subsequent wanderings in the South of France and in Spain, mask, as we
have said elsewhere, the peregrinations of George Borrow in 1826–27.—286.
M’anam on Dioul: Explained in _Lavengro_, note to p. 65.—291. Dungarvon
times of old: See _Life_, i., p. 46, and ii., pp. 16–17. Cradock’s
letter was dated, 18th August, 1849, and Mr. B.’s answer (i., p. 146) a
little after.—Raparees: Irish marauders, _temp._ James II. See _Life_,
i., p. 146, and Brooke’s _Reliques_, p. 205. The latter says that the
word is from the Irish _Réubóir Ri_, plunderer, robber, freebooter of the
king, from _reubaim_, I tear.—292. Chiviter Vik: Cività Vecchia, the
modern seaport of Rome, fifty miles distant.—Army of the Faith: Spanish
frontier corps of observation under Gen. Don Vicente Quesada,
1823–24.—Prince Hilt: The Duke d’Angoulême, nephew of Louis XVIII., and
son of the Count d’Artois (afterwards Charles X.). D’Angoulême invaded
Spain in 1823 with 100,000 Frenchmen, to restore Ferdinand VII. to his
absolute throne, against the Liberals of 1820–23.—298. To . . ., read
Rome.—At . . ., read Rome.—Educated at . . ., read Rome.—300. Direction
of the east, read _south_. He could only have gone south from Horncastle
to reach _Boston_ (the “large town on the arm of the sea”) that day. The
next he came to Spalding, some fifteen miles farther, where he met the
recruiting serjeant, thence on to Norwich by Lynn Regis.
We must not forget that before _Lavengro_ was begun, and fifteen years
prior to the publication of _The Romany Rye_, that is, 26th December,
1842, Mr. Petulengro remarked to George Borrow at Oulton: “I suppose you
have not forgot how, fifteen [seventeen] years ago, when you made
horseshoes in the dingle by the side of the great north road, I lent you
fifty guineas to purchase the wonderful trotting cob of the innkeeper
with the green Newmarket coat, which _three days after_ you sold for two
hundred”. {386a} Now, this is a very remarkable statement, and, taken in
connection with the fact that so little is said about Horncastle in the
book, it seems to me we are justified in proclaiming that Borrow was
never in Horncastle at all. The interview with the Magyar and the
syllabus of Hungarian history are clearly drawn from his experiences in
Hungary and Transylvania in the year 1844, and hence are an anachronism
here. It is a pity that the author did not adhere to the chronological
facts of his life so strictly in _The Romany Rye_ as he did in
_Lavengro_. Truth and literature would have gained by it. And then that
valedictory pledge, {386b} confirmed in the appendix, drawing a veil over
the period of his travails, if not his travels, was an error of judgment
which, in an autobiography will, we fear, not easily be condoned.
APPENDIX.
Page 302. Age of nineteen, read _twenty_; he was twenty-one less four
months at his father’s death.—303. Children of Roma: Borrovian for
Gypsies.—305–6. Balm in Mary Flanders: See _Lavengro_, note to p.
423.—311. Canning: Premier from 24th April to his death, 8th August,
1827; succeeded by Viscount Goderich from September, 1827, to 25th
January, 1828.—312. Vaya! qué demonio es este! (Sp.): Bless me! what
demon have we here!—314. Sessions of Hariri: Arabic tales in prose
interlarded with verse. The two languages: Chinese and Manchu.—315–6.
Luigi Pulci: Io vo’ tagliar, etc.: I’ll sever the hands of them all and
bring them to those holy monks. Tu sarai or perfetto, etc.: Now thou
wilt be as true a friend to Christ as aforetime thou wert his foe (_M.
M._, canto I, sts. 53 and 57).—318. Oberon: A poem by Wieland
(1733–1813).—319. The father of Anglo-Germanism: Taylor of
Norwich.—Andrew Borde: (see _Bibliog._). The text of the Bodleian copy
(1547?) runs as follows—(A 3 verso):—
“I am an Englysh man, and naked I stand here,
Musyng in my mynd what rayment I shall were;
For now I wyll were thys, and now I wyl were that,
Now I wvl were I cannot tel what.
All new fashyons be plesaunt to me,
I wyll haue them, whether I thryue or thee;
Now I am a frysker, all men doth on me looke,
What should I do but set cocke on the hoope;
What do I care yf all the worlde me fayle,
I wyl get a garment shal reche to my tayle;
Than I am a minion, for I were the new gyse;
The yere after this I trust to be wyse,
Not only in wering my gorgious aray,
For I wyl go to learnyng a hoole somers day;
I wyll learne Latyne, Hebrew, Grecke and Frenche,
And I wyl learne Douche sittyng on my benche;
I do feare no man, all men fearyth me,
I ouercome my aduersaries by land and by see;
I had no peere yf to my selfe I were trew,
Because I am not so diuers times I do rew;
Yet I lake nothing, I haue all thyng at wyll
If were wyse and wold holde my selfe styll,
And medel wyth no matters not to me partayning;
But I haue suche matters rolling in my pate,
That I wyl speake and do I cannot tell what.” etc.
