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' worthless " should apparently be " worth - less't,"

P. 130. I. p. 152, "Nor will I do : obey your warrant." Qy. read " Nor will I disobey your warrant." "Warrant" is probably monosyllabic. The metre of the context is irregular.

P. 130. I. p. 166 :

the tide Of short disturbance running through the land.

For " short " Deighton suggests " swift," B. "sore." Qy. "stout" ?

P. 130. I. p. 168 :

Giue her thy purse : for here comes somebody, Stand by awhile, for fear thou be discouerd.

B. suggests :

stand by awhile for fear Thou be discouerd, for here comes somebody

a rather violent change, involving a less smooth rhythm. This suggestion, however, he abandons in favour of one made by Mr. Brennan :

for fear thou be discouerd Stand by awhile, for here comes somebody.

This interchange of the two half -lines seems also too violent a remedy for the occasion.

It is surely natural to say " here comes somebody " before giving the admonition, "stand by awhile," &c. I suggest the substitution of "but" for "for" in the former line. " For " came in no doubt from the line below.

P. 132. ' A Woman Kild with Kindnes, 1 II. 102. '' Your grief abounds and hits aganst my brest." B. "Read 'rebounds'; the meaning being that her grief flies back against him like an echo of his own pain."

The change seems needless. Cp. ' Henry V.,' IV. iii. 104 :

Mark then abounding valour in our English,

That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,

Break out into a second course of mischief,

Killing in relapse of mortality.

P. 136. 'A Challenge for Beautie,' V. [35] :-

But never with a braver opposite Did English-iaem trie with fire. B. "Qy. -vie* for 'trie.' 2 ' But does not " trie " = " try it out" ?

P. 138. V. 59 :

They mist their aime tho': and yet but a fayrer. B. suggests

y niist their aime tho Qy. read

They mist their aime tho' ; and yet but a finger, i-e., yet but an inch (?). P. 139. V. 73 :

Tin- strangest calling impos'd on me That ere was laid on Virgin.

and yet but of error.

B. "Read: '[falsely] impos'd on me.'" Qy. for " calling " read " calumny n ? P. 139/ ' Loves Maistresse, ? V. 146 :

Our recollections, And Laborinths, still busied in the search.

B. "For 'And' read 'In'?" Qy. for " Laborinths " read " Laborings " ?

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. P. 149. ' The Scornful Lady,' III. ii. 125, "A primitive pox in his bones." Qy. "punitive' 4 ? The word is first attested in the ' N.E.D.' in 1624, and would be un- familiar and liable to change.

PEELE.

P. 160. 'David and Bethsabe,' II. ii. 21, 22:

And in his bosom slept and was to liue As was his daughter or his deerest child. I trust we may still keep Dyce's correction " and was to him " in spite of B.'s suggestion "and was beliue " = " soon became." The A.V. has " and was unto him as a daughter ";. the Vulgate, " eratque illi sicut filia."

P. 162. 'Sir Gyles Goosecappe,' 1359-61 : And this that to an other dame wood seeme Perplext and foulded in a rudelesse vaile, Wilbe more cleere then ballads to her eye.

B. suggests " nedelesse " for " rudelesse. n Qy. "riddles" ?

P. 165. 'Damon and Pithias,' Hazlitt's Dodsley,'- iv. 26 :

Serve one, serve both (so near) who would win

them.

I think they have but one heart between them. B. suggests

Serve one, serve both ; so near, who would wean them.

Qy. " twin them " ?

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

Sheffield.

PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS.

FOUR years ago I sent to ' N. & Q.' a long list of provincial booksellers (10 S. v. 141, 183, 242). I beg for the insertion of this continuation first, because many persons found the former list interesting and useful ; and secondly, because it is not likely that I shall have another opportunity of making further considerable additions.

Some of the names now given have been obtained by actual inspection, but many are at second-hand, from various sources. Some names contained in the previous list are repeated with enlarged particulars, and