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British Museum. A fine edition of a famous romance of chivalry, Baiardo's Philogyne: MESSRS. DEIGHTON, BELL & Co. of Cambridge Trattato amoroso de Hadriano e de Narcisa," send their Catalogue 21, New Series, containing the first book printed there, and so rare that in Parma, 1508, is 251. works on Theology and Church History, Greek 1860 it was regarded as unique and reproduced and Latin Classics, Oriental Works, and Physics in facsimile, namely, Pico della Mirandola's and Chemistry, among the last being the Journal Liber de veris calamitatum causis nostrorum of the Chemical Society and the Bridgewater temporum ad Leonem X,' large good copy, Treatises. Under History is Camden's tannia, Gough and Nichols's edition, 1806, covering a copy of Joannes de Sacrobosco dated Mr. Voynich has been fortunate in dis4 vols., folio, half-calf, 21. 158.; also Hakluyt, Cracow, 1522; the price is 1007. This is one of with essay by Raleigh, 12 vols., large 8vo (one the rarest early books relating to the discovery of of 100 copies on hand-made paper), 151. Under America. There is one of the few books pubArchæology, Fine Arts, &c., are Batty's Copper lished by the Stationers at the sign of the Trinity Coinage,' 21. 28.; Fox-Davies's Art of Heraldry,' in St. Paul's Churchyard, Rolle's folio, half-morocco, 81.; Frankau's Eighteenth- Spiritualium. William Bretton was the pubSpeculum Century Colour Prints,' folio (only 50 copies lisher; his books were printed abroad chiefly, printed), 157.; and the following by Sir Walter Armas this one was in Paris by Wolfgang Hopyl, 1510, strong: Sir Henry Raeburn,' with a duplicate 201. A liturgical work of great importance is set of the plates, imp. 4to, 61. 68. ; Sir Joshua Missale Ebredunensis,' the only Missal ever Reynolds,' 51. 58.; Turner,' 51. 58. ; and another printed for the diocese of Embrun (French Alps), copy on Japanese vellum (one of 250), 10l. 10s. There are also Frankau's William and James Alcala de Henares, 1501, is 81. 88. There is one 1512, 501. The first Cicero printed in Spain, at Ward,' 201.; and Williamson's History of of the finest specimens of Wynkyn de Worde's Portrait Miniatures,' 2 vols., folio (one of 50 on press, the Polychronicon,' Westminster, 1495, hand-made paper), 301. Works under Biblio115. This copy is from the Osterley Park Library. graphy include sections of the Museum Catalogue. The work is seldom met with so complete and Among Poetry and the Drama are the Edition de in such a good state of preservation. Another Luxe of Byron, edited by Coleridge and Prothero rarity is Antiqua Statuta,' 12mo, agenda shape, (one of 250), 13 vols., 4to, 101. 108.; Farmer's narrow and very tall, small but good and perfect Early Dramatists,' first series, 13 vols., 4to, large paper, 217. 158.; and The Minor Poems of is Chroniques de France,' 3 vols., Paris, 1476–7, Under France in the Addenda copy, 1514, 251. Milton,' reproduced in facsimile from the MS. in Trinity College Library, folio, half-morocco, typographical monument of the greatest rarity, a totally uncut copy, 501. This is a literary and 21. 28. There is a privately printed book, Alfred Jones's The Old English Plate of the Empress of being the first edition, and the first book printed in France in the French language. There is Russia,' 49 photogravure plates, royal 4to, 51. 58. another edition dated 1493, folio, gothic type, Mr. Wilfrid M. Voynich's Catalogue 26 of Early 3 vols., with 30 woodcuts surrounded by borders Printed Books, Part II., contains many items and 920 smaller woodcuts of beautiful design, of extreme rarity, including a number previously altogether twelve leaves wanting, 1507. This is one of the finest illustrated books printed in To describe the contents fully would half fill a number of N. & Q.,' so we can only Paris in the fifteenth century, and the first of the indicate a few. The first entry is Capitoli della fine books printed by Maurand. Venerabile Compagnia de S. Gio. Decollato,' a rarity that most libraries possess only odd fine copy in dark-blue levant, 1518, 127. 128. volumes; even the British Museum, which is rich This is unknown to bibliographers. Baptista Man- in Vérard's books, has only the second and third tuanus (Spagnuoli), Vita Dionysii Areopagitæ,' vols., imperfect. The Catalogue contains many 1507, is 47. 48. In the poem to the King of Spain the author speaks of the discovery of America by Columbus. A very rare school-book, Niger's De Grammatica Libri Decem,' 1514, is 27. 28. The 1480 edition of this work contains the earliest known specimen in Italy of printed music. Philippus, Bishop of Brugnato, Opus noviter editum pro sacerdotibus animarum curam habentibus,' good uncut copy, 1521, is 5l. 58. This extremely rare work contains a textbook of pastoral duties, and comprises all the excommunications and interdictions promulgated by the Popes, the Lateran Council, and the Diocesan Synods. Under Anonymous Presses is another unrecorded early work, Dominicus de Seraphinis, Floridum Compendium Sinonimorum,' good copy, halfmorocco, no copy in British Museum, Milan (?), 1485 (?), Bl. 68. The earliest known edition is dated 1501. There is a very rare and early Italian Imitatio Christi' under Gerson, 1494, 41. 108. Under Padua is a typographical monument of great rarity, Thomas de Aquino, Summæ Theologie, Pars Prima' (all published), 1473, 10. 108. There is an imperfect copy in the

