Notes and Queries

Papers
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Orlando’s Beard and Love Cures in As You Like It2
The Old English Pronoun Þæge: An Addendum to the Addendum2
The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context2
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing1
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections1
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)1
Co-Authorship in King John: Further Evidence1
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence1
A Further Echo of Studley’s Translation of Seneca’S Medea in Shakespeare’s Macbeth1
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus1
Four Unpublished George Henry Lewes Letters1
Who is the Queen?1
Skelton’s English Diodorus and the 1481 Edition of Poggio’s Latin Translation1
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors1
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen1
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne1
‘Widow Dido’ and ‘Widower Aeneas’: Some Undeciphered Ribaldry in The Tempest1
Suppressed Polemic in Thomas Stanley’s Cambridge Manuscript1
The Expression to Fanny About1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss1
‘Odium’ in John Gauden’s Political and Religious Pamphlets1
Ben Jonson and Robert Browne of the Boar’s Head1
Allen Walker Read's Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) and the Obelisk Press1
The Early Years of David Bandinel, the Italian Huguenot First ‘Anglican’ Dean of Jersey (1620–1645)0
Shakespeare, Mantuan, and The Book of Sir Thomas More0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
The Jinling Patriots of J. H. Prynne’s Kazoo Dreamboats0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
The Paper War between The Old Maid and The Connoisseur: Additional Exchanges0
Old English esa gescot(es) in the Charm for a Sudden Stitch0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
‘In the Ambush of my Name’: The ‘Parable of the Talents’ in Measure for Measure0
Correction to Oed First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
Books Received0
‘Nip Some Young Doom in the Bud’: An Allusion to Beckett’s All That Fall in Cormac Mccarthy’s Suttree0
A Posy for a Wedding Ring in 16220
Cant in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild0
Oscar Wilde at the Nebraska State Hospital for the Insane0
Enker (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 150 and 2477)0
A Surprising Misattribution to Rochester by Bragge0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
‘Done Before Their Eyes’: William Winstanley and Chaucer’s Comeback0
The Brood-Devouring Earth: A Possible Source for the First Quatrain of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 190
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Identification of Thomas Bretnor’s Adversary in his Prognostication For 16140
Gradus ad Parnassum: Step or Steps?0
Meanings Behind the Names of the ‘Fairies’ in Merry Wives of Windsor—An Explanation for ‘Bede’ and ‘Peane’ Leading to an Uncovering of Two Distinct Versions of the Taper-Trial Episode and a New0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D’Argenville and the “Natural History of Shells” Series in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1755–1759: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Oldest English Lawyer Joke? Guthlac A, l. 265a and Christ II, l. 733a0
A 1587 Deed and a 1606 Will Correct the Biography of John Studley, Tudor Poet, Translator and Cleric0
A New Source for Centlivre’s The Beau’s Duel0
Jean R. Brink. The Early Spenser: ‘Minde on Honour Fixed’0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
John Milton, Ambrose Barnes, and the Republic of Newcastle0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Sycorax’s ‘Raven’s Feather’ (The Tempest I.ii.324): Were Ravens Birds of Witchcraft in Shakespeare’s Day?0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
‘Fro dedly synne we dyd hym schelve’: A Problematic Word in The Castle of Perseverance0
Epistrophe and the ‘Lost Line’ in The Spanish Tragedy 20.7.230
The Mercian Rushworth Gloss as a Copy: Evidence from the Manuscript0
Vita & Selma: A Note on the Reception of Selma Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World0
Andrew O. Winckles, Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: ‘Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader’0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive’0
Provenance of Significant Manuscript Witness to Katherine Philips’ Poetry, WOR. MS. 58, Revisited0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
Did Chaucer Know Livy?0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
