Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
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page 36 of 67 (53%)
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_Poins and Bardolph_ (No. 24. p. 385.)--Mr. Collier (Life prefixed to the edit. of _Shakspeare_, p. 139.) was the first to notice that Bardolph, Fluellen, and Awdrey, were names of persons living at Stratford in the lifetime of the poet; and Mr. Halliwell (_Life of Shakspeare_, pp. 126-7) has carried the subject still further, and shown that the names of ten characters in the plays are also found in the early records of that town. Poins was, I believe, a common Welsh name. S. _God tempers the Wind_ (No. 22. p. 357.)--Le Roux de Liney, _Livre des Proverbes Français_ (Paris, 1842), tom. i. p. 11., cites the following proverbs-- "Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue, ou, Dieu donne le froid selon la robbe," from Henri Estienne, _Prémices_, &c., p. 47., a collection of proverbs published in 1594. He also quotes from Gabriel Meurier, _Trésor des Sentences_, of the sixteenth century:-- "Dieu aide les mal vestus." SIWEL. April 5. 1850. |
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