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CORRIGENDUM.-Ante, p. 295, col. 2, line 21, for "the columns" read ten columns.

The list shows the remarkable preponderance of the " Shakespeare form. Perhaps the oddest spellings are to be seen in the library catalogue of Prince Rupert, probably made by a foreigner (1677, ii. 231), where we have besides Shakespeare," the 104; forms "Shakesb." and Shakesbearg" (Sloane MS. 555, Brit. Mus.).

Parliament, married Joane, daughter and GEORGE ABBOT, M.P., THE PURITAN. heir of Aleyn Penckeston of the city of York. THE parentage of this otherwise well-known It is evident that this lady was a widow when M.P. for Tamworth in the Long Parliament she married Purefoy, and that George has never been ascertained, nor anything of Abbot was her son by her first husband. his origin beyond the fact that he was of Not improbably the grandfather" whose Yorkshire extraction. Foster's Alumni somewhat indecipherable name seems in the will to read "Vrinckton " should be Penckeston. George Abbot seems to have been an only child, and was probably brought up from his earliest years at Caldecott, where he died 2 Feb., 1648/9, aged forty-four, and

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Oxon.' states that he was born in Middlesex, and was the son or grandson of a Sir Thomas Abbot of Easington, Yorks, Knight, and this is accepted by the 'D.N.B.' So far, how ever, I have failed to trace the existence of any such knight, and should be glad of evidence. George Abbot's will unfortunately throws but little light upon his own family connexions, but is interesting in itself, so is here subjoined in abstract :

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George Abbott, now of Caldecott, co. Warwick: 21 Sept., 1647.-To be buried in the.church at Caldecote if I die at or near; if not, where I decease. 5. annually to the minister of Badsley, in Warwick. Four annuities of 208. during the lives of my mother and father-in-law, Col. Purefoye. 21. to those who helped to defend the house, now living at Hinkley. 101. to my cousin Lettice Farmer, 10l. to my kinswoman Sarah Smart."All my written books and papers that are of divinity to my uncle Ralph Purefoy, and those that are of other subjects to my fatherin-law." Certain other books to uncle. Those by Dr. Sibbs and Mr. Hooker's works, and those on history and physics, I give to my mother. "I give 51. to my said uncle to buy him Sibbs' and Hooker's works and to make him shelves to set his books on." "I make my honoured mother Mistress Joane Purefoy, wife to Col. William Purefoy, executor." Also gives her house and lands at Badsley, Warwick, and asks her to reward the servants. "Also my house, &c., in Conny Street, commonly called Lendinge Street, in York for ever.' "Also the house and lands I have by conveyance from my grandfather Vrinckton [?], lying and being at Corneborough neere Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire.

or in the county or the citty of Yorke, I know not well which." To my honoured father-in-law Col. William Purefoy of Caldecott, after my mother's death, all the houses and lands in Badsley and Cornborough. 41. 10s. for ever per annum "for a school at Badsley to teach boys and girls to read English perfectly, and say by Hart Mr. Ball's litle Catechism.' The like sum to Caldecott for the same purpose. Sums for school-books. After the death of my mother and father-in-law lands, &c., in Badsley to Daniel Barfield, servant to my father-in-law. Several legacies of 801., 401., &c., to friends. Also money to the ministers of Caldecott to buy Bibles and Hooker's works and Ball's large Catechism. George Williams, my kinsman. My cousin Thomas Bourchier, Es ., that married my cousin Pickering. To school at Bishops Hill, York.

