October 1883.

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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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The History of England,

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By JOHN LINGARD, D.D.

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THE HISTORY of DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Motteux. With copious Notes (including the Spanish Ballads), and an Essay on the Life and Writings of Cervantes by John G. Lockhart. Preceded by a Short Notice of the Life and Works of Peter Anthony Motteux by Henri Van Laun. Illustrated with Sixteen Original Etchings by R. de Los Rios. Four Volumes.

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Alain RenÉ Le Sage. (1668-1747.)

Short History of the
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE,
The Author of “Gil Blas,”
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Footnotes:

[1] Ducange.

[2] The laws of Hoel the Good.

[3] Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester.

[4] Ducange.

[5] Mezeray, ii. 121.

[6] Sloane MS. No. 2530, xxvi. D.; a manuscript giving details of the grades of students and masters of fence, and of the ceremonial attending taking their degrees. The oath runs, “First you shall swear, so help you God and halidome, and by all the christendome which God gave you at the fount stone, and by the cross of this sword which doth represent unto you the cross which our Saviour suffered his most painful deathe upon,” &c.

[7] Socrates’ oath, by the cabbage, ? t?? ??a?? is given in AthenÆus, ib. ix. p. 370.

[8] Aristophanes, ‘The Birds.’

[9] Plutarch, QuÆstion. Rom., p. 271.

[10] ‘Mariage de Figaro,’ iii. 5.

[11] MS. BibliothÈque nationale. ‘Collection ComplÈte des MÉmoires,’ vol. viii.

[12]

“Williams. Ah, damnation! Goddam!
Blondel. Goddam! Monsieur est Anglais apparemment.”
‘Coeur de Lion,’ 1789.

[13] ‘Notes on Ancient Poetry,’ ed. 1770.

[14] One of the last cases where the use of the word produced some coolness on the part of the persons concerned, occurred when a certain bishop in a northern diocese was reported by the local newspaper to have said in a sermon, “that he would not preach in that damned old church any more.” The bishop wrote to the paper that he had said “damp old church.” The editor, however, declined to question the accuracy of his reporter.

[15] See passage from Roger de Collerye, given by LittrÉ.

[16] ‘L’agrÉable confÉrence de Piarot et Janin.’ Paris, 1651.

[17] “SO] ?? t?? ???a, af????? ??t?? ? ???e” &c.—‘Gorgias.’

[18] “On Tuesday, March 31, he and I dined at General Paoli’s.... We talked of the strange custom of swearing in conversation. The general said that all barbarous nations swore from a certain violence of temper that could not be confined to earth, but was always reaching at the powers above. He said, too, that there was a greater variety of swearing in proportion as there was a greater variety of religious ceremonies.”—Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson,’ p. 235.

[19] Letter from Lynceus at Rhodes to Diagoras at Athens, in ‘Journal des Savants,’ 1839, p. 37.

[20] Aldus Gellius, xi. 6. We find these oaths so distributed in Terence and Plautus, the women swearing by Castor and the men by Hercules.

[21] Herodotus, bk. iv. 67. It was the hearth of kings of Scythia that was dealt with in this way.

[22] For an able article on the Five Wounds as represented in Art, see Journal of Brit. Arch. Association for Dec. 1874, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson.

[23] ‘Roba di Roma,’ by W. W. Story, 1863. The writer adds, “A curious feature in the oaths of the Italians may be remarked. Dio mio is usually an exclamation of sudden surprise or wonder; Madonna mia, of pity and sorrow, and per Christo of hatred and revenge. It is in the name of Christ, and not of God as with us, that imprecations, curses, and maledictions are invoked. The reason is very simple. Christ is to him the judge and avenger of all, and so represented in every picture he sees, from Orcagua’s and Michael Angelo’s Last Judgment down, while the Eternal Father is a peaceful old figure bending over him.”

[24] ‘The Conversyon of Swerers,’ 1540.

[25] The identity of ideas that we have referred to as invariably occurring in mediÆval writings, whenever they happen to turn upon a similar theme, may be shown by comparison of the following extracts. They are taken from writers of different times and countries, and who are not directly plagiarising one another. Dan Michael, in the ‘Ayenbite of Inwyt’ (modernised), has:—

“These (Christians) are worse than the Jews that did crucify him. They broke none of his bones. But these break him to pieces smaller than one doth swine in butchery.”

Robert of BrunnÉ, in the ‘Handlyng Sinne,’ writes:—

“Thy oaths do him more grievousness,
Than all the Jews’ wickedness;
They pained him once and passed away,
But thou painest him every day.”

