however, are still within his reach. The improvidence of early
marriage rarely occurred in former days, and palpably, if our
Kentish labourers lived _entirely_ on oats and rye, it was not
of _necessity_ that they did so. I am inclined to think that,
in many of the instances given above, especially in haying and
harvest, provisions of some sort were found by the employer, over
and above the wages. When I have more leisure, I will endeavour to
obtain correct information on this point; and meanwhile, send you
the entries just as I find them. I observe an entry of "peas to boil
for the men." They had porridge then, at all events, in addition to
their wages; and these wages, if they had so chosen, could further
have purchased them meat, quite as well as at the present day;
though, alas for our poor peasantry, this is not saying much for
them; and even of that little smack of meat they will soon be
debarred, if the present system--but I am intruding on sacred
ground, and must leave the poor fellows to their hard work and
scanty meals.

LAMBERT B. LARKING.

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MARLOWE AND THE OLD "TAMING OF A SHREW."

I regret that my communication (No. 13. p. 194.), on the subject of
the authorship of _The Taming of a Shrew_, was too late to be
of any avail for the already-published new edition of Marlowe's
works; and, had I been aware of such being the case, I should have
waited until I had had an opportunity of seeing a work whose editor