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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...following passages will corroborate this assumption:--"An hundreth of ampulles on his hatt seten, Signet of synay-and shelles of galice; And man; a cniche on his cloke ' and keyes of Rome." The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, v. 11.527-9. "And sayd his orisouns, as is usage, And crouched hem, and bad God schuld him blesre." Chaucer, The Marchaundes Tale, 4(52-3. "Holy skins, holy bulls. Holy rochets and cowls, Holy crouches and staves." Luiuj Juventu. Dodsley's O.E.Pl., ii. 65 (Haxlitt). Cf. also the term Crutched Friars. F. C. Birkbeck Terry. Cardiff. Pronunciation Of Forbes (6lb S. v. 269).--The name is now always pronounced "Forb's." "Forb-es," which was universal at the date when Marmion was written, would now be considered a vulgarism. When, within living memory, the new pronunciation came into vogue it was said in Edinburgh that it would throw Lady Fetta into fits. A. C. S. I was well acquainted with the late Lord Forbes, and often dined at his house, and two of his sons were once my pupils. I never heard the name pronounced except as a monosyllable. E. Walford, M.A. Hampstead, N.W. Bacon A Poet (6th S. v. 205).--It is quite too much to expect that Mr. Atkinson's note on this subject should be passed over sub siltntio. The statement that Judge Holmes's work on The Authorship of Shakespeare is "most convincing and learned" may mean almost anything. At any rate, it had convinced me, as it did a far more competent judge, the late Mr. James Spedding, that Judge Holmes as a critic is colour-blind, and that the book, with all its array of so-called learning, is, as a critique on the question of authorship, sophistical and worthless. Bacon wrote verses, and his compositions have been...
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