Col-fabias (Vol. iii., p. 390.).
—This word is a Latinised form of the Irish words Cul-{f}eabu{s} (cul-feabus), i. e. "a closet of decency" or "for the sake of decency."
FRA. CROSSLEY.
Poem from the Digby MS. (Vol. iii., p. 367.).
—Your correspondent H. A. B. will find the lines in his MS. beginning
"You worms, my rivals," &c.,
printed, with very slight variations, amongst Beaumont's poems, in Moxon's edition of the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1840. They are the concluding lines of "An Elegy on the Lady Markham."
W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.
Umbrella (Vol. iii., pp. 37. 126.).
—I find the following passage in the fourth edition of Blount's Glossographia, published as far back as 1674.