LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1878.

CONTENTS. - N° 235. NOTES:-Literature at the International Congress in Paris. 501-The Bibliography of Archery, 502-Inventory of "Spuilzie" on the Scottish Border, 1572, 503-The Globe Academic Costume about 1820-Provincialisms-News for

Edition of Shakspeare" Ducdame," 504-Cambridge the Marines, 505-The Archbishop's Mitre-The School

master Abroad-Old Surnames and Signs-Abigail, 506.

QUERIES:-The Burial of a Knight: Consuetudinal of the Monastic Orders, 506-Eyeservice "-Pope's "Essay on Criticism"-Old Coin-"The History and Antiquities of Winterton"-"Upon content"-Hogarth and Birds, 507Metsu-The "Hue and Cry"-Tennysoniana-Jewish Surnames and Shylock-Woollen Caps-Legend of Holme Church-Inscription on a Portrait -Monastery: Convent Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, 508-The "Buck of Beverland"-Jack Mitford-Pascal-Authors Wanted, 509. REPLIES:-The See of Caithness, 509-The Russell Family, 510-Gipsies in England, 511-The Crest of the Green hill Family" The Paston Letters," 512-Emblems of the Passion-J. S. Jones, M.D., 513-Cramp Rings-Ear-aches the Field Poppy-T. Powell-Conventual Churches still in Use-Hagways, 514-" Bernardus non scit omnia "-" Axe -Sensitive Plant Toy, 515-Angus Parlance-Plague Medicine-Drowned Bodies Recovered, 516-Prohibiting the Banns-Sheldon Hall, Warwickshire-Drayton, 517-A Sixteenth Century Book Inscription-Popular Legal Fallacies -Length of Generations-John Bancks-The American

Robin, 518-"Marquis" v. "Marquess"-"An Unlawful Cottage" Leeds Pottery Rhodes Family - Authors Wanted, 519. Notes on Books, &c.

Nates.

LITERATURE AT THE INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS IN PARIS.

I remember long ago being gravely asked by a very young lady, "What is Literature?" Unfortunately my fair friend is not in Paris just now, or she might learn something, and perhaps something that would enlighten her. "What is Literature?" was a question both asked and answered by Victor Hugo, who defined it in one place as the impulse given to the mind of man, "la mise en marche de l'esprit humain," and in another place as the government of the human race by the mind of man, "le gouvernement du genre humain par l'esprit humain." And he claimed an essential identity as subsisting between literature and civilisation. "On peut dire," he exclaimed, "que littérature et civilisation sont identiques." For the greatness of a people, he continued, is measured by their literature. "Xerxes had a vast army, but no poet. His army melted away; the Iliad remains. Small in the actual extent of her territory, Greece is rendered great by Eschylus. Summon up Spain; Cervantes comes before us. Call upon Italy; Dante appears. Name England; Shakespeare presents himself. Rome is but a town, yet through Virgil, Tacitus, Lucretius, Juvenal, her renown has filled the whole world." In this last sentence, so striking in its antithesis, we seem to catch a sort of unconscious echo of

It would be a long tale were I to tell of all the countries represented at this literary "Festival of Peace," where Russians, Belgians, Germans, Brazilians, Italians, Swedes, Norwegians, Dutchmen, and Danes have joined with Americans and Britons in discussing with their French hosts the common interests of that literature which is the lamp of knowledge in all countries. "Light, always and everywhere! we need more light!" said Victor Hugo. It is much to be noticed that the point of the great writer's earnest appeals to his audience lay repeatedly in these two factors of prosperity, knowledge and peace, both to be diffused throughout the world by literature, which is only to make war against hatred and bloodshed-a great idea, worthily brought before a great people by one of the masters of their literature of whom they are deservedly most proud. I only regret that it is really impossible for me to go through some of the other extremely able addresses which we heard both at the Châtelet and in the hall of the Grand Orient. The display of oratorical power has been all that the names of the chief speakers would have led one to expect. I do not think that the business qualities shown by members in the practical working of details have been by any means equal to their facility of speech. The debates were often marred by what I can only express as "un décousu déplorable." The actual president of our general sittings has been that most charming Nestor of Russian literature, Tourgenieff, at once venerable in aspect and gentle in manner. At the public assembly in the Châtelet Theatre, Victor Hugo was ably supported by the admirable gesture-language and eloquent words of M. Jules Simon. Italy was represented at this sitting by the Deputy Mauro Macchi, and Germany by Dr. Löwenthal, while Brazil brought the proceedings to a most happy conclusion by demanding the raising of the cry, "Vive la France!" So far as I have been able to judge of the feeling of members on the questions connected with Copyright, there appears to be a sharp division between the views prevailing, with slight differences of detail, on the Continent, and those which would be likely to find favour in Great Britain. I do not yet see how this gulf is to be bridged over. I do not suppose it will be bridged over by the present Congress. But it is something to know what one's neighbours want; and from that point of view, at any rate, as well as on account of the eloquence which it drew forth, the Paris Literary Congress of 1878 may fitly take its place among meetings which have deserved well of the Republic of Letters.

