The second is from Bale's Interlude concerning the Three Laws of Nature, Moses, and Christ:

"If ye cannot slepe, but slumber,

Geve Otes unto Saynt Uncumber,

And Beanes in a certen number

Unto Saynt Blase and Saynt Blythe."

I will take an early opportunity of noting some similar allusions to Sir John Shorne, St. Withold, &c.

WILLIAM J. THOMS.


HANDFASTING.

(Vol. ii., p. 282.)