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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. v. APRIL 21, 1906.

" Contrarie to other Princes, who to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close- stoole their regall Throne or Council-Chamber, [he]

would not permit any groome of his chamber

(were hee never so neere about him) to see him in his inner chamber, &c. Book i. chap. iii. p. 7, col. 1.

Xympliadoro. Thou art private with the duke ; thou belongest to his close-stool. ' The Fawn, I. ii. 46-7.

The most common and soundest part of men holdeth multitude of children to be a signe of great happinesse and comfort ; So do I, and many others, the want of them. Book. i. chap. xl. p. 123, col. 2.

Hercules. Oh ! 'tis a blessed assurance of Heaven's favour, and long-lasting name, to have many children.

Sir Amoroso. But I ha' none, Fawn, now.

Hercules. O that's most excellent aright special happiness. * The Fawn,' 11. i. 132-7.

A misprint, which even Mr. Bullen has not attempted to correct, occurs in the following passage, where " brued " should read either " bound " or "glued," the former word being probably the more correct. The phrasing in Marston is palpably an imitation of Florio, as the following will show :

Hercules. There's some weakness in your brother you wrinkle at thus; come, prithee, impart ; what ? we are mutually incorporated, turn'd one into another, brued [sic] together. * The Fawn,' II. i. 176 9.

In the amitie I speake, they entermixe and con- found themselves one in the other, with so universall a commixture, that they weare out and can no more finde the seame that hath conjoined

them together And at our first meeting, which

was by chance at a great feast, and solemne meeting of a whole towneship, we found our selves so surprized, so knowne, so acquainted, and so com\)ined\y bound together, that from thence forward, nothing was so neer unto us as one unto anothers. Book i. chap, xxvii. pp. 85-6.

That is to say, let the rest be our owne ; yet not so combined and glued together that it may not be sundred without fleaing us, &c. Book i. chap, xxxviii. p. Ill, col.l.

No eminent or glorious vertue can be with- out some immoderate and irregular agitation

Dares not Philosophic thinke that men produce their greatest effects, and neerest approaching to divinity when they are besides themselves, furious,

and madde? The two naturall waies to enter

the cabinet of the Gods, and there to foresee the course .of the destinies, are furie and sleepe. Book ii. chap. xii. p. 290, col. 2.

Hercules. Vice may be cured, for now beside

myself,

Possess'd with almost frenzy, from strong fervour I know I shall produce things mere divine : Without immoderate heat, no virtues shine. For I speak strong, tho' strange, the dews that

Our souls in deepest thoughts are fury and sleep. ' The Fawn,' II. i. 605-10.

Act III. sc. i. 11. 183-6, re keeping counsel ; and 11. 212-13, which declare that love or virtue is not of the essence of marriage, have already been dealt with, at 10 th S. iv. p. 122, col. 2, and p. 303, col. 2, respectively.

There is no point of doing more thorny nor more active then this of not doing. I finde it easier to bear all ones life a combersome armour on his backe then a maiden - head. And the vow of virginity is the noblest of all vowes, because the hardest. Book iii. chap. v. p. 438, col. 2.

Dulcimel. First, for the virtue of magnanimity, I am very valiant, for there is no heroic action so particularly noble and glorious to our sex, as not to fall to action ; the greatest deed we can do is not to do (look that nobody listen). Then am I full of patience, and can bear more than a sumpter- horse ; for (to speak sensibly), what burthen is there so heavy to a porter's back as virginity to a well-complexioned young lady's thoughts? (Look no body hearken.) By this hand the noblest vow is that of virginity, because the hardest. "The Fawn ' III. i. 227-36.

CHARLES CRAWFORD. (To be continued.)

LOVE LANE.

STOW says of this ancient thoroughfare: " Then againe out of Thames streete, by the west end of Saint Mary hill Church, runneth up one other Lane, of old time called Roape Lane, since called Lucas lane, of one Lucas owner of some part thereof, and now corruptly called Loue Lane, it runneth up by the east end of a parish church of saint Andrew Hubbert, or Saint Andrew in East Cheape : This Church and all the whole Lane called Lucas lane is of this Belinesgate Warde." ' Survey,' ed. 1603, p. 211.

Stow's statement about the ancient name of the lane is confirmed by the will of Mar- garet, relict of Sir William Wai worth, dated 12 January, 1393, in which mention is made of Love Lane, formerly called "Roppelane," near Billingsgate. Roger Kelsey, draper, whose will is dated 26 March, 1455, left tenements near the lane formerly called '* Roperelane," and afterwards called Love Lane, in the parish of St. Mary atte Hill, for the maintenance of the Guild of St. Anne (Sharpe's * Calendar of Husting Wills,' ii. 311, 536). But I cannot find that any person of the name of Lucas was connected with this locality, and I have a strong suspicion that Love Lane was " corruptly called " after John Lovekyn, who, as we know from his will, was possessed of considerable property in tiie parish of St. Mary at Hill.*

Lovekyn was a " s tok flash monger," or wholesale dealer in salted and dried cod-fish,

Luckyn, and Lukins, which might easily be con- verted into Lucas.
 * Lovekyn was afterwards contracted into Lukyn,