&c.

Col. William Purefoy executor. Proved in London 21 April, 1649 [54 Fairfax].

Testator's "father-in-law " (or rather stepfather), the well-known Col. Purefoy of Caldecott, M.P. for Coventry in the Long

where he was buried.

I have only to add that for the above abstract of his will I am indebted to my W. D. PINK. friend Mr. A. Rhodes. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

SHAKESPEARIANA.

'ROMEO AND JULIET': THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON (10 S. xi. 423; 11 S. i. 164).— I thank DR. WHITEHEAD for his reply. It appears therefrom that the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' is in error in stating (lxiii. 153) that the parents of the third Earl of Southampton -who was the dedicatee of the two Shakespeare poems—were married 19 Feb., 1565/6. The correct date is "about May, 1569." This renders it more likely that the passage in Romeo and Juliet,' I. v. 32-42, refers to this marriage, which is therein stated to have taken place on Pentecost. Pentecost (Whitsunday) occurs forty-nine days after Easter Sunday. In the year in question, 1569, Easter fell on 10 April (see Whitaker's Almanack '), and Pentecost, consequently on 29 May-the month now correctly given by DR. WHITEHEAD.

The year 1569 is also in agreement with my suggestion that this marriage is referred to in the tragedy, as a little calculation will show. The two old Capulets differ as to the number of years elapsed since the marriage, one stating "thirty years," the other "some five-and-twenty years." The latter clinches his point by stating that the son of Lucentio was twenty-three years old ("His son was but a ward two years ago "). As the third earl was born in 1573, we obtain, by adding these 23 years, the year 1596 as a definite basis for Our calculation. Subtracting DR. WHITEHEAD'S year 1569 from 1596, we obtain 27 years, which agrees sufficiently well with the statement in the playsome five-and-twenty years."

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Thus it appears that the following four data agree chronologically inter se, and

support my view: (1) the age of the third earl, (2) the year 1569, (3) the month of May, and (4) the date of Pentecost..

took to his bed......By the side of the low pallet
bed that he lay on was a pitcher of barley water..
It is believed that for many days he took no food."
W. H. CLAY.

TEMPEST,' IV. i. 64 :

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But apparently the day in May, 1569, on which the marriage is assumed to have taken place (10 May) does not agree with the day Thy banks with pioned, and twilled brims, on which Pentecost fell (29 May). DR. Which spongy April at thy hest betrims. WHITEHEAD quotes a statement by Mr. Greenfield to the effect that the second Earl The word I have italicized is often taken to of Southampton, on his marriage with mean peonied," or covered with marshLord Montague's daughter" (italics mine), marigold. This identification of the peony conveyed his manors, lands, &c., to his with Caltha palustris is, apparently, due to a future father-in-law by indenture dated writer in The Edinburgh Review of October, 10 May, 1569. Note the words on his 1872, who quotes the authority of a clergyman resident for many years in Shakespeare's marriage." DR. WHITEHEAD appears assume that the conveyance must have been county. Can it be now discovered (1) who wrote the Edinburgh article? (2) who the clergyman made on the very day of the marriage, or at least on a date very near thereto. But was? My botanical experience of Shakeare we justified in so construing the three speare's country suggests no such identification of two plants widely different, one words in question? Did Mr. Greenfield base his assertion upon specific dates ob-matter of their buds, which I cannot regard would think, to the popular eye except in the tained from his sixteenth century sources ? as decisive. Facts are asked for, not I should be obliged if DR. WHITEHEAD or theories. NEL MEZZO. any one else would answer this question.

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Unless DR. WHITEHEAD can by citations from original sources confirm his statement that the marriage took place early in May," I am inclined to believe that it took place late in May, for the following reason. Southampton's mother opposed the match, and he married without her consent ( D.N.B.' l.c.). This probably explains the rather unusual action of the groom, who was of legal age, in conveying his manors and estates to his father-in-law in fee. Montague, in view of the opposition to the match, might well have required the settlement to be made, and all legal matters completed, before the arrangements for the wedding were perfected. Naturally an interval of some weeks would be necessary, thus throwing the date of the marriage towards the end of the month.

