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No. 82.]
SATURDAY, MAY 24. 1851.
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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                               Page

  Note upon a Passage in "Measure for Measure"            401

  Rhyming Latin Version of the Song on Robin Goodfellow,
  by S. W. Singer                                         402

  Folk Lore:--Devonshire Folk Lore: 1. Storms from
  Conjuring; 2. The Heath-hounds; 3. Cock scares the
  Fiend; 4. Cranmere Pool--St. Uncumber and the
  offering of Oats--"Similia similibus curantur"--Cure
  of large Neck                                           404

  Dibdin's Library Companion                              405

  Minor Notes:--A Note on Dress--Curious Omen at
  Marriage--Ventriloquist Hoax--Barker, the original
  Panorama Painter                                        406

  QUERIES:--

  Minor Queries:--Vegetable Sympathy--Court Dress--Dieu
  et mon Droit--Cachecope Bell--The Image
  of both Churches--Double Names--"If this fair
  Flower," &c.--Hugh Peachell--Sir John Marsham--Legend
  represented in Frettenham Church--King
  of Nineveh burns himself in his Palace--Butchers not
  Jurymen--Redwing's Nest--Earth thrown upon the
  Coffin--Family of Rowe--Portus Canum--Arms of
  Sir John Davies--William Penn--Who were the
  Writers in the North Briton?                            407

  MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--"Many a Word"--Roman
  Catholic Church--Tick--Hylles' Arithmetic               409

  REPLIES:--

  Villenage                                               410

  Maclean not Junius                                      411

  Replies to Minor Queries:--The Ten Commandments--
  Mounds, Munts, Mounts--San Graal--Epitaph on
  the Countess of Pembroke                                412

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                  414

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                            414

  Notices to Correspondents                               414

  Advertisements                                          415

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Notes.

NOTE UPON A PASSAGE IN "MEASURE FOR MEASURE."

The Third Act of _Measure for Measure_ opens with Isabella's visit to her
brother (Claudio) in the dungeon, where he lies under sentence of death. In
accordance with Claudio's earnest entreaty, she has sued for mercy to
Angelo, the sanctimonious deputy, and in the course of her allusion to the
only terms upon which Angelo is willing to remit the sentence, she informs
him that he "must die," and then continues:

                  "This outward-sainted deputy,--
  Whose settled visage and deliberate word
  Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew,
  As falcon doth the fowl,--is yet a devil;
  His filth within being cast, he would appear
  A pond as deep as hell."

Whereupon (according to the reading of the folio of 1623) Claudio, who is
aware of Angelo's reputation for sanctity, exclaims in astonishment:

  "The _prenzie_ Angelo?"

To which Isabella replies (according to the reading of the same edition):

  "O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,
  The damned'st body to invest and cover
  In _prenzie_ guards! Dost thou think, Claudio,
  If I would yield him my virginity,
  Thou might'st be freed?"

Claudio, still incredulous, rejoins:

  "O, heavens! it cannot be."

The word _prenzie_ has given rise to much annotation, and it seems to be
universally agreed that the word is a misprint. The question is, what was
the word actually written, or intended, by Shakspeare? Steevens and Malone
suggested "princely;" Warburton, "priestly;" and Tieck, "precise." Mr.
Knight adopts "precise," the reading of Tieck, and thinks "that, having to
choose some word which would have the double merit of agreeing with the
sense of the passage and be similar in the number and form of the letters,
nothing can be more unfortunate than the correction of "princely;" Mr.
Collier, on the other hand, follows Steevens and Malone, and reads
"princely," observing the Tieck's reading