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. iv. OCT. 14,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 303 we must be incontinent that we may be continent, burning is quenched by fire."—P. 436, col. 2. Absentem marmoreamque putes. Martial, xi. 60. Here again Marston and Montaigne cite the same passage, the latter in p. 449, col. 1, and the former m 1.145. Malhetireux. To kill my friend! 0 'tis to kill myself! Yet man "a but man's excrement—man breeding man As he does worms ; or this, to spoil this nothing. [He spits. 1 The Dutch Courtezan,' II. ii. 213-15. Mr. K. Deighton thinks that the reading of this passage should be :— Yet man's but excrement—man breeding man, As he does worms, or this [He spits], to spoil this nothing. ' The Old Dramatists, Conjectural Readings,' p. 7. I agree with the emendation, which is sup- ported by tha passage which Marston copied: There have Philosophers beene found disdaining this natural! conjunction: witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought his children, as proceeding from his loyns, began to spit, saying, That also that excrement proceeded from him, and that also we engendred wornies and lice.—Book i. chap, xxvii. p. 84, col. 1. Montaigne declares that the affection be- tween man and woman is not to be compared with the real friendship that sometimes exists between man and man ; the former " languisheth and vanisheth away: enjoying doth lose it, as having a corporall end, and subject to satietie."—Book i. chap, xxvii. p. 81, col. 2. Malheureux. to kill a friend To gain a woman ! to lose a virtuous self For appetite and sensual end, whose very having Losetn all appetite, and gives satiety! That corporal end, &c. 1 The Dutch Courtezan,' II. ii. 221-5. Montaigne and Marston are both very out- spoken, they call a spade a spade ; but the Frenchman is more refined in his speech than his imitator, who—to use a pet phrase of his own—is " gross-jawed ":— 2fon pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire. Let us not bee ashamed to speake what we shame not to thinke For my part I am resolved to dare speake whatsoever I dare do.—Book iii. chap. v. p. 429, col. 2. Beatrice. Fie, Crispinella, you speak too broad. Crisp. u jot, sister; let s ne'er be ashamed to speak what we be not ashamed to think : I dare as boldly speak venery as think venery.—' The Dutch Courtezan,1 III. i. 26-9. Why was the acte of generation made so natural!, so necessary and so just, seeing we feare to speake of it without shame, and exclude it from our serious and regular discourses; we pronounce to rob. to murtber, to betray: and this we dare not but be- tweene our teeth.—Book iii. chap. v. p. 431, col. 1. Crispinella. Now bashfulness seize you, we pro- nounce boldly, robbery, murder, treason, which deeds must needs be far more loathsome than an act which is so natural, just, and necessary, as that of procreation; you shall have an hypocritical vestal virgin speak that with close teeth publicly, which she will receive with open mouth privately • &c.—'The Dutch Courtezan,'III. i. The worst of my actions or condicions seeme not so ugly unto me as I finde it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch them. Every one is wary in the confession ; we should be as heady in the action.— Book iii. chap. v. p. 429, col. 2. Crispinella. I give thoughts words, and words truth, and truth boldness; she whose honest free- ness makes it her virtue to speak what she thinks will make it her necessity to think what is good.— ' The Dutch Courtezan,' III. i. 39-42. Is it not herein as in matters of books, which being once called in and forbidden, become more saleable and publik?—Book iii. chap. v. p. 431, col. 1. Crispinella. I love no prohibited things, and yet I would have nothing prohibited by policy, but by virtue; for as in the fashion of time those books that are call'd in are most in sale and request, so in nature those actions that are most prohibited are most desired.—' The Dutch Courtezan,' III. i. 42-7. I love a lightsome and civil discretion, and loathe a roughnes and austerity of behaviour Socrates had a constant countenance, but lightsome and smyling: not frowardly constant, as old Crassus, who was never scene to laugh. Vertue is a pleasant and buxom quality.—Book iii. chap. v. page 429, col. 2. Crispinella. Fie, fie! virtue is a free, pleasant, buxom quality. I love a constant countenance well; but this froward ignorant coyness, sour austere lumpish uncivil privateness, that promises nothing but rough skins and hard stools ; ha! fie on't, good for nothing but for nothing.—' The Dutch Courtezan,' III. i. 51-6. Crisp. Virtuous marriage! there is no more affinity betwixt virtue and marriage than betwixt a man and his horse; &c.—'The Dutch Courtezan,' III. i. 88-90. Those who thinke to honour marriage by joyning love unto it (in mine opinion) doe as those who, to- doe veil in- a favour, holde that nobilitie is no other thing then vertue. Indeed, these things have affimtie, but therewithal! great difference; their names and titles should not thus be commixt; both are wronged so to be confounded.—Book iii. chap. v. p. 432, col. 1. See also 'The Fawn,' III. i. 212, where Marston says that " love or virtue are not of the essence of marriage." CHARLES CRAWFORD. (To be continued.) A PRIVATE LIBRARY c. CHARLES I. THE following list of books occurs in an inventory of the goods of Edward Russell, Esq., " late clerk of his Majesties Accatery," dated 23 October, 1639, among the records of the Court of Bequests :—