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Title: Notes & Queries 1850.02.09

Author: Various

Release Date: April 7, 2004 [EBook #11929]

Language: English

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS,
ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

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NO. 15]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1850.
[Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
Wages in 17th and 19th centuries, by Rev. L.B. Larking ..225
Marlowe and the old Taming of a Shrew, by S. Hickson ....226
Notes from Fly-Leaves, No. 6., by Rev. J. Jebb ..........227
Shakspeare's Use of Monosyllables, by C. Forbes .........227
Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault ..........228

QUERIES:--
Folk Lore (Metrical Charms), by William J. Thoms ........229
Allusions in the Homilies ...............................229
Minor Queries:--Pope's Translations of
Horace--
Havior--Arabic Numerals--Eaton's Edward III.--
Dog Latin--Cuckoo, Welsh Ambassador--A recent
Novel--Authorship of a couplet--Seal of Killigrew .....230

REPLIES:--
Selago and Samolus ......................................231
AElfric's Colloquy, by B. Thorpe .........................232
Portraits of Luther and Erasmus .........................232
Replies to Minor Queries:--Praise undeserved--French
Maxim--Singular Motto--Discurs, Modest.--Pallace
--Litany Version of the Psalms--Tempora Mutantur,
&c.--Pandoxare--St. Thomas of Lancaster--Fall of
Rain in England--Judas Bell--Boduc on British
Coins--Lord Bacon's Version of the Psalms--A
"Gib" Cat--Lay of the Phoenix, &c. ....................233

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