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 ii s. i. APR. 16, mo.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, S A T(TK DAY, APRIL 16, 1910.

CONTENTS. No. 16.

NOTES : Prof. Brereton's ' Elizabethan Drama,' 301 Provincial Booksellers, 303 Prebendary H. Barker : W. Huddesford Easter twice in One Year Child telling its own Fate, 305-Oldest Parish Clerk Fountain Pen "Le Ctericalisme, voila 1'ennemi ! "Suffolk Poll-Books, 306 Legend of Rose's Hole, 307.

QUERIES : Poets' Descendants Sword of John II. of France Capt. Jonathan Hill of Londonderry Borrow in the Isle of Man Boswell and Johnson's Tours in the Hebrides, 307 Dethick and Chamberlayne Families "Gerizim," 308 Proposed New Houses of Parliament, 1733 "A majoribus mihi" Bussey Dr. James Major J. Johnson Collompton Vicars Dr. John Maddy " Onocrotalus," a Bird, 309 Phrases attributed to Cole- ridge, 310.

REPLIES : Foster's 'Alumni Cantabrigienses,' 310 R. H. A. Bennet ' Canadian Boat Song,' 311 Notting- ham Earthenware Tombstone, 312 Ecclesiastical Records at Somerset House -D. Camerino Arcangelus, Painter Baltimore and "Old Mortality" Pattersons Ruskin Society Mock Coats of Arms, 313 Congdon's 4 Plymouth Telegraph ' " Guff " ' Prometheus the Firegiver' Ball Family, 314 Beheading in Germany Shakespeare and the Mountjoys General Ireton's Death Making One's Parish Jacobite Song " Mother of Free Parliaments" Alfred and the Cakes, 315 Dr. R. Warren Cuckoos and Ducks to clear Mud Away "Le Whacok " Coffin Chapel Authors Wanted, 316 Chaucer and Boccaccio" Culprit," 317.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Minutes of the General Assembly of the General Baptist Churches ' Skeat's ' Early English Proverbs.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

PROF. BRERETON'S 'ELIZABETHAN DRAMA.'

PROF. J. LE GAY BRERETON'S book (Sydney, W. Brooks & Co., 1909) consists of articles, many of which have been reprinted from various journals, including The Modern Language Review. These articles have, however, in all cases been closely revised and considerably altared.

A few of the papers deal with larger aspects of certain plays or dramatists ; but the majority are devoted to points of textual criticism. In these Prof. Brereton's caution, acuteness, and great knowledge of Eliza- bethan literature stand him in good stead ; and in a vast number of cases he succeeds in defending the reading of an original text against the alterations introduced by editors, or in suggesting an emendation of his own which puts previous attempts out of the field. His work must, therefore, greatly assist future odttors of the authors whom he discusses.

Having thus expressed my sincere admiration for Prof. Brereton's work, I venture to point out certain of his sugges- tions (only a small proportion of the whole) which I cannot entirely accept. If my criticisms have a particle of value, the credit must still be given to Prof. Brereton for having stimulated them.

MARLOWE.

P. 4. 'Jew of Malta,' 51, "Wearying." B. " read ' wearing.' ' Even though " wear- ing his fingers' ends " is the usual expression, may not Marlowe have been led to vary it, especially after using the word " tir'd n in the previous line ?

P. 6. ' Dido,' III. i. 127, " meanly clad. ? '- Dyce "seemly,"- Collier and Cunningham " newly. n B. " Qy. ' manly ' ? ?l Qy. "brau'ly n ?

GREENE.

P. 28. 'James IV.,' 2288, " deuide the warre." This B. defends against Collins' s " divert " (borrowed from Dyce). Qy. " decide " ?

KYD.

P. 39. ' Soliman and Perseda,' I. ii. 89-91. B. treats these lines as verse. But the whole passage from 87 to 91 seems to me to be prose.

P. 43. ' First Part of leronimo,' I. ii. 13. B. would alter this line. But it is a per- fectly good verse if we read " thou wouldst " as " thou 'Idst " : If thou wouldst remaine heere with me, and not go.

P. 46. II. iv. 89-92. I cannot accept B.'s rearrangement of the lines, viz. :

Lay hands on him ; [and] some reare up the

bleeding Body to the light.

P. 48. III. ii. 133-4. Nor of these lines : Well, my Lord, to you a while I tender My whole prisoner. Lor. Horatio,

even though I am told that "there is a strong stress on the word my which forms the first foot.' 1

CHAPMAN (3 vols, 1873).

P. 57. ' Charles, Duke of Byron,' II. 256. B. defends " winde " against the emendation " minde " on the strength of another passage in ' The Widdowes Teares ' where I think " windes n should similarly be " mindes.' 1

P. 58. ' May Day,' II. 386, " tame your bald hewed tongue." B. suggests " gall- dew'd.' 1 I would again advance a suggestion I have made before, "bald [or "bold"], lewd. n