—321. Mr. Flamson: Samuel Morton Peto, M.P., later Sir Morton Peto of
Somerleyton Hall, some five miles inland from Lowestoft. See _Life_,
ii., p. 52.—327. Orcadian poet: “Ragnvald, Earl of the Orkney Islands,
passed for a very able poet; he boasts himself, in a song of his which is
still extant, that he knew how to compose verses on all subjects,”
Mallet, p. 235. The original _Runic_ of the lines translated by Borrow
is found in Olaus Wormius. Transliterated into Latin letters they read
thus:—
_Tafl em eg or at efta_
_Idrottir kan eg niu_
_Tum eg tradla Runur_
_Tid er mer bog og smider_
_Skrid kann eg a gidum_
_Skot eg og re so nyter_
_Hvor tweggia kan ek hyggiu_
_Harpslatt og bragdattu_.
—329. Lieut. P. . ., read Perry. The item was taken from a newspaper
(which, I know not) published in September, 1854. Mr. Borrow read it at
Llangollen in Wales. I loaned the clipping and it was not returned.—330.
Balaklava: The usual etymon of this famous name is the Italian _Bella
chiave_, beautiful key.—331. Companion of Bligh: This was Thomas
Hayward.—Once: See Bligh’s Narrative (_Bibliog._), p. 55.—336. “Malditas
sean tus tripas,” etc.: This Borrovian Spanish must be rendered
truthfully or not at all. The squeamish may excuse the _borracha_: “D—
your g—s; we had enough of the stink of your g—s the day you ran away
from the battle of the Boyne”.—338. Coronach (Gælic), read _Corránach_:
The funeral wail, a dirge; in Irish, _coránach_.—342. Abencerages, read
_Abencerrages_: Arab. _ibn-serradj_; son of the saddle.—349–50.
Whiffler: See note to _Lavengro_, p. 225.—352. Francis Spira: Francesco
Spiera, a lawyer of Cittadella (Venice), accepted the doctrines of the
Reformation in 1548. Terrified by the menaces of the Church of Rome and
the prospective ruin of his family, he went to Venice and solemnly
abjured the Evangelical faith in the hands of the Legate, Giovan della
Casa (see Dict. de Bayle) who required him to return home and repeat his
abjuration before his fellow-townsmen and the local authorities. Having
performed this act, he fell into the horrid state of remorse depicted in
the Protestant accounts of the time. The report was first brought to
Geneva by Pietro Paolo Vergerio, ex-bishop of Pola, who visited Spiera in
his last moments at Padua, whence he himself bent his way to the
Valtelina, as a fugitive from the Roman Church.—Duncan Campbell and
Falconer: See _Bibliog._—John Randall: Here is a confusion of John Rolfe
and John Randolph of Roanoke (1773–1833). Pocahontas, daughter of the
Indian Chief Powhatan, saved the life of Captain John Smith in Virginia
and married John Rolfe in 1614. John Randolph of Roanoke _claimed_ to be
descended from Pocahontas, but Rolfe is evidently the one referred to in
the text. See _Bibliog._ under “Pocahontas”.—354. Iriarte (1750–96):
Spanish poet and writer of fables. See _Bibliog._—355. Autobiographical
character of Lavengro denied: but see _Life_, ii., pp. 3–27 and 211.—357.
Ginnúngagap: The “yawning abyss” of Northern Mythology. See Mallet, p.
402.—359. Horinger Bay: See note on _Lavengro_, p. 46.—360. Harum-beck,
read _harmanbeck_, as in _Lavengro_, p. 158.—Holkham Estate: The seat of
the Cokes of Norfolk and the Earl of Leicester. See White’s _Norfolk_,
and the C . . . of _Lavengro_, p. 124.—363. He said in ’32: See _Life_,
i., p. 143.—Son of Norfolk clergyman: Nelson (_nom de noms_!).—364–66.
Thistlewood and Ings: See article in _Celebrated Lives and Trials_, vol.
vi., p. 339.—368. The old Radical: John Bowring in 1821.—Vol. of
translations: See “Bowring” in _Bibliog._—Red Rhys: Rhys Goch of Snowdon.
See _Wild Wales_, p. 150, and “Gorchestion” in _Bibliog._—369. The
Doctor of Medicine: Dr. Lewis Evans. See _Life_, i., p. 74.—370. S . . .,
read _Southey_.—Literary project (1829–30): See _Life_, i., p.
129.—371. Astolfo: His journey to the moon mentioned in Pulci, ed. 1546,
Canto xxi., f. cxx. _b_:—
“_Malagigi tagliava le parole_,
_Astolfo sopra ’l suo caval rimonta_;
_Cavalcano a la luna tanto e al sole_
_Che capitorno al castel di Creonta_”.