Paris.

NOMAD.

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARCHERY.

(Continued from p. 444.)

14th August, 1589. William Jones. Entred for his copie, a ballad intytuled, Discrybinge the vallure of our Englishe Archers and shott that accompanied the Blacke Prince of Portugall their governor into the feildes on Twesdaie the 12 of August with the welcome into Lyme Streete by Master Hugh Offley under th[e] [b]andes of Master R. Judson and bothe the wardens iiijd. (T. S. R., ii. 528.)

A briefe discourse of warre. Written by Sir Roger Williams, Knight; with his opinion concerning some parts of the martiall discipline.... Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin, dwelling in Paternoster Row, over against the sigue of the Checker, 1590. 4to. pp. iv-62, and errata leaf. Pp. 46-48, To proove bowmen the worst shot used in these daies. M.

Certain discourses, written by Sir John Smythe, Knight: concerning the formes and effects of divers sorts of weapons, and other very important matters militarie, greatlie mistaken by divers of our men of warre in these daies; and chiefly of the Mosquet, the Caliver, and the Long-bow: as also of the great sufficiencie, excellencie, and wonderful effects of archers.... At London, printed by Richard Johnes, at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holburne Bridge, I. Maij, 1590. 4to. ff. xviii-50. M. The practice, proceedings and lawes of armes described. ...By Matthew Sutcliffe.... Imprinted at London by the deputies of Christopher Barker,...1593. 4to. pp. xxiv. 342. Pp. 181, 189-190 (cap. xii. pt. ii.), Wherein the use of...archers...is declared. M.

A breefe discourse, concerning the force and effect of all manuall weapons of fire and the disability of the long bowe or archery, in respect of others of greater force now in use.... Written by Humfrey Barwick.... At London, printed for Richard Oliffe, and are to be solde in Paul's Church Yard at the signe of the Crane.-1594? 4to. ff. vii-35, and folding plate. Black-letter. (In answer to two works, both published in 1590, by Sir John Smythe and Sir Roger Williams.) M.

Instructions, observations and orders mylitarie.... Composed by Sir John Smithe, Knight, 1591....Imprinted at London by Richard Johnes, at the signe of the Rose and Crowne next above S. Andrewes Church in Holborne, 1595. 4to. pp. xxxii-220. Pp. 150-154, The advantage that archers have of mosquetiers. M.

A briefe treatise, to proove the necessitie and excellence of the use of archerie. Abstracted out of ancient and moderne writers. By R. S. Perused, and allowed by Aucthoritte....At London, printed by Richard Johnes, at the Rose and Crowne; next above S. Andrewes Church in Holburne, 1596. 4to. 12 leaves. Black-letter. By R. Sharpe, to whom William Hole dedicated his map of Finsbury, a copy of which is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. M.

The Survey of Cornwall. Written by Richard Carew of Antonie, Esquire. London, printed by S. S. for John Jaggard,... 1602. 8vo. Ff. 72-73, Archery. M.

The lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England. William the first, William the second, Henrie the first. Written by [Sir] J[ohn] H[ayward]. [Motto and device] Imprinted at London by R. B., anno 1613. 4to. pp. viii316. The dedication is signed. Pp. 77-79, Reasons for preferring the English bow to fire arms. Quoted in Archæologia, xxii. 72. M.

The tactiks of Elian,... Englished...with notes...by [Captain] John] B[ingham]....At London for Lawrence Lisle,...1616. Fol. pp. vi-166, plates. Pp. 24-27, Note on Archery. M.

Taylor's goose.-London, printed by E. A. for Henry Gosson, 1621. (Not seen.)

