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and are still read. She does not appear even
in the works on anonymous and pseudony-
mous literature. Her real name I saw in
one of Mr. Shorter's works on the Brontes
Smith & Elder were her publishers.
J. J. H.
Dublin.
KEATS QUEEIES.—Would any of your
readers suggest explanations of the following way to be sure on the point is if one were
passages in Keats ?—
" In Love's eye."—' Isabella,' 1. 2.
If looks speak love-laws, I will drink her tears
' Isabella,' 1. 39.
Perhaps " love-laws " may be a mistake for reliability ?
" love-lays," in which case " speak love-laws
would be equivalent to " breathe love's tune '
in 1. 30.
Except in such a page where Theseus' spouse
Over the pathless waves towards him bows.
' Isabella,' 1. 36.
Why is this an exception ? The " page " referred
to is perhaps Aspatia's picture of deserted Ariadne
in ' The Maid's Tragedy,' but there is no mention
there of boicing over the waters.
Great wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay.
' Isabella,' 1. 138.
Waking an Indian from his cloudy hall.
' Isabella,' 1. 270.
Is the " cloudy hall " the Indian's paradise, and is
any particular story referred to ?
" Atom darkness."—' Isabella,' 1. 322.
" Atom-Universe."—' Hyperion,' ii. 1. 183.
" Sing not your ' Well-a-way.' " — ' Isabella,'
1. 485. It has been suggested that " not " should
be " out." This stanza seems partly to echo,
partly to oppose stanza lv.
" Visions wide."—' Eve of St. Agnes,' 1. 202.
M. M.
TASWELL.—In chap. v. of his Life of
Charles Macklin (1891), E. A. Parry writes :
" Taswell (a famous Dogberry, known to
stage students as the author of 'The
Deviliad ')." I should be very glad to have
the evidence for connecting this actor with
' The Deviliad,' the first edition, at any rate,
of which satire is anonymous.
MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L.
RANDLE HOLME'S ' ACADEMY OF ARMORY.'
—In this fascinating work many strange and
wonderful coats are attributed to families
with names which, in very many oases, are
not (so far as my experience goes) to be
found elsewhere. Neither, for the matter of
that, are the coats ! It is obvious that, in
the realm of natural history, our author's
simplicity and credulity were unbounded ;
but perhaps in that respect he was no worse
than his contemporaries. But I strongly
suspect that, while as regards his descriptions
of birds, beasts, fishes, and monsters he
simply puts down what he had heard or
read, when it comes to the use of these
animals as charges in coat armour, and to the
attribution of such coats, he is a mere
romancer, drawing on his imagination both
for the coats and the names of the families
to whom he attributes them.
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I hope I do no injustice to him ; the only
able to check his statements by his original
authorities. What • were his authorities ?
And does any evidence exist as to contem-
porary opinion about his honesty and
BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.
Far Headingley, Leeds.
NEW MILK AS A CURE FOR SWOLLEN LEGS.
—A Westmorland squire in 1692-3 writes
to a son in Oxford "' troubled with a sore
leg " : —
"' Divers in this country (haveing been troubled
with Aguish Distempers) have been troubled since
with swellings in their Leggs, which also burst
& run much matter at several holes, who have
been cured onely with washing their ill Leggs, or
Feet, every morning & evening, with new milk
warm from ye cow."
I should be glad to know whether this is
still a popular remedy, whether traces of it
appear in literature, and if it has had any sup-
port in medical practice.
JOHN R. MAGRATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
HOPKINS : BEAKE.—Is anything known
of a MS. Diary- or Memoirs of Edward
Hopkins, M.P. 'for Coventry, 1701, 1707,
1708, and Secretary of State for Ireland ?
Is anything known of Major Robert
Beake. Mayor of Coventry in 1655, and
M.P. for-that city in 1653, 1656, 1659, 1660,
and 1678 ? Was he any relation to Richard
Beke, husband of Levina Whetstone, niece
of Oliver Cromwell (Firth, ' Last Years of
the Protectorate,' ii. 297) ? M. D. H.
WARDEN PIES.—Where can the receipt
be found for making a Warden pie ? The
warden of the seventeenth century was a
x ear, but I do not find it in Evelyn's lists
of fmits. " Warden " was an old London
street cry, and they were probably sold
already cooked. XYLOGRAPHER.
EARLY NONCONFORMITY IN DEVON AND
CORNWALL.—In Mr. J. Hay Colligan's
Eighteenth-Century Nonconformity ' (pub-
lished in 1915) are various references to
he Devon and Cornwall Association in
1717-1S, in connexion with "' the Clarkean
controversy ' ' and the plans of the " New