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m, is the following sonnet:-- "My love and I for kisses play'd; Shee would keepe stakes, I was content; But when I wonn she would be pay'd, This made me aske her what she ment; Nay, since I see (quoth she), you wrangle in vaine, Take your owne kisses, give me mine againe." The initials at the end, "W.S.", probably stand for William Stroud or Strode, whose name is given at length to some other rhymes in the same MS. I should be glad to know if this quaint little conceit has been printed before, and if so, in what collection. 4. What is the earliest printed copy of the beautiful old song "My Mind to me a Kingdom is?" It is to be found in a rare tract by Nicholas Breton, entitled _The Court and Country, or A Briefe Discourse betweene the Courtier and Country-man_, 4to. 1618. Query, is Breton its author? 5. Mr. Edward Farr, in his _Select Poetry, chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth_ (vol. i, p. xix.), calls Nicholas Breton, _Sir Nicholas_. Is there any authority for Breton's knighthood? 6. Can John Davies, the author of _Sir Martin Mar-people_, 1590, be identified with John Davies of Hereford, or Sir John Davies, the author of _Nosce Teipsum_, 1599? 7. In whose possession is the copy of Marlow and Chapman's _Hero and Leander_, 1629, sold in Heber's sale (Part iv., No. 1415)? Has the Rev. Alex. Dyce made use of the MS. notes, and the Latin Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood, by Marlow, contained in this copy? 8. Has any recent evidence been discovered as to the authorship of _The Complaynt of Scotland_? Is Sir David Lindsay, or Wedderburn, the author of this very interesting work? 9. In the Rev. J.E. Tyler's _Henry of Monmouth_ (vol. ii Appendix, p. 417.), is a ballad on _The Battle of Agincourt_, beginning as follows:-- "Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry; But, putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry." The author of this old ballad, the learned editor says, was _Michael Drayton_; but I have not been able to find it in any edition of his works which I have consulted. Can Mr. Tyler have confounded it with Drayton's _Poem_ on the same subject? Any information on this point will be very acceptable. 10. On the fly-leaf of an Old Music Book which I lately purchased is the following little poem. I do not remember to have seen
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