All the workes of John Taylor, the water-poet. Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: with sundry new additions, corrected, revised, and newly imprinted, 1630. At London, printed by J. B. for James Boler; at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls churchyard, 1630. Folio, pp. xii-148-344-146, inaccurate. Pp. 104-111, Taylors goose: describing... the honourable victories of the grey-goose-wing... pp. 106-108, The prayse of the grey goose wing. 208 lines. B. (Not seen.)

Works of John Taylor the water-poet comprised in the folio edition of 1630. Printed for the Spencer Society, Manchester] 1869. Folio, pp. vi-630. Pp. 114-121, Taylor's goose: describing...the honourable victories of the grey-goose-wing...; pp. 116-118, The prayse of the grey goose wing. M.

The double-armed man, by the new invention, briefly shewing some famous exploits atchieved by our British Bowmen, with severall portraitures proper for the pike and bow. By William] N[eade], Archer. Printed for John] Grismand, at the signe of the Gun in Pauls Alley, 1625. 4to. pp. 36, seven full-page woodcuts of positions. The dedication is signed. M. (T. S. R., iv. 136.) A new invention of shooting fire-shafts in long-bowes : wherein, besides the maner of making them, there is contained a briefe discourse of the usefulnesse of them in our moderne warres, by sea and land. Published by a true patriot for the common good of his native countrey of England. [Device.] London, printed by H. L. for John Bartlet at the Gilt Cup in Cheape-side, anno Dom. 1628. 4to. pp. ii-12. M.

The art of archerie. Shewing how it is most necessary in these times for this kingdome, both in peace and war, and how it may be done without charge to the country, trouble to the people, or any hinderance to necessary occasions. Also of the discipline, the postures and whatsoever else is necessarie for the attayning to the art. London, printed by B. A. and T. F. for Ben. Fisher...at the signe of the Talbot without Aldersgate, 1634. Svo. pp. xxii172, 1 plate. Dedication signed Gervase Markham. M.

F. Marini Mersenni minimi cogitata physico mathematica. In quibus tam naturæ quàm artis effectus admirandi certissimis demonstrationibus explicantur. [Device.] Parisiis, sumptibus Antonii Bertier, viâ Jacobæâ. 1644. Cum privilegio regis. 4to. The pagination is in seven series, of which one series is twice broken by other series. Pp. (30)-40-(22)-41 to 224-(8)-225 to 370-(32)-140-(6). Collation: general title, dedication, licences, " præfatio præfacionem," list of contents, and "præfatio generalis," (24); "Tractatus de mensuris ponderibus, atque nummis tam Hebraicis, quàm Græcis & Romanis ad Parisiensia expensia." Dedication and preface, (6), the text, 40; "Hydraulica pneumatica; areque navigandi. Harmonia theoretica, practica. Et mechanica phænomena. Autore M. Mersenno M. [Device.] Parisiis, sumptibus Antonii Bertier, viâ Jacobæâ. 1644. Cum privilegio regis." Sub-title, dedication, and preface, (22); "De hydraulicis et pneumaticis phænomenis," 41 to 224; Ars navigandi super, et sub aquis, cum tractatu de magnete, et harmonia theoreticæ, practicæ, & instrumentalis. Libri quatuor. [Device.] Parisiis, sumptibus Antonii Bertier, via Jacobaâ, sub signo Fortunæ. 1644. Cum privilegio regis." Title and dedication, (8); "Ars navigandi," 225 to 244; "Tractatus de magnetis proprietatibus," 245 to 260; "Harmonia," 261 to 370; Index to the whole volume, (20); "F. Marini Mersenni minimi ballistica et acontismologia. In qua sagittarum, jaculorum, & aliorum missilium jactus & robur arcuum explicantur. [Device.] Parisiis, sumptibus Antonii Bertier, via Jacobæâ, 1644. Cum privilegio regis." Title, dedication, and preface, (12); the text, 140 errata to the whole volume, (6).

Aime for the archers of St. Georges fields. Containing the names of all the marks in the same fields, with their true distances according to the dimensuration of the line. Formerly gathered by Richard Hannis. And now corrected by Thomas Bick and others. London, printed by N. Howell for Robert Minchard and Benjamin Brownsmith, and are to be sold at the sign of the Man in the Moon in Blackman Street, 1664. 16mo. pp. vi-110. M.

