_Gospel of Distaffs._--Can any reader say where a copy of the _Gospel of
Distaffs_ may be accessible? It was printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and Sir
E. Brydges, who describes it, says a complete copy was in Mr. Heber's
library. A few leaves are found in Bagford's Collection, Harleian MS.
5919., which only raises the desire to see the whole. Dibdin's _Ames'
Typography_, vol. ii. p. 232., has an account of it.

W. Bell.

* * * * * {232}


REPLIES.

POETA ANGLICUS.

Every proof or disproof of statements continually made with regard to
the extravagant titles assumed, or complacently received, by the bishops
of Rome being both interesting and important, the inquiry of J.B. (Vol.
ii., p. 167.) is well deserving of a reply. Speaking of a passage cited
by Joannes Andreæ, in his gloss on the preface to the Clementines, he
asks, "who is the Anglicus Poeta?" and "what is the name of his poem,"
in which it is said to the pope, "Nec Deus es nec homo, quasi neuter es
inter utrumque?"

"Poetria nova" was the name assigned to the hexameter poem commencing,
"Papa stupor mundi," inscribed, about the year 1200, to the reigning
Pope, Innocent III., by Galfridus de Vino salvo. Of this work several