Ricardian Poetry in Florence Converse’s Long Will (1903)0
Sir Samuel Tuke’s Brush With the Law, 1653–1654: New Evidence0
An Early Icelandic Attestation of ÞVeit ‘Thwaite’0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
The Old English Name Oeric0
Paradise Lost’s ‘Sad Cure’ as a Source for Wallace Stevens’s ‘Cure Beyond Forgetfulness’ in ‘The Rock’0
A Document About Touring Players: A New Copy and A Reply0
King John is Written by Shakespeare and Peele0
A Revised Chronological Scope for the National Archives’ Probate Inventory Series0
The Origin of the Phrase ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’0
The Stylized Hedera in Cambridge, University Library, Kk.3.180
Bad Sheep: References to Brain Infections in the Cloud of Unknowing0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Trinity College Dublin MS 661 and the Attribution of ‘On Time’ to John Skelton0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
An Elegy for the Restoration Playwright, E. Polwhele?0
Letters to Roden Noel0
Fragments of the Middle English Prose Brut in the Raynham Archives0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Greek Anthology 7.311 and Three English Epigrams on Niobe0
Were the Annals of Winchester Dedicated to Adam of Dryburgh?0
Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare and John Keats’s ‘On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again’ (1818)0
Allusions to Horace and Homer on the Frontispiece to Coryats Crudities (1611)0
Xenophon in English: The Sources of William Barker’s Education of Cyrus0
Ironic Allusions to Hebrews 13:4 and Romans 11:16 in William Congreve’s The Way of the World, Act III, Scene XVIII0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
More About Moore: The Celebrated Worm Doctor and his Practice in London, 1699–17370
A Note on the Etymology of Dear0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
The Influence of Philip Massinger’s The Maid of Honour on The Roman Actor0
The Etymology of Releet ‘Road Junction’0
‘See/How I Convey My Shame Out of Thine Eyes’: Breathing Dramatic Life into an Ancient Proverb in William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, III.xi.51-40
New Evidence About Tudor Royal Players, George and John Birche and Their Connection With James Burbage0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Is There Sufficient Support for an Old English Strong Verb Getingan?0
Hubert Stogdon and Laurence Sterne: An Amplification0
Lewis Carroll and ‘Dinah’: An Unnoted Joke in the Oxford Pamphlets0
Antedating the inkhorn-term debate0
Bromborough, Brunanburh, and Dingesmere0
Rӕdels Reconsidered0
The Franklin’s Tale and The Tempest Again0
Sidney’s ‘Dribbed Shot’: A Poetics of Hallucination?0
Thomas Ravenscroft: A Brief ‘Civil’ Discourse0
Felbinger Not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
Woman Rules: A Ghost Restoration Comedy0
Elizabeth Jane Weston’s Verses on the Death of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II0
Hellgate, Cripplegate, and Newgate: The Soubriquets of the 7th Earl of Barrymore and his Siblings0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
‘Upon Grounde’: A Note on Alliterative Significance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight0
The Painter William Sheppard (fl. 1641–60) at the Hague in 16470
An Early Seventeenth-Century Reader of Samuel Daniel’s Philotas0
Abdiel’s Preaching the Word ‘Out of Season’: An Allusion to 2 Timothy 4:2 in Milton’s Paradise Lost 5:8500
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
The Rope Dancers William and Thomas Peadle at Amsterdam in 16400
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
‘Rosalind’ and the Countess: The Newly Discovered Poetry of Marie Corelli (1854–1924)0
Some Corrections to the Periodical Publishing History of Marie Corelli (1854–1924)0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
Rotas Square Articles0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
William Beckford’s Vathek and the American Book Trade0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
A Welsh Translator’s Reply to Edward Thomas0
An Antedating of Bluestone0
A List of Fifty Toponyms in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy0
George Ellis Defends William Langland (1801)0
Frances Brooke’s The Siege of Sinope (1781): Sources and Historical Background0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
Æstel and Divine Law0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
Hair of the Dog0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
Two New Sources for Frederic Tubach’s Index Exemplorum 639 and Further Justification for Robert Holcot as a Source of A Christian Mannes Bileeve0
