io" s. v. FEB. 3, IMC.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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favour? There was a ballad on it. "I be
gan to gather into him gently" (45) = urge
him. " Palpable ass " (46). " Penman " (46)
"Ale-knight "(46). "Braines beaten to the
yarking up of ballads" (49) = experienced in
" The old Cole hath such quirkes and quid
dities " (53) = old rip. " Dead stuff" (53) = un
marketable. "Shoots out in the lash " (53)
= runsriot? "Your mashippe"(54, 69, &c.).
"Pveaching wit" (58). "If there were a
dormer built to it " (59). "His bloody lugges '
(62) = bleeding ears, Scotch earlier. "Hopper
[of mill with] false hole" (66); this is in
'Quip' (xi. 282), but not elsewhere. "Ale-
wife unless she nick her pots "(68), a vint-
ner's cheat. " The chalk must walk " (68)=
score up a bill. " Ostry faggots " (68)
scamped fuel. This is in 'Quip' (275), and a
good deal of the vintger's cheats (69) is
developed there to greater length (278-9).
"Butcher with his prickes puffe up his
meate" (69), repeated in 'Quip' (274). "Draper his darke shop to shadow the dye and wooll of his cloth" (69), repeated in ' Quip ' (277). " One of the Pantry " (70, 71). " Cosmographize " (72). " Mustachies after
the lash of Lions peak pendent" (72),
repeated, with much of this description of a fashionable gallant, in 'Quip' (247). "Madril," "Alcaires," and "Terra firma " (73) : the earliest example of last, perhaps. "He pronqunst his words like a bragout" (80), this pipned [?] bragout" (74); no other examples in 'N.E.D.' "Alia Neapolitano" (74), "All' espagnole" (72), "Alia revolto" (76), "Alia mode de France" (72), "Alia boone voyage" (27). "Pilling and polling" (76). " Lock worn at left ear " (76). " Mag- nifico " (77, 99). " They stand upom circum- stances" (79). "A kind of scholastical
paragon " (80). "Past, As in proesenti as
far as Carmen heroicum" (80). " Held up his head like a Malt horse" (80). "At the boordes end " (83). " The Poligamoi or bel- swaggers of the country " (85). " The Vene- tian and the gallogascaine is stale, and trunk slop out of use," &c. (95). " Italian wing"
(95), tailoring. " Fight in Mile-end under
Duke of Shoreditch " (95). "To use the figure Pleonasmos Hisce ocu/is" (96), the tailoring coney-catching is hardly repeated in the 'Quip,' which follows there another source more closely. " Hell under tailors shop- board " (96), 240 in 'Quip.' "Snip and Snap "(96). "Divel lookte over Lyncolne" (97). "Richest billiment lace " (97). " French
pamde house" (97). "This Glorioso this
bowical huffe snuffe" (98).
The above list, which might be extended with law terms and cozening words, contains
a number of terms which are not known-
earlier, and several that are not known else-
where. None of them occurs in Greene's
works except those few that are transferred'
from this tract to Greene's 'Quip for an-
Upstart Courtier.' Without the negative
evidence that none of the "Greeneisms"
appears here, I think it amounts to proof
that the tract was by another hand ; but
that Greene made use of it in his ' Quip ' is
obvious. It is well known that this tract
is borrowed by Greene in idea, in structural 1
characteristics, and sometimes in language
from ' The Debate between Pride and Lowli-
ness ' (1569). But the latter is a very tedious
poem, whereas Greene's prose is full of wit
and living interest, one of the best things he-
wrote. As was his way, Greene makes no-
acknowledgment in his dedications (there
are two) of his obligations. But, as Collier
says in his introduction to the earlier tract
(Shaks. Soc., 1841), "he stole the whole sub-
stance of it and put it into prose." And we-
may be thankful to him for doing so, and
remember also that acknowledgments of this-
kind in Greene's time, and in later times,
were hardly dreamt of. Collier goes on to-
say that the beginning, middle, and end of
the 'Debate' and of Greene's 'Quip' corre-
spond very closely ; and he calls attention to-
the fact that Harvey in his attacks upon
Greene has not made abundant use of this-
offence against him. I find a passage in
Harvey which, oddly enough, would show
that he did not know of the * Debate,' and
indicates that he himself was the suggester
of the ' Quip.' It is in his reply to Lyly,
written in 1589 (Grosart's * Harvey,' ii. 187) ;
" Witt might devise a pleasurable Dialogue
betwixt the Leather Pilch and the Velvet
coate ; and helpe to persuade the better to
deale neighbourly with the other ; the other
to content himselfe with his owne calling."
In Lyly's tract ('Pappe with an Hatchet/
1588-9) it is agreeable to see what excellent,
vigorous, and amusing English that writer
could make use of when he chose to lay down
bis mantle of Euphuism that fashion
enforced him to adhere to. It is the most
readable of the Martinist series, outside
Nashe. As a final word on Euphuism I
would refer to Furness's excellent study of it
his introduction to ' Love's Labour's
Lost,' 1904, Variorum Shakespeare, which
"las just reached me. H. C. HART.
(To be continued.)
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. I was greatly
nterested in reading a note by Col. Prideaux
on ' Auctioneers' Catalogues ' in The Pub-
