ii. JULY so, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
that the replies were of much value, and led
indirectly to still further information. I
should now be very grateful for any par-
ticulars with regard to the following, who
were of still earlier date, with any notice of
their writings or possible likeness : Gilbert
Xeuton, 1529-60; Henry Adams, 1660-6;
Jacob Hadley, 1566-1623; Richard Hadley,
1623-38; William Hansom, 1638-68; Anthony
Barr, 1668-73 ; Thomas Skinner, 1673-90.
WM. STOKES SHAW. The Vicarage, Twerton-on-Avon, Bath.
SPORTING CLEROY BEFORE THE REFORMA- TION. Wanted references to any instances of sport amongst the clergy of pre-Reformation
days.
P. C. D. M.
"COME, LIVE WITH ME." May I point out
what I conceive to be a "corrupt" rendering
in Marlowe's well-known pastoral, "Come,
live with me and be my love"? I have
examined several copies of the poem, and
find the error has been transmitted quite
pleasantly enough. I cannot say what copy
Calverley had before him when he sat down
to translate the lines into Latin, for, curiously
he breaks off at the very point where his
assistance is most desirable, and leaves one
in the dark. Perhaps the line
Fair-lined slippers for the cold gave him pause. At any rate, I cannot help thinking that Marlowe, who was a shoe- maker's son, knew some of the elements of his father's trade, and often observed him using "fur" for lining shoes and slippers. My suggestion is that the line would read better, and be in accordance with sense and circumstances, if printed :
Fur-lined slippers for the cold.
M. L. R. BRESLAR.
[To talk of "error" in such a case is surely extravagant. We see no reason to improve what is sensible : but we should first like to ascertain what is the MS. authority, or earliest record of the poem. Collections of those before us read "fair- lined," both in this way and as two words. In the latter case the sense that the slippers are both beautiful and lined seems excellent. Jzaac Walton, according to the facsimile edition of the * Compleat Angler,' read, "Slippers lin'd choicely for the cold," but we daresay that he was quoting from memory.]
HARLSEY CASTLE, co. YORK. This was in the fifteenth century the residence of a branch of the Strangways family. Can any one inform me whether it was situated at East Harlsey or at West Harlsey, and whether its site is still distinguishable ? There is some information concerning this branch of the Strangways family in Blore's
- History of Rutland,' pp. 8 and 9, and also in
Hutchins's * History of Dorset,' but in neither
work is it stated to whom Eliza, daughter of
Sir Richard Strangways, was married. Is
the * Golden Grove Book ' correct in stating
that she married Robert Byrt, of Shrophouse
(? in Dorset), and was ancestress of the
Byrt family of Llwyndyris in the parish of
Llandygwydd, co. Cardigan ?
G. R, BRIGSTOCKK.
CLOSETS IN EDINBURGH BUILDINGS. In the old town of Edinburgh remains still exist of the flats of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries. The plan of one building strongly resembles another ; a distinctive feature is the small window at each end of the building, facing the street and on each floor. This -was the window of a small closet opening off a large room. What was the use of this closet? It has been suggested that it was used as an oratory; but most of the buildings were erected after the Refor- mation. It seems more likely to have been used for sanitary purposes, for in all the buildings examined there is no other place suitable for a garde-robe. Is there any refer- ence in contemporary writings that might-
settle the question
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SYDNEY PERKS.
5, Crown Court, Cheapside, E.G.
PAMELA : PAMELA.
(9 th S. xii. 141, 330 ; 10 th S. i. 52, 135, 433, 495 ;
ii. 50.)
As DR. G. KRUEGER(IO UI S. i. 433) refers to the few lines I was able to give to this sub- ject in my 'Samuel Richardson,' 1902, p. 4C, perhaps I may be allowed to say that my authority for the guarded statement that Sidney made the name Pamela is the very " Description of Three Beauties " in the Musarum Delicirs ' of which MR. HORTON SMITH quotes the opening couplet. In the tenth or 1655 edition of 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia,' that poem occupies the inal pages preceding the ' Alphabetical Table.' It begins :
Philodea and Pamela sweet
By chance in one great hous did meet ;
and it is headed, "A Remedie for Love. Written by S r Philip Sidney, Heretofore omitted in the Printed Arcadia." Dr. A. B. jrrosart also includes it, with variations, n the "Arcadia pieces "in his 'Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney,' 1877, iii. 59 ; and he prints it from Harleian MS. 6057, p. 10 B. where it is said to be called " An old dittie of Sir Phillipp Sidneye's, omitted in the printed
