Notes and Queries

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John Masefield2
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss2
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
The Book of Wisdom and the DÆGweorc in the Old English Exodus1
Edward Howard’s The Man of Newmarket (1678) and the King’s Company’s Complaint Against Dryden1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy1
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections1
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
Sterne, Trollope, and Temptation1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll1
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick1
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere1
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life1
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)1
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
Oscar Wilde on the Husbands of Beautiful Women0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
‘Mi Minde is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
Correction0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
‘Grandeza en la humildad’: The Further Story of Hopkins’s ‘In Honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez’0
A Possible Source for the Term Mental Sight in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 11.418 in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed I: 40
George Aitken’s Genealogy of Dr John Arbuthnot0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive’0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
John Ray on Bookwheels0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
The Origin of the Phrase ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
Latches in Shakespeare0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: L. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and L. 193 ‘Dok’0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Books Received0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Andrew O. Winckles, Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: ‘Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader’0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
The Correct Publication Date of Mary Wellington's ‘1718’ Edition of Hamlet0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
Proverbial Sources in Swift’s Polite Conversation0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
The ‘[H]aterell’ as Blind-Fold in the York Pageant of ‘Christ’s Trial Before Herod’0
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
Two Versions of Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Revision0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
Keats, Kean, and Othello0
An Early Vernacular Annal on the First Crusade from Christ Church, Canterbury0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Peace-minded Critics of Tennyson’s Maud0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
Stephen Hawes and the Death of Henry VII0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Andrew Hadfield, Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance.0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
A Burlesque Middle English Mathematical Question0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
Lewis Carroll and ‘Dinah’: An Unnoted Joke in the Oxford Pamphlets0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
A Possible Allusion to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 in East Coker IV0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
An Unidentified Latin Poem by William Alabaster and its Translation by Abraham Cowley0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
The Expression to Fanny About0
A Pun On ‘Desultory’ in ‘The Ring of Time’0
Cant in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
Phineas and His Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘that Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Stand in and be Counted0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘to His Coy Mistress’?0
Lisa Downing (ed.), After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century; Tyler bradway And E.L. Mccallum (ed0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
The Origins of £: S: D0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
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
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
‘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
From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms0
OE don, macian, and wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
Identifying Milton’s ‘Presence Divine’ as the Son of God: An Allusion to Revelation 1:17 in Paradise Lost VIII.314–170
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
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