"If reasons reache transcende the skye,
Why shoulde it then to earthe be bounde?
The witte is wronged and leadde awrye,
If mynde be maried to the grounde."

In the second edition (1596) the above is spelt as we should now do it,
except in having _skie_ and _awrie_.

M.


_Prelates of France_ (Vol. ii., p. 182.).--In answer to a Minor Query of
P.C.S.S., I can inform him that I have in my possession, if it be of any
use to him, a manuscript entitled _Tableau de l'Ordre religieux en
France, avant et depuis l'Edit de 1768_, {253} containing the houses,
number of religions, and revenues, and the several dioceses in which
they were to be found.

M.

Midgham House, Newbury, Berks.


_Haberdasher_ (Vol. ii., p. 167.).--

"Haberdasher, a retailer of goods, a dealer in small wares; T.
_haubvertauscher_, from _haab_; B. _have_; It. _haveri_,
_haberi_, goods, wares; and _tauscher_, _vertauscher_, a dealer,
an exchanger; G. _tuiskar_; D. _tusker_; B. _tuischer_."