—372. In —, read _China_.—373. To —, read _China_.—Copy of a work:
Borrow’s edition of the Manchu New Testament, St. Petersburg, 1835, in 8
parts, 4to.—All the dashes mean Canton or China.—Serendib: (Ceylon) put
for China.
COMPLETE LIST OF ENG. GYPSY WORDS SCATTERED THROUGH _LAVENGRO_ AND
_ROMANY RYE_.
_Common European G. forms are in parenthesis_.
Abri (_avrí_), out, forth.
Adré / Adrey } (_andré_), in, into.
Ambról, a pear.
Andé, in, into.
Angár, charcoal, coal.
Apopli, again, once more.
Ankko (_aveká_), here is.
Ava / Ávali } yes.
Avella (3rd sing. of _aváva_), he comes; _gorgio a._, some one is coming.
[_Avava_, _avesa_, _avela_.]
* * * * *
Ballúva (_baló_), pork.
Baló, hog.
Baró, f. _barí_, pl. _baré_, big, great.
Bátu, father.
Baulo, see _baló_.
Bawlor (pl. of _baló_), swine.
Bebee (_bibí_), aunt; (in _G. B._ grandmother, with and without _grand_).
Beng, toad; dragon, devil.
Bengui (Sp. G. _bengue_), _i.q. beng_.
Besh (_beshava_), to sit.
Beti, a little, a _bit_ of.
Bitchadey (_bichavdé_; pl. of _bichavdó_), sent. With _pawdel_,
transported.
Bokht (_bakht_), fate, luck, fortune.
Boró, see _baró_.
Borodromengro, highwayman.
Boshom (_bashava_, I sing or play), violin, fiddle.
Boshomengro, fiddler.
Bovaló (_barvaló_), rich.
Bute (_but_), much. _B. dosta_, a good many, plenty of.
* * * * *
Cafi (καρφἱ), horse-shoe nail.
Caloró, f, a Spanish Gypsy. Dim. of _caló_; see _kaló_.
Cambrí (_kamní_), with child.
Camomescro (fr. _kamama_, I love), a Lovell (Gypsy tribe-name).
Cana (_kánna_), when.
Caulor (_collor_, L.L.), pl. shillings.
Chabé, pl. of Chabó.
Chabó (_tchavó_), child, lad; Gypsy.
Chachipen (_tchatchipé_), truth.
Chal (_chabál_ or _chavál_, still existant in Spain), lad; Gypsy.
_Romany ch._, Gypsy; _R. chi_, Gypsy (lass).
Chal (for _jal_, from _java_). Ch. Devléhi (_ja Devlésa_), go with God,
farewell.
Chavó, _i.q. chabó_.
Chi (_tchái_), girl, lass, child; Gypsy.
Chibándo (Sp. G., see _chive_), tossing; preaching (a sermon).
Chick (_tchik_), dirt, mud.
Chie, _i.q. chi_.
Chiknó (_tiknó_), a youth. _Tawno Ch._, “Shorty”.
Chinomescro (from _tchinava_, I cut), chisel, parer.
Chipe (_tchip_), tongue.
Chive (_tchivava_), to throw; to pass (false coin).
Chívios, is cast (he).
Chong (_tumba_), hill. _Ch. gav_, Norwich, town of the Castle hill.
Choomer (_tchumi_), a kiss.
Chore (_tchorava_), to steal.
Chories, thieves.
Chovahanee (_tchovekhaní_), a witch.
Chovahanó (_tchovekhanó_), a wizard.
Churi (_tchorí_), knife.
Coin (_kon_), who?
Coko (_káko_), uncle.
Colikó (_kalikó_, Sp. G. _calicaste_, on the morrow), on the morrow, in
the morning (B.’s “early” is a mistake).
Coor (_curava_, I strike), to strike, to hammer.
Cooromengro, boxer.
Covántza, anvil.
Covar (_ková_), a thing.
Cral / Crállis } (_krális_), king
Cukkerin (merely alliterative with _dukkerin_).
Curomengro, boxer.
Czigány (Hung.), Gypsy—(_tsigáñ_).
* * * * *
Dearginni (Hung., _dörŏg_, thunder; _dörgeni_, to th.), it thunders.
Dick (_dikava_), to see.
Dinelo (_deniló_ or _diniló_), a fool.
Divvus (_divés_), day.
Dloovu (error for _lovó_).
Dook (Slavic), spirit, soul, divining spirit, demon, ghost. Russ. _dux_.
Dook, to spirit away, to bewitch.
Dosta, enough.
Dove odoy (fr. _odová_), that there; up yonder.
Drab, herb, drug; poison, see _drow_.
Drab, to poison.
Drabengro, seller of medicines, apothecary. _D. ker_, apothecary’s shop.
Drom (δρόμος), road, way.
Drow, _i.q. drab_; often pl. drugs; poison.
Dúi, two.
