Item 15 - Postcard from G. C. Moore Smith to R. B. McKerrow

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(Sheffield.)—Adds to his previous remarks on Nashe’s use of the word ‘laboratho’.

(Postmarked at Sheffield.)

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In my Nashe notes, {1} I suggested that Laboratho, {2} III 179. 32 was for Laborathor, though I could not quote an example of ‘th’ = Spanish ‘d’. Now, in Sir Henry Wotton’s letter of Oct 20 1589 (Pearsall Smith’s Life & Letters of Sir H. W. I 229) {3} I find he writes ‘Ambus-catho.’

Yours GCMS

Perhaps Nashe thought the form was Laborado tho. {4}

Oct 20 1912

[Direction:] Dr McKerrow | 4 Phoenix Lodge Mansions | Brook Green | Hammersmith | London W.

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Postmarked at Sheffield at 11 a.m. on 21 October (the year is wanting).

{1} See MCKW A2/11.

{2} Altered from ‘Labarathro’.

{3} Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, 2 vols. (1907).

{4} ‘thought the form was’ written around ‘was aiming at’ struck through. The postscript is written alongside the succeeding date.