9 OCTOBER 1915, Page 12

RHYME.

• [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SrecrAves.."] Sin,—What is the authority for the form of the verse from Chevy Chase about Witherington as quoted in your article upon " Rhyme " last week P In Percy's Beligues it is given thus :-• "For Wetbarrington my harts was Wo •• That over he slayne shuld be

• For when both his loggis wore howyne into

• .Yet he knyled and fought on his knee." One would like to think that this rather than the other version was the original.—I am, Sir, &c, W. R. M.