Notes and Queries

Papers
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The Faerie Queene’s Spelling in Context2
Orlando’s Beard and Love Cures in As You Like It2
William Poole (ed.), The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume XI: Manuscript Writings2
A Further Echo of Studley’s Translation of Seneca’S Medea in Shakespeare’s Macbeth1
A Previously Unnoticed Copy of the Articles of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, 15281
The Old English Pronoun Þæge: An Addendum to the Addendum1
Skelton’s English Diodorus and the 1481 Edition of Poggio’s Latin Translation1
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)1
Co-Authorship in King John: Further Evidence1
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses1
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections1
‘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 Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli1
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne1
Who is the Queen?1
Suppressed Polemic in Thomas Stanley’s Cambridge Manuscript1
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors1
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll1
Rachel Crossland, Modernist Physics: Waves, Particles, and Relativities in the Writing of Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence1
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing1
‘Widow Dido’ and ‘Widower Aeneas’: Some Undeciphered Ribaldry in The Tempest1
Four Unpublished George Henry Lewes Letters1
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss1
The Expression to Fanny About1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
Pearl, Line 761: “Yor Worlde Wete”1
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation1
Anna Battigelli (ed.), Art and Artifact in Austen1
Linguistic Change and Metre: A Reply0
Mallecho or Malligo? A Crux in Hamlet Revisited0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Stephen Hawes and the Death of Henry VII0
The Influence of Philip Massinger’s The Maid of Honour on The Roman Actor0
Rotas Square Articles0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Paradise Lost’s ‘Sad Cure’ as a Source for Wallace Stevens’s ‘Cure Beyond Forgetfulness’ in ‘The Rock’0
Supernaculum: Nashe’s Dog Latin for a Germanic Drinking Custom0
‘Fro dedly synne we dyd hym schelve’: A Problematic Word in The Castle of Perseverance0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
The Influence of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso on Fletcher and Massinger’s The Sea Voyage0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
‘Maimed, and Deformed’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster0
The Diggers’ Song0
The Identities of Henry More’s Correspondents in his Letters on Self-Love0
Felbinger Not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Roger Daniel and the Printing of Francis Finch’s Friendship (1654)0
Sidney’s ‘Dribbed Shot’: A Poetics of Hallucination?0
A New Source for Centlivre’s The Beau’s Duel0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Plutarch’s Island of Saturn as a Source for The Tempest0
Rӕdels Reconsidered0
The Game Prisoner’s Base in Early Modern English Literature0
Walter Charleton, Tobias Rustat, and St. John’s Hospital, Bath in 1667–80
Does Hamlet Allude to the Coronation of James I?0
Juliet’s Age Reconsidered0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’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
The Old English Name Oeric0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Hubert Stogdon and Laurence Sterne: An Amplification0
Bromborough, Brunanburh, and Dingesmere0
Ironic Allusions to Hebrews 13:4 and Romans 11:16 in William Congreve’s The Way of the World, Act III, Scene XVIII0
A Note on the Etymology of Dear0
Bishop Butler’s Hybrid Moral Faculty and the Wisdom of Solomon0
More About Moore: The Celebrated Worm Doctor and his Practice in London, 1699–17370
Bad Sheep: References to Brain Infections in the Cloud of Unknowing0
Gradus ad Parnassum: Step or Steps?0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
‘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
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
A Document About Touring Players: A New Copy and A Reply0
King John is Written by Shakespeare and Peele0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
Elizabeth Jane Weston’s Verses on the Death of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II0
Vita & Selma: A Note on the Reception of Selma Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
Dogberry, The Book of Job, and Gabriel Harvey0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
A Possible Source for William Shakespeare’s ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Andrew O. Winckles, Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: ‘Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader’0
Sir Gawain and Saint Julian the Hospitaller: An Overlooked Allusion0
An Early Icelandic Attestation of ÞVeit ‘Thwaite’0
Woman Rules: A Ghost Restoration Comedy0
Fragments of the Middle English Prose Brut in the Raynham Archives0
The Cross in London, British Library MS Harley 22530
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
Hair of the Dog0
‘Now let the Strucken Deer go Weep’: What Does it Mean or Think?0
The Mercian Rushworth Gloss as a Copy: Evidence from the Manuscript0
The Oldest English Lawyer Joke? Guthlac A, l. 265a and Christ II, l. 733a0
The Stylized Hedera in Cambridge, University Library, Kk.3.180
John Milton, Ambrose Barnes, and the Republic of Newcastle0
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
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
A Possible Identification of Dr Sylas Neville (1741–1840)0
William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Early Eighteenth-Century Anti-Mathematicism at the University of Cambridge0
An Early Seventeenth-Century Reader of Samuel Daniel’s Philotas0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
An Elegy for the Restoration Playwright, E. Polwhele?0
Greek Anthology 7.311 and Three English Epigrams on Niobe0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
Elizabeth Bronfen, Serial Shakespeare: An Infinite Variety of Appropriations in American TV Drama0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Milton’s Unblushing Roses0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
Signets Reborn: H.D.’s Serpent-and-Thistle Signet Ring and Louvre Museum Item Number BJ 12120
‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, John Donne, and William Perkins0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
