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from W. Warner. On the contrary, it takes j from Shakespeare and gives to Warner one quotation, to Spenser and Drayton one each, and to Daniel two. Moreover, it mingles with a line assigned to Dekker several lines from ' Lucrece,' which it misquotes.

Sidney, Sir P. 55 quotations, all traced. ' E.P.' signs Sidney's name to a quotation from ' The Mirror for Magistrates,' and also j to one from Spenser ; moreover, it mingles | a line of the ' Arcadia ' with lines from | Sylvester's ' The Colonies.' On the other hand, it gives to Marlowe a passage from the ' Arcadia.'

Spenser, E. 389 quotations, four un- traced. 'E.P.' assigns to Spenser one passage from Lodge, two from Lodovico Bryskett, one from the Countess of Pern- j broke, five from Drayton, three from Chapman, ona from Shakespeare, and one from Sir J. Harington. On the other hand, it takes from Spenser and gives to Daniel three quotations, to Shakespeare three, to Greene three, and one each to the Earl of Surrey, Sir P. Sidney, and G. Markham. Two quotations from Spenser are mingled in 'E.P.,' one with lines from Lodge, and the other with a quotation from Daniel's ' Cleopatra.' Moreover, two quotations traced to Spenser are unsigned in ' E.P.'

Storer, Th. 42 quotations, one untraced. 'E.P.' signs Storer's name to a passage from Sir J. Davies's ' Nosce Teipsum,' and it leaves unsigned three quotations of Storer's, which were located by Collier.

Surrey, Earl of. See ' Tottel's Miscellany.'

Sylvester, Josh. 124 quotations, one

untraced. Elsewhere I have fully explained

the distribution of passages assigned and

traced to Sylvester.

' Tottel's Miscellany.' 18 quotations, all traced. See previous pages for full parti- culars.

Turberville, G. 8 quotations, one un- traced.

Warner, W. 169 quotations, 21 untraced. Warner's name is signed to a quotation from Shakespeare. On the other hand, an entry from Shakespeare is assigned to Warner ; and Collier found two of the latter's quota- tions unsigned. Collier's fancy supplied references for three supposed Warner pas- sages, as explained elsewhere.

Watson, Thos. 27 quotations, one un- traced. See my remarks elsewhere, and a further remark later in this article.

Weever, J. 13 passages, all untraced. Two other passages signed " I. Weever "

were found by Collier to be part of Sir J. Harington's ' Orlando Furioso.'

Such is the state in which Allot left his book, so far as I have been able to ascertain up to the present, after several months of patient inquiry ; but it may be taken for granted that nearly as many errors will be found when the remaining quotations have been located, because in a great many cases, the passages that have not been traced to their reputed authors must be wrongly assigned. Allot, then, is an untrustworthy guide, whose evidence in questions of authorship must not be accepted, or even, considered, without other warrant of a more certain authority. And certainly his dictum as to Greene being the author of ' The Tragedie of Selimus ' will not stand against the weight of testimony that I have been able elsewhere to adduce in favour of the claim of Christopher Marlowe.

I have not stopped to point out all mis- takes made by Collier, who seems to have- set himself the task of out-alloting Allot in the matter of errors. But Allot's mistakes, are honest mistakes ; whereas many of Collier's look like rank forgeries, designed to make his edition of ' Englands Parnassus. " more saleable, and to invest it with a show of learning to which it is not always entitled.

Note that, with the exception of Campion, no new authors have been added to Allot's. list, save such as one expects to find in the case of works of a miscellaneous character like ' The Mirror for Magistrates ' and: Tottel. Hence, although many quotations remain unidentified, we may conclude that- all or nearly all of them will be found in the- list of writers which I have supplied. But here is a curious case of the exception which is said to prove a rule.

Dealing with Watson at 10 S. x. 183, I mentioned Collier's error in referring the following to the ' Ekatompathia ' :

Sweet Gentlenesse is Bewties waiting-maide. Now Allot, as I have shown, sometimes; modifies quotations to make them suit hii divisions : did he do so here, and carelessly admit the following from John Lyly, whom, he otherwise ignores ?

For Levity is Beauties wayting mayde.

' Woman in the Mooiie,' III., II. , 13 (Bond).

In conclusion, I tender very hearty thanks- to Mr. R. B. McKerrow for placing at my disposal not only his copy of Collier's reprint of ' Englands "Parnassus,' but also other valuable reprints of very rare books, without which I could not have carried through my study of Allot's work. C. CBAWFORD.