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So far, so good ; but is there not some- thing else the matter with the passage ? How can a soul be arrayed by rebel powers ? Why, and in what, should they array her ? At this late day, and with infinite diffidence, might it be suggested that the original form was not this tame " array " at all, but that obsolete verb of old England, " warray" ? To warray is to invade and beleaguer : it is a soldier's word. Spenser has it in 'The Faery Queen' (Book I., Canto V., stanza 48) : Gpea<. Nimpod w& ^

That first the world with sword and fire warrayed. It is used by other contemporaries, notably, a-nd in almost the selfsame manner, by the author of ' Selimus ' :

warlike Bel us' son

The earth with unknown armour did warray. That a soul can be fooled, or foiled, or hurt, or pierced, or maimed by rebel powers warraying her, is eminently intelligible, and is built on a magnificent metaphor. The very sound of " warray " would, recom- mend it to Shakespeare's sense of beauty and fitness. " Array " may even be in this instance, what it seems orthographically, beside " warray," a printer's fault.

One must tread with caution in this sad wreck-strewn path of the commentators, and no stress is laid upon the second sugges- tion that " centre " itself may be an error, and that the original manuscript read instead " eentrie," There is, no doubt, something to be said for the conception of a " sentry " soul on guard over the body's " sinful earth," and there at its post becoming the target for the dark super- natural foes encamped about, the " rebel powers." But without all this, with just the simple old-fashioned " centre " of long acquaintance, the figure is military enough. " Rebel powers " by no means demand or imply a " sentry," yet they do demand or imply some word which has to do with the idea of battle and strife.

Falmouth. L ' L ^UINEY.

' TITUS ANDRONICUS,' V. i. 99-102 (11 S. i. 324, 504; ii. 163). In support of MB. RUSSELL'S explanation, at the last reference, of the line

As true a dog as ever fought at head, it should be noted that this sporting phrase of the Paris Garden in Southwark occurs in Ben Jonson's ' The Silent Woman,' IV. i. :

Truewit. You fought high and fair, Sir John.

Clerimont. At the head.

Dauphine. Like an excellent bear-dog.

TOM JONES.

THE ROYAL STANDARD. Now that the 1 use of the Royal Standard (as we used to call it, though I suppose it is not right to do so) is definitely forbidden for purposes of decoration, it is desirable to ascertain whether the separate quarters may be used for such purposes, or not. During the Coro- nation rejoicings I saw several instances of the Scottish lion and tressure and of the; Irish harp being used. DIEGO.-

DR. EDMOND HALLE Y'S MARRIAGE. Ther marriage of this celebrated astronomer with Mary Tooke, daughter of Christopher Tooke (Auditor of the Exchequer) and Mary Kinder his wife, is thus recorded in the parish register of St. James's, Duke's Place, without Aldgate, in the City of London, a parish now united with that of St. Katha- rine Cree Church :

20 th

Aprill 1682

Edmond Hailey B r : Mary Tuke Sp r : Thomas

Crosse ffr.

An explanation of the contraction " ffr.'* in this entry is furnished below.

DANIEL HIPWELL,

" FR." IN MARRIAGE REGISTERS : ST, JAMES'S, DUKE'S PLACE, ALDGATE. The registers of St. James's, Duke's Place, and Trinity, Minories, " lawless " churches which claimed exemption from the visitation of the Ordinary, and made it a pretext for marry- ing without licence or publication of banns, furnish records of thousands of marriages of persons wholly unconnected with those parishes.

" In and after March, 1678/9, for about 20 years, a third name (being always that of a, man), followed in almost every case by the word ' Fr.,' occurs after that of the bride " "

in the marriage registers of St. James's, Duke's Place.

" This third name in a marriage register is very unusual, and possibly even unique. In a genea- logical point of view it may, in many cases, be ot importance as indicating a relative.' 'London Parish Registers : Vol. L, Marriages atbt. James s, Duke's Place, 5 edited by W. P. W. Phillimore and G. E. Cokayne, 1900, Preface, p. vi.

The word " Fr." following the third name in the entries signifies father or friend, i.e.,. the person giving away the bride in marriage in obedience to the rubric in the Marriage- Service which requires the minister to receive " the woman at her father's or friend's hands." DANIEL HIPWELL.