Nine Days' Wonder.
—Did any particular circumstance give rise to the saying, "A nine days' wonder?"
W. R. M.
[Most probably Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder, performed in a Morrice Daunce from London to Norwich, wherein euery dayes iourney is pleasantly set downe, to satisfie his friends the truth against all lying ballad-makers; what he did, how he was welcome, and by whome entertained.—This very curious tract has been reprinted by the Camden Society.]
Streso.
—In a book by Cradock on the Lives of the Apostles, published in 1641, I find many extracts and quotations in Latin from Streso in Pref. de Vit. Apostolorum. As I cannot find out or hear of such an author or book of Streso, could you inform one who he was?
LINCOLNIENSIS.
[The work is in the Bodleian Library: "Streso (Casp.), Anhaltinus, Commentarius practicus in Actorum Apostolicorum per Lucam Evangelistam descriptorum capita priora sedecim. 4to. Amst. 1650." The same library contains five other works by this author.]
The Willow Garland.
—In the Third Part of King Henry VI. (Act III. Sc. 3.), the Lady Bona sends this message to King Edward, uttered, as the messenger afterwards reports to him, "with mild disdain:"