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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Genealogists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 71.] SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1851. [Price Threepence. Stamped
Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page
On Two Passages in "All's Well that Ends Well," by S. W. Singer 177
George Herbert and the Church of Leighton Bromswold 178
Folk Lore:--Sacramental Wine--"Snail, Snail, come out of your
Hole"--Nievie-nick-nack 179
Records at Malta 180
On an Ancient MS. of "Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica" 180
Minor Queries:--The Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes--
Writing-paper--Little Casterton (Rutland) Church--The
Hippopotamus--Specimens of Foreign English--St. Clare--Dr.
Dodd--Hats of Cardinals and Notaries Apostolic--Baron Munchausen's
Frozen Horn--Contracted Names of Places 181

QUERIES:--
Bibliographical Queries 182
Enigmatical Epitaph 184
Shakspeare's "Merchant of Venice" 185
Minor Queries:--Was Lord Howard of Effingham a Protestant or a
Papist?--Lord Bexley: how descended from Cromwell--Earl of
Shaftesbury--Family of Peyton--"La Rose nait en un Moment"--John
Collard the Logician--Traherne's Sheriffs of Glamorgan-- Haybands in
Seals--Edmund Prideaux, and the First Post-office--William Tell
Legend--Arms of Cottons buried in Landwade Church--Sir George
Buc's Treatise on the Stage--A Cracowe Pike--St. Thomas of
Trunnions--Paper mill near Stevenage-- Mounds, Munts,
Mounts--Church Chests--The Cross-bill--Iovanni Volpe--Auriga--To
speak in Lutestring--"Lavora, come se tu," &c.--Tomb of
Chaucer--Family of Clench 185
REPLIES:--
Cranmer's Descendants 188
Dutch Popular Song-book, by J. H. van Lennep 189
Barons of Hugh Lupus 189
Shakspeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" 190
"Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon!" 191
Replies to Minor Queries:--Ulm Manuscript--Harrison's
Chronology--Mistletoe on Oaks--Swearing by Swans--Jurare ad caput
animalium--Ten Children at a Birth--Richard Standfast--"Jurat, crede
minus"-- Rab Surdam--The Scaligers--Lincoln Missal--
By-and-bye--Gregory the Great--True Blue-- Drachmarus--The
Brownes of Cowdray, Sussex-- Red Hand--Anticipations of Modern
Ideas by Defoe-- Meaning of Waste-book--Deus Justificatus--

Touchstone's Dial--Ring Dials--Cockade--Rudbeck's Atlantica, &c. 191
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 198
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 199
Notices to Correspondents 199
Advertisements 200
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Notes.
ON TWO PASSAGES IN "ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL."
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:
"Bert. I pr'ythee, do not strive against my vows: I was compell'd to her;
but I love thee By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever Do
thee all rights of service.
Dia. Ay, so you serve us, Till we serve you: but when you have our
roses, You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us
with our bareness.
Bert. How have I sworn?
Dia. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single
vow, that is vow'd true. What is not holy, that we swear not by, But
take the Highest to witness: Then, pray you, tell me, If I should swear
by Jove's great attributes, I love'd you dearly, would you believe my
oaths, When I did love you ill? this has no holding, To swear by him
whom I protest to love, That I will work against him."

Read--"when I protest to Love."
It is evident that Diana refers to Bertram's double vows, his marriage
vow, and the subsequent vow or protest he had made not to keep it. "If
I should swear by Jove I loved you dearly, would you believe my oath
when I loved you ill? This has no consistency, to swear by Jove, when
secretly I protest to Love that I will work against him (i.e. against the
oath I have taken to Jove)."
Bertram had sworn by the Highest to love his wife; in his letter to his
mother he says:
"I have wedded her, not bedded her, and sworn to make the not
eternal:"
he secretly protests to Love to work against his sacred oath; and in his
following speech he says:
"Be