REPLIES:--
Dragons 40
Origin of the Family Name of Bacon, by ProBa ConScientia 41
Replies to Minor Queries:--Cockade--Form of Prayer
for King's Evil--"Aver," Hogs not Pigs--Pilgarlic
--Collar of Esses--Filthy Gingram--The Life and
Death of Clancie--"Rab. Surdam"--"Fronte Capillata"
--Taylor's Holy Living--Portrait of Bishop
Henchman--Lines attributed to Charles Yorke--
Rodolph Gualter--"Annoy" used as a Noun--Culprit,
Origin of the Word--Passage in Bishop Butler
--Wat the Hare--The Letter Yogh--Did Elizabeth
visit Bacon in Twickenham Park--Mock-Beggar--
Cardinal Chalmers--Binsey, God help me!--Midwives
Licensed--Dr. Timothy Thristcross--History
of the Bohemian persecution--"Earth has no Rage"
--Couplet in De Foe--Private Memoirs of Queen
Elizabeth--Abbot's House at Bucksden--Bab in the
Bowster--Sir Cloudesley Shovel--Noli me tangere
--Cad 42

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 46
Notices to Correspondents 46
Advertisements 47

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NOTES.

AUTHORSHIP OF HENRY VIII.

In my last communication on the subject of _Henry VIII._, I referred to
certain characteristic _tricks_ of Fletcher's style of frequent occurrence
in that play, and I now beg leave to furnish you with a few instances. I
wish it, however, to be understood, that I advance these merely as
illustrative specimens selected at random; as there is scarcely a line of
the portions of the play I assume to be Fletcher's but would furnish some
evidence to a diligent student of this writer's style: and that, although I
think each separate instance as strongly characteristic of Fletcher as it
is unlike Shakspeare, it is only in their aggregate number that I insist
upon their importance.

The first instance to which I call attention is the use of the substantive
"one" in a manner which, though not very uncommon, is used by no writer so
frequently as Fletcher. Take the following:--

"_So_ great ones."--_Woman's Prize_, II. 2.
"And yet his songs are sad ones."--_Two Noble Kinsmen_, II. 4.

and the title of the play, _The False One_.

Compare with these from _Henry VIII._:--