
Marriage--Ventriloquist Hoax--Barker, the original
Panorama Painter 406
QUERIES:--
Minor Queries:--Vegetable Sympathy--Court Dress--Dieu
et mon Droit--Cachecope Bell--The Image
of both Churches--Double Names--"If this fair
Flower," &c.--Hugh Peachell--Sir John Marsham--Legend
represented in Frettenham Church--King
of Nineveh burns himself in his Palace--Butchers not
Jurymen--Redwing's Nest--Earth thrown upon the
Coffin--Family of Rowe--Portus Canum--Arms of
Sir John Davies--William Penn--Who were the
Writers in the North Briton? 407
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--"Many a Word"--Roman
Catholic Church--Tick--Hylles' Arithmetic 409
REPLIES:--
Villenage 410
Maclean not Junius 411
Replies to Minor Queries:--The Ten Commandments--
Mounds, Munts, Mounts--San Graal--Epitaph on
the Countess of Pembroke 412
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 414
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 414
Notices to Correspondents 414
Advertisements 415
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Notes.
NOTE UPON A PASSAGE IN "MEASURE FOR MEASURE."
The Third Act of _Measure for Measure_ opens with Isabella's visit to her
brother (Claudio) in the dungeon, where he lies under sentence of death. In
accordance with Claudio's earnest entreaty, she has sued for mercy to
Angelo, the sanctimonious deputy, and in the course of her allusion to the
only terms upon which Angelo is willing to remit the sentence, she informs
him that he "must die," and then continues:
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