Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 | Page 6

it is. The title (as indeed the principal subject of the eclogue) was in consequence altered from 'Lansdown' to 'Jekyll.' The poetry and satire are certainly enriched by Tickle's touches; but I question whether the humour was not more terse and classical, and the subject more just, as the poem originally stood."--L.
Probationary Odes No. XII. is by "Lord John Townsend."
"Three or four lines in the last stanza, and perhaps one or two in some of the former, were inserted by Tickle."--_L._
Dialogue between a certain Personage and his Minister (p. 442. of the 22nd edition) is by "Ld. J.T."
A new ballad, Billy Eden, is by "Ld. J.T., or Tickle."
Ode to Sir Elijah Impey (p. 503.):
"Anonymous--I believe L'd. J.T."--_L._
Ministerial undoubted Facts (p. 511.):
"Lord J. Townsend--I believe."--_L._
W.C. TREVELYAN.
_Croker's Boswell_ (Edit. 1847, p. 721.).--Mr. Croker cannot discover when a good deal of intercourse could have taken place between Dr. Johnson and the Earl of Shelburne, because "in 1765, when Johnson engaged in politics with Hamilton, {374} Lord Shelburne was but twenty." In 1765 Lord Shelburne was twenty-eight. He was born in 1737; was in Parliament in 1761; and a Privy Councillor in 1763.
L.G.P.
_Misquotation--"He who runs may read_."--No such passage exists in the Scriptures, though it is constantly quoted as from them. It is usually the accompaniment of expressions relative to the clearness of meaning or direction, the supposititious allusion being to an inscription written in very large characters. The text in the prophet Habakkuk is the following: "Write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it." (Ch. ii. 2.) Here, plainly, the meaning is, that every one reading the vision should be alarmed by it, and should fly from the impending calamity: and although this involves the notion of legibility and clearness, that notion is the secondary, and not the primary one, as those persons make it who misquote in the manner stated above.
MANLEIUS.
_Tindal's New Testament._--The following Bibliographical Note, by the late Mr. Thomas Rodd, taken from a volume of curious early Latin and German Tracts, which will be sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson on Friday next, deserves a more permanent record than the Sale Catalogue.
"I consider the second tract of particular interest and curiosity, as it elucidates an important point in English literature, viz., the place (Worms) where Tindal printed the edition of the New Testament commonly called the first, and generally ascribed to the Antwerp Press.
"This book is printed in a Gothic letter, with woodcuts and Initial Letters (in the year 1518).
"I have carefully examined every book printed at Antwerp, at the period, that has fallen in my way; but in no one of them have I found the same type or initial letters as are used therein.
"In the present tract I find the same form of type and woodcuts, from the same school; and also, what is more remarkable, an initial (D) letter, one of the same alphabet as a P used in the Testament. These initial letters were always cut in alphabets, and in no other books than these two have I discovered any of the letters of this alphabet.
"The mistake has arisen from the circumstance of there having been a piratical reprint of the book at Antwerp in 1525, but of which no copy is known to exist."
The following is the title of the tract referred to by Mr. Rodd:--
"_Eyn wolgeordent und n��tzlich buchlin, wie man Bergwerck suchen un finden sol, von allerley Metall, mit seinen figuren, nach gelegenheyt dess gebirgs artlich angezeygt mit enhangendon Berchnamen den anfahanden_" and the colophon describes it as "_Getruckt zu Wormbs bei Peter Sch?rfern un volendet am funfften tag Aprill_, M.D.XVIII."
_The Term "Organ-blower._"--In an old document preserved among the archives of the Dean and
Chapter of
Westminster, is an entry relative to the celebrated composer and organist HENRY PURCELL, in which he is styled "our _organ-blower_." What is the meaning of this term? It certainly does not, in the present case, apply to the person whose office it was to fill the organ with wind. Purcell, at the time the entry was made, was in the zenith of his fame, and "organist to the king." Possibly it may be the old term for an organist, as it will be remembered that in the fifteenth century the organ was performed upon by blows from the fist.
At the coronation of James II., and also at that of George I., two of the king's musicians walked in the procession, clad in scarlet mantles, playing each on a sackbut, and another, drest in a similar manner, playing on a double curtal, or bassoon. The "organ-_blower_" had also a place in these two processions, having on him a short red coat, with a badge on his left breast, viz. a nightingale of silver, gilt, sitting on a sprig.
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