Umbrellas

To the extensive exhibition of *umbrellas* formed through the exertions of the right worthy editor of the "Notes AND Queries" and his very numerous friends, I am happy to have it in my power to make an addition of considerable curiosity, it being of much earlier date than any specimen at present in the collection:— "Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier, About your head shall gently houer, Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer, And with their nimble wings shall fan you That neither cold nor heate shall tan you, And, like *vmbrellas*, with their feathers *Sh…