338
stands for mwy, Scot, morgue, a solemn l^e murgeon, to mock by making mouths rTamieson) : from Fr. morgue, a sour face, a ofemn Sntenance, morguer to look sourly; cf Languedoc murga, countenance.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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'RECOMMENDED TO MERCY ' (10 th S .. i .100,
2 o 2 \ _A friend remembers reading in India a book with this title by Mrs. Eilow*. R ^
rW P have failed to find this under Mrs. Eiloart's name in the' English Catalogue.' Mrs. Houstoun's wo?k with the same title is not the one MR. LATHAM requires.]
BATROME (10* S. i. 88, 173, 252).-HELGA is surely mistaken in speaking of Barthram 8 Dirge' as an old Border ballad. That S Walter Scott believed in its antiquity cannot be called in question,- but there can be no doubt that it was composed by Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, the Durham antiquary For evidence of this see George Taylor's 'Memoir of Robert Surtees,' a new edition, with addi- tions by the Rev. James Rame (issued by the Surtees Society, 1852), pp. 85, 2
.
THE FIRST EDITION OF HORACE (10 th S. i. 103). As regards the statement that t eight spurious lines at the beginning of the tenth Satire of the first, book "are said t be found in only one printed edition beta 1691, it may be observed that, according to Mr. Alfred Holder (Keller and Holder's 'Horace,' vol. ii., 1869), they are given by several editions before 1515. See the details in his critical note. EDWARD BEN SLY.
The University, Adelaide, S. Australia.
NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.
KNIGHT TEMPLAR (10 th S. i.,149, 211).-
Much information on this subject may be
found in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum ' which,
with other works, may be consulted at bi,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. P. A. X.
FIRST CATCH YOUR HARE" (9 th S. xii. 125, 518- 10 th S. i. 175, 254). In my copy of Ihe Art of Cookery, by Mrs. Glasse" (a new edition 1803), there are two directions which might easily have led to the above expression. lo Roast a Hare ' (p. 22) begins, " Take your hare when it is cased," Ac.; and 'Florendme Hare 1 (p. 126) begins, "Take a full-grown hare " &c. Mrs. Raffald (1807) also uses the same expression (p. 118): "To Florendme a Hare. Take a grown hare," &c. It is easy to imagine a wilful misunderstanding of the word " take " in these instances, and to treat
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j/rgeicut, jc*w "j_ ,
A"H" Murray. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)
A DOUBLE section of the great dictionary, issued
under the direct charge of the editor 111 .chief Con-
tains a total of 3,803 words, and carries the alpha
from P to Pargeted. Few previous parts are more
interesting or instructive than tins, and in none is-
the editoml comment more edifying and important.
In the introduction Dr. Murray explains, how.
while as an initial it occupied a small space in the
Old Engli sh vocabulary, the letter p has grown to be
one of the three gigantic .letters of the modern
English dictionarv. He is responsible tor I
startling statement that of the 2,4o4 mam words
discussed in the double section, one only, ,pan, theculinary vessel, can claim to be a native Old Enghs
word From France came the great invasion which
followed the few Latin words that preceded the
Norman Conquest. Many of these supply, proof of
Court or warlike usage-as page, #***.**
palfrey, palisade, papal, pardon and the like-
though a few were derived direct from the Latin
C scholars. While individual words came from
Danish Italian, Burmese Chinese, .Malay,
Algonquin, Tamil, &c., a third of those given are
of Greek derivation. We hope Dr. Murray will
no think it trifling if we as/whether it .asonb-
able to the growth of words in p to which he
refers that we find, in the alphabeted books
supplied us as a means of indexing entries, the
letter p is that invariably which first proves
inadequate and gives out. The numerous words
in ph answering to the Greek <f> have, it is stated,
no more relation to the p- words proper than
have those in ch to c; that is they constitute
alien group, and only for alphabetical con-
venience are assigned the place they occupy. Under
St. Thomas, Douglas.
HERYLDIC REFERENCE IN SHAKESPEARE (10 th S i. 290). In 'The Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry,' published by J. H. Parker, of Oxford, in 1847, p. 34, it is stated that the sun behind a cloud is embroidered on Richard II.'s robe on his effigy at West- minster. N. M. & A.
however 10 be said" "of "other significations of the
term as well as of innumerable words Padding,
in relation to literary articles or -books is firs graced
in 1861, which we suppose is about the time of its
ntroduction. A singularly interest"* article , that
on pad. As applied to the foot of the fox, no earlier
Instance is advanced than 1790. To "pad the hoof
is used by Washington Irving. The origin of all the
senses of paddle seems to be "rare,' "unknown,.
