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For the other and remaining quotation from Tottel, Collier goes again to ' Albions England ' for a reference which he could not trace elsewhere, Allot having misled him by giving a wrong signature :

4 Women,' p. 369. Women were made for this intent to put us unto

paine ;

Yet sure I thinke they are a pleasure to the mind, A joy which man can never want, as nature hath

assignd. (signed) "Idem," viz. G. Chapman.

Collier must have known that Chapman never wrote in such a style as that, and there- fore he guessed it must belong to Warner, who is often quaint and antiquated in his mode of expression. But the lines really occur in ' Uncertain Authors ' in Tottel (Arber, p. 184), being the conclusion of a poem with the title beginning " That nature which worketh al thinges," &c.

Allot has signed Thomas Watson's name to twenty-seven extracts, all of which are credited by Collier to that poet's ' Ekatom- pathia ; or, Passionate Centurie of Love,' save one, which he left standing open, although it was taken from the same series of love-sonnets. One of Collier's ascriptions, however, is wrong, and I cannot find the sentence in any other part of Watson's known work. Here it is :

Sweet Gentlenesse is Bewties waiting-maide.
 * Gentleness,' p. 128.

(signed) Th. Watson.

Collier added to Watson's quotations a passage which Allot had signed " I. W." :

' Women,' p. 371. In Womens mouthes no is no negative.

It is a rickety old proverb, which can be picked out, in almost the same words, from many authors of the period, Sir Philip Sidney employing it three times. But it is not in Watson, and there was no need to go to that author at all, the initials in this case, as elsewhere in ' Englands Parnassus,' standing for John Weever, whom the accurate Allot sometimes calls " W. Weever," just as he once calls Christopher Marlowe " W. Marlowe " when he credits the latter with an extract from John Marston.

Weever's name or initials occur fifteen times in ' Englands Parnassus,' but Collier did not trace one of the quotations, and I have not had the opportunity to identify them myself.

The following is a complete list of Allot' s quotations from Watson, arranged as the passages occur in the poet's works. Collier must have guessed at many of his attribu- tions, some of which are wrong, or else they

omit particulars that would be of service

to a student.

' Beau tie,' p. 457, Her yellow locks my

decay ... Son. 7

' Marigold,' p. 575, The Marigold her

greatest grace ..* ,, 9*

' Musicke,' p. 253, Esclepiad did cure had

wprne ,, 13

'Musicke, p. 253, Some that report to

meate againe ,, 14

'Love,' p. 206, Love is a sowre delight

world of woe ,, 18

'Eagle,' p. 575, No bird, but Jove's, can

the sunne ,, 21

Eagle,' p. 575, En vies bird sacred to

the sunne ,, 34

' Honour,' p. 158, Honour, by due right, is

vertues hire ,, 34

Love,' p. 212, Love gainsaid growes

madder then before ,, 38

' Beautie,' p. 470, Her curled locks Tithori

did beguile 54

' Love,' p. 496, The man that dwells woes

are blisse ,, 57

'Delay,' p. 66, For daunger growes when

life is past ,, 59"

' Love,' p. 208, Love hath two shafts what

is nought ,, 63

' Hope,' p. 163, Hope lost breeds grief e ;

paine, disease ,, 63-

'Fancie,' p. 101, Fancie by kind striveth

still 64

'Love,' p. 210, This is the least effect of

the hart ,, 71

' Love,' p. 217, Gods themselves doth

forsake ,, 71'

'Time,' p. 337, Time doth consume...... at

length 77

'Love,' p. 221, When heate of Love end

of woe ,, 79--

'Muses,' p. 252, The Muses faster then

before 83

' Libertie,' p. 196, Sweete Libertie all the

rockes ,, 85

'Love,' p. 217, Love hath delight soules

to thrall ... 89

' Reason,' p. 295, Or did not Reason turne

againe 93

'Love,' p. 497, The harpie byrds love is

past 97

'Love,' p. 219, For every pleasure therein

abound ,, 97

' Love,' p. 203, Love is a braine-sicke boy,

are accurst ,, 98.

CHAS. CRAWFOBD. (To be continued.)

'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY: EPITOME.'

(See 10 S. ix. 21, 47, 83, 152, 211, 294, 397,, 431.)

SUBJOINED is a second century of omis- sions from, and additions to, this volume, along with about twenty names of celebrities who have died since its issue, deemed worthy of consideration. In many cases I have