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- Title: Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Study Aids,Books,Reference,
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It is a notes book. It is obvious that the poet would not have made Scarus speak of Antony as the noble ruin of Cleopatra's magick, and of his manhood and honour, and in the same breath designate him as a ribald. He would be much more likely to apply the epithet lewd hag to such an enchantress as Cleopatra, than that of ribald-rid nag, which I feel convinced never entered the imagination of the poet. Imperfect acquaintance with our older language has been too frequently the weak point of the commentators; and we see here our eminent lexicographer confessing his ignorance of a word which the dictionaries of the poet's age would have enabled him readily to explain. For although we have not the participle ribaudred, which may be peculiar to the poet, in Baret's Alvearie we find 'Ribaudrie, vilanie in actes or wordes, filthiness, uncleanness'—'A ribaudrous and filthie tongue, os obscÅ“num et impudicum:' in Minsheu, ribaudrie and ribauldrie, which is the prevailing orthography of the word, and indicates its sound and derivation from the French, rather than from the Italian ribalderia.