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NOTES The Newly Discovered Quarto of 'Titus Andro- nicus '141 Heriot, H2-FatherPaulSarpi, 144-Cbaucer s Father "Lead "=Language Lincolnshire Saying "Bunt " 145-Tsarskoe Selo : its Pronunciation "Tzar, not "Czar "-Q in the ' H.B.D.'-Vice-Chamberlain Coke "Tandem "Benjamin Gooch, 146.

OUERIES -.Permission Cap Lord De Tabley and ' X. & Q.' Constables or Governors of Stirling Castle-Wilkes s Parlour Cardinal Newman or Another? 147 Authors ot Quotations Wanted Lord Mayors Straw - Plaiting Burns's Letters to George Thomson Scottish Naval and Military Academy Fishmongers' Company and the German. Emperor-The Essay-P. d'Urte's 'Genesis m Baskish, 148 Irish Potato Kings Mair and Burnet Families Autiiiuity of Japan, 149.

REPLIES :-" Lamb" in Place-names, 149 -Split Infinitive, 150 Bibliographical Notes on Dickens and Thackeray- Patents of Precedence, 151 "Tourmaline" " Wassail Goldsmith's ' Edwin and Angelina' Con- Contraction, 152-Conditions of Sale-Copying Press Flaying Alive Edmond and Edward Motor Index Marks Antiquary . Antiquarian, 153 Font Consecration Bankrupts in 1708-9 Hour of Sunset at Washington Travels in China- Hamlet Watting Heraldic "Hand," 154 Bacon or Usher? Besant Bringing in the Yule "Clog," 155 "Cut the loss" H in Cockney Prescriptions "The Nakel Boy and Coffin," 155 Joseph Wilfred Parkins- Kant's Descent- John Hcton, 157 " Carentinilla," 158.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Tilley'a 'Literature of the French Renaissance ' ' Early Scottish Charters 'Butler's ' Hudi- bras ' ' Popular Ballads of the Olden Time 'Coleridge's Table Talk and Omuiana ' ' The Edinburgh.'

Notices to Correspondents.

THE NEWLY DISCOVERED QUARTO (1594)

OF 'TITUS ANDRON1CUS.' THE following notes, I may say by way of preface, have the approval of Dr. Richard Garnett, to whose high authority I submitted them before sending them to 'X. & Q.' At the time when he wrote on the subject in the he was inclined to limit Shakespeare's inter- ference with the play to the fifth act, but he Eermits me to say that the passages adduced y me make it probable, in his judgment, that traces of Shakespeare's hand may be found in other parts of the play as well.
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I daresay that many of the parallels which I quote have been already pointed out ; but I have found them independently, and adduce them now with a special intention. And it will be noted that I quote almost entirely from plays attributed, with great probability, to dates approximating to 1594, when a certain set of thoughts, turns of phrase, &c., might be in Shakespeare's mind, and ready to appear in work he was engaged upon about that date. For my drift is this. If these passages are not in the newly found quarto, then Shakespeare's part in ' Titus Andronicus' took place between 1594 and

1598, the date of the well-known attribution of the play to Shakespeare by Meres in Palladis Tamia.' And if they are, the inference is that Shakespeare had something to do with the play in or before 1594. As Shakespearian students will anticipate, his name does not appear on this quarto. Of this Messrs. Sotheran, out of whose hands it has already passed, are able to assure me. I may add that they will transmit these notes of mine to the purchaser of the quarto, a careful inspection of which is much to be desired in the interest of scholars. This will be admitted by all who think with me that the places in the play which I here cite are almost beyond question Shakespeare's. In the conjectural dates of first writing or production of other plays I follow Prof. Dowden. (a) 'Tit. And.,' II. i. 82 <?. :

She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ;

She is a woman, therefore may be won ;

She is Lavinia, therefore must be lov'd.

'1 Henry VI.,' V. iii. 77-8 (conj. date 1590-1):

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo She is a woman, therefore to be won.

That both these passages are Shakespeare's is probable from their resemblance to lines in Sonnet xli., of course Shakespeare's beyond question :

Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won ;

Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed.

(6) 'T. A.,' III. ii. ad in. : Marcus, uuknit that sorrow-wreathen knot-

' Taming of the Shrew,' Y. ii. 136 :

Fie, fie ! uuknit that threatening unkind brow.

There is a difficulty which I cannot solve ! connected with this passage of the ' Taming, 'Taming' is so. The Cambridge editors do not reprint the quarto of 1594, the old 'Taming/ on the ground that Shakespeare had nothing whatever to do with it. Yet they record various readings from this same quarto in this speech of Katharine's ; and for anything: they tell us it may be substantially the same as the text of the folios here. If so, it is probable that Shakespeare had something to do with the 1594 Quarto of the 'Taming'; and I am much inclined to Craik's opinion that the 'Love's Labour's Won,' mentioned by Meres in 1598, is Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew ' under an alias. The coincidence in date between the newly found 'Titus Andronicus' and this early quarto seems to me to be of significance.
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(c) 'T. A.,' III. ii. ad Jin.:

Titus. Come, take away. Lavinia, come with me I'll to thy closet ; and go read with thee Sad stories, chanced in the times of old.