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"A Wonderfull Prognostication" (1591)Author(s): F. P. WilsonSource: The Modern Language Review, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan., 1918), pp. 84-85Published by: Modern Humanities Research AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3714306 .Accessed: 25/06/2014 06:44Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp .JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. .Modern Humanities Research Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend accessto The Modern Language Review.http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.25 on Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:44:09 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsMiscellaneous Notes from the Laws: fon hz ealle on, 'let them all set to work,' and f5 he on mid fultume. The pp. of onfon appears to be always onfangen. The meaning then is: 'Then he said to me that he could not easily make a division, for he had already attempted it full often.' III. The Stolen Belt. (Kemble II, 133, Thorpe 169, Birch II, 236, Earle 162, Harmer 30.) This intensely interesting document, to which my attention was first drawn by Dr Henry Bradley, has an annoying double hiatus due to a hole in the MS. The sentence runs: ond cwxe ftet him were leofre set he ....a.. de Yonne se a tforburste otfie hit iefr ...... ade. In each gap there is room for about a dozen letters. The first lacuna has been successfully filled up, I think by Earle. I venture to fill up the second in the hope that someone will do it better, as I am sure is possible: ond cwsfi tst him wxere leofre ifet he [Yext land me se]alde tonnze se at forburste offfe hit iefr[e mon unriht s]}ede. ALFRED J. WYATT. CAMBRIDGE. 'A WONDERFULL PROGNOSTICATION' (1591). A Wonderfull, strange and miraculous, Astrologicall Prognostication (1591) is well known to bibliographers as a work attributed without evidence to the pen of Thomas Nashe. It was one of a group of three pamphlets belonging to the same year', all issued in ridicule of contem- porary almanac-makers-' they that lie all the year long.' The exist- ence of a second edition of A Wonderfull...Prognostication has escaped the notice of bibliographers. This is not surprising, as the only known copy was entered in the Bodleian Catalogue under 'Astrologia2.' The copy is unfortunately imperfect, lacking all after sig. Di. It is curious that a second edition of such an ephemeral publication should have been found necessary. There may have been more point in the satire than is now apparent. The title-page is as follows3: ). A Wonderfull, I strange and miraculous Astro- I logicall Prognostication for I this yeere 1591. 1. . . . I Newly corrected. By Adam Fouleweather, Student | in Astronomy. I [ornament as in A] Imprinted at London by Thomas [ Scarlet. 1 Cf. Works of Thomas Nashe (ed. R. B. McKerrow), iv, 476. 2 The shelf-mark is G. Pamph. 2156. 3 Words omitted are the same in both editions. 84 This content downloaded from 194.29.185.25 on Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:44:09 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsMiscellaneous Notes Some of the more obvious literal errors of the first edition (A) are corrected in the second (B), but others are permitted to remain. The chief difference between the two editions is in the paragraph arrange- ment. In B there are 84 paragraphs to the end of sig. D,v: in A the same matter is divided into 17. The compositor of B compensates for the additional space required for this division by closer printing, by a freer use of contractions, by changes in spelling, and by the omission of unimportant words'. The collation is the same as that given for A by Dr M?Kerrow*, except that the Bodleian copy lacks all after sig. D,, that the B of sig. B8 is turned, and that the catch-word on sig. D, is 'The '3. Sig. Di' ends with the following line': 'diuerse Bakers and the pillorie, for making'. The catch-word is 'theyr'. F. P. WILSON. OXFORD. SHARESPEARE, 'LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST,' 1V, i, 105. Here, sweet, put up this, 'twill he thine another day. P. A. Daniel, in the Athenceazm, 13 Oct. 1883, explains the words ''twill be thine another day5' to mean 'it will be of use to you; you will find the benefit of it hereafter.' This explanation Daniel derived from a number of examples of this expression found in the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries6. But this meaning, as Daniel noted, gives rise to an expectation with regard to a future use of Armado's letter that is not fulfilled. The putting up, or pocketing, of Armado's letter, in other words, results in no benefit to Rosaline at another time, contrary to the Princess's statement. H. C. Hart, to avoid this difficulty, gives to this expression the meaning of 'it will be your turn another day.' Daniel, and not Hart, however, is right. Daniel's interpretation is correct, as proven by other examples of this expression which I have 1 So 'Venus beeing congregated' (Im, 389. 3) becomes ' Venus cogregated', 'shall be counted as' (393. 7) becomes ' shal be as'. The compositor of B resolutely ignores the pun in ' Student in Asse-tronomy ', and prints 'Astronomy' or 'Astrology' consistently, both on the title-page and elsewhere. 2 II, 377. 3 Sig. Dl1 begins ' The knightes of...' (cf. III, 393. 2). Cf. in, 393. 20-21. 5 This expression does not occur again in Shakespeare. The value of Daniel's explanation has not been generally recognized. Furness and Hart (Dowden text edition) refer to Daniel's note, but do not give it their approval. See New Variorum edition of L.L.L., Furness, p. 125 note, for the four examples given by Daniel to substantiate his interpretation, and for Furness' comment upon this inter- pretation. 85 This content downloaded from 194.29.185.25 on Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:44:09 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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