Dec. 8. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



445 



A Mad World, my Masters, Act II. Sc. 2., vol. ii. 

 p. 352. : 



" Foh Under his lordship's leave, all must be mine 

 He and his will confesses." 



A Fair Quarrel, Act II. Sc. 1., vol. ili. p. 475. : 



" Cap. Ager. However spleen and rage abuses him." 



More Dissemblers besides Women, Act I. Sc. 2., 

 vol. iii. p. 558. : 



"First Lord. Chaste, Sir? the truth and justice of her 

 vow 

 To her deceas'd lord's able to make poor 

 Man's treasury of praises." 



P. 565. : 



" Fath. Did not a reverent respect and honour, 

 71iat''s due unto the sanctimonious peace 

 Of this lord's house, restrain my voice and anger, 

 And teach it soft humility." 



No Wit, no Help, like a Woman s, Act I. Sc. 1., 

 vol. V. p. 13. : 



" Sav. There's no good riders that use spur to me." 



I will now set down, in the order in which they 

 present themselves, the numerous passages where 

 Mr. Dyce has altered the singular verb to the 

 plural; intermingling, by way of set off, passages 

 hardly less numerous which have been allowed to 

 remain as Middleton may fairly be presumed to 

 have penned them. Should their multitude nau- 

 seate the reader, he must be courteous enough to 

 bethink himself that this does best evince the fre- 

 quency of the exploded syntax, and the unwar- 

 rantableness of the alterations. 



The Old Law, Act. IV. Sc. 2., vol. i. p. 89. : 



" Clean. All my joy and strength 



Is e'en eclipsed together." 



(Unaltered.) 

 Act V. Sc. 1., p. 101.: 



" Evan. All our majesty 



And power we have to pardon or condemn 

 Js now conferred on them. 

 Sim. And these we'll use 



Little to thine advantage." 



(Unaltered.) 



TTie Mayor of Queenborough, Act I. Sc. 2., 

 p. 141.: 



" Vort. Your health and life are dearer to us now." 

 (Altered from is of old ed.) 



Act II. Sc. 2., p. 146. : 



" Yort. But so much gooA fortune 



And warranted worth lightens your fair aspects." 



(Unaltered.) 

 Act IV. Sc. 3., p. 194. : 



*' Vort. Take me not basely when all sense and strength, 

 Im bound up in amazement at this treachery." 



(Altered from Lies of old ed.) 



The Phoenix, Act I. Sc. 1., p. 314. : 



" Duke. Since love or fear make writers partial." 



(Why was not make altered to makes?) 

 No. 319.] 



Sc. 6., p. 342. : 



" Jew- Wife. I can assure you, father, my husband and 

 he have lain both in one belly." 



(Altered from has of old eds.) 

 Act II. Sc. 2., p. 346. : 



" Cas. my poison ! 



Him whom mine honour and mine eye abhors.'* 

 (Unaltered.) 

 Michcelmas Term, Induction, p. 416. : 



"M!ch. T. The poor has all our children, we their 

 wealth." 



(Why was not has altered to have?) 

 P.417. : 



" Mich. T. Your duty and regard hath mov'd us." 



(Unaltered.) 

 Act I. Sc. 2., p. 433. : 



" Hell. And welcome silks where lie disease and wants." 

 (Altera I from Lyes of old eds.) 



A Trick to catch the Old One, Act III. Sc. I., 

 vol. ii. p. 46. : 



" First G. Where Jlattery, want, and imperfection lie.''' 

 (Altered from lies of old eds.) 



Act III. Sc. 4., pp. 55—56. : 



" L>an. And in anno 89, when the great thundering and 

 lightning was." 



(Unaltered.) 

 The Family of Love, Act V. Sc. 2., p. 190. : 



" 3Iar. Now Nature's pencil and the hand of Time 

 Give life and limb to generation's act." 



(Altered from Giues of old ed.) 

 P. 191. : 



" Ger. Whose mutual influence and soul's sympathy 

 Do shew heaven's model in mortality." 



(Altered from Doth of old ed.) 



Your Five Gallants, Act II. Sc. 3., p. 258. : 



" Bun. But, by your leave. Sir, next come the breeches." 



(Altered from comes of old ed.) 

 Hence we may infer that " this sessions," " this 

 snuffers," " scissors," " shears," is bad grammar, 

 and that a man's breeches are plural, although he 

 have but one suit of clothes, perad venture but 

 one leg. W. R. Akrowsmith. 



{To be concluded in our next.') 



HISTORICAL PARALLELS. 



If we regard the Russian autocrat as a repre- 

 sentative of the Macedonian monarch, and the 

 allies as being represented in ancient story by 

 the Greeks, a striking parallel will be discerned ; 

 so far, at least, as Russian intrigue has been 

 hitherto exposed — that of Philip being well known 

 from the expository speeches of Demosthenes. 

 The scene of events then, as now, was the same or 

 nearly so. The defence of the inhabitants of By- 

 zantium (Constantinople), in both eras, may be 

 deemed the hinge on which the events of the most 