Archerie reviv'd; or, the bow-man's excellence. An heroick poem: being a description of the use and noble vertues of the long-bow, in our last age, so famous for the many great and admired victories won by the English, and other warlike nations, over most part of the world. Exhorting all brave spirits to the banishment of vice, by the use of so noble and healthful an exercise. Written by Robert Shotterel and Thomas Durfey, Gent. London, printed by Thomas Roycroft, ann. Ďom. 1676. 8vo. pp. xxii-80. M.

Selecta poemata Archibaldi Pitcarnii Med. Doctoris, Gulielmi Scot a Thirlestane, equitis, Thomæ Kincadii, civis Edinburgensis, et aliorum.... Edinburgi, excusa anno 1727. 12mo. pp. xii-156. Edited by Robert Freebairn. Issued with a new title-page:-Editio secunda. Londini: apud A. Millar,...1729. M.

Ordonnances pour le noble exercice de l'arc. 1773, 8vo. (Bodleian Douce Cat., p. 12; not seen.)

Memoirs of the life of the late Charles Lee, Esq.... Dublin,...P. Byrne,...1792. 8vo. M. Pp. 239-242, letter from B. Franklin to C. L.-"Philadelphia, Feb. 11th, 1776....I still wish, with you, that pikes could be introduced, and I would add bows and arrows: these were good weapons, not wisely laid aside: 1st. Because a man may shoot as truly with a bow as with a common musket. 2d. He can discharge four arrows in the time of charging and discharging one bullet. 3d. His object is not taken from his view by the smoke of his own side. 4th. A flight of arrows seen coming upon them terrifies and disturbs the enemies' attention to his business. 5th. An arrow striking in any part of a man puts him hors du combat till it is extracted. 6th. Bows and arrows are more easily provided every where than muskets and ammunition...." (This excerpt is reprinted in the Critical Review, London, March, 1792, p. 319.)

Archæologia: or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London. 4to. Vol. vii. pp. 46-68, Observations on the practice of archery in England. By the Hon. Daines Barrington. Read Feb. 27, 1783.-Copies of this article, with the signatures omitted and new paging (pp. 1-24),

were issued.

Republished in the Annual Register...for 1784 and 1785, London, vol. xxvii. pp. 64-75, and in the European Magazine, London, vol. viii. pp. 177-181, 257-261 (Sept.-Oct., 1785). M.-D. B. notes a MS. treatise on archery by a Manchester saddler. Where is this now?

An historical essay on the dress of the...Irish.... A memoir on the armour and weapons of the Irish.... By Joseph Cooper] Walker....Dublin,... Grierson, 1788. 4to. pp. xii-182. Pp. 128-132, 165-166, Archery. M.

The Scottish journal of topography, antiquities, traditions, &c. Edinburgh. Vol. i. p. 96 (No. 6, Oct. 9, 1847), Duel with bows and arrows on the 10th of Feby., 1791, in the Meadows, Edinburgh. M.

Anecdotes of archery, ancient and modern. By H[enry] G[eorge] Oldfield. London, printed for the author; and sold by T. and J. Egerton,...1791. 12mo. pp. xii-78, and errata leaf, 2 plates. M.

An essay on archery: describing the practice of that art, in all ages and nations.-By Walter Michael Moseley, Esq.-Worcester, printed by I. and I. Holl, and sold by

I. Robson. London, 1792. 8vo. pp. ii-x-348, errata leaf 5 plates and engraved title. M. (See "N. & Q.," 4th S iv. 463.)

Anecdotes of archery; from the earliest ages to the year 1791. Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood. The present state of archery, with the different societies in Great Britain, particularly those of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Durham. By E[ly] Hargrove. York, printed for E. Hargrove, Bookseller, Knaresboro',...1792. 12mo. pp. 104, 3 plates. M. The Sporting Magazine. London, 1792, &c. 8vo. Contains articles, songs, &c., on archery. M.

Anthologia Hibernica. Dublin, 1793, 1794. 4 vols. 8vo. Vol. ii. pp. 275-277, Review of J. C. Walker's "Memoir," 1788. Vol. iii. pp. 6-9, Theory of Archery. By an Old Finsbury Archer. M.

The Biographical Mirror. London, S. and E. Harding, 1795-98-1803. 3 vols. 4to. (portraits and text; the latter by F. G. Waldron). Vol. i. pp. 66-69, portrait, William Wood. M.

