Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 | Page 4

p. 327.
"The children came to the birth, and the right and kindly copulative
were; to the birth they came, and born they were: in a kind consequence
who would look for other?"--Id., p. 348.
"For usque adeo proprium est operari Spiritui, ut nisi operetur, nec sit.
So kindly (proprium) it is for the spirit to be working as if It work not,
It is not."--Id., vol. iii. p. 194.
"And when he had overtaken, for those two are but presupposed, the
more kindly to bring in [Greek: epelabeto], when, I say, He had
overtaken them, cometh in fitly and properly [Greek:

epilambanetai]."--Id., vol. i. p. 7.
"No time so kindly to preach de Filio hodie genito as hodie."--Id., p.
285.
"A day whereon, as it is most kindly preached, so it will be most kindly
practised of all others."--Id., p. 301.
"Respice et plange: first, 'Look and lament' or mourn; which is indeed
the most kindly and natural effect of such a spectacle."--Id., vol. ii. p.
130.
"Devotion is the most proper and most kindly work of holiness."--Id.,
vol. iv. p. 377.
Perhaps the following will be thought so apposite, that I may be spared
the labour, and the reader the tedium of perusing a thousand other
examples that might be cited:
And there is nothing more kindly than for them that will be touching, to
be touched themselves, and to {544} be touched home, in the same
kind themselves thought to have touched others."--Id., vol. iv. p. 71.[1]
W. R. ARROWSMITH.
(To be continued.)
[Footnote 1: Kindly is quite a pet word with Andrewes, as, besides the
passages quoted, he employs it in nearly the same sense in vol. iii., at
pp. 18. 34. 102. 161. 189. 262. 308. 372. 393. 397.; in vol. i., at pp. 100.
125. 151. 194. 214.; in vol. ii. at pp. 53. 157. 307. 313. 338. The same
immortal quibbler is also very fond of the word item, using it, as our
cousins across the Atlantic and we in Herefordshire do at the present
day, for "a hint."]
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DEVONIANISMS.

Miserable.--Miserable is very commonly used in Devonshire in the
signification of miserly, with strange effect until one becomes used to it.
Hooker the Judicious, a Devonshire man, uses the word in this sense in
the Eccl. Polity, book v. ch. lxv. p. 21.:
"By means whereof it cometh also to pass that the mean which is virtue
seemeth in the eyes of each extreme an extremity; the liberal-hearted
man is by the opinion of the prodigal miserable, and by the judgment of
the miserable lavish."
Few.--Speaking of broth, people in Devon say a few broth in place of a
little, or some broth. I find a similar use of the word in a sermon
preached in 1550, by Thomas Lever, Fellow of St. John's College,
preserved by Strype (in his Eccles. Mem., ii. 422.). Speaking of the
poor students of Cambridge, he says:
"At ten of the clock they go to dinner, whereas they be content with a
penny piece of beef among four, having a few pottage made of the
broth of the same beef, with salt and oatmeal, and nothing else."
Figs, Figgy.--Most commonly raisins are called figs, and plum-pudding
figgy pudding. So with plum-cake, as in the following rhymes:--
"Rain, rain, go to Spain, Never come again: When I brew and when I
bake, I'll give you a figgy cake."
Against is used like the classical adversùm, in the sense of towards or
meeting. I have heard, both in Devonshire and in Ireland, the
expression to send against, that is, to send to meet, a person, &c.
The foregoing words and expressions are probably provincialisms
rather than Devonianisms, good old English forms of expression; as are,
indeed, many of the so-called Hibernicisms.
Pilm, Farroll.--What is the derivation of pilm=dust, so frequently heard
in Devon, and its derivatives, pilmy, dusty: it pilmeth? The cover of a
book is there called the farroll; what is the derivation of this word?

J. M. B.
Tunbridge Wells.
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THE POEMS OF ROWLEY.
The tests propounded by MR. KEIGHTLEY (Vol. vii. p. 160.) with
reference to the authenticity of the poems of Rowley, namely the use of
"its," and the absence of the feminine rhyme in e, furnish additional
proof, if any were wanting, that Chatterton was the author of those
extraordinary productions. Another test often insisted upon is the
occurrence, in those poems, of borrowed thoughts--borrowed from
poets of a date posterior to that of their pretended origin. Of this there
is one instance which seems to have escaped the notice of Chatterton's
numerous annotators. It occurs at the commencement of The
Tournament, in the line,--
"The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynn orderr founde."
It will be seen