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the poein being included in Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' In Dalbiac's ' Dictionary of Quo- tations,' however, the first verse of it is given, and exactly in the form that is used by Byrd. WALTER B. KINGSFORD.

United University Club.

MR. HOLYOAKE'S reading is supported by Percy's * Reliques,' in which, in the edition I have seen, no varice lectiones are noted. Pal- grave's * Golden Treasury ' does not in my copy, at least contain the poem, but the text to which objection is taken is to be found in 'Lyrical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria' (Chapman & Hall, 1896).

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. The poem referred to by MR. HOLYOAKE is in Percy's ' Reliques,' and consists of eleven stanzas. In the original edition, published by Dodsley in 1765, the first verse runs : My minde to me a kingdome is ; Such perfect joye therein I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse, That world affords or growes by kinde. * Though much I want that most men have, Yet doth my mind forbid me crave.

The poem is stated to be printed from two ancient copies, one of them in black letter in the Pepys Collection thus inscribed : " A sweet and pleasant sonet entituled My minde to me a kingdome is."

In the edition published by Messrs Sonnen- schein in 1887, and edited by Mr. H. B. Wheatley, the first verse is as follows : My minde to me a kingdome is ; Such perfect joye therin I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse, That God or Nature hath assignde : Though much I want, that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. The poem is here chiefly printed from a thin quarto music book entitled "Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs of sadnes and pietie made into music of five parts, &c. By William Byrd, one of the Gent, of the Queenes Majesties honorable Chappell " (date probably about 1588). E. PALMER.

Brighton.

This poem of eleven stanzas appeared in the old Saturday Magazine many years ago. My copy clipped therefrom does not, I am sorry to say, bear any date, but I believe it would be about ten years previous to 1847, the date of its quotation by MR. HOLYOAKE. The first four lines are identical with your correspondent's version. At the head of the poem is printed the following :

"This celebrated song is printed in several col- lections of Poems published in the sixteenth cen- tury. There are many variations in each of the


 * Bestowed by nature.

copies. The following version is that given by Ritson in his ' English Songs,' with the exception of the last stanza, which is from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. In that manuscript the Poem is ascribed to Sir Edward Dyer, a friend of Sir Philip Sydney."

JOHN T. PAGE.

V\ est Haddon, Northamptonshire.

It appears that MR. HOLYOAKE, in 184T, quoted Sir Edward Dyer's stanza under the form in which it appears in Byrd's * Psalmes, Sonets,' <fec., 1588. The alternative form- under which it is given by Henry Morley in Cassell's "Library of English Literature" ('Shorter English Poems') is that which Archdeacon Hannah printed in his volume of selections entitled 'The Courtly Poets/ According to Bartlett ('Familiar Quotations, 7 1890, p. 8) the stanza in this latter shape is found in MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17.

11. A. POTTS.

NAME FOR A UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB (10 th S. i. 489). Why not the Aim* Matres ? I can foresee that they will be known as the MAs ; and, if their house is near Piccadilly, as the Parcse. I should not be surprised if they were called dvdpioirai.

HOMO CCELEBS.

Would not the Minerva be a suitable name for the club in question 1 The name of the third great divinity of the Romans contains, it is thought, the same root as mens ; and she is, accordingly, the thinking power personi- fied. J. H OLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

How would "Nidus loquax" do? See Virgil, *7En.,' xii. 475; but the phrase is perhaps "less polite than just "in its appli- cation to a club for women. TvvaiKovofj.ia = the office of Gunaikonomos, a magistrate whose duty was to maintain good manners among women, may be a more acceptable suggestion. J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

4 CHILDREN OF THE CHAPEL' (10 th S. i. 407, 458). A copy of this tract, supposed to be unique, was formerly in the possession of Bishop Tanner, but does not appear to have come to the Bodleian Library in 1736 with the rest of his books ('Annals of the Bodl. Libr.,' 1890, p. 212n.). W. D. MACRAY.

ROPEMAKERS' ALLEY CHAPEL, LlTTLE

MOORFIELDS (10 th S. i. 466). " Madame Elen Fleetwood " was the second wife and widow of Smith Fleetwood, of Armingland Hall, co. Norfolk, son of General Charles Fleetwood (Cromwell's son-in-law) by his first marriage. Her will, dated 30 May, 1727, was proved 24 July, 1731, by William Stiles, the execu- tor (P.C.C. Isham, 180). She mentions her son Charles (who predeceased her), and