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' worthless " should apparently be " worth -
less't,"
P. 130. I. p. 152, "Nor will I do : obey your warrant." Qy. read " Nor will I disobey your warrant." "Warrant" is probably monosyllabic. The metre of the context is irregular.
P. 130. I. p. 166 :
the tide Of short disturbance running through the land.
For " short " Deighton suggests " swift," B. "sore." Qy. "stout" ?
P. 130. I. p. 168 :
Giue her thy purse : for here comes somebody, Stand by awhile, for fear thou be discouerd.
B. suggests :
stand by awhile for fear Thou be discouerd, for here comes somebody
a rather violent change, involving a less smooth rhythm. This suggestion, however, he abandons in favour of one made by Mr. Brennan :
for fear thou be discouerd Stand by awhile, for here comes somebody.
This interchange of the two half -lines seems also too violent a remedy for the occasion.
It is surely natural to say " here comes somebody " before giving the admonition, "stand by awhile," &c. I suggest the substitution of "but" for "for" in the former line. " For " came in no doubt from the line below.
P. 132. ' A Woman Kild with Kindnes, 1 II. 102. Your grief abounds and hits aganst my brest." B. "Read 'rebounds'; the meaning being that her grief flies back against him like an echo of his own pain."
The change seems needless. Cp. ' Henry V.,' IV. iii. 104 :
Mark then abounding valour in our English,
That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
Break out into a second course of mischief,
Killing in relapse of mortality.
P. 136. 'A Challenge for Beautie,' V. [35] :-
But never with a braver opposite Did English-iaem trie with fire. B. "Qy. -vie* for 'trie.' 2 ' But does not " trie " = " try it out" ?
P. 138. V. 59 :
They mist their aime tho': and yet but a fayrer. B. suggests
y niist their aime tho Qy. read
They mist their aime tho' ; and yet but a finger, i-e., yet but an inch (?). P. 139. V. 73 :
Tin- strangest calling impos'd on me That ere was laid on Virgin.
and yet but of error.
B. "Read: '[falsely] impos'd on me.'"
Qy. for " calling " read " calumny n ?
P. 139/ ' Loves Maistresse, ? V. 146 :
Our recollections, And Laborinths, still busied in the search.
B. "For 'And' read 'In'?" Qy. for " Laborinths " read " Laborings " ?
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. P. 149. ' The Scornful Lady,' III. ii. 125, "A primitive pox in his bones." Qy. "punitive' 4 ? The word is first attested in the ' N.E.D.' in 1624, and would be un- familiar and liable to change.
PEELE.
P. 160. 'David and Bethsabe,' II. ii. 21, 22:
And in his bosom slept and was to liue As was his daughter or his deerest child. I trust we may still keep Dyce's correction " and was to him " in spite of B.'s suggestion "and was beliue " = " soon became." The A.V. has " and was unto him as a daughter "; . the Vulgate, " eratque illi sicut filia."
P. 162. 'Sir Gyles Goosecappe,' 1359-61 :
And this that to an other dame wood seeme
Perplext and foulded in a rudelesse vaile,
Wilbe more cleere then ballads to her eye.
B. suggests " nedelesse " for " rudelesse. n Qy. "riddles" ?
P. 165. 'Damon and Pithias,' Hazlitt's Dodsley,'- iv. 26 :
Serve one, serve both (so near) who would win
them.
I think they have but one heart between them. B. suggests
Serve one, serve both ; so near, who would wean them.
Qy. " twin them " ?
G. C. MOORE SMITH.
Sheffield.
PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS.
FOUR years ago I sent to ' N. & Q.' a long list of provincial booksellers (10 S. v. 141, 183, 242). I beg for the insertion of this continuation first, because many persons found the former list interesting and useful ; and secondly, because it is not likely that I shall have another opportunity of making further considerable additions.
Some of the names now given have been obtained by actual inspection, but many are at second-hand, from various sources. Some names contained in the previous list are repeated with enlarged particulars, and
