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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2aa S. X July 28. '60. 



since I sent he went, very legibly written, to a 

 printer's, and it came to me the local. 



There is another piece of nonsense in our dra- 

 matist, where a substantive has in like manner 

 taken the place of an auxiliary verb. In King 

 John (Act II. Sc. 1.) the Bastard says of Austria, 



" It [the lion's robe] lies as sightly on the back of him 

 As great Alcides' shoes upon an ass." 



OL, the nonsense that has been written here ! 

 and all because the critics did not see that the 

 poet's word must have been should. 



One more and I have done : — 



" How may likeness, made in crimes, 

 Making practice on the times. 

 To draw with idle spiders' strings 

 Most ponderous and substantial things." 



Meas. for 31eas., Act HI. Sc. 2. 

 This, Mr. Dyce says, is " a passage in which it 

 seems hopeless to ascertain what the poet really 

 wrote." Now / do not regard the case as 'uy any 

 means hopeless. We have only to omit To in the 

 third linp, and we get probably " what the poet 

 really wrote." And we can easily see how the To 

 came there. The printer took p}-actice in the pre- 

 ceding line for a verb, and to make grammar he 

 added To. I need hardly observe that draw con- 

 nects with may in the first line. Likeness is simu- 

 lation. 



Such are a few samples of the contents of a 

 volume I have written on the text of Shakspeare, 

 but which may possibly never see the light. 



Thomas Kbighti.ey. 



EUROPE AS IT WOULD BE. 

 A clever little philosophe of the last century, 

 the Abbe Galiari, amused himself, on the 27th 

 April, 1771, with writing to his friend Madame 

 d'Epinay from Naples a sketch of " Europe as it 

 would be in a Hundred Zears." The conjecture 

 of a wit, cast at random, sometimes hits nearer 

 the mark than might have been anticipated. As 

 only ten years are now wanting to the period of 

 fulfilment, it may be as well to know the fate 

 which, according to the Abbe, awaits us : — 



" In 100 j-ears we shall resemble the Chinese much 

 more than we do at present. There will be two very- 

 distinct religions: the one, that of the higher and let- 

 .tered classes; the other, that of the people; which will 

 be divided between three or four sects, living on tolerably 

 good terms with each other. Priests and monks will be 

 more numerous than they are now : moderately rich, ig- 

 nored, and tranquil. The Pope will be nothing more 

 than an illustrious Bishop, and not a Sovereign. They 

 will have pared awa3'^ all his temporal dominions, bit by- 

 bit. There will be large regular armies on foot, and but 

 little fighting. The troops will perform admirably on 

 parade, but neither officers nor soldiers will be fierce or 

 brave : they will wear rich uniforms, and that is all. The 

 chief sovereign of P^urope will be the monarch of our 

 Tartars: that is to say, the prince who will possess Po- 

 land, Russia, and Prussia, and command the Baltic and 



the Black Sea. For the nations of the North will always 

 remain less cowardh' than those of the South. The re- 

 maining Princes will be under the political mastery of 

 this predominant Cabinet. 



" England will separate herself from Europe, as Japan 

 has done from China. She will unite herself with her 

 America, of which she will possess the greater part, and 

 control the commerce of the remainder. There will bt; 

 despotism everywhere; but despotism without cruelty, 

 without effusion of blood : a despotism of chicanery, 

 founded always on the interpretation of old laws, on the 

 cunning and sleight of the Courts and lawyers; a despo- 

 tism of which the great aim will be to get at the wealth 

 of individuals. Happy in those daj^s the millionnaires, 

 who will he our mandarins! They will be everything, 

 for the military will serve only for parade. Manufac- 

 tures will flourish everywhere, as the}- do now in India." 

 — Correspondence, vol. i. p. 222. 



H. Meuivale. 



:^{mir fiattti, 



Typographicai. Errok in the authorised 

 Version of the English Bible, — In almost 

 every edition of the authorised version of the 

 English Bible which has appeared for the last two 

 hundred years, there is a misprint at Eph. ii. 13. of 

 " sometimes " for " sometime." The earlier Eng- 

 lish versions give " once," or " at that time ; " the 

 Douay version "some time." The editions pub- 

 lished by the Religious Tract Society have "some- 

 time." This undoubtedly alone is correct as a 

 rendering of the Greek -kotL I sliould feel obliged 

 to anyone who has access to a copy of the edition 

 of 1611 for information as to the reading of the 

 passage in it,"^ In the Oxford reprint of this edi- 

 tion (1833) the reading "sometimes" is given; 

 but in the edition issued by the American Bible 

 Society (New York, 1852), and which professes 

 to follow King James's version according to fl^e 

 edition of 1611 verbatim et literatim (obvious mis- 

 takes excepted), the reading given is "sometime." 

 Which is the correct transcript ? and if " some- 

 time" be the reading in the edition of 1611, when 

 and how did " sometimes " usurp its place ? 



W. L. A. 



Edinburgh. 



A Hint to Publishers. — A new edition of the 

 Beauties of Mngland and Wales is much Vv'anted. 

 The last edition, in 25 vols. Svo., is half a century 

 old. B. C. 



Cage of Bells. — I met a farmer on the moors 

 between Combmartin and Trentishoe in North 

 Devon, and getting into talk with him, I praised 

 the tower of Combmartin church, to which praise 

 of mine he fully absented, adding, "And it has 

 such a fine cage of bells." Struck by the expres- 



[* In the first and second editions of the folio Bible of 

 16x1, the word is printed soOTe^i'mes. The second edition 

 has many typographical variations from the preceding, 

 as in the same verse (Eph. ii. 13.) the word farre in the 

 first is spelt/ar in the .second edition. — Ed ] 



