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 H84 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vni.MA*cH5,i92i. -commends Romont, to whom he gives a medal of the dead marshal!, as one . . . .that, like A hearty oak, grew'st close to this tall pine. (iii.) With these lines from the speech of Euphanes immediately preceding the Queen's - entry : Virtue's a solid rock, whereat being aim'd The keenest darts of envy, yet unhurt Her marble heroes stand, built on such bases Whilst they recoil, and wound the shooters' faces. Compare these, from Seldom 's speech at the end of II. i. of ' Amends for Ladies ' : . .even as dirt, thrown hard against a wall, Rebounds and sparkles in the thrower's eyes, So ill words, uttered to a virtuous dame Turn, and defile the speaker with red shame. Tn addition to these three passages, note in the portion of the scene between the entry of Euphanes and that of the Queen, the exclamations " pish ! " and " hum ! " " ante- date," "transgress" and the alliteration "arts and arms." In sc. ii. there is the figure used by Euphanes : I came like a thankful stream, to retribute All you, my ocean, have enrich'd me with, which occurs again in the Induction to 'The Triumph of Honour,' also the ex- .^clamation "pish," the adverb "jocundly," and the adjective " antipathous. " Act IV. In the first scene I find no note- worthy parallels either with the two " Tri- umphs " or Field's acknowledged plays; ,but "hum," "importune," and " inno- cency " may serve to suggest his hand here. There are no parallels either for the short second scene, but in sc. iii (where the word '"innocency" again appears) besides the lines : when in the scales Nature and fond affection weigh together, One poises like a feather, recalling a passage in ' The Triumph of Love,' and the lines in Euphanes' speech beginning : . . . .when posterity Shall read your volume filled with virtuous acts so closely paralleled in sc. ii. of 'The Triumph of Honour,' we have Conon's description of the Queen's erratic behaviour : ' She chafes like storms in groves, now sighs, now And both sometimes, like rain and wind commixt resembling Ferdinand's words in sc. iii. o* ' The Triumph of Love ' : J weep sometimes, and instantly can laugh ; Nay I do dancs and sing, and suddenly . Roar Wee a storm. In the fourth and final scene we have the exclamation "pish"; and (in the two last ~ines) the image of two streams flowing together : Nature's divided streams the highest shelf >Vill over-run at last, and flow to itself appears again in ' The Fatal Dowry, ' II. ii. : . . . .let these tears an emblem of our loves ike crystal rivers individually ?low into one another, make one source, Which never man distinguish, less divide ! H. DUGDALE SYKES. Enfield. (To be continued.) FIELDING'S PAMPHLET, 'THE FEMALE HUSBAND.' WILBUB L. CROSS in his ' History of Henry Fielding,' 1918, closes the third volume with an exhaustive bibliography of Field- ing's writings. Under the year 1746 (p. 313) there is one entry only which runs : The Female Husband ; or, the Surprising History of Mrs. Mary alias Mr. George Hamilton [who was] convicted for marrying [of having married] a young woman of Wells [and lived with her as her hus- band. Taken from her own mouth since her con- ftne'ment. Quotation from Ovid ' Metam.' Lib. 1'2] London : -M. Cooper [at the Globe in Pater-noster Row] 1746. Price Sixpence. Dean Cross of Yale remarks that no copy is known, and that he includes it on the authority of Andrew Millar's advertisement attached to Sarah Fielding's ' Cleopatra and Octavia,' published by him in 1758, that is four years after Fielding's death. A correspondent of ' N. & Q.' for the purposes of another subject, has very courteously sent me a bound volume of eighteenth-century pamphlets for inspec- tion, and I have therein discovered a copy of the ' Female Husband.' The full title of this 2 3 -paged pamphlet is indicated above, the portions within brackets not appearing in Cross's citation or Millar's advertisement. It is an account of a case tried at Wells Quarter Sessions the details of which need not detain us, but it is bio graphically interesting as after arrest we read that the prisoner " was committed to Bridewell, and Mr. Gold, an eminent and learned Counsellor at Law, who lives in those parts was consulted with upon the occa- sion, who gave his advice that she should be prose- cuted on a clause in the Vagrant Act 'for having by false and deceitful practises endeavoured to im- pose on some of his Majesty's subjects.' " Now Henry Gold (1710-1794), who even- tually became a Judge of the High Court,