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 202 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. SEPT. 10,1021. whom he may present himself, to grant him a benevolent Reception, with the Honour that is due to him, as the Holy Apostle orders us, saying " Grant Honour to whom it appertains, and generously relieve him, that he may attain his Intent." And we, on our part, are constantly praying, and shall ever pray, to the Almighty for the Pre- servation of all Monarchs and Princes, and to ren- der victorious all our faithful Kings, they being our Protectors, and their Countries the Asylum where the Unfortunate readily meet with immedi- ate relief. We shall also pray to the Almighty to bless and remunerate all the Benefactors of our aforesaid Son, and to preserve them from every spiritual and temporal Danger, giving them at the same time our Holy Apostolic Benediction. Given at the Residence of our See, at Kannubyn, the 27th December, in the Year 1812. (Signed) I LUIGI GANDOLFI, Superior of the French Mission, and Apostolic Legate, do attest the Truth of the preceding Certificate. (Signed) I GIUSEPPE MASAAD, English Consul at Beiruth, do certify that the foregoing Certificate declares the real Truth. (Signed) I ARSENIC CARDUCHI, Agent of the Maronite Nation, and of the Antioch Patriarch, and Vicar General of the Congregation of St. Antonio, Abbate at the Holy See, and Interpreter to the sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide, do certify that the foregoing Certificate declares the real Truth. A true Translation from the Original. RICHARD HUGHES. E. H. FAIRBROTHEK. A WEBSTER-MIDDLETON PLAY: ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE.' (See 12 S. ix. 181.) Act. II., sc. i. KNAVESBY tells his wife that he has had a strange dream. He dreamt that each confessed to the other the number of times they had broken their marriage vows. Mistress Knavesby exclaims : There was a dream, with a witness ! and Knavesby replies : No, no witness ; I dreamt nobody heard it but we two. a wretched quibble, but no quibble was too wretched for Webster to make, or, having made,, to repeat. He has this again in ' The Fair Maid of the Inn,' II. i. The Clown has just told the Host a story of a woman who has caught cold in the en- deavour to rid her face of the marks of the small-pox and " kicked up her heels " : Host : There was kicking up the heels with a witness ! Clown : No, Sir ; I confess a good face has many times been the motive to the kicking up of the heels with a witness, but this was not. p. 435. Mistress Knavesby, urged to con- fess her matrimonial offences, tells her hus- band that when she was in Cambridge a handsome scholar of Emmanuel College fell in love with her, whereupon Knavesby exclaims : O, you sweet-breathed monkey ! like the Waiting- Woman in ' The Devil's Law Case ' when she sees Jolenta whispering to Contarino : sweet-breath'd monkey ! how they grow together ! 1 have not met with the epithet " sweet - breathed '- elsewhere. A reference to the sweet breath of monkeys in Book III. of Sidney's ' Arcadia ' (Philisides' song) may have suggested it to Webster. p. 427. Knavesby remarks that he thinks more of his wife since Lord Beaufort has taken a fancy to her : . . . like one That has variety of choice meat before him Yet has no stomach to 't until he hear Another praise it. This is from Book I. of Sidney's ' Arcadia.' Artesia challenges Phalantus, who is always praising her, to proclaim her beauty through all the courts of Greece. By this means she hopes to attract the attention of Amphialus, whom she loves : . . . persuading herself, perhaps, that it might fall out in him as it doth in some that have delight- ful meat before them, and have no stomach to it, before others praise 'it (Routledge's edition, p. 77). p. 437. Knavesby endeavours to overcome his wife's objections to his proposal that she shall enter into an adulterous intrigue with Lord Beaufort : ... to confute all reason in the world which thou canst urge against it, when 'tis done, we will be married again, wife, which some say is the only supersedeas about Limehouse to remove cuckoldry. This certainly seems a patent allusion to Webster and Rowley's ' Cure for a Cuckold.' The remarriage of Compass (of Blackwall, near Limehouse) with his erring wife is, indeed, the " cure " referred to in the title