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 io» s. iv. DEC. 16. iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 485 These numerous typographical differences, combined with some variations in the setting of the text, show clearly, I think, that the type was recomposed. There was also an alteration in another poem, which Dr. Qrosart has not noticed, but which was important enough to necessitate the resetting of the two pages 29 (misprinted 28) and 30. In the original issue the third stanza of the poem headed ' Kissing Usurie' runs:— He must of right, To ili' utmost mite, Make payment for his pleasure : By this, I guesse, Of happinesse Who has a little measure. In the revised issue the two tercets of this stanza are transposed, as under :— By this I guesse, Of happinesse Who haa a little measure: He must of right. To th" utmost mite, Make payment for his pleasure. Dr. Grosart, in his edition of Herrick, prefers the version of issue A, of which he states he possessed a copy : but Lord Dundrennan, Mr. Pollard, and other editors have printed the lines as they appeared in issue B, which is obviously that which obtained the revision of the author. _Other variations on these two pages con- vince me that they were also reprinted from a new setting. In the title and first line of the poem ' To Dean-bourn ' we find the name printed " Dean-Bourn" in issue A, and " Dean-bourn " in issue B. The second line runs:— (A) Deane, or thy watry incivility. (B) De.ane, or thy warty incivility. The odd misprint " warty " was copied by Lord Dundrennan in his edition of Herrick, and is a curious instance of devotion to textual accuracy. There is a variation in 1. 9 of this poem :— (A) 0 men, 0 manners ; There, and ever knowne (B) O men, O manners ; Now, and ever knowne as well as several differences in spelling, in this as in other poems printed on the two pages. In the poem 'To Julia' 1. 9 of A correctly runs :— Between thy Breasts (then Doune of Swans more white) which in B is misprinted Between thy Breast (then Doune of Swans more white) The arrangement of the lines in the poem 'To Laurels' varies considerably in the two issues. The probability is that after a considerable- number of copies of issue A had been printed- off, and the type had been distributed, Herrick or his editor had these two leaves reprinted and inserted in those copies which remained in the publisher's hands, the original leaves being cancelled. This view is con- firmed by the fact that I have in my pos- session a copy of issue A with the substituted leaves pasted in at the end. The copy is slightly imperfect, and has lost the title and two or three other pages; but these defects are compensated for by an inscription written upside-down on the end fly-leaf, which is partly obliterated, but seems to read : "For my Kynd and Loving Cornell Will0* Hearick." The missing word is lost through the corner of the leaf being torn off; but if it should read " cousin," the book may possibly be a presentation copy to William, the eldest son of the uncle, Sir William Herrick, M.P: for Leicester, who was the constant recipient of his nephew Robin's appealing letters. In conclusion, I may state that it would' perhaps be convenient if auctioneers and booksellers were to state in their catalogues whether advertised copies of the 'Hesperides1' belong to the first or second issue of the book. Which of the two issues is the rarer I am unable to say. Mr. Grosart says that most of the copies which he had examined belonged to issue B, although his own was issue A. I have another fine copy of issue A. which an old correspondent or ' N. & Q.,'' MR. ROBERT ROBERTS, of Boston, transferred to me about twenty years ago, on the occa- sion of his securing a copy which he con- sidered a better one, and which was doubt- less that which formerly belonged to the Earl of Westmorland, and was sold at Sotheby's on 25 March last for "751. W. F. PRIDEAUX. ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS. (See ante, pp. 1, 81, 162, 224.) BEFORE treating of Greene's non-romantic prose I should fike to point out that an earlier writer than Sidney made immediate use of ' Euphues.' Lyly's work was published in the spring of 1579. In August of the same year Stephen Gosson's 'Schoole of Abuse' appeared, dedicated to Sidney. Gosson, himself a play writer, wrote against a?s, and was immediately answered by ge. But Gosson's tract, though of little argumentative power, is witty, learned, and full of interest. He culls freely, especially in the earlier part, from 'Euphues, the Anatomie of Wit1—for Lyly's second part ('Euphuesa"'1'