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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. x. NOV. s, im

Neudrucke von Schriften und Karten uber Meteorologie und Erdmagnetisraus (Prof. Dr. Or. Hellman ed.)- No. 4, Berlin, 1895; No. 8, Berlin, 1897

General Catalogue of the British Museum : Halley.

Halleian Miscellany (privately printed). Chicago, 1900 The John Crerar Library, Chicago, U.8., Catalogue No. A. 520.9238, M. 24. II. PORTRAITS.

Biog. Brit., iv. 2502, note 39. 1757-

Catalogue of Engraved Portraits (H. Bromley), 291. London, 1793.

Imperial Diet, of Univ. Biog., n.

Knight's Gallery of Portraits, with Memoirs, i. London, 1833.

Good Words, xxxvi. 736. London, 189o.

Great Astronomers (Sir Robert S. Ball). London,

1895.

III. GENEALOGY.

Patronymica Britannica (Lower), 144. London, 1860.

Letters of Administration granted 30 June, 1684, on estate of Edmund Halley, Sen. London.

Biog. Brit., iv. 2517. 1757.

Will of Dr. Edmond Halley, dated 18 June, 1/36,

K^ved 9 February, 1741/2, P.C.C., Somerset House, ndon, 53 Trenley. Quoted in published Register of St. Margaret's, Lee ; printed in full in N. Y. Oeneal. and Biog. Record, xxix. 164-5, and in 'Tales of our Forefathers,' Albany, N. Y., 1898.

Will of Edmund Halley, Jun., surgeon R.N., dated 8 November, 1739, proved 12 February, 1740/1, P.C.C., Somerset House, London, 39 Spurway.

Will of Henry Price, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, dated 31 May, 1755, proved 28 January, 1764, P.C.C., London, 25 Simpson.

Will of Catherine Price, dated 13 January, 1764, proved 27 January, 1764, P. C.C., London, 25 Simp- son.

Gentleman's Magazine (1765), Deaths, 10 Novem- ber, 1765.

N.Y. Geneal. and Biog. Record, xxvui. 13-19; xxix. 164-5.

Tales of our Forefathers. Albany, N.Y., 1898.

Affidavits, photographic facsimiles of two. New- berry Library, Chicago, catalogue No. E-7-M-239.

IV. MISCELLANEOUS.

' N. & Q ,' 2'" 1 S. ix. 297, 338 ; 3 rd S. v. 108, 259 6 th S. vii. 5 ; 8 th S. vi. 364 ; vii. 427 ; 9 th S. viii. 322 x. 27, 97, 207-

The writer is under obligations for assist- ance generously rendered him by Prof. S. W Burnham, Chicago, and by Mr. Alex. J. Ru dolph, Assistant Librarian of the Newberry Library, Chicago. The latter has compiler an extensive bibliography of Dr. Edmonc Halley. EUGENE F. McPiKE

Chicago, U.S

THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE QUESTION.

(Continued from p. 266.)

IN his ' Apophthegms ' Bacon relates hov Mr. Mason sent his pupil to another fellow of the same college to borrow a book of him The reply brought back by the pupil was a follows :

" I am loath to lend my books out of my chamber, ut if it please thy tutor to come and read upon it n my chamber, he shall as long as he will."

[*he time was winter ; and some days after /he same fellow sent to Mr. Mason to borrow ris bellows Mr. Mason sent back this reply: )er, but if thy tutor would come and blow the fire n my chamber, he shall as long as he will."
 * I am loath to lend my bellows out of my cham-

Evidently this story was known to Ben Jonson, whose style is clearly discernible in
 * he following :

Quicksilver. Marry, dad ! his horses are now coming up to bear down his lady ; wilt thou lend thy stable
 * o set 'em in ?

Security. 'Faith, Master Francis, / ivould be loath o lend my stable out of doors ; in a greater matter I will pleasure him, but not in this.

' Eastward Ho,' Act II. sc. i.

' Eastward Ho ! ' is the jwint production of Marston, Jonson, and Chapman ; and it is a play that is literally crammed with ' Promus ' phrases and proverbs, although Mrs. Pott, who examined it, could find none in it. There are none so blind as those who will not see.

I am reminded of another of Bacon's 'Apophthegms' by a passage in 'The New Inn.' Fly, the parasite of the Inn, is a small man, who is humorously compared to several kinds of insects, one of which furnished him with his name. Note the following :

Lord B. How came you by this property ?

Host. Who, my Fly?

Lord B. Your Fly, if you call him so.

Host. Nay, he is that, and will be still.

Act II. sc. ii.

He is a fly, and will never be anything more than a fly. Compare :

" Sir Thomas More had only daughters at the first, and his wife did ever pray for a boy. At last he had a boy, which after, at man's years, proved simple. Sir Thomas said to his wife, ' Thou prayedst so long for a boy, that he will be a boy as long as he lives.' " ' Apophthegms.'

The 'Apophthegm ' illustrates the following entry in the 'Promus,' which Baconians imagine the master did not use : " No. 1392. A proper young man, and so will he be while he lives." Now, although Mrs. Pott could not find an illustration for the note from Bacon, it goes without saying that she could find several from Shakespeare. Hence we are gravely told that Bacon's idea was to lay stress on the word " proper," which, we are further informed, is strange phrasing. The joke is as good as that furnished oy Dr. Theobald, who is so badly informed as to wish us to believe that the exclamation " What else ! " is not current Elizabethan speech. There is a saying, " Ye do not believe because ye have-not read." They trifle with us.