[No. 15. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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T have added, in most instances, the prices now | Premising that my references are to The Taming 
paid to labourers in these parts, having obtained | ef a Shrew in “Six Old Plays,” 1799, and to 
my information from the farmers of the neigh- | Marlowe’s works, edit. 1826, I proceed to indicate 
bourhood. such passages as a rapid glance through the re- 
The price of butchers’ meat at present, in this | spective works, aided by some previous ac- 
neighbourhood, is from 6d. to 73d. per lb.; by | quaintance with the subject, and a not very bad 
wholesale, 3s. 6d. or 3s. 8d. per stone. memory, furnished. Some of the parallels will be 
As far, then, as the relative prices of wages and | found identical; in others, the metaphors will be 
meat can guide us, the labourer, in these parts, | found to be the same, with the expression more or 
was as well able to purchase meat in 1670 as he is | less varied; and in others, again, particular ex- 
now. pressions are the same, though the tenor of the 
Unhappily for him, the imprudence of early | phrase be different. It will be observed that the 
marriage entailing upon him the charge of a/| quotations of Marlowe are exclusively from Dr, 
family, he is precluded from the indulgence in | Faustus and Tumburlaine. Of the longer passages 
fresh meat, except as an occasional treat. Cheese | I have given merely the first line for reference ; 
and bacon, however, are still within his reach. | and I have numbered them for the convenience of 
The improvidence of early marriage rarely oc- | comparison : — 
curred in former days, and palpably, if our Kentish Fier -aon Wtres Gtr A RANTES 
labourers lived entirely on oats and rye, it was not t : 
2 5 verte = hat the gl had f th ” &e. 
of necessity that they did so. I am inclined to Q) naae a Satie Rie ren 
think that, in many of the instances given above, (2) « But stay, what dames are these, so bright of 
especially in haying and harvest, provisions of some hue,” &e, p. 167. 
sort were found by the employer, over and above (3) “O, might I see the censer of my soule,” &c. 
the wages. When I have more leisure, I will p- 169. 
endeavour to obtain correct information on this | (4) “Come, fair Emelia, my lovely love,” &c. p. 180. 
point; and, meanwhile, send you the entries just | “ Valeria, attend, I have a lovely love,” &e. p.191. 
as Il find them. I observe an entry of “ peas to “ And all that pierceth Phoebus’ silver eye,” &c. 
boil for the men.” They had porridge then, at all p. 181. 
events, in addition to their wages; and these | “ Fair Emelia, summer's bright sun queen,” &c. 
wages, if they had so chosen, could further have | pe: eth 
purchased them meat, quite as well as at the pre- | (5) “I fill ai coffers of the wealthy umes,” &c. 
, - p. 181. 
sent day ; though, alas for our poor peasantry, this (6) ‘© Ag richly wrnigit 
is not saying much for them; and even of that 
little smack of meat they will soon be debarred, if 
the present system — but I am intruding on sacred 
ground, and must leave the poor fellows to their | 
hard work and scanty meals. 
As was the massy robe that late adorn’d 
The stately legate of the Persian king,” p. 183. 
(7) “ Boy. Come hither, sirha boy. 
Sander. Boy, OQ, disgrace to my person!” &c., 
. 184. 
Lampert B. Larxre. ; aiahee: 
(1) “ Now that the gloomy shadow of the night,” &c. 
7 “ ; ear 0 — Faustus, vol. ii. p. 127. 
Hay SERRE lear bias Ba ee EN (2) * Zenocrate, the loveliest maid alive,” &e.— Tamb. 
I regret that my communication (No. 13. p. vol. i. p. 46. 
194.), on the subject of the authorship of The *(3) “ Whose darts do pierce the centre of my soul,” &c. 
Taming of a Shrew, was too late to be of any avail —Tamb. vol. i. p. 120. 
for the already-published new edition of Marlowe’s “ Was this the face that launch’d a thousand 
works; and, had I been aware of such being the ships,” &c. — Faustus, vol. ii. p. 192. 
case, I should have waited until I had had an | (4) Now bright Zenocrate, the world’s fait eye,” &c, 
opportunity of seeing a work whose editor may — Tanb. vol. i. p. 102. ¥ 
entertain views in ignorance of which, to my dis- “ Batter the shining palace of the sun,” &c.— Tamb. 
advantage, I am still writing. It is, perhaps, a vol. i. p. 120. 
« A creater lamp than that bright eye of heaven,” 
&c,—+ Lamb. vol. i. p. 154 
“ The golden eye of heayen.”— Tumb. 
vol. i. p. 155. 
still greater disadvantage that I should appear to 
depend for proofs upon a bare enumeration of 
parallel passages; when I know that the space I 
should require for the purpose of stating the ‘case « Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright,” F 
fully and fairly, and, as I think, conclusively, &c.— Tamb. vol.i. p. 177. 
would be utterly inconsistent with that brevity (5) « I'll have them fly to India for gold,” &c.— Faustus, 4 
which must be with you an essential condition ; vol. ii. p. 123. 
while, at the same time, I know of no medium | (6) « And show your pleasure to the Persian 
through which I am so likely to enlist the atten- As fits the legate of ‘the stately Turk.”— Tamb. — 
tion of a “fit audience” as your publication. vol. i. p. 37. 
