Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851

Notes

ON TWO PASSAGES IN "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL."

GEORGE HERBERT AND THE CHURCH AT LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD

FOLK LORE

RECORDS AT MALTA

ON AN ANCIENT MS. OF "BEDÆ HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA."

Minor Notes

Queries

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES

ENIGMATICAL EPITAPH

SHAKSPEARE'S "MERCHANT OF VENICE"

Minor Queries

Replies

CRANMER'S DESCENDANTS

DUTCH POPULAR SONG-BOOK

BARONS OF HUGH LUPUS

SHAKSPEARE'S "ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA."

"SUN, STAND THOU STILL UPON GIBEON!"

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

NEW BOOKS

IN ANTICIPATION OF EASTER

Отрывок из книги

Among the few passages in Shakspeare upon which little light has been thrown, after all that has been written about them, are the following in Act. IV. Sc. 2. of All's Well that Ends Well, where Bertram is persuading Diana to yield to his desires:

Read—"when I protest to Love."

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The view from the tower is extensive, and, from the number of spires that are visible, very pleasing: fifteen or sixteen village churches are to be seen with the naked eye; and I believe that Ely Cathedral, nearly thirty miles distant, may be discovered with the aid of a telescope.

I have in my cabinet a large brass coin of the Empress Ptacilia Severa, wife of Philip, on which is depicted the Hippopotamus, with the legend SAECVLARES. AVGG., showing it to have been exhibited at the sæcular games.

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