Duk (B.’s _dook_).
Dukker (fr. _duk_, spirit or demon, and _ker_, to make, to evoke), to
tell any one’s fortune, to tell fortunes.
Dukkerin (the _in_ is Eng. ing), any one’s fortune or fortunes, fate;
fortune-telling. “To pen” a _dukkerin_ is incorrect.
Dukkerin dook, the fortune-telling or divining spirit.
Dukkeripen, fortune-telling.
Dumo (_dumó_), the back.
Duvel (_devél_), God.
Duvelskoe (_devlesko_), divine.
Dye (_daï_), mother.
* * * * *
Engro (a mere adj. ending, _er_, _ing_), Borrovian for “master,”
“fellow,” “chap”.
Erajái (_rashaï_), priest, in Sp. Gyp.
Eray, see _rye_.
* * * * *
Farm-engro, farmer.
Fino, Eng. fine.
Fóros (_φόρος_ = _ἀγορά_), city, town.
* * * * *
Gav, village, town.
Gil, to sing.
Gillie (_ghili_), song, ditty.
Gitáno, a (Sp.) Gypsy.
Gorgikie, f. of.
Gorgiko, f, non-gypsy.
Gorgio (_gadjó_), non-gypsy, stranger, somebody, policeman.
Gorgious, adj. formed from _gorgio_.
Grandbebee, grandmother. See _bebee_.
Grasní, mare; jade.
Grondinni (fr. _Roumanian_), it hails.
Gry (_graï_), horse. _Pellengo g._, stallion.
Gudló, í, sweet; _g. pesham_, honeycomb.
Gul eray (Hung. G.?), sweet gentleman.
* * * * *
Habben (_khabé_, fr. _khavava_, I eat), food, victuals; feast.
Harkomescro (_arkíchi_, tin), tinker.
Hatch, to cook (evidently fr. _pekava_, rather than _atchava_).
Hinjirí (f. of _hinjiró_, fr. _djandjir_, a chain), executioner.
Hir mi devlis (or diblis), by G—.
Hokkawar (khokhavava), to lie, to cheat.
Hokkeripen, falsehood, deception.
Hors-worth, pennyworth. (Hors, fr. _grosch_?)
* * * * *
Iuziou (_shuzó_), clean.
* * * * *
Jaw (_java_), to go. See _chal_.
Jawing, going.
Jib (_chib_) tongue, language.
Juggal (_jukél_), dog.
Juva / Juwa } (young) woman.
* * * * *
Kair, see _ker_.
Kairdó, see _Kerdó_.
Kaló, f. _kalí_, pl. _kalé_, black, dark.
Kauley, f. of _kaulo_.
Kaulo, see _kaló_.
Kaulomescro, blacksmith.
Ke, to.
Kek, none.
Kekaubi / Kekkauvi } (_kakkávi_), kettle.
Kekauviskoe saster, kettle iron or hook.
Kekkaubi, see _kekaubi_.
Kekkenó, no, not one.
Ker, house.
Ker (_kerava_), to make, to do.
Kerdó, made (he).
Kil (_kelava_), to play.
Kin (_kinava_), to buy.
Kistur (_klisava_), to ride.
Kitchema, tavern, ale-house.
Kosko, i, good.
Kral / Krallis } king, see _cral_.
* * * * *
Lachipen, goodness.
Laki / Lakie } (_lake_), her, to her.
Lavengro, “word-master,” “philologist”.
Lel (_lava_, _lesa_, _lela_), to take; to buy.
Len, _i.q. lende_.
Lende, their, to them.
Leste, him.
Levinor (_levina_), ale.
Lil, paper, book.
Lirí, law.
Lis, it.
Lolló (_loló_), red.
Loovu, see
Lovó, coin; pl. _lové_, money.
Lubbeny (_lubní_), harlot.
Lundra, London.
Luripen, theft, robbery.
* * * * *
Mailla, donkey.
Man, me.
Mande, to me.
Mang (_mangava_), to beg.
Manriclí (_manrikló_), cake.
Manró, bread.
Manus (_manush_), man.
Marél (error for _merel_): _merava_, _meresa_, _merela_—he dies.
Mek (_mukava_), to leave, to let; _mek lis_, drop it.
Men, we.
Mensar (_mensa_), with us.
Mer (_merava_), to die.
Mi (_me_), I.
Miduveleskoe lil, divine or godly book.
Miró, f, my, mine.
Miry (_mirí_), my.
Morro, bread.
Muchtar (_muktar_), box, tool-box.
Mullo (_muló_), dead.
* * * * *
Nashkadó, í (_nashavdó_), lost, ruined; hanged (_G. B._).
Nashky, gallows (_G. B._).
Nav, name.
* * * * *
O, the.
Odoi / Odoy } there, here.
Opré, on, upon, up.
* * * * *
Pa, over, for.
Pal (_pral_), brother; friend, mate.
Palor (_pralá_), brothers.
