Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853

 
"Scantily Lord Marmion's ear could brook
The harper's barbarous lay."
 

T. D. Ridley.

Punning Devices (Vol. viii., p. 270.).—In the 4th volume of Surtees' History of Durham, p. 48., there is an account of the Orchard Chamber in Sledwish Hall:

"In the centre is a shield of the arms of Clopton; being two coats quarterly, a lion rampant and a cross pattée fitchée; over all, a crescent for difference.⁴ On two other shields, impressed from one mould, are the initials E. C., the date 1584, and a tun with a rose clapt on."⁵

Old Grumbleum.

Ashman's Park—Wingfield's Portrait (Vol. viii., p. 299.).-Could any correspondent in Suffolk inform me if Ashman's Park has been sold; and if the pictures are anywhere to be found, especially that of Sir Anthony Wingfield? The communication of H. C. K. relative to the above subject is very interesting.

Q.

"Crowns have their compass," &c. (Vol. iv., p. 428.).—In the well-known lines attributed to Shakspeare, and quoted in the above volume, the third stands thus:

 
"Of more than earth can earth make none partaker."
 

I find that Quarles has borrowed this in his Emblems, book i. Emblem vi.:

 
"Of more than earth can earth make none possest."
 

Henry H. Breen.

St. Lucia.

Ampers & (Vol. ii., pp.230. 284.; Vol. viii., pp. 173. 223. 284.).—Allow me to thank both Φ. and Mr. Henry Walter for their replies to my Query; but I am unhappily no wiser than Mr. Lower was after Φ.'s first response. What on earth "et-per-se" or "and-per-se-and" can mean, I am at a loss to imagine. Why should et be called "et by itself?" Until this Query is answered, I am as much in the dark as ever. While I am upon the matter, I would farther ask this mysterious Ampers and, "who gave thee that name?" May it find a proxy to answer for it!

C. Mansfield Ingleby.

Birmingham.

The origin of this expression is, explained in Vol. ii., p. 318. With regard to the orthography of the word, it seems to me that, if the etymon be followed, it ought to be written and-per-se-and; if the pronunciation, ampussy and.

L.

Throwing Old Shoes for Luck (Vol. vii., p. 411.).—There is an old rhyme still extant, which gives an early date to this singular custom:

 
"When Britons bold,
Wedded of old,
Sandals were backward thrown,
The pair to tell,
That, ill or well
The act was all their own."
 

An octogenarian of my acquaintance informs me that he heard himself thus anathematised when, leaving his native village with his bride, he refused to comply with the extortionate demands of an Irish beggar:

 
"Then it's bad luck goes wid yer,
For my shoe I toss,
An ye niver come back,
'Twill be no great loss."
 

Charles Reed.

Ennui (Vol. vii., p. 478.).—It is a curious fact that in English, properly so called, we have no word to express this certainly un-English sensation, which we are obliged to borrow from our friends across the channel. They repay themselves with "comfortable," which is quite as characteristically wanting in their vocabulary: so they lose nothing by the exchange. Were we disposed to supply the gaps in our language, by using our own native words (which is much to be desired), we might find a sufficient (and I believe the only) synonyme in the Bedfordshire folk-word unked: at any rate, it is near enough for us, for we neither require the word nor the feeling it is meant to designate.

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