Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850

Notes

ENGLISH AND NORMAN SONGS OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

MISPLACED WORDS IN SHAKSPEARE'S TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

MASTER JOHN SHORNE

CORRIGENDA OF PRINTER'S ERRORS

FOLK LORE OF WALES

CONNEXION OF WORDS—THE WORD "FREIGHT."

Minor Notes

Queries

EARLY SALE OF GEMS, DRAWINGS, AND CURIOSITIES

MINOR QUERIES

Replies

COLLAR OF SS

DANIEL DE FOE

"ANTIQUITAS SÆCULI JUVENTUS MUNDI."

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices To Correspondents

OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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In a vellum book, known as The Red Book of Ossory, and preserved in the archives of that see, is contained a collection of Latin religious poetry, written in a good bold hand of the 14th century; prefixed to several of the hymns, in a contemporary and identical hand, are sometimes one sometimes more lines of a song in old English or Norman French, which as they occur I here give:

It is quite evident that these lines were thus prefixed (as is still the custom), to indicate the air to which the Latin hymns were to be sung. This is also set forth in a memorandum at the commencement, which states that these songs, Cantilene, were composed by the Bishop of Ossory for the vicars of his cathedral church, and for his priests and clerks,

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The original is one of the few passages which, as it seems to me, must be left to the reader's sagacity, and of the difficulties attending which we cannot arrive at any satisfactory solution."

Mr. Collier's better judgment has here given way to his deference for the opinion of his worthy friend; the deviation from the old copy being quite as violent as any that he has ever quarrelled with in others.

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