find meanings. Explanations and helps I shall gladly receive, in the hope that they may appear in another volume of like kind for which I trust soon to find more MSS. Of other MSS. of like kind I also ask for notice. The reason for reprinting Wynkyn de Worde’s _Boke of Keruynge_, which I had not at first thought of, was because its identity of phrase and word with many parts of Russell,--a thing which came on me with a curious feeling of surprise as I turned over the leaves,--made it certain that de Worde either abstracted in prose Russell’s MS., chopping off his lines’ tails,--adding also bits here[14], leaving out others there,--or else that both writers copied a common original. The most cursory perusal will show this to be the case. It was not alone by happy chance that when Russell had said O Fruture viant / Fruter sawge byñ good / bett{ur} is Frut{ur} powche; Appulle fruture / is good hoot / but þe cold ye not towche (l. 501-2) Wynkyn de Worde delivered himself of “Fruyter vaunte, fruyter say be good; better is fruyter pouche; apple fruyters ben good good hote / and all colde fruters, touche not,” altering _not’s_ place to save the rhyme; or that when Russell had said of the Crane The Crane is a fowle / that strong{e} is w{i}t{h} to far{e}; þe whyng{es} ye areyse / full{e} large evyñ thar{e}; of hyr{e} trompe in þe brest / loke þ{a}t ye beware Wynkyn de Worde directed his Carver thus: “A crane, reyse the wynges fyrst, & beware of the trumpe in his brest.” Let any one compare the second and third pages of Wynkyn de Worde’s text with lines 48-137 of Russell, and he will make up his mind that the old printer was either one of the most barefaced plagiarists that ever lived, or that the same original was before him and Russell too. May Mr Davenport’s hayloft, or some learned antiquarian, soon decide the alternative for us! The question was too interesting a “Curiosity of Literature” not to be laid before our Members, and therefore _The Boke of Keruynge_ was reprinted--from the British Museum copy of the second edition of 1513--with added side-notes and stops, and the colophon as part of the title.