TEN QUERIES CONCERNING POETS AND POETRY

1. In a curious poetical tract, entitled *A Whip for an Ape, or Martin displaied*; no date, but printed in the reign of Elizabeth, occurs the following stanza:— "And ye grave men that answere Martin's mowes, He mockes the more, and you in vain loose times. Leave Apes to Dogges to baite, their skins to Crowes, And let old LANAM lashe him with his rimes." Was this *old Lanam*, the same person as Robert Laneham, who wrote "a Narrative of Queen Elizabeth's Visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575"? I do not find his name in Ritson's *Bibliographica Poetica*. 2. In Spence's *Anecdotes of Books and Men* (…