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LIFE OF CHARLES HALIDAY. IxXV
the pleasure of Mr. Haliday when I showed him that the
true reading was '
De sur le Hogges dessus Stein/ the 'de
'
Sustein being plainly a trivial error of the scribe, in making
one word of what ought to be two.
Hoggen-green was only separated from Stephen's-green Hoggen Green,
in times before the dissolution of religious houses by
the Mynchen's fields, or lands of the Nunnery of Saint
Mary del Hogges, which ran side by side with the lands of
All Hallows Priory, now Trinity College Park, to the full
length of the Park. Leinster House and Kildare-place, as
we have shown, standing on part of the Mynchen's fields
and the Mynchen's Mantle. But as time flew on, and all
memory of Saint Mary del Hogges
was lost the name was
corrupted into Mr. Minchin's and Menson's fields', in
like manner as we find Hoggen-green made into Hog's-
green and Hogan's-green, and Hoggen but made into Hog Hoggen but.
and Butts 8 .
Only for my intercourse with Mr. Haliday, I should probably
have no more understood what was meant in Colonel
Michael Jones' report of the mutiny of the garrison of
Dublin in 1647, by the seizing of the "fortified hill near the
College "
by the mutineers3 when I met with it in , the Carte
Papers, than Lodge knew what was "hoggen but," (which
meant the same place) 4 and being unintelligible to him he
dropped the " but."
Quitting now the prospect over Stephen's-green, and The Long
turning round again to the northward, or towards the river, steyne
1'ancien Fran?ais-la langue Fran- 4^ p 1(J9 Qne is reminded
9 aise qui florissait du xieme au
'
Of pope s Hncs ._
xivfeme siecle, celle dans laquelle u No commentator can more slily pa*s
*
veut dire Oui) ou Langue d'Oil (Oil Ibid. p. 196, n. 2 .
vent dire Oui) ou languc d'Oui, sg m ^ cjjap jj^ p i 65j n
on lit les trouveres. Dictionnaire de o'er a learned unintelligible place ;
la Langue Franchise par E. Littre. Or in quotations shrewd divines leave
4 vols , quarto, Paris, 1868-1869. out
B. III., chap. II., p. 164, infra.
1 Hook III., chap. II., p. 193, n.,
infra.
Those words that would against them
dear the doubt."
Satires of Dr. Donne versified.