W.

[Footnote 6:  Xen. de Rep.  Lac.]

[Footnote 7:  “Emi singula non pecunia sed compensatione mercium, jussit (Lycurgus).”—­Justin. iii. 2.]

[Footnote 8:  Plut. in Lyc.]

[Footnote 9:  Plut. in Lyc. The word is [Greek:  priasthai], the cook probably a slave and Helot.  There seems some confusion between this story, and that of Dionysius tyrant of Syracuse, noticed in the beginning of the Inst.  Lacon., and by Cicero in the Tusculan Questions, v. 34.  The Syracusan table was celebrated.]

[Footnote 10:  Plut. in Lyc.]

[Footnote 11:  Ath.  Deip. iv. 13. l. 93.]

[Footnote 12:  Plut. in Lyc. “[Greek:  En chersi daemiourgon kai mageiron.]”]

[Footnote 13:  “[Greek:  Edei de opsopoious en Lakedaimoni einai kreos monou ho de para touto epizamenos exelauneto taes Spartaes].”—­AEl.  Var.  Hist. xiv. 7.]

[Footnote 14:  “[Greek:  Hoi Lakones hoxos men kai halas dontes to mageiro, ta loipa keleuoysin en to hiereio xaetein].”—­Plut. de tuenda Sanitate.]

[Footnote 15:  Meursii Misc.  Lacon. lib. i. cap. 8.]

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QUERIES.

TEN QUERIES CONCERNING POETS AND POETRY.

1.  In a curious poetical tract, entitled A Whip for an Ape, or Martin displaied; no date, but printed in the reign of Elizabeth, occurs the following stanza:—­

  “And ye grave men that answere Martin’s mowes,
  He mockes the more, and you in vain loose times. 
  Leave Apes to Dogges to baite, their skins to Crowes,
  And let old LANAM lashe him with his rimes.”

Was this old Lanam, the same person as Robert Laneham, who wrote “a Narrative of Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575”?  I do not find his name in Ritson’s Bibliographica Poetica.

2.  In Spence’s Anecdotes of Books and Men (Singer’s edit. p. 22.), a poet named Bagnall is mentioned as the author of the once famous poem The Counter Scuffle.  Edmund Gayton, the author of Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote, wrote a tract, in verse, entitled Will Bagnall’s Ghost.  Who was Will Bagnall?  He appears to have been a well-known person, and one of the wits of the days of Charles the First, but I cannot learn anything of his biography.

3.  In the Common-place Book of Justinian Paget, a lawyer of James the First’s time preserved among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, 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.