The Kiss's Print the Body shews,
Which to its Fining-place then goes;
When done the Soul does fetch it,
And to the wound-hole snatch it."
Parts I. and II. of these hymns I have never seen; but besides the above described, I have the following editions: A Collection of Hymns of the Children of God, in all Ages from the beginning till now: in Two Parts. Designed chiefly for the use of the Congregations in union with the Brethren's Church. Thick 8vo. London, printed in the year 1754: this is the larger hymn-book alluded to by SIGMA. A Collection of Hymns, chiefly extracted from the larger Hymn-book of the Brethren's Congregation: London, printed and sold at the Brethren's chapels, 1769,—noticed by H. C. B. These are both extraordinary productions, but yield to the edition of 1748: it having already been observed of these hymns, that the later impression is always the tamer.
J. O.
CAGOTS.
(Vol. iv., p. 190.)
I arrive at the conclusion, that the Cacosi of Latin writers, Cacous, or Cagous, represent the true name from which Cagots, the t being mute, is but a slight deviation; while some other forms have scarcely retained more than the initial Ca. The etymology from the Goths (most absurd in substance, and worthy of the days when Languedoc was fetched from Land-got, Land of the Goths,) has reference only to one of the French spellings.
Cacosus, meaning a leper, as well as a Cacous or Cagot, was from κακὸν, κάκωσις, in Greek; and from it came cacosomium, contracted for cacoso-comium, not a mere noso-comium, but an asylum for lepers. See Ducange.
But the Cacous in question were not only lepers, but families in which leprosy was considered hereditary. For this reason they are called Giezites, les Gézits, les Gesitains, from Giezi, servant of Elisha and his posterity. (See Michel, vol. i. pp. 56. 148. 238. &c.) A simple leper was Lazarius or ladre. The latter were, like Lazarus, merely afflicted; but the former were deemed to be under an abiding curse, like Giezi.