Kidderminster.
[If we may offer a conjecture, in the passage cited the bishop seems to
refer to that "greatest scourge of Spain" Sir Walter Raleigh, and not
so much to a bull-fight as to the Spanish Armada. The bishop is
prescribing Expectation as a remedy for Crosses, and says, "Is it not
credible what a fore-resolved mind can do--can suffer? Could our
English Milo, of whom Spain yet speaketh, since their last peace, have
overthrown that furious beast, made now more violent through the rage
of his baiting, if he had not settled himself in his station, and
expected?" Sir Walter's "fore-resolved and expectant mind" was shown in
the publication of his treatise, _Notes of Directions for the Defence
of the Kingdom_, written three years before the Spanish invasion of
1588.]
_"Delights for Ladies."_--I lately picked up a small volume entitled--
"Delights for Ladies; to adorn their Persons, Tables, Closets, and
Distillatories, with Beauties, Bouquets, Perfumes, and Waters. Reade,
practise, and censure." London, Robert Young. 1640.
Who is the author of this interesting little work? Some one has written on
the fly-leaf, "See Douce's _Illustrations of Shakspeare_, vol. i. p. 69.,
where there is a reference to this curious little book;" but as I cannot
readily lay my hand on Douce, I will feel obliged for the information
sought for from any of your valued correspondents.