Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various
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"Wyll, Wyll, Wyll, Wyll, Wyll He ruleth always styll. Good reason and good skyll, _They may garlyck pyll_, Cary sackes to the myll, Or pescoddes they may shyll, Or elles go rost a stone?" _Why come ye not to Courte?_ 103-109. Without further elucidation of this pilling, the existing definitions are pills which defy deglutition of F.S.Q. _A Recent Novel_ (Vol. i., pp. 231, 285.).--May I be permitted to correct an error in a communication from one of your correspondents? ADOLPHUS (p. 231.) puts a Query respecting the title of a recent novel; and J.S. (p. 285) informs him that the title is _Le Morne au Diable_, by Eugène Sue. The fact is, that "La Morne au Diable" is the principal scene of the events described, and nothing more. The title is _L'Aventurier, ou la Barbe-bleue_; and an English translation, styled the _Female Blue Beard, or the Adventurer_, was published in 1845 by W. Strange, 21. Paternoster Row. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850 _Tablet to Napoleon_ (Vol. i., p. 461.).--The form and punctuation given to this inscription by C. suggest its true meaning. Napoleon is called the |
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