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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. v. JUNE IG, im
The third line of the first strophe migh
mean " Sing ye strong ones ! " or " Sing (for
the strong ones ! " The eighth strophe maj
possibly mean "If the clods seem hard t(
you, skin the lamb and let the fire-wooc
blaze ! " or " let the arrow-shaft go ! " or " le
him go prudently !" Sur may be according t<
its context, the use of the dialect, or the spell
ing of a particular writer tree, beam, wood
fire, prudent, stingy. Sojac, one of the com
monest words in the language, meaning clod
of hard earth, does not occur, I think, in an^
of the dictionaries. It may be a shortenec
form of sokillak. I cannot at this momem
point to an authority for boa as an im
perative. It is commoner as the indicativ<
tor ba-doa=}\Q, she, or it goes. But as the
plural boaz let them go, is usual, boa if
its logical companion. The 1 in strophe 6
may be a d. It is on the very border of the
page. It may, therefore, be the remains o
dau, which would suit the sense which I have
selected for the verse. The original has at
least two kinds of i, one resembling a ./, and
also two kinds of y, one of them bearing a
dot like a j. My interpretation is almost
entirely original and new. This is not
essentially a journal of philology, but my
reasons for reading, dividing, and translating
the words as I do shall be given when your
readers have had time to digest this letter,
which will seem already too long. Please
take them on trust for the present.
Madame Carolina Michaelis de Vascon- cellos, 159, Rua de Cedofeita, Oporto, called my attention to some fourteen badly written Basque verses mixed with Castilian, scarcely translatable, and of an earlier date than the Lelo of Markina, which occur in a manuscript in the Royal Library in Madrid, where I sub- sequently inspected it, and also the printed edition of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, entitled 'Cancionero Musical de los Siglos XV. y XVI.' (Madrid, Tip. de los Huerfanos, 5, Calle de Juan Bravo), in which see pp. 218, 224.
PALAMEDES.
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY':
NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.
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Vol. LXII.
Pp. 13-15. Willibrord. See Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints'; 'Life of W.,' by Mey- rick, 1877 ; Maclear, 'Apostles of Mediaeval Europe': Bright, 'Early English Church History ; 'Memorials of Ripon,' vol. i., Surtees Soc.; 'N. & Q.,' 2nd S. ii. 188, 7 th S. ix. 381 ; the poem by Abbot Thiofrid was
edited by Dr. Richard Decker, Trier, 1881 ;
St. Willibrord was in the York Calendar.
P. 15. Browne Willis. Wells dedicated to him one of the maps in his * Dionysius.'
Pp. 17-18. Francis Willis. See a notice in the British Medical Journal, 1896.
P. 20 b. Richard Willis. There was another printed sermon, before the Commons, at St. Margaret's, 5 Nov., 1705, 4to., on Genesis xlix. 7.
Pp. 20 b, 404 b. Read McClure (89 b).
Pp. 25-6. Thomas Willis's friendship with Bp. Patrick, 'Autob.,' 51, 58; see Oldham's ' Poems,' ed. Bell, 161.
P. 44 b. For "Friend" read Freind (xx. 241).
Pp. 50, 51. W. J. Wills. A long account with portrait and illustrations, Illust. Lond. News, Feb., 1862, pp. 126-9, 157.
P. 59. Willymott's ' Peculiars,' recommended by John Holmes, ' Latin Grammar,' third edition, 1743.
P. 67. Rochester's 'Works,' in union with some by Roscommon, Dorset, Devonshire, Buckingham, Behn, Sedley, and Etherege, appeared in 1694, 1700, 1709, 1721, 1756, 1762, 1767, and 1774.
P. 68. Wilmot, C.J. See 'Letters of Junius,' No. Ixix. (1807, p. 361).
Pp. 68, 139, 308, &c. Whatever may have been the sentiment of a past age, to write of " the Church " as if the ministry were a mere profession is to give unnecessary offence to bhe 30,000 clergy of the present day.
P. 85 b. Green's 'Survey of Worcester and Wilts.' Some error. Omit "and Wilts."
Pp. 87-9. Bp. Daniel Wilson. See Roberts's H. More,' 1835, iv. ; 'Eclectic Notes'; Thorpe's Still Life of the Middle Temple.' P. 89 b. ' Letters from an Absent Brother,' 1825. This date is wrong, for the second edition is dated 1824.
Pp. 103-4. John Wilson is mentioned by Herrick (1893, i. 51).
P. 109 a. On the ' Chaldee MS.,' see ' N. & Q., ' 9 th S. i. 166, 272.
Pp. 119-120. N. Wilson. See Wordsworth, Eccl. Biog.,' ii. 178. Beverley is not in lolderness.
P. 132 a. " Bugden," i.e., Buckden. Pp. 134-5. Thomas Wilson. Mr. Secretary Wilson approved of Thomas Rogers's trans- ation of bt. Augustine's 'Manual,' 1581. P. 135 b. " Lidney," i.e., Lydney (221 a). P. 142. Bp. Thos. Wilson. The first edition f his ' Sacra Privata,' printed entire from his riginal MS. in Sion College, was edited by he Rev. William Denton, 1852. His ' Paro- hialia' are printed in the 'Clergyman's nstructor,' Clarendon Press, ed. 3, 1824 ; the
