MS., and if so, where;
and also whether any other version, corrupted or not, is still
preserved, if not in use, at least in memory. I should also be
especially glad of references of any other allusion to the "white
Paternoster" or "seynte Petres soster," or for any information as to
sources for ascertaining the history, whether authentic or
legendary, of the personage supposed to be alluded to in the closing
words of this remarkable spell.

WILLIAM J. THOMS.

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ALLUSIONS IN THE HOMILIES.

_"A Good Wife," &c._, and _"God speed the Plough!"_--I
should hold myself deeply indebted to any of your correspondents who
would inform me where the two following quotations are to be found.

I have been anxiously looking for them for some years. I have taken
some pains myself--{230} "I have poached in Suidas for unlicensed
Greek"--have applied to my various antiquarian friends (many of
whose names I was delighted to recognise among the brilliant galaxy
that enlightened your first number)--but hitherto all in vain; and I
am reduced to acknowledge the truth of the old proberb, "A ---- may
ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven
years:"--

I. "For thus will most truly be verified the _saying of the
poet_, 'A good wife, by obeying her husband, shall bear the
rule, so that he shall have a delight and a gladness the sooner at
all times to return home to her.' But, on the contrary part, 'when
the wives be stubborn, froward, and malapert, their husbands are
compelled thereby to abhor and flee from their own houses, even as
they should have battle with their enemies.'"--_Homily on
Matrimony_, p. 450. ed. Oxford, 1840.

Query--_Who_ is the _poet?_

II. "Let no good and discreet subjects, therefore, follow the flag
or banner displayed to rebellions, and borne by rebels, though it
have the image of the plough painted therein, with _God speed the
plough_ written under in great letters, knowing that none hinder
the plough more than rebels, who will neither go to the plough
themselves, nor suffer other that would go unto it."--_Fourth
Part of the Homily against Wilful Rebellion_, p. 518.

In _what_ rebellion was such a banner carried?

These questions may appear very trifling; but each man has his
hobby, and mine is, not to suffer a quotation to pass without
verification.

It is fortunate that I am not a despotic monarch, as I would
c