"Pro aris et focis." Considerations of the reasons that exist for reviving the use of the long bow with the pike in aid of the measures brought forward by his Majesty's ministers for the defence of the country. By Richd. Oswald Mason, Esqr. London, printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1798. 8vo. pp. 60, 2 folding plates, 38. 6d. M. F. W. F.

(To be continued.)

INVENTORY OF "SPUILZIE" ON THE

SCOTTISH BORDER, 1572.

The following curious inventory of goods plundered in 1572 by the burghers of Jedburgh famous for its justice), assisted by certain of their neighbours, from the house of Woodhead of Ancrum, Roxburghshire, then the seat of Robert Kerr of Ancrum, ancestor of the present Marquis of Lothian, seems interesting enough to deserve a place in "N. & Q." It is copied from the (unpublished) Privy Council Register in the General Register House, Edinburgh, and indicates a degree of comfort and even refinement such as is not usually associated in our minds with a squire's home on the Scottish Borders in the middle of the sixteenth century.

"That is to say, furth of the said place of Ancrum, xl bollis heippit meill, price of the boll iij lib.; xxx bollis cleine quheit, price of the boll iiij lib.; fyftie bollis malt, price of the boll lvjs.; xxx martis of salt beif, price of the mart iiij lib.; the aill of xij bollis brewing of malt, estimat to ten gallownis the boll, price of the galloun iiijs.; ane twn of wyne, to wit, three puncheonis of clarett and ane punscheoun of quhyte wyne, price of the twn lxvj lib. xiijs. iiijd.; fiftie stane of cheis, price of the stane xvjs.; xxiiij stane of butter, price of the stane xxvjs. viijd.; xvj stane wycht of candill, price of the stane xiiijs.; ane barrikin of vinagre, contenand vj quartis, price of the quart overheid xld.; ane quart of oy doleif, price thairof xxiiijs.; iiij siluer tassis weyand xij vnce, price of the vnce owerheid xxxs.; ane siluer maser, dowbill owergilt, weyand xviij vnce, price of the vnce xxxs.; twa dosane of siluer spvins, weyand ane vnce and ane half the pece, price of the vnce xxxs.; twa siluer saltfattis, ane quhairof partiall gilt with gold, with

the cover, weyand xij vnce, price of the vnce xxxiijs.; the vther weyand vij vnce, price of the vnce xxxs.; ane

siluer fute to ane coupe, weyand v vnce, price of the vnce xxxs.; thre dosane of flander pulder plaittis, weyand fyve stane wecht, price of the pund vs.; v dosane of flander poyder truncheoneis, weyand the dosane viij pund, price of the pund vs. ; twa basingis, twa lawers of flanders poyder, price of the basing and lawer owerheid ls. ; v tyn flaconis of flanders work, tua thairof full of aqua vite, extending to v pyntis, price of the pynt xs.; price of the pece of the saidis flaconis owerheid xxx.; tuelf pottis les and mair, price of the pote xls.; aucht pannis of flanders work les and mair, price of the pece owerheid xvjs.; foure irne rakkis, the pece weyand xxiiij pundis weycht, price of the stane xvjs.; viij irne speittis weyand fyve stane, price of the stane xvjs.; tua frying pannis, price of the pece xxs.; tua rosting irnis, price of the pece xs.; xl furneist fedder beddis, with scheittis, coveringis, coddis, bousteris, blankattis, price of the furneist bed owerheid xx merkis; thre stand napery of fyne flanderis dernick work, price of the stand xlib.; thre stand of small lyning clayth, price of the stand ten merkis; thre gentill womanis gounis, to wit, ane gown of blak champlott silk, begareit with veluet, price thairof xl lib.; ane vther of frenche blak, begareit with veluet, price thairof xxx lib.; and the thrid of scottis russat, begareit with veluot, price thairof xx lib.; thre mennis dowblattis, ane thairof blak satine, price thairof x lib.; ane vther of violat armosie taffatie, price vj lib.; and the thrid dowblatt of blak bumbassy, price iij lib.; thre hattis to gentill wemen, ane of blak veluet, price iij lib.; ane vther of blak armosy taffatie, price ls.; and the thrid of blak felt, with ane string to it, price xls.; ane mekill brasen watter fatt, price x lib.; tuentie scoir of crounis of the sone, price of the pece xxxvjs. ; je auld angell nobillis, price of the pece lvjs.; xl rois nobillis, price of the pece iiij lib. xvjs.; fyve portingall ducattis, price of the pece xx lib., and fyve hundreth merkis in quhite money, sic as Scottis xxx8. pecis, Scottis vs. testanis, plakkis, and babeis; And furth of the barnis of Ancrum of Wodheid sex scoir bollis threschin aittis, price of the boll xxxs.; fiftie bollis of threschin beir, price of the boll xls.; xxiiij bollis threschin quheit, price of the boll iiij lib.; ane chalder threschin peis, price of the boll s.; And furth of the barnzard of the same, vj stakkis of aittis, ilk stak contenand foure scoir thravis, estimat to fiftie bollis aittis, price of the boll with the fodder xxxvs.; fyve stakkis of beir, ilk stak contenand owerheid foure scoir thravis, estimat to xl bollis beir, price of the boll with the fodder xliiijs.; twa stakkis of quheit, contenand owerheid thre scoir thravis quheit, estimat to xxx bollis quheit, price of the boll with the fodder iiij lib. money of oure realme, as is allegeit, And thairfoir the saidis personnis," &c.

