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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[10 th S. I. JAN. 2, 190*;

lovi -kindling fire to burn such towns as Troy. }

ti. and i~t.

And his love-kindliny fire did quickly steep.

Sonnet elm. 6.

Thence flew Love's arrow with the golden head.

' H. and L.

S* golden arrow at him should have fled.

A. and A., 94/.

S/on'-^iU he stood.' H. and L.' Stone-still, astonish'd with this deadly deed, Stood Collatine. ' Lucrece,' 1730.

With the Arc that from his countenance bla:.ed.

' H. and L.

Two red fires in both their faces blazed.

' Lucrece, 13o3.

For will in us is over-ruled by fate.' H. and L.' Fate o'cr-rules. 1 M.N.D.,' III. ii. 92.

What we behold is censured by our eye*.

' H. and L.

Whose equality by our best eyes cannot be censured. ' King John,' II. i. 328.

And Night, deep drench'd in misty Acheron.

' H. and L.

So she, deep drewhed in a sea of care.

'Lucrece,' 1100.

And now begins Leander to display Lore'* holy Jure with words, with sighs and tears.

' H. and L.'

Which borrowed from this holy, tire of Lore A dateless lively heat. Sonnet cliii. 5.

Less sins the poor-rich man that starves himself.

' H. and L.'

That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

' Lucrece,' 140.

And with iit'ctfine broils the -world destroy.

'H. and L. : The mortal and intestine jar*.

'Comedy of Errors,' I. i. 11.

. One is no number : maids are nothing then Without the sweet society of men. 'H. and L.' Among a number one is reckoned none.

Sonnet cxxxvi. 8.

A stream of liquid pearls, which down her face Made milk-white paths. 'H. and L.' Decking with liquid peart the bladed grass.

'M.N.I)., 'Li. 211.

It will be noticed that two of these quota- tions are to be met with in Sonnet cliii., and further, that the most familiar line in Mar- lowe's translation,

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? was not only transferred in its entirety to ' As You Like It,' but is also to be found near the end of Chapman's ' Blind Beggar of Alexandria' in slightly different form :

None ever lov'd but at first sight they lov'd. As Chapman's play and the Marlowe-Chap- man translation almost certainly appeared

some little time before 'As You Like It,' ] am inclined to doubt the generally accepted belief that Shakespeare was alluding to Mar- lowe rather than the classical author. In view of the growing belief that Chapman was the rival poet, it is possible that the allusion was an intentional fling at him.

CHAS. A. HERPICH. New York.

ALEXANDER HORN AND THE ' INCEN-

DIUM DIVINI AMORIS.' FISCHER in his 'Essai sur les Monumens- Typographiques de Jean Gutenberg ' gives an account of several books which were printed at Mentz, and affirms that they were from the press of Gutfenberg ; but this assertion was completely disproved by Mr. Hessels in 'Gutenberg: was he the Inventor of Print- ing 1 ' in which he shows that the early MS. dates in some of these books were not worthy of credence. Here are the titles of the works :. 'Sifridvs de Arena: Determinatio Duaruin Qusestionum,' ' Responsio ad Quattuor Quas- tiones Sifridi Episcopi Cirenensis,' 'Dialogue inter Hugonem, Catonem, et Oliverium,' 'Klage Antwort und Urteil,' 'Tractatus dn- Celebratione Missarum,' and Hermannus de Schildis, 'Speculum Sacerdotum,' the last bearing the imprint " maguntise." Now it is very curious to observe how one error leads to another. Horn had before him a little book called ' Incendium Divini Amoris/ printed in the same types as the above mentioned ; Horn accepts Fischer's statement that books in these types were printed by Gutenberg, and then proceeds to make an assertion of his own, viz., tha,t Gutenberg, not only printed the 'Incendium Divini Amoris,' but was also the author of the work, and that the nun to whom it is addressed was his own sister. This very copy, appa- rently the only one known, is now in the King's Library at the British Museum with Horn's observations upon it, which I here transcribe :

Observations on the small Treatise in German call<-<l 'Incendium Divini Amoris.' Supposed to Im- printed and written by John Guttenbery to hi-- Sister, a JVj& of St. Clare at Mem. By the deed of settlement between Guttenberpr. his sister (a nun of the Monastery of St. Clara in Menz), and his two brothers, dated 1459, as dis- covered by Bodman in the archives of Meuz, and published by Fischer in his essay ' Sur les Monumens Typographiques de Guttenberg,' we are informed that the latter gave to the library all the books which he had already printed, and promised to add all those he was then printing or might afterwards print, for the benefit of the Abbesse and nuns of the said monastery, both for the church service and. for their private devotion.