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"His golden locks time hath to silver turned," &c.-Thackeray quoted the opening lines of this beautiful song in The Newcomes.

"His helmet now shall make a hive for bees."-In Alciati's Emblems there is an engraving of bees swarming in a helmet. Cf. Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblems, 1586:—

"The helmet strong that did the head defend,
Behold, for hive the bees in quiet served;
And when that wars with bloody blows had end,
They honey wrought where soldier was preserved :
Which doth declare the blessed fruits of peace,
How sweet she is when mortal wars do cease.'

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Page 18. "What thing is love?"-The first six lines are found in an old play, The Wisdom of Dr. Dodypol, 1600.

Page 20. "And you shall have some cockellbread."—Aubrey says that "young wenches have a wanton sport which they call moulding of cockle bread ;" and he describes the curious custom.

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"Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure."-Nashe's play was acted in the autumn of 1593, when the plague was raging. "This low-built