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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[11 8. X. OCT. 3, 1914.

Moon-eyed. Too much light Makes you Moon- eyed. B 2.

Mother, v. I will mother this child for you. F 4.

O <ught =owned. The partie [who] ought that picture. G 2.

Ruled = guided. Youle be aduised I hope.... If youle be ruled by me. B 3.

1632. ' Hollands Leaguer ' (Shakerly Marmion).

City face.

Frame a grave City face, jeer at offenders, Cry out upon the vices of the times. B 3.

Madefied.

Capr. [I haue beene] so much madefied,

Quartitta. That word I taught him.

Capr. With the distilling influence of your

bounty. Sig. F. Moralize. Now by this light I think you '11

moralize mee. G 4.

1633. ' The Antiquary ' (the same). Half, and a (used humorously). This was a wrong and a half. Sig. I.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

The Sphere of 8 Aug. in the current year used the above well-known phrase. He there spoke of it as "the one purely lite- rary achievement of Edward Freeman the historian." I am inclined to think that the phrase is one that has been bettered by being misquoted, and that what Freeman really said was " chatter about Shelley." In The Contemporary Review of October, 1887, will be found an article by Freeman on ' Literature and Language,' in the course of which the following occurs :
 * ' CHATTER ABOUT HARRIET." C. K. S. in

"A saying which fell from myself in one of the debates in Congregation on the Modern Language Statutes has been noted in several places, and some seem to have been pleased and others -displeased with the phrase ' chatter about Shelley.'....! mentioned that I had lately read critic praised or blamed the author I forget which, and it does not matter for his treatment of the Harriet problem."
 * review of a book about Shelley in which the

And in a letter to Mr. James Bryce (Viscount Bryce), dated 23 May, 1887, Freeman

" I suppose, as I said, they want ' chatter about Shelley. I told them that we did not want to discuss the Harriet problem." ' Life of E. A. Freeman,' by W. B. W. Stephens, vol. ii. p. 366 <1896).

My further piece of evidence is that in Macmillans Magazine of July, 1887, an article appeared by H. D. Traill entitled 4 Chatter about Shelley : an Academical Dialogue.' In the course of it one of the characters savs :

" He [Freeman] said that criticism on English literature was often only another name for ' chatter about Shelley.' "

Freeman always denied that he used the words " Perish India ! " so persistently ascribed to him;* and tho\igh "chatter about Harriet " is very euphonious and effective, I doubt if Freeman used the words. WM. H. PEET.

LINES QUOTED IN JONSON'S ' POETASTER.' (See ante, p. 26.) Since writing my note at the above reference I find that, besides the jesting allusion to Aspasia's speech in ' The Blinde Begger of Alexandria ' contained in Jonsori's ' Poetaster,' there is another in ' Eastward Hoe.' It occurs in Act II. sc. i. of that play :

Quicksilver. 'Sfoot, lend me some money ; hast thou not Hiren here ?f

Touchstone. Why, how now, sirrah ? What vein "s this, ha?

Quicksilver. Who cries on murther f Lady was it you 1 how does our master ? pray thee cry Eastward-ho ! Bullen's ' Marston,' iii. 26.

' Eastward Hoe ' was written by Chapman, Jonson, and Marston in collaboration. This passage, therefore, throws a pleasant light upon the relations existing between the dramatists. If, as seems probable, Jonson is again responsible for the allusion, he ia here poking fun at his collaborator !

Marston's editor, Mr. Bullen, falls into the same error as Profs. Boas and Penniman in attributing the line " Who cries on murther ? Lady was it you ? " to ' The Spanish Tragedy,' although he notes that "it is not in the text that has come down." Its reappearance in the ' Poetaster ' passage ("where there is clearly an allusion to Jeronimo ") seems to have convinced him that it was intended as a quotation from Kyd's play. It will be observed that the quotation as it appears in ' Eastward Hoe ' is not quite literal. " Who calls out mur- ther ? Lady, was it you?" are the actual words Tised in Chapman's play. In ' Poet- aster ' they are correctly quoted.

H. DUGDALE SYKES.

Enfield.

A UNIQUE MUNICIPAL, RECORD. Some years ago Mr. T. W. Windeatt was Mayor of Totnes, Devon, and his brother, Mr. Edward Windeatt, was Town Clerk. Later Mr. E. Windeatt was elected Mavor, and


 * For details, see memoir in 'D.N.B.'

t A supposed quotation from Peele's lost play

'The Turkish Mahomet and Hiren the Fair

Greek.'