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favour? There was a ballad on it. "I be gan to gather into him gently" (45) = urge him. " Palpable ass " (46). " Penman " (46) "Ale-knight "(46). "Braines beaten to the yarking up of ballads" (49) = experienced in " The old Cole hath such quirkes and quid dities " (53) = old rip. " Dead stuff" (53) = un marketable. "Shoots out in the lash " (53) = runsriot? "Your mashippe"(54, 69, &c.). "Pveaching wit" (58). "If there were a dormer built to it " (59). "His bloody lugges ' (62) = bleeding ears, Scotch earlier. "Hopper [of mill with] false hole" (66); this is in 'Quip' (xi. 282), but not elsewhere. "Ale- wife unless she nick her pots "(68), a vint- ner's cheat. " The chalk must walk " (68)= score up a bill. " Ostry faggots " (68) scamped fuel. This is in 'Quip' (275), and a good deal of the vintger's cheats (69) is developed there to greater length (278-9).

"Butcher with his prickes puffe up his

meate" (69), repeated in 'Quip' (274). "Draper his darke shop to shadow the dye and wooll of his cloth" (69), repeated in ' Quip ' (277). " One of the Pantry " (70, 71). " Cosmographize " (72). " Mustachies after

the lash of Lions peak pendent" (72),

repeated, with much of this description of a fashionable gallant, in 'Quip' (247). "Madril," "Alcaires," and "Terra firma " (73) : the earliest example of last, perhaps. "He pronqunst his words like a bragout" (80), this pipned [?] bragout" (74); no other examples in 'N.E.D.' "Alia Neapolitano" (74), "All' espagnole" (72), "Alia revolto" (76), "Alia mode de France" (72), "Alia boone voyage" (27). "Pilling and polling" (76). " Lock worn at left ear " (76). " Mag- nifico " (77, 99). " They stand upom circum- stances" (79). "A kind of scholastical

paragon " (80). "Past, As in proesenti as

far as Carmen heroicum" (80). " Held up his head like a Malt horse" (80). "At the boordes end " (83). " The Poligamoi or bel- swaggers of the country " (85). " The Vene- tian and the gallogascaine is stale, and trunk slop out of use," &c. (95). " Italian wing"

(95), tailoring. " Fight in Mile-end under

Duke of Shoreditch " (95). "To use the figure Pleonasmos Hisce ocu/is" (96), the tailoring coney-catching is hardly repeated in the 'Quip,' which follows there another source more closely. " Hell under tailors shop- board " (96), 240 in 'Quip.' "Snip and Snap "(96). "Divel lookte over Lyncolne" (97). "Richest billiment lace " (97). " French

pamde house" (97). "This Glorioso this

bowical huffe snuffe" (98).

The above list, which might be extended with law terms and cozening words, contains

a number of terms which are not known- earlier, and several that are not known else- where. None of them occurs in Greene's works except those few that are transferred' from this tract to Greene's 'Quip for an- Upstart Courtier.' Without the negative evidence that none of the "Greeneisms" appears here, I think it amounts to proof that the tract was by another hand ; but that Greene made use of it in his ' Quip ' is obvious. It is well known that this tract is borrowed by Greene in idea, in structural 1 characteristics, and sometimes in language from ' The Debate between Pride and Lowli- ness ' (1569). But the latter is a very tedious poem, whereas Greene's prose is full of wit and living interest, one of the best things he- wrote. As was his way, Greene makes no- acknowledgment in his dedications (there are two) of his obligations. But, as Collier says in his introduction to the earlier tract (Shaks. Soc., 1841), "he stole the whole sub- stance of it and put it into prose." And we- may be thankful to him for doing so, and remember also that acknowledgments of this- kind in Greene's time, and in later times, were hardly dreamt of. Collier goes on to- say that the beginning, middle, and end of the 'Debate' and of Greene's 'Quip' corre- spond very closely ; and he calls attention to- the fact that Harvey in his attacks upon Greene has not made abundant use of this- offence against him. I find a passage in Harvey which, oddly enough, would show that he did not know of the * Debate,' and indicates that he himself was the suggester of the ' Quip.' It is in his reply to Lyly, written in 1589 (Grosart's * Harvey,' ii. 187) ; " Witt might devise a pleasurable Dialogue betwixt the Leather Pilch and the Velvet coate ; and helpe to persuade the better to deale neighbourly with the other ; the other to content himselfe with his owne calling." In Lyly's tract ('Pappe with an Hatchet/ 1588-9) it is agreeable to see what excellent, vigorous, and amusing English that writer could make use of when he chose to lay down bis mantle of Euphuism that fashion enforced him to adhere to. It is the most readable of the Martinist series, outside Nashe. As a final word on Euphuism I would refer to Furness's excellent study of it his introduction to ' Love's Labour's Lost,' 1904, Variorum Shakespeare, which "las just reached me. H. C. HART.

(To be continued.)

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. I was greatly nterested in reading a note by Col. Prideaux on ' Auctioneers' Catalogues ' in The Pub-