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to Gray that has an extrinsic value one that was given by Thomas Moore to Mrs. Piozzi, in which the latter wrote that she was acquainted with the author.

For the compilation of these notes brief, because I hope to deal more fully both with Clouet and with the Verrall family else- where I am indebted to the works cited and to the Pelham papers in the British Museum. PERCEVAL LUCAS.

Rackham, Sussex.

THE SECOND FOLIO OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS, 1632 (11 S. viii. 141). The copy of the Second Folio of Shakespeare now in the library of this College, where it has been for about seventy years, has the imprint " Tho. Cotes for Robert Allot," and " starre-ypointed " in the Epitaph. The leaf on which Milton's lines are printed is thicker than the leaves which immediately precede and succeed, but is certainly not thicker than, if so thick as, the title-page with Shakespeare's portrait. I send this in case any one thinks it worth while to make a list of all the copies which have " starre- ypbinted." JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

In acknowledging the bibliographical in- terest of SIR EDWIN BURNING-LAWRENCE'S note, I may perhaps be permitted to point out that it is scarcely accurate to say that " the New York Public Library seems to possess all the known editions of the 1632 Second Folio of the Shakespeare plays," with one exception. The Second Folio is synony- mous with the second edition, and there cannot be editions of an edition. There may be several issues, and several variations, and in the case of the Second Folio these variations consist of variant imprints. It would appear that five booksellers Robert Allot, William Aspley, John Smethwick, Richard Hawkins, and Richard Meighen commissioned the printer Thomas Cotes to strike off a number of copies of Shake- speare's plays, which were allotted in un- equal quantities to each of the subscribers. Of these subscribers Robert Allot, although in the colophon he modestly enters his name last, took undoubtedly by far the largest number of copies, as not only are those with his imprint much the most common, but his original title-page had to be reprinted. There are therefore six variations of the title-page : two with Allot's imprint, and four others bearing respectively the imprints of Aspley, Hawkins, Meighen, and Smeth- wick. It is interesting to learn, on the autho- rity of a bibliographer of such distinction

as Mr. Wilberforce Eames, that the Lenox: copy of the Second Folio (Robert Allot) possesses a cancel leaf, as does also a copy with Aspley 's imprint in SIR E. DURNING- LAWRENCE'S possession. This cancel leaf was evidently printed after the book had been placed on sale, and was issued to pur- chasers in the same way as cancel leaves are occasionally issued at the present day.

Milton's epithet whether ypointing or ypointed presents undoubted difficulties. The former is iingrammatical. while the latter is rather meaningless. It is, more- over, a detestable barbarism. The Anglo- Saxon prefix ge M.E. y should, of course,, be used only with words of Anglo- Saxon , or at least Teutonic, origin. Yclept and yclad may pass muster, but the use of the prefix with French words, like " point " and " chain," is a solecism of which only a great poet would dare to be guilty.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

GUIDO DELLE COLONNE IN ENGLAND :

L. F. SIMPSON (11 S. vii. 509; viii. 72). As the quotation from Miss Bateson's ' MediaBval England ' given at the latter reference says nothing about Guide's pre- sence in England, the following passage from Tiraboschi may be of interest :

" L'Oudin [' De Script. Eccl.,' t. iii. p. 581] aggiugne, e avealo gia accemiato il Vossio (' De Histor. Lat.,' 1. ii. c. 60) che Giovanni Boston monaco in Inghilterra nel secolp xiv. in un suo Catalogo tli Scrittori ecclesiastici, di cui con- servansi alcune copie in quel regno, racconta che Odoardo re d'Ingbilterra tornando 1'anno 1273 dalla guerra sacra, approdato in Sicilia e trovatovi Guido, fu preso per tal maniera dal sapere e dall' ingegno che in lui conobbe, che seco condusselo in Inghilterra." 'Storia della Lett. Ital.,' vol. iv. (1823), p. 481.

In the brief notice of Guido de Columpnis printed in Tanner's ' Bibliotheca Britannico- Hibernica,' p. xxxii, from the ' Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiae ' of Boston Buriensis, nothing is said about this visit to England.

Can any one supply the words in the ' Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesiae ' on which the statement is based ?

EDWARD BENSLY.

'THE FRUITLESS PRECAUTION' (US. viii. 89, 152). According to H. Koerting, ' Ge- schichte des Franzosischen Romans im XVII. Jahrhundert/ 1891, vol. ii. p. ^229, Scarron's romance is taken from the ' No- velas Ejemplares y Amorosas ' (* El prevenido engaiiado ' ) of Doiia Maria de Zayas (Barce- lona, Jose Giralt, 1637).

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey, Essex.