Parraco (L.L. _paracrow_; Zinc. parauco), I thank.
Patteran (_patrín_), leaf of a tree, Gypsy trail.
Pawdel (_perdál_), on the other side, across.
Pellengo (_pelengro_, fr. _pelé_, testicles), with _gry_, a stallion.
Pen (_penava_), to say, to tell.
Peshotá, pl. of _peshót_ (_pishót_), bellows.
Petúl (_pétalo_), horse-shoe.
Petulengro, head of the clan “Smith”.
Pindró (_pinró_), foot, hoof.
Pios (fr. _piava_, I drink), health, in toasting.
Piramus, _MS._ Priamus.
Plaistra (_klashta_), pincers, tongs.
Plastramengro, runner, detective.
Poggadó, í (_panghiardó_), broken.
Poknees (_paknís_, a man of trust), magistrate.
Prala, voc. of _pal_ or _pral_, brother.
Pré (_opré_), on, upon.
Pudamengro (fr. _purdava_ or _pudava_, I blow), bellows.
Puró, f. _purí_, pl. _puré_, old, ancient.
Pus, straw.
Puv (or _phuv_) earth, ground.
* * * * *
Ran, stick, rod, cane.
Ráni, lady, wife.
Rarde (_ratt_), night.
Rat, rate and rati, blood, race.
Rawnie, see _ráni_.
Rig (?) to carry.
Rikkeno, see _rinkenó_.
Rin, a file.
Rinkenó, í, pretty, fine.
Rom, husband; Gypsy.
Roman, Borrovian tor Gypsy.
Romaneskoenaes, in Gypsy fashion.
Romanies, Gypsies.
Romanly, in Gypsy, Gypsy-like.
Romanó, í, Gypsy.
Romany (Anglicised form _of Romanó_, í), Gypsy.
Romany Chal, Gypsy.
Romany Chi, Gypsy (girl).
Romany Rye, Gypsy gentleman.
Rome and dree (Rom andré? Gypsy at heart).
Romí, wife.
Rommanis, in Gypsy, also wife (_G. B._).
Rommany, _i.q. Romany_.
Rovél (3rd sing. of _rovava_), he weeps.
Rup, silver.
Rye (_ráï_), gentleman.
* * * * *
Sanpriel, Sanspareil.
Sap, snake.
Sapengro, snake-catcher.
Sar shan, how art thou?
Sas, it was, were it.
Saster / Sastra } iron.
Sastramescro, worker in iron, smith.
Saulo (_MS. sorlo_), morning; early (?)
Savó, what kind of a man? who?
Scoppelo, ninny.
Se (_isi_), is, are.
Shan (_isán_), thou art.
Sherengro (fr. _sheró_, the head), head man, chief.
Shom (_isóm_), I am.
Shoon (_shunava_), to hear, to listen.
Shukaro (_tchokanó_), hammer.
Shunella (_shunéla_, 3rd sing. of _shunava_), is listening.
Si (_isí_), is, are; _si men_, are we; _si mensar_ (mensa), is or are
with us.
Sinaba (Sp. G.), was.
Sore (_saré_), pl. all, all who.
Sos, who.
Sos (_isás_), was.
Sove (_sovava_), to sleep.
Swety (pl. of Russ. _sviet_), people, folks.
Synfye, Cinthia (Slav. _th_ is pron. _ph_).
* * * * *
Ta, and.
Tachó, í, true.
Tan, place, tent.
Tasaulor (read _ta-sorlo_), to-morrow.
Tatchenó, í, modest, chaste.
Tatchipen, truth.
Tawnie, f. of
Tawnó, í. (_tarnó_), little, short.
Tove (_tovava_), to wash.
Trin, three.
Truppo (_trupo_), body.
Tu, thou.
Tute (tut), thee, to thy.
* * * * *
Vagescoe, adj. of _yag_.
Vassavie, f. of.
Vassavó, í, vile.
Villaminni (Hung. _villám_), it lightens.
* * * * *
Wafodo, i, bad, raise.
Wel (corrupted from _avella_), to come, to go.
Welling, coming.
Wendror (connected with _andró_, within?), the insides.
Wesh (_vesh_), forest.
Wust, to throw (better the first _MS._ form, _chiv_).
* * * * *
Yag, fire.
Ye, the.
Yeck (_yek_), one.
Yov (_ov_), be.
* * * * *
Zigeuner (Ger.), Gypsy.
Zingaro (It.), Gypsy.
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Arbuthnot, A. (_Romany Rye_, pp. 24–26).—The Life, Adventures, and many
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Family of Frasers. From his birth at Beaufort, near Inverness, in the
Highlands of Scotland, in 1668, to the time of his being taken by Capt.
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Bayne, A. D.—A Comprehensive History of Norwich. Norwich, 1869. 8vo,
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320. Portrait and Plates.
