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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 111. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 111.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Cowley and Gray. No. III. 465
Old Song: The Cuckold's Cap, by J. R. Relton 468
The Gododin, by Thomas Stephens 468
Folk Lore:—Lincolnshire Folk Lore 470
Minor Notes:—Modern Greek Names of Places—"There is no mistake"—Remarkable Prophecy—The Ball that killed Nelson—Gypsies 470
QUERIES:—
Dial Motto at Karlsbad 471
Suppressed Epilogue by Dryden, by Henry Campkin 472
Minor Queries:—Barrister—Indian Jugglers—Priory of Hertford—Jacobus Creusius (or Crucius)—Clekit House—Ballad on the Rising of the Vendée—Stanza on Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar"—Prophecy respecting 1837—Lines on the Bible—En bon et poyer—"England expects every man," &c.—Religious Houses in East Sussex—Parish Registers, Right of Search, Fees claimable—Bacon a Poet—Tregonwell Frampton—Weever and Fuller; their Autographs wanted—Is the Badger Amphibious? 472
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:—Royal Registers—Paul Hoste—"Liber Mirabilis"—Saint Richard, King of England—Saint Irene or St. Erini 474
REPLIES:—
Cockney 475
Replies to Minor Queries:—The Word Infortuner—Foreign Ambassadors—Petition for the Recall from Spain of the Duke of Wellington 476
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 477
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 478
Notices to Correspondents 478
Advertisements 478
Notes.
COWLEY AND GRAY, NO. III.
Before again recurring to Gray's partiality for the poems of Cowley, I will make a remark or two on Mr. Wakefield's edition of Gray.
In his delightful "Ode to Adversity" Gray has written:
"Daughter of Jove, relentless power,
Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour,
The bad affright, afflict the best."
Upon which Wakefield gives us this brilliant criticism:
"'Torturing hour.' There seems to be some little impropriety and incongruity in this. Consistency of figure rather required some material image, like iron scourge and adamantine chain."
Afterwards he seems to speak diffidently of his own judgment, which is rather an unusual thing in Mr. Wakefield. Well would it have been for the reputations of Bentley, Johnson, and Wakefield, that, before improving upon Milton and Gray and Collins, they had remembered the words of a truly great critic, even Horace himself:
"Sunt delicta tamen quibus ignovisse velimus:
Nam neque chorda sonum reddit quem vult manus et mens,
Poscentique gravem persæpe remittit acutum;
Nec semper feriet quodcunque minabitur arcus.
Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis
Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit,
Aut humana parum cavit natura."
Not by any means that I am allowing in this case the existence of a "macula," or an "incuria" either. To D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature I think I am indebted for the remark, that Gray borrowed the expressions from Milton:
"When the scourge
Inexorably, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance."
It is therefore with Milton, and not with Gray, that Mr. Wakefield must settle the matter. And in proof of