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- 16. The Jew in Grain.
- 17. The Armour of ^E.
- 18. The Best Bower Anchor.
- 19. Finale. Probably the glee 'Professional
Volunteers,' the words of which are given by Hogarth.
There was also introduced
20. Miss Wigley. Sung by Dibdin. There is also a later edition, 3 pp., published by Goulding& Co. (see No. 10). Also sung in ' The Melange,' 1808.
1808 (?). Rent Day ; or The Yeoman's Friend. A Table Entertainment written and composed by Charles Dibdin.
I have been unable to trace the date of first performance. The songs, fec., according to Hogarth, were as follows. I have only seen published copies of four, which are in folio, price Is., signed by Dibdin. 1. Healths (Glee).
- 2. The Lion, the Puppy, and the Mastiff.
3. The Clown turned Sailor. Written and com- posed by Mr. Dibdin, and Sung by Mr. Woelf at the Sans Pareil, In his New Entertainment of Rent Day, or The Yeoman's Friend. Printed and Published for the Author at his Music Warehouse No. 125 Strand & Sold by his Appointment by Bland & Weller No. 25 Oxford St. & Mr. Wheatstone Xo. 436 Strand. For two flutes on p. 3 ; fourth page blank.
- 4. Widow Walmsley's Shiners.
- 5. Duet between a Tar and a Clown.
- 6. The Labourers (a Glee).
7. Joan is as Good as My Lady. Sung by Dibdin. Arrangement for two flutes. 4 pp.
- 8. The Peasant's Funeral. Sung by Mr. Herbert.
- 9. The Sailor's Dream.
10. The Total Eclipse.
- 11. Britannia's Name.
"12. The Dinner Party.
13. The Thrasher. 3 pp. Hogarth says this was written for the Stratford Jubilee, 1769.
- 14. The Laudable Contention.
- 15. Noses.
- 16. The Concert of Nature.
- 17. The Sailor's bring-up.
18. The Preservation of the Braganzas. Sung by Mr. Woelf. 4 pp.
- 19. Finale. "All you who have light heels."
According to a contemporary songbook there were also introduced :
- 20. The Temple of Freedom (a Glee).
- 21. Adam and his Rib (a Glee).
E. RIMBAULT DIBDIN. Morningside, Sud worth Road, New Brighton. ( To be continued. )
SHAKESPEARE'S BOOKS.
(See 9 th S. v. 329 ; vi. 144, 2a% 464 ; vii. 163, 423 ;
viii. 78, ISO, 321 ; xi. 64, 203 ; xii. 7, 463.) PUTTENHAM, in his Second Book of 'Propor- tion Poetical,' speaking of device or emblem, says :
"The Greeks call it Emblema, the Italiens Impresa, and we, a Device, such as a man may put into letters, or cause to be embroidered in Scutchions
of arms or any bordure of a rich garment to give by
his novelty marvel to the beholder."
To this tmpresa Shakespeare refers in ' Richard II.,' III. i., when Bolingbroke, addressing Bushy and Green, says :
You have fed upon my signories, Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat> Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.
The tearing of Bolingbroke's household coat was actionable, according to the old legal maxim quoted by Coke, " Actio datur si quis arma, in aliquo loco posita, delevit seu abrasit" (3 ' Institute,' 202).
In ' Pericles,' II. ii., Thaisa describes the devices on the shields of the six knights.
W. L. RUSHTON. (To be continued.)
" JONG," TIBETAN WORD. According to the
Literary World, 27 May, p. 509 :
" The newspaper poets have been making hay with jingles about the 'jingal' and the 'jong,' words that, after thousands of years' use among the nomads of Tibet, have at last found their way into the English language through the incautious use of them in the official telegrams from the British Mission at Gyangtse."
"Jingal" is in the 'N.E.D.,' but "Jong" appears to be a new importation into English. It is a pure Tibetan word, and its correct orthography is rdzong, but the initial r is silent, so that the actual sound is dzong. It means a fortress. There are very few Tibetan terms in English, mostly names of animals, such as the kiang, the sakin or skeen (Tibetan skyin), the shapho, the yak, and others.
JAS. PLATT, Jun.
HERBERT SPENCER AND CHILDREN. The following extract from 'Rambler's Chit Chat/ in the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard of 14 May, is, I think, worth preservation in N. & Q.' :-
" It may interest my readers to know that the little children whom Spencer, the dull old bachelor, delighted to have about him, and on more than one occasion ' borrowed ' in order to enjoy the happinessof their society, were the little datightersof Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrison Cripps. Mrs. Cripps, rt will be remembered, was a daughter of Mr. Richard Potter, of Standish. The story pretty, although told in elaborate Spencerese is worth quoting: 'When at Brighton in 1887, suffering the ennui of an invalid life, passed chiefly in bed and on the sofa, I one day, while thinking over modes of killing time, bethought me that the society of children might be a desirable distraction. The girls above referred to [the Misses Potter] were most of them* at the time I speak of, married and had families ^ and one of them Mrs. W. Cripps let me have two of her little ones for a fortnight. The result of
