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This tract is bound up with two others, on both of which Blomefylde has
written his initials, and from one entry seems to have been at Venice in
1568. He was undoubtedly an ardent book-collector, and I possess copies
of the _Ortus Vocabulorum_, printed by W. de Worde, in 1518, and the
_Promptuarium Parvulorum_, printed by the same, in 1516, bound together,
on both of which the name of _Myles Blomefylde_ in inscribed.
I may add, as a slight contribution to a future edition of the
_Typographical Antiquities_, that among Bagford's curious collection of
title-pages in the Harleian Collection of MSS. (which I doubt if Dr.
Dibdin ever consulted with care), there is the last leaf of an edition
of the _Ortus Vocabulorum_, unnoticed by bibliographers, with the
following colophon:--
"Impr. London. per Wynandum de Worde, commorantem in vico
nuncupato Fletestrete, sub intersignio solis aurei, Anno
incarnatiois Dominice M.CCCCC.IX. die vero prima mesis
Decebris."--_Harl. MSS._ 5919. art. 36.
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ANSWERS TO MINOR QUERIES.
The Curse of Scotland--Why the Nine of Diamonds is so called.
When I was a child (now about half a century ago) my father used to
explain the origin of the nine of diamonds being called "The curse of
Scotland" thus: That it was the "_cross_ of Scotland," which, in the
Scotch pronunciation, had become "curse.
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