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 302 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. OCT. 14,1905. 12 preliminary leaves, exclusive of the frontis- piece, and 96 leaves of text, aggregating 108 leaves. The blank leaves noted in the colla- tion are G5 and Hi. The following pages are misnumbered, the correct figures being given in brackets: [99], 299; [102], 202 ; [103], 203 ; [106], 206 ; [107], 207 ; [110], 210; [111], 211. Perfect copies of 'Amanda' are of great rarity,* and even that in the British Museum lacks the half-title, and is in generally poor condition, the frontispiece turning its back upon the title-page, instead of facing it. This half-title has the word "Amanda" printed vertically upon it, the type, with a comma after the name, being the same setting as that of the name on the title-page. The frontis- piece is said by a former possessor of my copy to be " the chef-d'oeuvre of Faithorne, the best engraver of his day." Copies either •without the half-title or the frontispiece, or the blank leaves G5 and Hi, are not in- frequently met with ; and the last perfect copy which contained all these desiderata that I can trace in the sales realized 3~l. at Sotheby's on 17 May, 1901 (lot 311), and has probably gone to America. An excellent account of 'Amanda' was given in the New York Philobiblion, 1863, ii, 87, 105. Though the literary interest of the book is small, Hookes was a reader of Shakespeare, and several faint echoes of the great dramatist were pointed out by E. E. at the last reference that I have cited at the head of this note. Hookes draws his allu- sions from the most recondite quarters, and I will conclude with a passage that might give some trouble to a conscientious editor : We have good Munich and Musicians here, If not the best, as good as any where : A brave old Irish Harper, and you know English or French way few or none out-go Our Lutanists; the Lusemores too I think For Organists, the Sack-bids breath may stink, And yet old Broimes be sweet, o' th Violin Saunders plays well, where Magge or Mel han't been. Then on his Cornet brave thanksgiving Mun, Playes on Kings Chappel after Sermon's done: At those land blasts, though he's out-gone by none, Yet Cambridge glories in your self alone: No more but thus, he that heares only you, Heares Lillie play, and Doctor Coleman too. These lines are from a poem addressed to "Mr. Lilly, Musick-Master at Cambridge." Dr. Charles Coleman is commemorated in the • Diet. Nat. Biog.,' as well as Davis Mell; and doubtless Saunders, Magge, and Mun are not forgotten in musical circles at the University. W. F. PRIDEAUX. Dyce Library at South Kensington. MONTAIGNE, WEBSTER, AND MARSTON: DR. DONNE AND WEBSTER. (See ante, pp. 41, 121, 201.) THE parallels in Montaigne and Marston are so numerous and so close that I find it will save time and labour to students if I record them as they occur in Marston's work. Only close or interesting coincidences in the two authors will be noticed, and those that have already been dealt with will, of course, be excluded from this list, which is far from being complete. Several of Montaigne's quotations from Latin and other authors are used by Marston and Webster:— Afalheureux. 0 mixeri quorum gandia crimen habent.—' The Dutch Courtezan,' II. i. 82. This sentence occurs in the ' Essays,' book iii. chap. v. p. 448, col. 1, the reference beine to Cor. ' Gal. El.,' I. 183. We can confidently assume that Marston did not consult the original in the above case ; and it is still more unlikely that he went to St. Jerome for the following, which Montaigne cites in the same chapter, p. 438, col. 2 :— Diaboli virtus in lumbis eat!—* The Dutch Cour- tezan,' II. i. 92. Now, this quotation from St. Jerome comes immediately after matter in Montaigne that Marston has copied literally in ' The Fawn,' III. i. 227-36, as will appear in the proper place. Following the saying of St. Jerome is the question of Malheureux as to whether or not a wise man may be in love; and then we come to Freevill's saying about living upon the smoke of roast-meat. As I have shown already, both passages copy Montaigne, still the same chapter :— Freevill. No matter, sir; insufficiency and sottish- ness are much commendable in a most discommend- able action.—LI. 115-17. Literally from Montaigne, same book and chapter:— And yet if I were to beginne anew, it should bee by the very same path and progresse, how fruitlesse soever it might proove unto me, insufficiency and sottishnesse are commendable in a discommendable action.—P. 453, col. 2. Montaigne says that love "is a matter everywhere infused, and a centre whereto all lines come, all things looke."—P. 436, col. 1. Freevill. Love is the centre in which all lines close, the common bond of being.—LI. 121-2. Freevill. Incontinence will force a continence ; Heat wasteth heat, light defaceth light, &c. XI. 126-7. JYimJrtim propter continentiam incontinentia nectt- taria ett, incendittm ignibva extinyuitnr: "Belike
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