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CONTENTS.-NO. 207.

NOTES : Lyly, Greene, and Shakespeare, 461 Dr. John son's Ancestors, 462 Highways repaired at Hampstead. 464 "Hackney" Beerbrewing and Brickmaking Fan shawe Memoirs Welsh Magazines Right to bear Anns, 465 Bethlehem Hospital : Outfit of Inmates Wordsworth and Browning Church Properties, 466 ' ' Cloisterer " Paston Family Old Pulpits " Anf rac tuosity " Capt. Cuttle, 467.

QUERIES : 'Kinordine,' Irish Song John Bunyan's Will, 46S Jacob and Matthew Unwin Engravings after Hoppner The Treaty of Tilsit English Pulpits Robert Stratford Byron Copenhagen Expedition, 1807, 469 Canon Creighton of Wells Oliver East Scottish Pro verb Waliva in Cumberland Capt. W codes Rogers, 470.

REPLIES : Beauchamp of Somersetshire, 471 Sir James Burrough Amndel Castle Legend ' ' Peccavi " Un- roofed Railway Carriages, 473 Racial Problem of Europe "Nitor in adversum" Norman Court, Hampshire- London Queries Death of the Oldest Photographer, 474 " Jag "Authors of Quotations Wanted Earliest British Music Publisher Elder-Bush Folk-lore Book- stealing, 475 Krapina Sudlow Family London Re- mains, 476 Poll-Books " Sham Abraham "Anderson Family, 477 No. 7, Fleet Street " Slink ": "Slinking 1 Welsh Heraldry The Eleventh Commandment Jamaica Records, 478.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries' Macaulay's Marginal Notes Drayton's Minor Poems 'The Wrong Box' 'The National Review ' ' The Burlington Magazine.'

OBITUARY : Alexander Smith.

Notices to Correspondents.

LYLY, GREENE, AND SHAKESPEARE.

THE first passages given below show that Greene in his ' Pandosto ' borrowed un- scrupulously from Lyly's ' Campaspe.'

The second passages may perhaps be added to those given by MK. H. CHICHESTEB HART in the Fourth volume of the present Series to show that Greene in the same story borrowed from Lyly's ' Euphues.' I append the corre- sponding passage of ' The Winter's Tale,' because, though it is probable that Shake- speare had only Greene's story before him, in some expressions Shakespeare comes nearer to the ' Euphues ' passage than does Greene. I may remark by the way that the editor of " Shakespeare's Library," while stating (iv. p. 12) that Malone saw in Shakespeare's lines an almost literal tran- scription from Greene, makes light of the resemblance of the passages, owing to not having found the passage in ' Pandosto ' to which Malone referred, and supposing that another one was meant.

> ' Campaspe ' (Lyly's ' Works,' ed. Bond, ii.

330).

" But you loue, ah grief e ! but whom ? Campaspe, ah shame ! a maide forsooth vnknowne, vnnoble and who can tell whether immodest ! whose eies are framed by arte to iuamour, and whose heart was made by nature to inchaunt. I, but she is beautiful : yea, but not therefore chast : I, but she is comely in al parts of the body : yea, but she may

be crooked in some part of the mind You

Alexander that would be a God, shew your selfe in this worse then a man, so soone to be both ouerseene and ouertake in a woma, whose false teares know their true times, whose smooth words wound deeper then sharpe swordes."

Greene, ' Pandosto ' (" Shakespeare's Library," iv. 75.)

' Doth Pandosto then love ? Yea : whome ? A

maide unknowne, yea, and perhapps immodest

beautiful but not therefore chast : comely in bodie, but perhappes crooked in mind. Cease then Pandosto to looke at Fawnia, much lesse to love her : be not overtaken with a woman's beauty whose eyes are framed by arte to inamour, whose hearte is framed by nature to inchaunt, whose false teares knowe their true times, and whose sweete wordes pearce deeper then sharpe swordes."

Lyly, 'Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit' (Lyly's

' Works,' ed. Bond, i. 236).

" Loue knoweth no lawes : Did not Jupiter trans- forme himselfe into the shape of Ampitrio to em- brace Alcmaena ? Into the forme of a Swan to enjoy Laeda ? Into a Bull to beguyle lo ? Into a showre of gold to whine Danae ? Did not Neptune change himselfe into a Heyfer, a Ramme, a Floude, a Dolphin, onelye for the love of those he lusted after ? Did not Apollo converte himselfe into aShepheard, into a Birde, into a Lyon, for the desire he had to lieale hys disease ? If the Gods thoughte no scorne to become beastes, to obtayne their best beloued, shall Euphues be so nyce in chaunging his coppie to gayne his Lady ? No, no : he that cannot dissemble in loue, is not worthy to line."

Greene, 'Pandosto' (" Shakespeare's Library," iv. 62).

"And yet Dorastus shame not at thy shepheards weede ; the heavenly gods have sometime earthly though tes : Neptune became a ram ; Jupiter a Bui, Apollo a shepheard ; they Gods, and yet in love : and thou a man appointed to love."

Shakespeare, ' Winter's Tale,' IV. iv. 7.

Per. Your high self,

The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,

Most goddess-like prank d up

Even now I tremble

To think your father

Should pass this way

ffpw would he look to see his work so noble Vilely bound up?

Flor. Apprehend

Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves, Humbling their deities to love, have taken The shapes of beasts upon them; Jupiter Became a bull, and bellow'd : the green Neptune A ram, and bleated : and the fire-robed god, Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain As I seem now.

G. C. MOOBE SMITH.

The University, Sheffield.