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NOTES AND QUERIES. [u s . IX . MAY ,6, 1914.
" BLIZARD " AS A SURNAME (US. ix. 290).
There is a family named Blezard in
Ontario. A member of it, Thomas Blezard,
was in the Ontario Legislature from 1879 to
1902. I have tried to trace the name in the
reference books on the subject. I suppose it
to be of Huguenot origin. The termination
indicates French or Norman-French ancestry.
AVERN PARDOE.
Legislative Library, Toronto.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S ix. 231, 273). The epigram beginning
A single doctor like a sculler plies is practically identical with
See one physician like a sculler plies, to which the * Cyclopaedia of Practical Quo- tations,' by Hoyt and Ward, 5th ed., London, 1883, has the note: " ' D, probably John Dunscomb.' A note in Nichols' Select Collection of Poems, 1780." (Dunscomb should apparently be Buncombe.) In
- N. & Q.,' 5 S. i. 276, a reply similar to the
above is given, whilst at p. 358 of the same volume it appears to be attributed to Sir Joseph Jekyll. W. B. H.
(11 S. ix. 328.)
The lines inquired for by MB. MARSHALL Box are from Tennyson, ' The Ancient Sage ' (11. 204-8), and should run as follows : 1 hate the black negation of the bier, And wish the dead, as happier than ourselves And higher, having climb'd one step beyond Our village miseries, might be borne in white To burial or to burning ....
L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.
(US. ix. 328, 373.) The kiss of the sun for pardon. The above poem, called 'God's Garden,' is from the pen of Dorothy Frances Gurney, and occurs in a book of poems reviewed by Algernon Blackwood in Country Life, 31 May 1913. FRED. G. SAVAGE.
(11 S. ix. 348.) Ah, que les gens d'esprit sont btes!
From Beaurnarchais, ' Le Mariage de Figaro,' Act I. sc. i. :
Suzanne. Tu croyais, bon garCon ! que cette dot qu on me donne etait pour les beaux yeux de ton merit e ?
Figaro. J'avais assez fait pour 1'esperer.
Suzanne. Que les gens d'esprit sont betes!
Figaro. On le dit.
Suzanne. Mais c'est qu'on ne veut pas le croire.
Figaro. On a tort.
H. GOUDCHAUX.
Pans.
This occurs in Act I. sc. i. of Beau-
marchais's * Le Ma.riage de Figaro.'
I may mention that in Ramage's ' Beauti- ful Thoughts from French and Italian Authors ' it is attributed to the ' Barbier de- Seville ' by the same author, but I have found this to be erroneous.
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
" KIBOB " : DERIVATION WANTED (11 S- ix. 328). This word is the ordinary English mispronunciation of the Arabic word kabab r a viand which consists of morsels of flesh- (most often goat) and onion spitted alter- nately upon a wooden skewer, and browned over a charcoal fire. These may be bought in pretty well every bazaar of every town of the Near East, and very savoury do they smell. H. D. ELLIS.
The derivation is given in ' N.E.D.' under cabob, used by Fryer in 1 698, and by Thacke- ray in ' The Newcomes.' In Freytag'* Arabic Lexicon the word kabab is rendered " concisse carnes, quse cum cepis ovisque coquuntur." It has passed into Persian and Hindustani Urdu.
STEPHEN WHEELER.
Oriental Club.
See cabob in the ' Stanford Dictionary r and the ' N.E.D.' Apparently it is the Arabic kabdb, which is found also in Persian and Urdu. The above-mentioned dictionaries give many instances of its use in English literature, with a plentiful variety of spellings. Any temptation to quote the agreeable nonsense of the ' Bab Ballads * has been resisted by the editors of thes serious works of reference, but the plain reader instinctively recalls how Alum Bey
sat pensively by,
With a bright sympathetic ka-bob in his eye. EDWARD BENSLY.
REGISTERS OF HAWKHURST, KENT (11 S ix. 350). I do not know of any copy of the registers of this parish. The possibility of such a copy being in existence is somewhat remote. Your correspondent might inquire at the British Museum, and at local libraries such as the Public Library at Can- terbury. He may find a copy of the period wanted amongst the " Bishops' Transcripts of Parish Registers," which for Hawkhurst should be in the Registry at Canter- bury ; but these transcripts are generally very incomplete, and, owing to the- neglected condition of many records in the custody of the ecclesiastical authorities^ often inaccessible. H. TAPLEY-SOPER.
Public Library, Exeter.