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London, and the verses given in the _Zincali_, beginning:—
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_Index_: “Despina, principessa di Cafria, figliuola dello Scricca
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Bacon_, with whom he learned his Art. As also how he met with _Paccolet_
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—The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon. Containing the wonderfull things
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Glyde, John (_Lavengro_, pp. 130–33).—The Norfolk Garland: a Collection
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iv, 405.
Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru: Neu Flodau Godidowgrwydd Awen. O gasgliad Rhys
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Amwythig (_Shrewsbury_), 1773. 4to.—(_Lavengro_, p. 432.)
Haggart (_Lavengro_, pp. 51–55).—The Life of David Haggart, alias John
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under sentence of death. Edinburgh, 1821. 12mo, pp. viii, 173. Port.
“Cant” vocabulary at the end.
Haydon, B. R. (_Lavengro_, p. 223).—Life of Benjamin R. Haydon,
Historical Painter, from his Autobiography and Journals. By Tom Taylor.
London, 1853. 3 vols., 8vo.
Hickathrift (_Lavengro_, pp. 50 & 63).—The Pleasant History of Thomas
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Iriarte, Tomás de (_Romany Rye_, p. 354).—Coleccion de Obras en Verso y
Prosa de D. Tomas de Yriarte. Madrid, 1787. 6 vols., 8vo.
LA VÍBORA Y LA SANGUIJUELA.
“Aunque las dos picamos” (dixo un dia
La Vibora á la simple Sanguijuela),
“De tu boca reparo que se fia
El hombre, y de la mia se rezela.”
La Chupona responde: “Ya, querida;
Mas no picamos de la misma suerte:
Yo, si pico á un enfermo, le doy vida;
Tú, picando al más sano, le das muerte”.
Vaya ahora de paso una advertencia:
Muchos censuran, sí, Lector benigno;
Pero á fe que hay bastante diferencia
De un Censor útil á un Censor maligno.
—_Fábula_, lxvii., vol i.
Keysler, J. G. (_Lavengro_, p. 136; _Romany Rye_, p. 23).—Travels through
Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. Translated
from the German. London, 1756–57. 4 vols., 4to. Second ed.—_Taylor
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Kiæmpe Viser (_Lavengro_, pp. 141–45).—Ed. by Anders Sörenson Vedel.
Kjöbenhavn, 1591. 8vo.—“_G. Borrow_.”
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Lesage (_Lavengro_, p. 201).—Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Paris,
1815. 4 vols., 16mo.
“Je l’invitai à souper avec moi. ‘_Ah_! _très volontiers_,’
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[Leti, Gregorio] (_Romany Rye_, p. 6).—Il Nipotismo di Roma, o vero,
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histories, and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain.
Vol. i. Glossography. Oxford, 1707. Fol.—_Bodl._
Lilly, William (_Lavengro_, pp. 38–39).—A Shorte Introdvction of Grammar,
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Loyola, Ignatius (_Romany Rye_, p. 351).—Vita Ignatii Loiolæ. Antverpiæ,
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(_S.L._), 1616. 8vo.—_Also in the_ Flos Sanctorum, ó Libro de las Vidas
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Matchett.—The Norfolk and Norwich Remembrancer and Vade-Mecum; containing
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Year a W (. . .), five times a Wife (. . .), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight
Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest,
and died a Penitent. Written [by Daniel Defoe] from her own Memorandums
[in 1683]. London, 1721. 8vo, pp. vi, 366. First ed.
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Monthly Magazine, The; or, British Register. London: for Sir Richard
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Murray (_Lavengro_, p. 139).—See in Sir Walter Scott’s _Minstrelsy of the
Scottish Border_, Kelso, 1802. 2 vols., 8vo.—“The Song of the Outlaw
Murray” (vol. i., pp. 5 and ff.).
Muses’ Library (_Romany Rye_, p. 318).—Historical and Poetical Medley;
or, Muses’ Library, being a choice and faithful Collection of the best
English Poetry from the times of Edward the Confessor to the reign of
King James 1st, with the lives and characters of the known writers, etc.
London, 1738. 8vo.—_Bodl._
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Pelham.] London, 1841. 2 vols., 8vo (pp. 1228). Plates.
Newgate Lives and Trials (_Lavengro_, p. 204).—Celebrated Trials and
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Olaus Magnus.—De Gentibus Septentrionalibus Historia. Ambergæ, 1599.
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Olaus Wormius.—(Runer) Sive Danica Literatura Antiquissima vulgo Gothica
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4to.
—Literatura Runica. Hafniæ, 1651. 4to.
O’Reilly, Edward.—A Chronological Account of nearly four hundred Irish
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—Wunderliche und seltsame Historie Tillen Eulenspiegels, eines Bauern
Sohn, aus dem Lande zu Braunschweig gebürtig. Welche aus
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—The German Rogue; or, the Life and Merry Adventures, Cheats, Stratagems,
and Contrivances of Tiel Eulespiegle. Made English from the High-Dutch.
