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 * ,, sb. A barrier." The entry in the glos- I ARTHUR YOUNG (11 S. xii. 241). G. R.

sary, " Barres enclosed space," to which PROF. w jn nn( j the reference to Lord Carrington's

THORNTON objects, is quite c ict., | f amily pra yers or rather the last of them

in Young's * Autobiography,' p. 361, edited the i by M. Betham-Edwards, and published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1898. But I cannot find any reference to a "Suffolk parson'* in connexion with the passage, which was written 25 May, 1801. It states that the Rev. Samuel Hook, who was Young's son- in-law, had just called, and brought the shocking news of Lord Carrington's back- sliding since his elevation to the peerage :

The richer he grows, so much the worse. The eldest girl said to Mr. H....' My Papa used to have prayers in his family ; but none since he has been

s.v. -

" Bawburd, on, around. Correctly explained by Small (who cites the French bdbord) ; spelling is also noted in the Diet., s.v. BABURD.

"Bisning, p.p., hissing." Small has omitted this spelling in his glossary, but correctly gives

" Bysning terrible, monstrous." The Diet.

enters the word under BYSENING, ppl. a. PROF. THORNTON has been misled by the epithet stridens, which Douglas in the next line renders by " quhis- land."

rived from Jamieson. In the Diet, the passage is cited s.v. BLOCK, sb. 17.

" JSoir, variant of bore, a ship's hold." Douglas has merely associated the L. foros with forare, a Peer.' " and is using boir in its ordinary sense of " hole " : ' see BORE, sb. 1 1.

" Bois, bos, adj., hollow." Fully dealt with in the Diet., sv. Boss, a.

" Brace, v., to press tightly." Belongs to BRACE, v. 1 1.

" But, without." This common usage is fully dealt with under BUT, prep. 2.

" Bycost, cost." Quoted under BE- prefix, 2.

" Case, on or upon. By chance." Illustrated under CASE, sb.i 2 b.

" Catch-cow." Given in the Diet, under the spelling which it has in this (the only) example viz., CACHEKOW.

" Chaft, a jaw." The word (in spite of Ruddi-

E. VAUGHAN.

[A reply by MR. HUMPHREYS, giving biographi- cal details of Lord Carrington and Belgrave, will

appear next week.]

JOHN WEBSTER AND OVERBURY'S CHARACTERS' (11 S. xi. 313, 335, 355, 374). MR. SYKES'S second paper on Webster and ' Overbury's Characters ' has drawn my attention to a foolish mistake in my own essay on the same subject (11 S. x. 3, 23).

I did not intend to suggest that Webster

quotation is correctly placed under is quoted under

man) te schafUs, plural ot SHAFT, s6^ 2 1 b (speaker | wa s responsible for all the additional Cha- racters of 1615, but only for the last set of thirty-two, as is shown by the passage on p. 4:-

" A study of the style of the fourth set affords sufficient evidence to enable us to ascribe these [forty-two] Characters to John Webster."

Had I intended to hint that he was the author of all the additions made in 1615, I should have attributed to him no more than thirty -nine, since I claimed three on Cocke's behalf. It will be noticed also that I made use of instances derived from the fourth set only.

I must say that I cannot see any parallel- ism between the lines in ' The Wife ' and Antonio's speech ; a single word, ** hope," 13 echoed, but as a rule Webster's borrow- ings are of a more continuous kind. The

" Chisel- tail." The passage CHISEL, sb. 1 4.

" Coif for cove." The quotation is given s.v. COVE, sb. 1 2.

sense is obscure)." In both passages cros is apparently a misreading of tros, the Scottish form of TRUSS, sb. 2. The verb trossit is employed by Douglas (v. 274/14), and for the use of the noun the ' Complaint of Scotland,' p. 41, may be compared.
 * ' Cross, a ship's mast." " Cross, under (the

" Cully, v. (1576)." The passage is cited under the Scottish form CULYE, v., where it properly belongs.

" Cup out, to play." The word in the quotation is cop, and the phrase is illustrated under COP, sb. 1

" Debtful, due as a debt." Sufficiently illus- trated under DEBTFUL, a. 1.

" Digested (c. 1734)." Douglas's word is degest, which is fully illustrated under DIGEST, ppl. a.

" Dingly, for dignely, worthily." The passage only certain parallel is the " consumption

is duly cited under DIGNELY, adv.

" Direct, to dedicate (a book)." This is the first sense of DIRECT, v., and is illustrated from c. 1374 to 1607.

" Doubtous (1330, 1532)." Douglas's word is dowtis, shown by the metre to be a monosyllable, and therefore naturally to be taken as the plural

0t -Drive^^ pass the time."-The usage is I must have remained a 8 reat favourite with

one, which is, not against my theory, since it appeared in May, 1614, seven months before Ostler's death.

I feel that the author of the fourth set must have known the first two as soon as they were out. There is no doubt either that the book

mentioned s.v. DRIVE, v. 21. Oxford.

him, since he borrowed not only from his W. A. CRAIGIE. | own contributions when writing ' The Devil's Law Case,' but also from the other papers.