Again, in the ‘MoralitÉ des BlasphÉmateurs’ (circa 1530):—

“Tu luy fais plus dure bataille
Que les juifz sans nulla faille
Qui pour toy le crucifierent.”

[26] A certain delight in arranging the favourite oaths of his contemporaries and of other historical personages is plainly to be seen in BrantÔme. In the ‘Vies des Grands Capitaines’ he throws off a whole string of these cherished devices. “On appeloit ce grand capitaine, Monsr. de la Trimouille, ‘La vraye Corps Dieu’ d’autant que c’estoit son serment ordinaire, ainsin que ces vieux et anciens grands capitaines en ont sceu choisir et avoir aucuns particuliers À eux; comme Monsr. de Bayard juroit, ‘Feste Dieu, Bayard!’ Monsr. de Bourbon, ‘Saincte Barbe!’ le prince d’Orange, ‘Saincte Nicolas!’ le bonne homme M. de la Roche du Maine juroit ‘Teste de Dieu pleine de reliques!’ (oÙ diable alla il chercher celuy lÀ) et autres que je nommerois, plus sangreneux que ceux lÀ.”

[27] Ch. Rozan, ‘Petites Ignorances de la Conversation.’

[28] “A shocking practice seems to have been rendered fashionable by the very reprehensible habit of the Queen, whose oaths were neither diminutive or rare, for it is said that she never spared an oath in public speech or private conversation when she thought it added energy to either,”—Drake, ‘Shakspeare and his Times,’ ii. 160.

[29] J. G. Nicholls, ‘Literary Remains of Edward VI.’

[30] ‘Every Man out of his Humour,’ i. 1.

[31] 1 Henry IV., iii. 7.

[32] See Capt. Basil Hall’s ‘Fragments of Voyages and Travels,’ chap. xvi. p. 89.

[33] Leigh Hunt’s Journal, No. 6, for Jan. 11, 1851.

[34] ‘The Colonies,’ by Col. C. J. Napier, 1833.

[35] If any person or persons shall ... profanely swear or curse ... for every such offence the party so offending shall forfeit and pay to the use of the poor of the parish where such offence or offences shall be committed the respective sums hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, every servant, day-labourer, common soldier, or common seaman, one shilling; and every other person two shillings; and in case any of the persons aforesaid shall, after conviction, offend a second time, such person shall forfeit and pay double, and if a third time treble the sum respectively.—6 & 7 William and Mary, c. 11.

[36] Coll. of State Papers, Domestic, 1595, p. 12.

[37] Borough records of the City of Glasgow, 1573-1581.

[38] Aberdeen Presbytery Records, printed by the Spalding Club.

[39] Within the precincts of royal palaces regulations seem to have been made from time to time to clear the atmosphere of all impious particles. According to a work by Alexander Howell, the Dean of St. Paul’s, printed in 1611, King Henry I. prescribed a scale of fines according to a table as follows:—

[40] 21 Jac. I. c. 20.

[41] 3 Jac. I. c. 21.

[42] Office-book of Sir Henry Herbert. Collier’s ‘History of Dramatic Poetry,’ ii. 58.

[43] Coll. of State Papers, Domestic, 1635-6.

[44] Whitelock’s Memorials.

[45] Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne, by A. H. A. Hamilton. 1878.

[46] 19 Geo. II. cap. 21. There is also a penalty of 40s. for using profane language in the streets under the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, and the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839.

[47] J. P. Malcolm, ‘Manners of London during XVII. Century.’

[48] “Diary of a Sussex Tradesman a hundred years ago,” printed in Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. xi.

[49] ‘The Rivals,’ act ii. sc. 1.

[50] “By the Lord Harry! he should have done with Christmas boxes.” Swift, ‘Journal to Stella.’

[51] The cloven foot is an evidence of a clean beast, and horns are attributed, pictorially at least, to Moses.

[52] Edited by Sir Frederick Madden for the Roxburgh Club, 1828.

[53] ‘Tristram Shandy,’ vol. iii. ch. 12.

[54] ‘Harangue des Habitans de Sarcelles,’ 1740.

[55] “This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street.”—2 Henry IV., ii. 3.

[56] Where it is used in the sense of pertaining to kinship—“They are my blody brethren, quod pieres, for God boughte us alle.”—‘Piers Plowman,’ vi. 210.

[57] Where it is met with as a verb—“With my own hands, I’ll bloody my own sword.”

[58] ‘Montaigne’s Essays,’ ed. Hazlitt, iii. 120.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Punctuation has been corrected without note.

Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original.