London, 1720. 8vo, ll. 2, pp. 111.—_Bodl._
Parny (_Romany Rye_, pp. 344, 357).—Guerre des Dieux, anciens et
modernes: poëme en dix chants. Seconde édition. Paris: Didot, an vii
(1798). 8vo, pp. 204.
Patten, R.—The History of the late Rebellion, with Original Papers and
Characters of the principal Noblemen and Gentlemen concern’d in it. By
the Rev. Mr. Robert Patten, formerly Chaplain to Mr. Foster. Second
edition, with large additions. London, 1717. 8vo.—_Bodl._
Phillips, Sir Richard (_Lavengro_, p. 205).—The Proximate Causes of
Material Phenomena, and the true principles of universal causation
considered. Second edition. London, 1821. 8vo.—_Bodl._
—(_Lavengro_, p. 254.)—Ueber die nächsten Ursachen der materiellen
Erscheinungen des Universums. Von Sir Richard Philipps (_sic_). Nach
dem Englischen bearbeitet von General v. Theobald und Prof. Dr. Lebret.
Stuttgart, 1826. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 429.
—Four Dialogues between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the
Common-sense Philosophy, relative to the proximate causes of material
phenomena. London, 1824. 8vo.—_Bodl._
See _Lavengro_: “Oxford” principles (pp. 190, 216), theory (p. 215),
politics (p. 228), Oxford-like manner (pp. 215, 216), “Oxford” Review
(pp. 190, 215).
Piers Ploughman (_Romany Rye_, p. 315).—The Vision and the Creed of Piers
Ploughman. With notes and a glossary by Thomas Wright. London:
Pickering, 1842. 2 vols., sm. 8vo.
Pocahontas (_Romany Rye_, p. 352).—The Indian Princess; or, the Story of
Pocahontas. By Edward Eggleston and Lillie Eggleston Seelye. London
(1880?). 12mo, pp. 310.
—American Statesmen. John Randolph. By Henry Adams. Boston, 1884.
12mo, pp. vi, 313.
Psalmboek, Hebreus en Nederlants, door Leusden. Amsterdam, 1666. 18mo.
“_George Borrow ejus liber_, 1821.”—(_Lavengro_, pp. 151, 160.)
Pulci (_Lavengro_, p. 497; _Romany Rye_, pp. 69, 316).—Morgante Maggiore
di Lvigi Pvlci Firentino, etc. Venetia, 1546. 4to, ll. 4, ff.
199.—_Bodl._
—Il Morgante Maggiore, di Luigi Pulci. Londra (_Livorno_), 1768. 3
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Records of the West Norfolk Militia: _I_. Original Enrollment Book,
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fol.—_Mousehold Barracks_, _Norwich_.
Richmond, Rev. Legh (_Lavengro_, pp. 189, 197, 202).—The Dairyman’s
Daughter [_i.e._, Elizabeth Wallbridge]: An authentic narrative. By a
clergyman of the Church of England. London, 1810, 1817, 1819, 1824, etc.
—Annals of the Poor. By the Rev. Legh Richmond, M.A., late Rector of
Turvey, Bedfordshire. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1842. 24mo,
pp. 240.
1. _The Dairyman’s Daughter_, pp. 101.
2. The Negro Servant.
3. The Young Cottager.
4. The Cottage Conversation.
5. A Visit to the Infirmary.
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8vo.—_Bodl._
“_Bui hin Digri_,” vol. x., p. 258.
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Saxonis Grammatici Historia Danica. S. J. Stephanus recog. notisque
illustravit. Sorae, 1644–45. 2 vols., fol. Plates.—“_G. H. Borrow_.”
—Ed. P. E. Müller. Havniæ, 1839–58. 2 vols., roy. 8vo.—_Bodl._
Smith, Capt. Alex.—A Compleat History of the Lives and Robberies of the
most notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts, and Cheats, of both
sexes, about London and Great Britain, for above an hundred years past.
London, 1719. 12mo.—_Library of G. B._
Snorro Sturleson (_Lavengro_, pp. 12, 46).—Heims Kringla / eller Snorre
Sturlusons Nordländske Konunga Sagor. Sive Historiæ Regum
Septentrionalium, â Snorrone Sturlonide, ante secula quinque, patrio
sermone antiquo conscriptæ, quas . . . illustravit Iohann Peringskiöld.
Stockholmiæ, 1697. 2 vols., fol.—_Bodl._
—Snorre Sturlesons Norske Kongers Sagaer. Oversatte [paa Danske] af
Jacob Aal. Christiania, 1838–39. 3 parts in 1, fol.—_Bodl._
“_Bui hin Digri_,” part 1, p. 138.
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FOOTNOTES.
{0a} _MS._, “’49”.
{0b} _MS._, “execrated by every unmanly scoundrel, every sycophantic
lacquey, and _every political and religious renegade_ in Britain”.
{24} _Cf. L’Inferno_, xxvii., 25.