2 HENRY IV.,' I. ii.-Falstaff says of tradesmen like Master Dombledon who will not accept his and Bardolph's security: "And if a man is through with them in honest taking-up, then they must stand upon security." The explanations of the editors are unsatisfactory, e.g., Deighton says:

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through, i.q. thorough (which Pope substituted), downright, not standing upon It was not unusual for those of the petty economies " ; whereas H. Schmidt Catholic faith to be married on Pentecost in his Shakespeare-Lexicon ' suggests: during the sixteenth century. The Mon-"If a man does his utmost in borrowing, or

tagues were Catholics.

rather, if a man condescends to borrow,
in an honourable manner.' As Schmidt's
two paraphrases differ widely, the "rather "
is incongruous.
G. KRUEGER.
Berlin.

'CORIOLANUS,' IV. v. 110.-It is Shake-
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speare who tells us :
what can be emended." Why then tolerate

such a line as

Should from yond cloud speak divine things, when it can be emended without the aid of a Quintilian? I do not hesitate to say that

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'yond cloud," either through a lapsus 'OTHELLO,' I. i. 159 and I. iii. 115: pluma or by the purposed device of a short- "SAGITTARY."-In spite of all commentators, hand writer, has taken the place of "yon I believe the above word still remains a thunder cloud." The metre requires it; the crux. I would venture to suggest, however, ductus literarum suggests it; the majestic that, instead of being a particular house, it attributes of Jupiter demand it; the line is nothing more or less than the well-known will be complete in all its parts if we read Zattere," i.e., the "Fondamenta delle Should from yon thunder-cloud speak divine things. Zattere " (Quays of the Rafts), facing the PHILIP PERRING. island of the Giudecca. Any reader who has been at Venice will understand to what I refer.

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'TITUS ANDRONICUS,' V. i. 99-102 :-
That codding spirit had they from their mother,
As sure a card as ever won the set;
That bloody mind, I think, they learned of me,
As true a dog as ever fought at head.

Has there been any attempt to find out what
this means? Dr. Johnson explained the
line "As true a dog as ever fought at head "
as alluding to a bulldog, who always faces
his foe. (My observation of bulldogs is
quite to the contrary: they fix their teeth
into some portion of their foeman's rear-
ward, and simply hang on. But let that
pass.)

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About twenty years ago (Shakespeare in Fact and in Criticism,' New York, 1888) I ventured (apropos of wondering why our commentators so rarely annotate passages that some earlier commentator has neglected) to guess that the word card was Aaron's passing pun on the pronunciation of the word codding" in the line That codding spirit had they from their mother." Bad as the guess was, it had the merit of an attempt at the hitherto unattempted (so far as I knew then or know now) to elucidate a neglected crux.

But what do these lines mean, anyhow?
APPLETON MORGAN.

South Grange, New Jersey.

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'CYMBELINE,' I. i.—The late Prof. Churton Collins in his 'Studies in Shakespeare' cites the opening lines of this play, first corrected by Tyrwhitt,

You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods
No more obey the heavens than our courtiers
Still seem as does the king,

as one of those obscure passages that still
baffle the ingenuity of commentators, but
one where conjecture may be legitimately
exercised. In the First Folio the reading is :-
You do not meet a man but Frownes.
Our bloods no more obey the Heavens
Then our Courtiers:

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Still seeme, as do's the Kings.

Verplanck considers that Tyrwhitt's version gives a good sense, though in harsh and abrupt language, such as Shakespeare's desire of condensing his meaning often leads him to use. By reading king' for 'kings' all other alteration is avoided.”

The difficulty lies in the latter clause of the sentence, which in its present form seems incomplete, inasmuch as it does not offer a true comparison to that which precedes it. In any other author such a collocation of words as "our courtiers still seem as does the king" would be voted boorish, if not

mere bathos. It is difficult to believe that Shakespeare could ever have penned such a lame and inconsequent conclusion.

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In the N.E.D.' I find there is an obsolete impersonal verb "to duc," which means to be proper, or fit," an example of which is given from Drayton's 'Odes' with the date 1603 :

Which when it him deweth
His feathers he meweth.

the First Folio, the discordance of the text
will, I think, be overcome, and a logical

If we substitute "dues " for the 66 do's 22 of