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Hannibal Hamlin writes: All these horses named Will or Willy make me wonder whether there is another level to all the escaped horses in Ariosto or Spenser. The knights are trying to get the girl, but their horses won't cooperate. Our "proper" editors will send us to Plato for such stuff, but perhaps Spenser's semantic range extended a little lower. Not really provable, of course. Perhaps it's not "provable"; but a very smart study (although nowadays it would count as both old and, I would guess, old- fashioned) of very closely related issues does in fact exist and speaks to many of them: Taylor, Arvilla Kerns The manè€ge of love and authority: studies in Sidney and Shakespeare Austin, TX, 1969 University microfilm no. 69-21,895 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin Unlike some of the rest of us, Dr. Taylor, a Texan, had actually met a horse or two, but her study was based not on anecdote or personal experience but on a great deal of literary and historical evidence. Daniel Traister University of Pennsylvania --