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4. Harl. 2376 (B. M.).
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:

The MSS. of the C class are the following:1. Cotton; Vespasian, B. xvi. (B. M.) Numerous extracts from this are given in the notes to Mr. Wright's edition of Piers Plowman.

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7. Trin. Coll. Dublin, D. 4. 1.

8. Digby 171 (Oxford).

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10. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; No. 293. 11. Douce 104 (Oxford).

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12. Bibl. Reg. 18 B. xvii. (B. M.) This also contains a copy of Pierce the Ploughman's Crede. To these should be added MSS. Trin. Coll. Cam. R. 3. 14, Harl. 6041, and Digby 145, already mentioned as containing a portion of the A text. See Nos. 3, 5, and 10, of the set first mentioned. To the above forty I must add a forty-first, of the contents of which I know nothing. It was formerly called Heber 974, afterwards Thorpe 1003, and at present is MS. Phillipps 9056. I have lately heard a rumour of another one, and I am far from feeling sure that this catalogue is exhaustive. To any one who can add to the list I shall be very grateful. WALTER W. SKEAT, 1, Cintra Terrace, Cambridge.

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY'S "WIFE":
COLLATION OF AN EARLY MS.

14. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, No. 201. This exhibits so many variations from the rest that it would seem to have been written out from memory, and it can hardly be supposed to represent the genuine work of the author.

MR. COLLIER (Bibl. Cat. ii. 66 et seqq.) drew attention some time ago to the corrupt state of the text of Overbury's Wife in the printed copies, 15. A copy (numbered 8252) in the possession and to the existence of MSS. of the poem capable of of Sir Thos. Phillipps. This formerly belonged restoring the true readings. I have one now before successively to Sir H. Spelman, Dr. Taylor, Mr. me, and propose to exhibit the result of a careful Gough, and Heber. Formerly called Heber 1088. comparison between it and the printed copy of A specimen from it is printed at p. xxxiv. of 1616 (ninth impression augmented). It is to be Whitaker's preface to his edition of Piers Plow-regretted that the MS. begins imperfectly. Stanzas man, which sufficiently proves it to consist of a 1-10 are missing. The readings of the MS. are mixture of B and C texts, and to be of inferior in brackets. value. St. 14, 1. 1. 1. 3. St. 15, 1. 4. &c.

16. Camb. Univ. Lib. Gg. 4. 31. A faulty copy and of late date.

17. Caius College, Cambridge; No. 201. A transcript of Owen Rogers' edition of 1561.

The text printed by Crowley in 1550 agrees most nearly with No. 2.

St. 19, 1. 5.
St. 20, 1. 6.
St. 23, 1. 3.

1. 4. 1. 5. St. 25, 1. 2. 1. 3. 1. 6.

But Phisicke [Not phisicke].
But onely Shells [The Shelles].
Tis but twixt Dust, and Dust, life's
middle way:

The woorth of it is nothing that is seen,
But only that it holds a Soule within.
['Tis but 'twixt dust & dust the middle

way;

The worke it selfe is nothinge that is seene,
But onely yt it houlds a soule wthin].
Rather in her aliue [Rather alive in hir].
that title, or that name
[ye title or the name].
That's not still one, &c.

[That still hir owne, not put on with the
light].

Nor glasse [Not glass].
desire [desires].
aliue-his [wthout-hir].
cold [coole].

That's watcht by her owne conscience
[That's watched by hir conscience].

St. 30, 1. 2. not Learned by much Art
[not learned much by art1.
These two stanzas are transposed.

St. 32-3