Jedburgh.

A. C. MOUNSEY.

In

THE GLOBE EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. reading Hamlet with the first Quarto for my series of Shakspere Quarto Fac-similes-for which I hope a good number of the readers of "N. & Q." will subscribe, at 6s. a quarto-I find two accidental printer's slips in printing a prose line as verse, and vice versa, which your readers may be glad to correct in their copies. P. 836, col. 1, Act iv. sc. 5, 1. 57, Oph. Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't." Plain prose, of course. Other editors leave out the "la," and thus make an extra-syllable verse line of the passage; but if

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you print the "la," you must treat the line as prose, and not read "Deed la" as one syllable. P. 836, col. 2, Act iv. sc. 5, 1. 74-5, "King. Follow her close; give her good watch, | I pray | you," clearly an extra-syllable verse line, and not two lines of prose.

For the blank in p. 833, col. 1, Act iii. sc. iv. 1. 169, " And either.... the devil or throw him out," I suggest "tame." You want a t word for euphony, I think. "Throne" is out of the question-as are all words of its class-for the context plainly requires subjection of the devil, to go along with the ejection of "throw him out." Hamlet is not discussing with his mother the general question of the opposite forces of habit, but telling her that the custom of abstaining from Claudius's bed will enable her either to subdue in herself, or drive out from herself, the devil of lust. Malone's "curb," for my "tame," contrasts well with "change" in 1. 168. The "easiness" of 1. 166, the "easy" of 1. 167, and the alliteration with "either," might tempt one to suggest that Shakspere wrote in 1. 169 the Early English verb eathe, soothe, lessen the force of-see eathien in Stratmann, and "ethede his sorye" (sorrow) there quoted-and that the printer left the word out because he could not understand it. But I believe in the accidental omission of a word like "tame" or "curb," and am glad that the Cambridge editors have rejected the weak, metre-spoiling, two-syllable "master" of Quarto 5, &c. F. J. FURNIVALL.

P.S.-Our editor of Henry V., Mr. W. G. Stone, calls my attention to a slip in the Globe numbering of that play. In Act v. sc. 2, 1. 201 is made 301, and consequently all the subsequent numbers in the scene are wrong by 100.

"DUCDAME."- "Ducdamè" is a word that occurs in As You Like It, where Jaques (Act ii. sc. 5) adds a verse to the old ditty, "Under the Greenwood Tree," and sings it to Amiens :"If it do come to pass

That any man turn ass, Leaving his wealth and ease, A stubborn will to please, Ducdamè, ducdamè, ducdamè!"

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Amiens asks what the word means, and Jaques replies, ""Tis a Greek word to call fools into a circle." None of the editors of Shakspere can make anything of "ducdamè." Sir Thomas Hanmer turned it into Latin, and thought it a misprint for "Duc, ad me"; Charles Knight was of opinion that "Ducdamè " was some country call of a woman to her ducks"; while Mr. J. Payne Collier thought it an abbreviation of "Dear me" or "Dearie me." Mr. Howard Staunton, rejecting all these interpretations, inclined to the belief that it was mere unmeaning babble coined for the occasion." Mr. Halliwell, in his archæological dictionary, calls it the burden of an old song