_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. _Sterne's Koran_ (No. 14. p. 216.)--An inquiry respecting this work appeared in the _Gent. Mag._, vol. lxvii. pt. ii. p. 565.; and at p. 755. we are told by a writer under the signature of "Normanus," that in _his_ edition of Sterne, printed at Dublin, 1775, 5 vols. 12mo., the Koran was placed at the end, the editor honestly confessing that it was _not_ the production of Sterne, but of Mr. Richard Griffith (son of Mrs. Griffith, the _Novellettist_), then a gentleman of large fortune seated at Millecent, co. Kildare, and married to a daughter of the late Ld. C.B. Burgh. I possess a copy of an indifferent edition of Sterne's works, in point of paper and type, "Printed for J. Mozley, Gainsbrough, 1795. 8 vols. 12mo." The Koran is in the sixth vol., termed "The Posthumous Works of L. Sterne," dedicated to the Earl of Charlemont by the editor, who, in his address to the reader, professes to have received the MS. from the hands of the author some time before his untimely death. This I hope will answer the Query of "E.L.N.:" and at the same time I wish to express my regret, that we do not possess a really good and complete edition of Sterne's Works, with a Life and literary history of them, incorporating the amusing illustrations by Dr. Ferriar. F.R.A. April 12. 1850. _Lollius._--In answer to "J.M.B." (No. 19. p. 303.) as to who was the Lollius spoken of by Chaucer, I send you the following. _Lollius_ was the real or fictitious name of the author or translator of many of our Gothic prose romances. D'Israeli, in his admirable _Amenities of Literature_, vol. i. p. 141., says:--