{42} The apothecary.
{46a} _MS._, see _Life_, i., 34, _n_.
{46b} _Ibid_.
{284} Tipperary.
{311a} _MS._, “Canning” (1827).
{311b} Viscount Goderich.
{311c} _MS._, “Canning” (1827).
{311d} _MS._, “Canning” (1827).
{312a} _MS._, “who eventually presented him with a bishopric, had
espoused,” etc.
{312b} _MS._, “He is a small landed proprietor who eats,” etc.
{312c} _MS._, “the _Despatch_, of course”.
{312d} The Spanish Revolution of ’54–’56, made by O’Donnell.
{313} _MS._ (corrected):—
Un Erajái
Sinába chibando an sermón;
Y lle falta un balichó
Al chindomá de aquel gáo;
Y chanéla que los calés
Lo habían nicobáo;
Y penelá ’l erajái:
“Chaboró!
Guíllate á tu quer,
Y nicobéla la pirí
Que teréla ’l balichó,
Y chibéla andró
Una lima de tun chaborí,
Chaborí,
Una lima de tun chaborí.”
See also _Lavo-Lil_, p. 200.
{316a} Canto I, st. 53.
{316b} St. 57.
{318} An obscene oath.
{319} See _Muses’ Library_, pp. 86, 87. London, 1738. [Better, the
original ed. (1547). _See Notes_.]
{320} Genteel with them seems to be synonymous with Gentile and Gentoo;
if so, the manner in which it has been applied for ages ceases to
surprise, for genteel is heathenish. Ideas of barbaric pearl and gold,
glittering armour, plumes, tortures, blood-shedding, and lust, should
always be connected with it. Wace, in his grand Norman poem, calls the
Baron Genteel:—
“La furent li gentil Baron,” etc.
And he certainly could not have applied the word better than to the
strong Norman thief, armed cap-a-pie without one particle of ruth or
generosity; for a person to be a pink of gentility, that is heathenism,
should have no such feelings; and, indeed, the admirers of gentility
seldom or never associate any such feelings with it. It was from the
Norman, the worst of all robbers and miscreants, who built strong
castles, garrisoned them with devils, and tore out poor wretches’ eyes,
as the Saxon Chronicle says, that the English got their detestable word
genteel. What could ever have made the English such admirers of
gentility, it would be difficult to say; for, during three hundred years,
they suffered enough by it. Their genteel Norman landlords were their
scourgers, their torturers, the plunderers of their homes, the
dishonourers of their wives, and the deflowers of their daughters.
Perhaps after all, fear is at the root of the English veneration for
gentility.
{323} Gentle and gentlemanly may be derived from the same root as
genteel; but nothing can be more distinct from the mere genteel, than the
ideas which enlightened minds associate with these words. Gentle and
gentlemanly mean something kind and genial; genteel, that which is
glittering or gaudy. A person can be a gentleman in rags, but nobody can
be genteel.
{342} The writer has been checked in print by the Scotch with being a
Norfolk man. Surely, surely, these latter times have not been exactly
the ones in which it was expedient for Scotchmen to check the children of
any county in England with the place of their birth, more especially
those who have had the honour of being born in Norfolk—times in which
British fleets, commanded by Scotchmen, have returned laden with anything
but laurels from foreign shores. It would have been well for Britain had
she had the old Norfolk man to despatch to the Baltic or the black Sea,
lately, instead of Scotch admirals.
{364} As the present work will come out in the midst of a vehement
political contest, people may be led to suppose that the above was
written expressly for the time. The writer therefore begs to state that
it was written in the year 1854. He cannot help adding that he is
neither Whig, Tory, nor Radical, and cares not a straw what party governs
England, provided it is governed well. But he has no hopes of good
government from the Whigs. It is true that amongst them there is one
very great man, Lord Palmerston, who is indeed the sword and buckler, the
chariots and the horses of the party; but it is impossible for his
lordship to govern well with such colleagues as he has—colleagues which
have been forced upon him by family influence, and who are continually
pestering him into measures anything but conducive to the country’s
honour and interest. If Palmerston would govern well, he must get rid of
them; but from that step, with all his courage and all his greatness, he
will shrink. Yet how proper and easy a step it would be! He could
easily get better, but scarcely worse, associates. They appear to have
one object in view and only one—jobbery. It was chiefly owing to a most
flagitious piece of jobbery, which one of his lordship’s principal
colleagues sanctioned and promoted, that his lordship experienced his
late parliamentary disasters.
{369} A fact.
{372a} _MS._ “Aberdeen.”
{372b} _MS._ “Aberdeen.”
{383} Like _Ingilis_ in Turkish, for English; _Beritania_ (England) in
Hawaiian, for Britannia.
{386a} _Zincali_, 1843, second ed., vol. ii., p. 146.*
{386b} “I think I’ll go there,” p. 301. “He is about to quit his native
land on a grand philological expedition,” p. 303.