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'Reply,' we are asked to believe, on the authority of even the Parker Society pub- lication, that "it is supposed" to have been written by Cartwright. Again, we have "A defense of the Ecclesiastical Regiment, &c., defaced by T. C. in his reply against D. Whit- gift. Anno 1574."

Summing up the evidence so far produced, it is certain that there is no direct proof that the 'Admonition' was the product of Field and Wilcox, or that they ever wrote or published it ; failing this, the circumstan- tial contemporary (and otherwise) evidence is unquestionably in favour of Cartwright having written 'The Admonition to Parlia- ment.' ALFEED CHAS. JONAS.

LONDON EVENING PAPER (9 th S. vii. 165). It may be interesting to note that an evening paper called The Sun was in existence when Queen Victoria ascended the throne. I have in my possession a copy of this paper con- taining particulars of the Queen's coronation. It is printed in gold and published at six- pence. It bears date "London, Thursday Evening, June 28, 1838," and is numbered 14,289. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Possibly "pailie" is from a different root. "Pallid" and "poorly," capable of the same meaning, have different derivations.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

DOUBTFUL PASSAGES IN CHAUCER (9 th S. vii. 82, 189). T May I be allowed to point put that an edition of Chaucer was published in 1894, in which several of the points dealt with are explained ? The edition was printed at Oxford, in six volumes. I take the points one by one.

1. Trewe-love, C. T.,' 3692. The reference is to herb-paris ; see vol. v. 109. There is no support for any other reading ; the reading tn-leaf (or whatever it is) will not scan.

2. Viretoot. Explained in the note, vol. v. p, 110. The suggested meaning of "quickly" will hardly do. The O.F. for "quickly " was not tot, but tost.

3. Ribible, 'C. T.,' 3331. - Explained in vol. v. 102 as the Moorish rabdb, precisely as we are now told (ante, p. 189) it ought to be. The quotation which your corre- spondent has "chased for years" is well known to me. It is from a 'Poem on the Evil Times of Edward II.,' published by the Percy Society in 1849, p. 8. The misprint of skewer instead of shewer, a mirror, is some- what singular.

4. Chirking, chirke. Explained in the

H.E.D.' There is

"PAULiE"(9 th S. vii. 167). An example of this name for weak or deformed sheep occurs in Hogg's ' Brownie of Bodsbeck,' chap. viii.

When Claverhouse asks the younger of the Glossary, vi. 46, and in Chapelhope boys to state what visitors have I no difficulty, recently been at the farmhouse, he begins his reply thus :

" Weel, ye see, first there was Geordie the flesher, him that took away the crocks and the paulies, and my brockit-lamb, and gae me a penny for setting him through atween the lochs."

The " crocks " are the old ewes, the " paulies " are the weaklings destitute of promise, and the "brockit-lamb" is a crossbred specimen with grey face. The etymology of "paulie" is doubtful. In his account of " paulie-footit," however, Jamieson suggests an origin of what may be the same word. THOMAS BAYNE.

This word is used in the Scottish lowlands in the sense of " palsy." A person who allows his hand to hang loosely from the wrist (as in the condition known as wrist-drop) is commonly called " Paulie-hand." J. A. B.

This will be a substantival form of " poorly." In Lancashire one hears it pronounced some- , "paulie," and sometimes as though the

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first syllable rimed with "bowl," as "powlie." Halliwell has " poverly " in addition to ' poorly." Jamieson gives the verb " to poor." One may therefore take it that a substantive could follow from the adjective "poorly."

5. Galingale. Fully explained in the Notes, v. 37. See'KKD.'

6. Gat-tothed. See Notes, v. 44. The ex- planation from gat, goat, is wrong, for Chaucer's spelling of goat is goot. He did not write in Northumbrian.

7. Citole. The Glossary duly refers to ' H.E.D.'

8. Dreint, " drowned " ; Glossary, vi. 79.

9. Pavade, an error for panade. See note v. 117.

10. Popper, "a small dagger"; v. 117.

11. Hawebake; see note, v. 141; cf. 'H.E.D. Quite distinct from hauberk and from haw- buck ; see * H.E.D.' Hauberk would not scan.

12. Whyle } i.e., "time." See Glossary.

13. Mannish. Tyrwhitt is right, as the word occurs four times. See Glossary, vi. 160.

14. Ribibe; see note, v. 325.

15. Chere, "a look" ; see Glossary, vi. 45.

16. Wade's 6ote. Not "a messenger," be- cause the M.E. form of messenger was bode, not bote. If 'H.E.D.' is not accessible, see Stratmann.

17. Blake-beried ; see note, v. 272. N.B. This note was first printed in 1877, and has been frequently reprinted,