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NOTES AND QUERIES.
-as " rude Day's," " enemies'," " Rum our' s
yes," &c. Zachary Jackson's emendation,
unawares (see Furne^s 'edition, p. 369), has
a plausible look, inasmuch as it is both
grammatical and comprehensible ; but there is much force, I think, in Dyce's objection that he did not believe Shakespeare ever wrote it.
Runaway, though now archaic, was a very common expression in Shakespeare's day.
1 1n ' Merchant of Venice,' II. vi. 47, we have
For the close night doth play the runaway, and in ' Richard III.,' V. iii. 360 :
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, runaways. For this reason the safest course probably is to leave the passage intact. Juliet was
-certainly exercising her wit in an endeavour to distinguish between Cupid's undoubted Tights and the encroachments of sensual cupidity. The only suggestion I can offer in the case is " Cynthia's eyes," seeing that two effulgent deities, Phoebus and Phaeton, have been alluded to in the preceding lines, so that a goddess of the night might be fittingly invoked, compaie the phrase
"glimpses of the moon" in 'Hamlet.' For the series of interminable arguments
on this passage see the Appendix to the Furness edition of the play.
N. W.
The god of day traversing the heavens in
a chariot drawn by fiery-footed steeds is a
concrete description of the sun personified.
- ' Runaways' eyes," meaning the same
thing, is abstract. The sense makes it clear. Juliet urges the horses to put on more speed and end the day at once. She wants the night to come immediately. As an alter- native she impatiently calls upon night to darken the sky that the sun god may close his eyes, and end the day. " Runaway " is an abstract noun of motion. The flight of time is termed a " runaway." So, relatively, It can be said of the sun in his flight across the sky. TOM JONES.
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE
BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii. ; 12 S. i.-iv. passim ; v. 89, 145, 259.)
ROYAL PERSONAGES (continued).
Charles I. Westminster Hall. Tablets upon flight of steps leading to St. Stephen' Porch, with inscriptions :
" This Tablet marks the spot where Charles Stuart, King of England, stood before the Court
which sat pursuant to the ordinance for erecting
a High Court of Justice for his trial, which was
- ead the first, second, and third time, and passed
by Parliament on the 4th January, 1648 /9. The Court met on Saturday the 20th, Monday the
22nd, Tuesday the 23rd, and on Saturday the 27th January, 1648 /9, when the sentence of death was pronounced upon the King.
" The trial of the King was, by order of the
tourt, held where the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery sat in Westminster Hall, and this Tablet marks the position of the Bar that separated those Courts from the length of the Hall."
M. Venizelos referred to these tablets in his speech after his recent return to power in Greece.
Charles II. Lichfield Cathedral (see US. x. 278).
William III. College Green, Dublin. Por- tion of old Dame Gate was utilized in making the pedestal. A document referring bo one of its many mutilations is exhibited in the P.R.O., Dublin. The statue is made of lead, of about a quarter of an inch in thickness, supported on an internal frame- work of iron, some portions being solid [Gilbert's ' History of Dublin,' vol. iii., p. 40). On the south side is an inscription :
Gulielmo Tertio ; Magnae Britannise, Francise et Hibernise
regi ob Religionem conservatam
Bestitutas leges libertatem assertam cives Dublinienses hanc statuam posuere.
On the west side :
This Historic Monument
having fallen into decay
was restored at the cost of the city
Anno Domini 1890 under authority of resolution moved by Councillor W. J. Doherty, C.E.,J.P. and unanimously adopted by the Municipal
Council
at its meeting of the 1st Nov.* 1899
The Right Hon. Thomas Sexton, M.P.
Lord Mayor.
The inscription on the north side is given at 12 S. i. 473.
In front of the Tontine Buildings, Glasgow, equestrian statue, presented to the city in 1736 by James Macrae. There are busts of William and Mary at The Hague by Ver- hulst and Blommendael, and a statue of Mary on the exterior of the Hotel Russell, London. National Museum Dublin, white marble bust on pedestal of coloured marble, with inscriptions
The Gift of Governor John
Peree, to the Aldermen of
Skinner's Alley 4th of Sept.
1789.
