: Notes and Queries Number 13 January 26 1850 by Various - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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QUERIES:-- Catherine Pegge, by Lord Braybrooke William Basse and his Poems, by J.P. Collier Minor Queries:--Christmas Hymn--Passage in Pope--Circulation of the Blood--Meaning of Pallace--Oliver Cromwell--Savegard and Russells--Pandoxare--Lord Bacon's Psalms--Festival of St. Michael, &c.--Luther and Erasmus--Lay of the Phoenix--Agricola--Liturgy Version of Psalms

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, catalogues, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements

None of the commentators have noticed this, but I think my suggestion carries with it some weight.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

MARLOWE AND THE OLD "TAMING OF A SHREW."

"Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, Longing to view Orion's drisling looks, Leaps from th' Antarctic world unto the sky, And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath;"

I will not take up your space now with the parallel passages which I noted; but, should you wish it, and be able to make room for them, I will furnish you with a list. It is, of course, obvious that the one I have quoted proves nothing by itself; accumulated instances, in connection with the general question of style, alone become important. I will conclude, by giving a list which I have made out of Marlowe's plays, in favour of which I conceive there to be either internal or external evidence:--

"Locrine.

Tamburlaine the Great .

Jew of Malta.

Doctor Faustus.

Edward the Second.

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