As every one knows, there is also a Silverton in Devonshire—Silver-town par excellence. Is it in any way connected with the "Little Silvers?"
A. C. M.
Exeter.
On Æsop's (?) Fable of washing the Blackamoor.—Is it possible the well-known fable was a real occurrence? The following extract would seem to allude to an analogous fact:
"Counting the labour as endlesse as the maids in the Strand, which endeavoured by washing the Black-a-more to make him white."—Case of Sir Ignoramus of Cambridge, 1648, p. 23.
R. C. Warde.
Kidderminster.
Wedding Proverb.—Is the following distich known in any part of England?—
"To change the name, but not the letter,
Is to marry for worse, and not for better."