The Bodleian library has the London edition of 1636; and the British Museum that of 1652. Wood cites an edition of 1669. I transcribe from that of 1679. "Hoc seculo [sc. temporibus Elizabetha reginæ et Jacobi regis] floruerunt--Gulielmus Shacsperus, qui præter opera dramatica, duo poematia _Lucretiæ stuprum à Tarquinio_, et _Amores Veneris in Adonidem_, lyrica carmina nonnulla composuit; videtur fuisse, siquis alius, re verâ poeta natus. Samuel Daniel non obseurus hujus ætatis poeta, etc.... Ex eis qui dramaticè scripserunt, primas sibi vendicant Shacsperus, Jonsonus et Fletcherus, quorum hic facundâ et polita quadam familiaritate sermonis, ille erudito judicio et usu veterum authorum, alter nativa quadam et poetica sublimitate ingenii excelluisse videntur. Ante hos in hoc genere poeseos apud nos eminuit nemo. Pauci quidem antea scripserunt, at parum foeliciter; hos autem tanquam duces itineris plurimi saltem æmulati sunt, inter quos præter Sherleium, proximum à supra memorato triumviratu. Suclingium, Randolphium, Davenantium et Carturitium--enumerandi veniunt Ric. Bromeus, Tho. Heivodus," etc. 2. What are the contents of a work entitled, [Old German script: Schaubune Englischer und Franßofischer Comædianten], printed before 1671? This work is recorded, but without a date, in the _Historia literaria_ of Simon Paulli, which was printed at Strasbourg in 1671. A statement of its contents would be very acceptable to myself, and to other admirers of our early dramatic literature. 3. Who is the fortunate possessor of the _Lives and characters of the English dramatick poets_ with the marginal marks of Garrick? The copy in question was sold with the unreserved books of Garrick in 1823, No. 1269. It contained this note: "All the plays marked thus * in this catalogue, I bought of Dodsley. Those marked thus O, I have added to the collection since. D.G." Each of the above queries would have admitted further remarks, but I wish to set an example of obedience to the recent editorial injunction on brevity. BOLTON CORNEY. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES. _Elizabeth and Isabel._--"A.C." inquires whether these names are not varied forms of the same name, and if so, what is the common origin of the two? Camden, in his _Remains_, has-- "ELIZABETH, _Heb._ Peace of the Lord, or quiet rest of the Lord, the which England has found verified in the most honoured name of our late sovereign. Mantuan, playing with it maketh it Eliza-bella; and of Isabel he says 'The same with Elizabeth, if the Spaniards do not mistake, which always translate Elizabeth into Isabel, and the French into Isabeau.'" {440}