‘Rosalind’ and the Countess: The Newly Discovered Poetry of Marie Corelli (1854–1924)0
Spies and Porters of the Mind in Andre Du Laurens’ Discourse of the Preservation of Sight0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
Is There Sufficient Support for an Old English Strong Verb Getingan?0
Jonson First Folio Copies in the Meisei Shakespeare Library0
William Beckford’s Vathek and the American Book Trade0
An Emily Dickinson Addressee Correctly Identified0
Abdiel’s Preaching the Word ‘Out of Season’: An Allusion to 2 Timothy 4:2 in Milton’s Paradise Lost 5:8500
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
A Revised Chronological Scope for the National Archives’ Probate Inventory Series0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
Frances Brooke’s The Siege of Sinope (1781): Sources and Historical Background0
Shakespeare, Mantuan, and The Book of Sir Thomas More0
Letters to Roden Noel0
Some Corrections to the Periodical Publishing History of Marie Corelli (1854–1924)0
The Camphor Case: The Identity of H. G. Wells’s Time Traveller0
The Paper War between The Old Maid and The Connoisseur: Additional Exchanges0
Dyed Cloth in the London Thornton Manuscript0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
George Henry Lewes’s Annotations of the Comedies in Charles Knight’s Shakspere, (2nd Edition, 1842–1844)0
Evidence That Swift’s Drapier’s Letters were produced by Sarah Harding, not John Harding0
Identifying ‘A Presbyter of the United Church of England and Ireland’0
Was Shakespeare Cuckoo about Wrens?0
An Unreported Chaucer Epitaph in English0
Act Division and The Spanish Tragedy0
Æstel and Divine Law0
Did Chaucer Know Livy?0
A Note on Old English Forpǣran and Middle English Forpēren0
Marianne’s £2,000—‘I Am Sure I Am Not Extravagant in My Demands.’0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
Andrew Hadfield, Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance.0
Books Received0
A Source for the Satirised Vocabulary in Poetaster0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
A Charm Against Thieves as a Textual Amulet0
Refining the Date for an Emily Dickinson Letter0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
‘See, See, Where Christ’s Blood Streams in the Firmament’: Marlowe’s Recollection of a Corpus Christi Doomsday Pageant0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
The Rope Dancers William and Thomas Peadle at Amsterdam in 16400
More on the Rope-Dancing Couple Jacob Hall (fl. 1670–1681/2) and Susanna Roy0
Coining a Phrase: ‘My Two Cents’ Worth’0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
Bromborough, Brunanburh, and Dingesmere Revisited: A Response to Michael Deakin0
The Authorship of Arden of Faversham0
Cant in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild0
A Scandinavian Manuscript Witness to the 1405 Richard Scrope Execution Verses0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
Trinity College Dublin MS 661 and the Attribution of ‘On Time’ to John Skelton0
Titus Andronicus: Peele, Shakespeare, Peele0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
Thomas Ravenscroft: A Brief ‘Civil’ Discourse0
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive’0
Possible Clarification for Two Previously Unidentified Dickinson References0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
Sir Samuel Tuke’s Brush With the Law, 1653–1654: New Evidence0
Samuel Johnson’s Greek Epigram on the Duke of Marlborough0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
The Early Years of David Bandinel, the Italian Huguenot First ‘Anglican’ Dean of Jersey (1620–1645)0
The Treasonous Tailor: A Note on I II 22 of Macbeth0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
LawIne 17: A Doubtful Emendation0
The Flattering Milliner, Lost Play by William Combe, Discovered0
The Franklin’s Tale and The Tempest Again0
A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper0
Richard Hearne’s Ros CŒli (1640): More Piracies, Including Felltham’s ‘True Happiness’/‘Upon the Vanity of the World’0
A 1587 Deed and a 1606 Will Correct the Biography of John Studley, Tudor Poet, Translator and Cleric0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
‘Nip Some Young Doom in the Bud’: An Allusion to Beckett’s All That Fall in Cormac Mccarthy’s Suttree0
New Evidence About Tudor Royal Players, George and John Birche and Their Connection With James Burbage0
A Surprising Misattribution to Rochester by Bragge0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
A Posy for a Wedding Ring in 16220
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Ricardian Poetry in Florence Converse’s Long Will (1903)0
Latches in Shakespeare0
The Brood-Devouring Earth: A Possible Source for the First Quatrain of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 190
Chuck in Shakespeare’s Plays0
Old English esa gescot(es) in the Charm for a Sudden Stitch0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
Middle English Shiteburgh ‘A Privy’0
A Rude Note from Shaw0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
A List of Fifty Toponyms in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy0
Bishops are 77 Times Better: ‘How Dumbar was Desyrd to be Ane Freir’, Lines 21–250
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
‘In the Ambush of my Name’: The ‘Parable of the Talents’ in Measure for Measure0
‘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
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
Epistrophe and the ‘Lost Line’ in The Spanish Tragedy 20.7.230
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
Were the Annals of Winchester Dedicated to Adam of Dryburgh?0
Thomas Carlyle’s Practice as Historian: Three Unpublished Letters0
A Transplanted Camellia Tree: Amy Lowell’s Poetic Debt to Lafcadio Hearn0
The Transformation of Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor and his Allusion in 5.1.1-4 to the Treble Goddess0
Xenophon in English: The Sources of William Barker’s Education of Cyrus0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
Enker (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 150 and 2477)0
The Etymology of Releet ‘Road Junction’0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
An Unpublished Letter From Oscar Wilde to Florence West0
Barclay’s Eclogues and the Mantuan-Commentary of Josse Bade0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
The Second Element of Campshed0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
The Origin of the Phrase ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
An Old English Progenitor for Middle English Accusative his0
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