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[Transcriber's note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized. Characters with macrons have been marked in brackets with an equal sign, as [=e] for a letter e with a macron on top. Underscores have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. In footnote 4, [Greek: estian], as taken over from Byron's text, seems to be a typographical error for [Greek: hestian]. A list of volumes and pages in "Notes and Queries" has been added at the end.]
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."--Captain Cuttle.
Vol. IV.--No. 92. Saturday, August 2. 1851 Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4_d._
Paraphrase on the 137th Psalm by Churchill 82
On the Description of the Medicean Venus in Childe Harold 83
Minor Notes:--On the Word "raised" as used by the Americans--Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume--A Ship's Berth 83
John a Kent and John a Cumber, by J. Payne Collier 83
Minor Queries:--Proverb of James I.--Mrs. Hutchinson --Early Translation of Amadis de Gaule--Hogarth and Cowper--Latin Translation of Butler's Analogy--"Non quid responderent," &c.--"The Worm in the Bud of Youth," &c.--Queen Brunéhaut--Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland--Prophecies of Nostradamus--Quaker Expurgated Bible--Salmon Fishery in the Thames--Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan--Siege of Londonderry 85
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--The Twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles--Exons of the Guard--Curious Monumental Inscription--Meaning of Deal--La Mer des Histoires--"The noiseless Foot of Time" 87
"Jusjurandum per Canem;" "Sedem Animæ in Digitis ponunt;" "Fiat Justitia, ruat Coelum" 90
Hugh Holland and his Works, by Bolton Corney 91
Replies to Minor Queries:--Coke and Cowper--Dunmore Castle--Gooseberry Fool--Dryden and Oldham--Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott--Penn Family--Bummaree--Miss or Mistress--Book Plates 93
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 94
The following "sententious truths" are extracted from Bishop Jewel's grand performance, _A Defense of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande_, fol. 1571, a work as remarkable for "the pomp and charms" of its eloquence, as for the profound erudition, and the consummate ability, with which its "good doctrine" is exhibited and enforced. In common, however, with the other productions of this illustrious champion of the Reformation, it has an additional and most attractive feature; one, indeed, which, less or more, characterises all the literary achievements of the gigantic geniuses of the Elizabethan period, the "very dust of whose writings is gold."[1] The "Defense" abounds with _proverbial folk-lore_ of the rarest sort; and this is so skilfully and appositely introduced, that the subject-matter presents itself to the reader's mind rather as a corollary, naturally deduced from a self-evident proposition--for who would think for a moment of questioning the truth of what has the semblance of a popular adage?[2]--than as a nicely managed argument, which receives no other help from the latter than that of illustration, employed for the simple and single purpose, not of strengthening such argument, but of rendering it comprehensible by the "meanest capacities."