ii s. i. MAR. 5, i9io.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
185
221 of ' Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale (John
Lane, 1910). It looks as if he were wearing
Wellingtons or Bluchers. I do not know i
these were, or are, made indifferently for
either foot ; but I have noted a reference in
' Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour * (chap, xli.)
to Mr. Jogglebury Crowdey's " shapeless
tops, made regardless of the refinements of
right and left," which "dangled at his
horse's sides like a couple of stable -buckets."
HIPPOCLIDES.
EASTER ON 27 MARCH. Much has been
written in ' N. & Q.' about Easter falling on
particular days, e.g., Lady Day or St.
Mark's Day ; but it does riot appear that
attention has been drawn to what occurs
this year, viz., the coincidence of the eccle-
siastical and civil anniversaries of the
Resurrection. As is well known, an early
and very generally accepted tradition placed
the date of the Crucifixion on the 25th of
March (the anniversary of the Annunciation),
and consequently that of the Resurrection
on the 27th. The REV. JOHNSON BAILY in
1878 (5 S. ix. 416) stated that " March 27
is often in calendars described as ' Resur-
rectio Domini,' from a belief that the
resurrection of our Lord actually took place
on that day." This belief was held by
Dante, as appears by ' Conv.,' iv. 23. When
Easter so fell, it was considered to have
fallen in its most proper place. Matthew
Paris, in closing his history at the end of the
year 1250, remarks that that was the first
time that . in a jubilee year Easter had
occurred " suo loco proprio, videlicet sexto
Calendarum Aprilis " ; and he commemo-
rates the event in the following verses :
Virginia a partu jam mi lie volumina Phcebus
Cum bis centenis et quinquaginta percent
Anmia ; sed visum non est sub tern pore tanto
Aprilis sexto fuerit quod Pascha Calendas
Dum quinquagenus orbem percurreret annus ;
Hoc tamen evenit anno, cui terminus hie est.
R. D. WILSON.
" PEIN OF THE HARTE " = HALTER. There is a curious slip in the ' N.E.D.' under ' Heart,' I. 2 = life. I find there a quotation from Hall's ' Chronicle,' 1548 : " Com- maundyng, upon pein of the harte, that no man should once pass the sea with hym." The conjunction of the words " pain " and " heart " probably diverted the distributor of the quotation from the real meaning of the expression. It is evidently the Englished sur peine de la hart, i.e., of the halter (Littre, 16th-cent. quotation). I do not find ' Harte' in this sense in the * N.E.D.'
I turn to ' Halter.' No etymology is
given -beyond cf. with L. capistrum, halter.
But capistrum is only a halter in the sense
of a head-stall ; cabestre is the Provencal
word. And there is no hint of a possible
connexion between " halter," the rope for
a criminal's neck, and "halse " or " hawse,"
the neck itself. The origin of hart is un-
known to Littre. It means : 1, a withy to
bind faggots ; 2, a withy strong and supple
enough to hang a man with ; 3, the hang-
man's rope. I surmise it to be related to
our " garth " or to the Dutch garde, both
of similar meaning. EDWARD NICHOLSON.
115, Rue N. D. des Champs, Paris.
" HEORTOLOGY. 2 ' One may regret not to find a record of this term, adopted from ancient Greek, in the ' Oxford Dictionary ? : nor is its corresponding French equivalent heortologie in Littre or in Darmesteter- Hatzfeld. As every Greek scholar knows, it signifies an introductory guide to the^ calendar of holy festivals observed by the Christian Church. A manual of this kind would serve to give an answer to such questions as, for instance, that concerning a ' Fourteenth-Century Calendar l which appeared at the head of the Queries on 12 February. H. KREBS.
[A notice of the translation of Dr. K. A. H. Kellner's ' Heortology ' appeared in The Athen&um of 25 September, 1909.]
- ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN ' : Two READINGS.
It would be futile, as it would be pre- sumptuous, to attempt the textual editing of the Waverley Novels. They suffer nothing from such lapses as those by which the sun is made to set over the German Ocean and Rosneath is called an island. But there are verbal slips that need not be allowed to remain, and no genuine admirer of Scott would demur at their silent removal. A fresh perusal of ' Anne of Geierstein ' has just brought two of these under considera- tion.
In the fourth paragraph of chap. viii. it is said that the face of the Burgess of Soleure " became flushed like the moon when rising in the north-west." This could be easily rectified by the substitution of setting for " rising," or of north-east for " north-west." Scott probably intended to use the latter of the suggested terms.
The other flaw is near the end of the ninth chapter, where a sentence begins, " Young Philipson, who, like Chaucer's Squire, was
- as modest as a maid. ? ? The comparison
should have been instituted with the knight, and it would be only an act of grace to alter
