It may seem difficult what Pandarus can mean:

"Dulcarnon clepid is fleming of wretches,
It semith hard, for wretchis wol nought lere
For very slouthe, or othir wilfull tetches,
This said is by them that ben't worth two fetches,
But ye ben wise."

Whether he means that wretches call it _fleming_ or not, his argument
is, "You are not a wretch." Speght's derivation seems to mean, "Quod
stultos vertit." _Fleamas_, A.-S. (Lye), is _fuga_, _fugacio_, from
_flean_, to flee. Pandarus, I think, does not mean to give the
derivation of the word, but its application of fools, a stumbling-block,
or puzzle.

C.B.

[Footnote 5: Speght gives it in English letters, but Selden in
Arabic.]

[Footnote 6: Christman, _Comment. in Alfragan_, cap. ii.
_Lysimachi_ Cornuum apud Cael. Rhodigin. _Antiq. lect._ 10. cap.
xii., hic genuina interpretatio.]


_Dr. Maginn._--The best account of this most talented but unfortunate
man, is given in the _Dublin University Mag._, vol. xxiii. p. 72. A
reprint of this article, with such additional particulars of his
numerous and dispersed productions as might be supplied, would form a
most acceptable volume.