_Poins and Bardolph_ (No. 24. p. 385.)--Mr. Collier (Life prefixed to
the edit. of _Shakspeare_, p. 139.) was the first to notice that
Bardolph, Fluellen, and Awdrey, were names of persons living at
Stratford in the lifetime of the poet; and Mr. Halliwell (_Life of
Shakspeare_, pp. 126-7) has carried the subject still further, and shown
that the names of ten characters in the plays are also found in the
early records of that town. Poins was, I believe, a common Welsh name.

S.


_God tempers the Wind_ (No. 22. p. 357.)--Le Roux de Liney, _Livre des
Proverbes Français_ (Paris, 1842), tom. i. p. 11., cites the following
proverbs--

"Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue,
ou,
Dieu donne le froid selon la robbe,"

from Henri Estienne, _Prémices_, &c., p. 47., a collection of proverbs
published in 1594. He also quotes from Gabriel Meurier, _Trésor des
Sentences_, of the sixteenth century:--

"Dieu aide les mal vestus."

SIWEL.
April 5. 1850.