Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various
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by changing it to _Wyattville_. This produced the following epigram in,
I think, the _Morning Chronicle_:-- "'Let GEORGE whose restlessness leaves nothing quiet, Change, if he will, the good old name of _Wyatt_; But let us hope that their united skill May not make _Windsor Castle--Wyattsville!_'"] _"Peruse."_--In reply to the question of "H.W." (No. 14. p. 215.), although from want of minute reference I have been unable to find, in the original edition, the quotation from Frith's works, I beg leave to suggest that the word "Peruse" is a misprint, and that the true reading is "Pervise." To this day the first examination at Oxford, commonly called the "Little-Go," is "Responsiones in _Parviso_." It must not, however, be supposed that "Pervise," or "Parvise," is derived from the Latin "Parvus;" the origin, according to Spelman and succeeding etymologists, is the French "Le Parvis," a church porch. In London the Parvis was frequented by serjeants at law: see Chaucer, _Prol. Cant. Tales_. There is a difference of opinion where it was situated: see Tyrwhitt's _Gloss_. The student in ecclesiastical history may compare _Leo Allatius de Templis Græcorum_, p. 44. T.J. _Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester and Harry Duke of Buckingham_. (No. 9. p. 138.)--There can be no doubt that "Mr. NICOLS" is somewhat wrong in his interpretation of the Duke of Buckingham's |
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