‘The Flitting Phantoms of Iniquity’: A Spenserian Source for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Fancy’s Show Box: A Morality’ in the Ninth Canto of Book Two of The Faerie Queene0
A Note on Old English Forpǣran and Middle English Forpēren0
Roger Daniel and the Printing of Francis Finch’s Friendship (1654)0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
A Possible Identification of Dr Sylas Neville (1741–1840)0
Middle English Shiteburgh ‘A Privy’0
Sir Gawain and Saint Julian the Hospitaller: An Overlooked Allusion0
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Oscar Wilde’s Rehearsal Copy of Vera; or, the Nihilists0
The Diggers’ Song0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
The Influence of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea Voyage0
The Correct Publication Date of Mary Wellington's ‘1718’ Edition of Hamlet0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Andrew Hadfield, Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance.0
An Emily Dickinson Addressee Correctly Identified0
Stephen Hawes and the Death of Henry VII0
Corrigendum to “A Recycled Extract from Gower’s Confessio Amantis in Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29”0
William Baldwin’s Source for The Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware The Cat: A New Consideration0
Jonson First Folio Copies in the Meisei Shakespeare Library0
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Walter Charleton, Tobias Rustat, and St. John’s Hospital, Bath in 1667–80
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Barclay’s Eclogues and the Mantuan-Commentary of Josse Bade0
A Rude Note from Shaw0
Early Eighteenth-Century Anti-Mathematicism at the University of Cambridge0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
The Camphor Case: The Identity of H. G. Wells’s Time Traveller0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
More on the Rope-Dancing Couple Jacob Hall (fl. 1670–1681/2) and Susanna Roy0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Evidence That Swift’s Drapier’s Letters were produced by Sarah Harding, not John Harding0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
‘Maimed, and Deformed’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster0
An English(?)–French Rope-Dancing Partnership in 17150
Mallecho or Malligo? A Crux in Hamlet Revisited0
Bishop Butler’s Hybrid Moral Faculty and the Wisdom of Solomon0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
Signets Reborn: H.D.’s Serpent-and-Thistle Signet Ring and Louvre Museum Item Number BJ 12120
Titus Andronicus: Peele, Shakespeare, Peele0
Richard Hearne’s Ros CŒli (1640): More Piracies, Including Felltham’s ‘True Happiness’/‘Upon the Vanity of the World’0
Identifying ‘A Presbyter of the United Church of England and Ireland’0
Refining the Date for an Emily Dickinson Letter0
Act Division and The Spanish Tragedy0
A. F. Pollard as Unwitting Originator of the Phrase ‘I Would Not Open Windows into Men’s Souls’0
The Identities of Henry More’s Correspondents in his Letters on Self-Love0
A Transplanted Camellia Tree: Amy Lowell’s Poetic Debt to Lafcadio Hearn0
Samuel Johnson’s Greek Epigram on the Duke of Marlborough0
Marianne’s £2,000—‘I Am Sure I Am Not Extravagant in My Demands.’0
The Authorship of Arden of Faversham0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’0
Possible Clarification for Two Previously Unidentified Dickinson References0
Juliet’s Age Reconsidered0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
OE don, macian, and wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
An Unpublished Letter From Oscar Wilde to Florence West0
Milton’s Unblushing Roses0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
LawIne 17: A Doubtful Emendation0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Elizabeth Bronfen, Serial Shakespeare: An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American TV Drama0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Supernaculum: Nashe’s Dog Latin for a Germanic Drinking Custom0
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, John Donne, and William Perkins0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
The Treasonous Tailor: A Note on I II 22 of Macbeth0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
George Henry Lewes’s Annotations of the Comedies in Charles Knight’s Shakspere, (2nd Edition, 1842–1844)0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
Motto of Katherine Parr0
Thomas Carlyle’s Practice as Historian: Three Unpublished Letters0
A Scandinavian Manuscript Witness to the 1405 Richard Scrope Execution Verses0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
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