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CONTENTS.
- NOTES:—
- Passage in Hudibras, by E.F. Rimbault
- Field of the Brothers' Footsteps
- Notes on Books and Authors, by Bolton Corney
- Receipts of the Beggar's Opera
- Notes on Cunningham's London, by E.F. Rimbault
- Sewerage in Etruria
- Andrew Frusius
- Opinions respecting Burnet
- QUERIES:—
- St. Thomas of Lancaster, by R. Monckton Milnes
- Shield of the Black Prince, &c. by J.R. Planché
- Fraternitye of Vagabondes, &c.
- The name of Shylock, by M.A. Lower
- Transposition of Letters, by B. Williams
- Pictures in Churches
- Flaying in Punishment of Sacrilege
- Minor Queries:—Pokership or Parkership—Boduc or
- Boduoc—Origin of Snob—Mertens the Printer—
- Queen's Messengers—Bishop of Ross' Epitaph, &c.—
- Origin of Cannibal—Sir W. Rider—Origin of word
- Poghele, &c.
- MISCELLANIES—including ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES:—
- Darkness at the Crucifixion—High Doctrine—Wife of
- King Robert Bruce—The Talisman of Charlemagne
- —Sayers the Caricaturist—May-Day—Dr. Dee's Petition
- —Lines quoted by Goethe—Queen Mary's Expectations
- —Ken's Hymns—Etymology of Daysman, &c.
- MISCELLANEOUS:—
- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.
- Books and Odd Volumes wanted
- Notices to Correspondents
- Advertisements
ORIGIN OF A WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE IN HUDIBRAS.
The often-quoted lines—
"For he that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day,"
generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras, areto be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, atp. 602. of his Handbook for London), in the MusarumDeliciæ, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of"witty trifles," by Sir John Mennis and Dr. JamesSmith.
The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras(book iii. canto iii. verse 243.), is as follows:—
"For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain."
But there is a much earlier author
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