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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. X

Cardinal. Although he do account religion

Hut a school-name. V. ii.

Friendship he accounts but a word without any signification. ' A Divellish Usurer.'

Julia. Why, ignorance

In courtship cannot make you do amiss If you have a heart to do well. V. ii.

Ignorance will not suffer her to doe ill, being her ininde is to doe well. ' A Happy Milkmaid."

Bosola. The weakest arm is strong enough that

strikes With the sword of Justice. V. ii.

To slight the weakest enemy that comes arm'd against him in the hand of Justice. ' A Worthy Commander.'

Bosola. For thou fall'st faster of thyself than

calamity Can drive thee. V. v.

When he is falling, he goes of himself e faster than misery can drive him. ' An Intruder into Favour.'

The Devil's Law Case (acted before 1623).

Leonora. Know, for your sakes,

I married, that I might have children, And for your sakes, if you '11 be rul'd by me, I will never marry again. I. ii.

For her childrens sake she first marries, for flhee married that shee might have children, and for their sakes shee marries no more. ' A Vertuous Widdow.'

Criapiano. For the smallness of the kitchen,

without question, Makes many noblemen .... Build the rest of the house the bigger. II. i.

Hee is the prime cause why Noblemen build their houses so great, for the smalnesse of the Kitchin, makes the house the bigger. ' A French Oooke.'

Romelio. The court is or should be

As a bright crystal mirror to the world To dress itself. III. Hi.

She ought to be a mirrour for our yongest Dames, to dresse themselves by. ' A Vertuous Widdow.'

Romelio. Let me continue

An honest man ; which I am very certain A coward can never be. V. iv.

No coward can be an honest man. ' A Worthy

B* A, F. BOURGEOIS.

(To be ontinued.)

GEOBGE BALLABD: 'THE HISTOBY OF SUSANNAH.'

IN 1638 George Ballard published a small volume with the above title, which was ' Printed by Thomas Harper for William Hope, at the Vnicorn in Cornhill Neare the Boyal Exchange."

The author, who describes himself as dedicated his work " To the right Honour- able Anne Countesse of Northumberland,"
 * ' the devoted honourer of the divine Muses,',

who, he says, " in countenancing Susannah's story for Susannah's sake,'' will " perpetuate through all generations " her name.

The only edition of this book in the British Museum Library is that bequeathed by the late Alfred H. Huth, which is dated 1638, so, unless there was a previous edition, it was published after Lady Northumberland's death, which took place in December, 1637.

There is an interesting suit in the Court of Chancery (Chancery Proceedings, Series II., Bundle 395, No. 42), dated 1636, relating to its publication. It is the " Com- plaint of Bichard Ballard, of London, Esquire," who states that his brother, "George Ballard, Gentleman," has "with great paines and studie made and written a book entitled the historic of Suzanna in verse," which, having dedicated the same to the Bight Hon. Ann, Countess of North- umberland, he left with the plaintiff to get printed at the best rate he could.

The plaintiff,

' conceyving and soe being enformed that the said booke was well and schollerlike written, and in that respect a great number of them printed would be easily vented,"

entered into communication with " one Thomas Harpur, Citizen and Stacon r of London," for the printing of the said book. And it was agreed that Harpur

" should print fifteene hundred of the said books, and should finde paper for the doeing thereof to and for your orator s only use and dispose, and should delyver that number to your said orator or where hee should appointe ymeadiately after the same should be printed, and should not printe or cause to be printed any more of the saide books, nor anie of greater or lesser number than fifteene hundred, nor should sell or cause to be putt to sale anie of the said books to be printed." Complainant further agreed to pay 11Z. for the paper and printing.

Now we come to the cause of the action, which was the refusal of Harpur to deliver the books without the payment of 18Z. 10a., which the plaintiff was forced to pay in order to obtain, not the 1,500 copies agreed upon, but only " fowerteene hundred and odd books, much short of the number." More- over, the said Harpur " pretended himself verie willing " to assist the plaintiff " in the selling and venting of the said books, and for that purpose recommended one George Cleaver," to whom the plaintiff delivered twenty- five copies, and who dis- posed of them, together with " soe great a number of the saide books printed and sould by the said Harpur and Cleaver or some other by there [sic] or 'one of their procurement, privitie, or consens that the plaintiff cannot make my vent or sale of anie more of his tooks."