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NOTES AND QUERIES. BO* s. i. JAS. 23, IM*.
English poetry and the verse in the Bible.
The word fabric, is in the lines of Milton,
Cowper, and Heber ; and the chief idea in
them of the fabric being raised or constructed
marvellously is not in the verse of Kings to
which reference has been made. For in that
verse it is only said that the materials were
prepared before they were used, so that the
sound of tools was not heard whilst the
Temple was built. I admit, however, that
Cowper, and perhaps Heber, may have had
the verse in mind. Milton appears to be
indebted to the line in the ' Iliad ' which
describes Thetis rising like a mist from the
sea. E. YARDLEY.
SADLER'S WELLS PLAY ALLUDED TO BY WORDSWORTH (10 th S. i. 7). I have consulted the following authorities, but have not been able to find any reference to the play said to have been founded on the story of John Hatfield and Mary of Butterraere :
1. Oxberry's ' Dramatic Biog.'
2. Bernard's ' Retrospections of the Stage.'
3. Gilliland's ' Dramatic Synopsis.'
4. Lowe's 'Biographical Account of Dra- matic Literature.'
5. J. T. Dibdin's 'Reminiscences. 1
6. John Britton's ' Autobiography.'
7. Decastro's ' Memoires.'
8. Dickens's ' Life of Grimaldi.'
9. ' The London Stage,' G. Balme (1826).
10. ' The London Theatre,' T. Dibdin (1815).
11. Cumberland's 'Minor Theatre.'
12. Dicks's Catalogue.
13. Sadler's Wells playbills, in the British Museum.
14. Doran's 'Annals of the Stage.'
I shall be glad if one of your readers can supply me with further references.
H. W. B.
CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS (9 th S, xii. 269. 394, 510). Miss LEGA-WEEKES should also consult a second and later list of these printed accounts. It was compiled by a lady called Elsbeth Philipps, and published in the English Historical Review, xv. 335-41 (1900). W. P. COURTNEY.
TOPOGRAPHY OP ANCIENT LONDON (9 th S. xii. 429). Under the heading ' Jewin Street, City,' Wheatley's ' London, Past and Present,' vol. ii. p. 308, gives a quotation from Strype, book iii. p. 88 :
" Being a place, as is expressed in a record, with- out Gripelgate and the suburbs of London called Leyrestowe, and which was the burying-place o( the Jews of London."
"The plot of ground appropriated as the
Jews burial-ground is now," says Stow (1603),
turned into fair garden plots and summer
louses for pleasure." I cannot find any
- race in any work of the " Lazar House."
ANDREW OLIVER.
" JEER " (9 th S. xi. 487 ; xii. 357). When we say schrauben in the sense of " to jeer at " we always mean " einen schrauben," whether this object is expressed or understood. The phrase has nothing to do with the face of the mocker, but the wri things of his victim whose thumb he has clamped in the vice. It is a 5ame they like much in this country at the beer-table, not pleasant when one poor fellow is made the laughing-stock of the company, but amusing when the attacked party is able to hit back ; the " corona " then spending a nice time in witnessing this mutual "screw- ing " process. G. KRUEGER.
Berlin.
" LITTLE MARY " (9 th S. xii. 504). I gather Prom the notice of the Westminster play in the Athenaeum of 19 December, 1903, that the epilogue to the 'Trinuminus,' which was "extremely happy," introduced "Parva Maria," " Dumpophobista," &c.
WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.
"WELSH RABBIT" (9 th S. xii. 469). In addition to the note by the REV. A. SMYTHE PALMER at 7 th S. x. 9, I would refer your correspondent to the reverend gentleman's 'Folk-Etymology' (1882) for a long article, and illustrations of the use of the term. Annandale in his 'Imperial Dictionary' gives the following :
" ' Welali Rabbit is a genuine slang term, belong- ing to a large group which describe in the same humorous way the special dish or product or pecu- liarity of a particular district. For example, an Essex lion is a calf; a Field-lane duck is a baked sheep's head ; Glasgow magistrates or Norfolk capons are red herrings ; Irish apricots or Munster plums are potatoes ; Graresend sweetmeats are shrimps.' Macmillan's Magazine."
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
Was it not Samuel Johnson who transposed " Welch-rare-bit " into " Welsh rabbit " ?
THORNE GEORGE.
We call a sort of hash " falscher Hase."
G. KRUEGER. Berlin.
[MR. HOLDEN MAcMiciiAEL refers also to the euphemistic names of dishes from localities.]
ST. BRIDGET'S BOWER (10 th S. i. 27). Is it not probable that Spenser alludes to Brent, and not to Kent? and that the "Br" in his MS. was mistaken for "K"? The parish church of Breane, in the hundred of Brent, Somerset, is dedicated to St. Bridget, and
