_Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms._--Lord Bacon's
translation of seven psalms, the 1st, 12th, 90th, 104th, 126th,
127th, and 149th, with a Dedication to George Herbert, is found at
the end of the 2nd vol. of his works. (Lond. 1826.) They were
printed at London, 1625, in quarto.

C.W.G.

[To this we may add, on the information of X.X., that some account
of these Psalms, with specimens, may be seen in Holland's
_Psalmists of Britain_, 1824.]


_A "Gib" Cat._--What is the etymology of the term "Gibbe," as
applied to the male cat? I may observe that the _g_ is pronounced
_hard_ in this locality, and not _jibbe_, as most dictionaries
have it.

Burnley, Lancashire.

T.T.W.

[NARES has shown, very satisfactorily, that _Gib_, the
contraction of _Gilbert_, was the name formerly applied to a
cat, as _Tom_ is now. He states that _Tibert_ (the name
given to the Cat in the old Reynard the Fox) was the old French for
_Gilbert_; and at all events, be that as it may, Chaucer, in
his _Romance of the Rose_, verse 6204., translates "Thibert le