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NOTES:-- Page

Griffin's "Fidessa," and Shakspeare's "Passionate Pilgrim" 27

Caps at Cambridge 27

Letters of Eminent Literary Men, by Sir Henry Ellis 28

Newspaper Folk Lore 29

King James's Irish Army List of 1689-90, by John D'Alton 30

MINOR NOTES:--Authors and Publishers--Inscriptions on old Pulpits--Recent Curiosities of Literature--Assuming Names --False Dates in Water-marks of Papers 31

QUERIES:--

Captain Farre 32

Marriage Ceremony in the Fourteenth Century 33

Manuscript Catena 33

MINOR QUERIES:--Jews and Egyptians--Skin-flint--Garlic Sunday--Custom of the Corporation of London--General Stokes--Rev. Philip Morant--The Position of Suffragan Bishops in Convocation--Cambridge Mathematical Questions--Crabbe MSS.--Tilly, an Officer of the Courts at Westminster--Mr. Gye--Three Fleurs-de-Lys--The Commons of Ireland previous to the Union in 1801--"All Holyday at Peckham"--Arthur de Vere--Master of the Nails--Nattochiis and Calchanti--"Ned o' the Todding" 34

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Bridget Cromwell and Fleetwood--Culet 36

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The Asteroids or recently discovered Lesser Planets, by the Rev. H. Walter 36

Emblematic meanings of Precious Stones--Planets of the Months symbolised by Precious Stones, by W. Pinkerton 37

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Milton's Widow, by J. F. Marsh 38

Table-turning, by J. Macray 39

Celtic Etymology 40

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--The Calotype Process: curling up of Paper--Turner's Paper--A Practical Photographic Query 40

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MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 45

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 46

Notices to Correspondents 46

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_LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1854._

Notes.

GRIFFIN'S "FIDESSA," AND SHAKSPEARE'S "PASSIONATE PILGRIM."

I am the fortunate possessor of a thin volume, entitled _Fidessa, a Collection of Sonnets_, by B. Griffin, reprinted 1811, from the edition of 1596, at the Chiswick Press; I presume, by the monogram at the end, by Mr. S. W. Singer.

The title of the original edition is _Fidessa, more Chaste then Kinde_, by B. Griffin, Gent, at London, printed by the Widdow Orwin, for Matthew Lownes, 1596.

The advertisement prefixed by Mr. Singer to the reprint states, that the original is one of the rarest of those that appeared at the period in which it is dated; that he is not aware of the existence of more than two copies, from one of which the reprint is taken, and that the other was in the curious collection of the late Mr. Malone.

Besides the rarity of _Fidessa_, Mr. Singer states that it claims some notice from the curious reader on account of a very striking resemblance between Griffin's third sonnet, and one of Shakspeare's, in his _Passionate Pilgrim_ (Sonnet IX.).

I will transcribe both sonnets, taking Griffin's first, as it bears the earliest date.

"Venus, and yong Adonis sitting by her, Under a myrtle shade began to woo him: She told the yong-ling how god Mars did trie her, And as he fell to her, so fell she to him. 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the wanton god embrac'd me,' And then she clasp'd Adonis in her armes. 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlac'd me,' As if the boy should use like loving charms. But he, a wayward boy, refusde her offer, And ran away, the beautious Queene neglecting: Showing both folly to abuse her proffer, And all his sex of cowardice detecting. Oh! that I lead my mistris at that bay, To kisse and clippe me till I ranne away!" Sonnet III., from _Fidessa_.

"Fair[1] Venus, with Adonis sitting by her, Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him; She told the youngling how god Mars did try her, And as he fell to her, she fell to him. 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embrac'd me,' And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms: 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlac'd me,' As if the boy should use like loving charms: 'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips,' And with her lips on his did act the seizure; And as she fetched breath, away he skips, And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure. Ah! that I had my lady at this bay, To kiss and clip me till I run away!" Sonnet IX., from Shakspeare's _Passionate Pilgrim_.

That the insertion of Griffin's sonnet in the _Passionate Pilgrim_ was without Shakspeare's consent or knowledge, is in my opinion evident for many reasons.

I have long been convinced that the _Passionate Pilgrim_ was published surreptitiously; and although it bears Shakspeare's name, the sonnets and ballads of which it is composed were several of them taken from his dramas, and added to by selections from the poems of his cotemporaries, Raleigh, Marlow, and others; that it was a bookseller's job, made up for sale by the publisher, W. Jaggard.

No one can believe that Shakspeare would have been guilty of such a gross plagiarism. Griffin's _Fidessa_ bears date 1596: the first known edition of the _Passionate Pilgrim_ was printed for W. Jaggard, 1599. It has no dedication to any patron, similar to Shakspeare's other poems, the _Venus and Adonis_, the _Rape of Lucrece_, and the _Sonnets_; and why it bears the title of the _Passionate Pilgrim_ no one has ascertained.

But I am losing sight of the object I had in view when I took up my pen, which was, through the medium of "N. & Q.," to request any of its readers to furnish me with any particulars of B. Griffin, the author of _Fidessa_.

Mr. Singer supposes him to have been of a Worcestershire family; as he addresses his "poore pamphlet" for patronage to the gentlemen of the Innes of Court, he might probably have been bred to the law.

Perhaps your correspondents CUTHBERT BEDE, or MR. NOAKE, the Worcestershire rambler, might in their researches into vestry registers and parish documents, find some notice of the family. I am informed there was a gentleman of the name resident in our college precincts early in the present century, that he was learned and respected, but very eccentric.

J. M. G. Worcester.

[Footnote 1: The early copies read "Venus, with Adonis sitting by her;" the defective word was added at Dr. Farmer's suggestion. Had he seen a copy of _Fidessa_, the true reading might perhaps have been restored. (Note by Mr. Singer.)]

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CAPS AT CAMBRIDGE.

At the congregation in the Senate House at Cambridge, Nov. 23, presided over by the Prince Chancellor, it was observed that the undergraduates in the galleries (for want I suppose of an obnoxious Vice-Chancellor or Proctor upon whom to vent their indignation) poured it forth in yells and groans upon those members of the senate who kept on their hats or caps. The same has been done on several former occasions. It probably {28} arises from a mistake, in ascribing to the _gaucherie_ of individuals what is really the observance of a very ancient custom. The following extract, from an unpublished MS. of the middle (I think) of the seventeenth century, in which the custom is incidentally noticed, will serve for a confirmation of what I say:

"When I was regent, the whole house of congregation joyned together in a petition to the Earle of Pembroke to restore unto us the jus pileorum, the licence of putting on our cappes at our publicke meetings; which priviledge time and the tyrannie of our vicechancellours had taken from us. Amongst other motives, we use the solemne forme of creating a M^r in the Acte by putting on his cappe, and that that signe of libertie might distinguish us which were the Regents from those boyes which wee were to governe, which request he graciouslie granted."

This was written by an M.A. of Oxford. At Cambridge we have not hitherto had such haughty despots in authority, to trample upon our rights; but we seem to be in danger of losing our jus pileorum through "the tyrannie," not of our Vice-Chancellors, but "of those boyes which wee are to governe."

A REGENT M.A. OF CAMBRIDGE.

Lincoln's Inn.

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LETTERS OF EMINENT LITERARY MEN.

(_Continued from_ p. 8.)

IV.

_Dr. John Ward, Professor of Gresham College, to Dr. Cary, Bishop of Clonfert._

[MS. Donat., Brit. Mus., 6226, p. 16.]

My Lord,