that, scholar as he was, the archaic words which he was at first over-fond of introducing are often provincialisms of purely English original.

The white-spotted green leaves of "Our Lady's thistle" were caused by some drops of her milk falling upon them, and in Cheshire we find the same idea connected with the pulmonaria or "lady's milk sile," the word "sile" being a provincialism for "soil," or "stain."

The remark applies first and foremost, of course, to the Calender, and opens up the whole question of archaism and provincialism in literature.

There is no provincialism like the provincialism of London.

I supposed them to indicate some provincialism with which I was not acquainted.