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gives any meaning whatever? In asking this 

 question, I know that he will not plead the bold 

 sweep of" the master's hand, or the magician's wand, 

 to make sense of nonsense, or to justify bad logic. 

 He thinks with me that Shakspeare " needs no 

 defence," and therefore I appeal to him with con- 

 fidence. "Gilded" then is not an epithet in any 

 way applicable to " shore : " the sense clearly re- 

 quired is deceitful; " in a word, the seeming truth 

 which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest;" 

 all showing that^M«7e was meant, whether expressed 

 or not. Observe, too, that this passage is but an 

 illustration ; and an illustration must be true in 

 itself, or you can draw no just comparison. The 

 gilding of the casket might deceive Bassanio; a 

 gilded shore was not likely to deceive any one : 

 and admitting the expression to be allowable, the 

 illustration would be weaker than the subject 

 illustrated. 



In the second place, I should ask Mr. Sikgeb 

 with some confidence if, supposing the word in 

 place of "beauty" to be correctly "gipsy," and 

 the word in doubt had been the epithet, he would 

 have adopted the suggestion of Indian as one at all 

 appropriate, addingyw?ce to the subject (in which 

 case only would an epithet be allowable), or at all 

 likely to have been used by Shakspeare. The term 

 gipsy is not applied depreciatingly to Cleopatra. 

 Indian, on the other hand, was much less suscept- 

 ible of association with beauty than now. Indeed 

 I think A. E, B.'s remarks are so just that they 

 must go far to decide the question in favour of the 

 oldest reading; "beauty," as he so clearly points 

 out, implying sex, and the expression meaning 

 simply, " a woman who would be considered a 

 beauty among Indians." 



I quite agree with Mb. Singer in the substitu- 

 tion of "stale" for "pale;" and I will take the 

 occasion to remark that as, in his opinion, there are 

 in Shakspeare at least two instances of this parti- 

 cular error, I think it strengthens the case in favour 

 of the unintelligible word "prenzie" being also a 

 misprint for a word beginning with the letter " s." 



Samuei, Hickson. 



SRcpItciS to ::35[tu0r <!k\xtxiti. 



Experto crede Roberto (Vol. iii., p. 353.). —Dr. 

 John Prideaux, Rector of Exeter College (1612— 

 1642), appears during these years to have lost 

 three sons. On the gravestone of the second, in 

 the chiipel of the college, was inscribed the follow- 

 ing epitaph : 



" Quam subito, quam certo, experto crede, Roberto 

 Prideaux, fratri Matthias minori, qui veneno infeliciter 

 comcsto, intra decern horas misere expiravit, Sept. 14, 

 1627." 



Is it possible that the words experto crede Ro- 

 berto (especially when connected with the unhappy 

 death of the poor boy above-mentioned) became a 



familiar phrase with the Oxford men of that ge- 

 neration, and has thus been transmitted to the 

 present day ? 

 j When Dr. Prideaux, afterwords Regius Pro- 

 j fessor of Divinity, and I3ishop of Worcester, was a 

 I very young man, he was a candidate, being of 

 ' humble origin, for the place of parish clerk ot the 

 j church of Ugborow, near Hereford ; but which he 

 ; lost, as he says, to "his very great grief and trouble." 

 j The reflection which he afterwards made, " If I 

 j could have been clerk of Ugborow, I had never 

 j been Bishop of Worcester," may be no useless 

 j lesson to those who are disposed to repine under 

 j early disappointments. J. H. M.. 



Phelps's Gloucestershire Collections (Vol. v., 

 p. 346.). — The Gloucestershire Collections of the 

 late John Delafield Phelps, Esq., which form the 

 subject of Delta's inquiry, I believe descended to 

 his nephew, William Phelps, Esq., of Dursley, and 

 remain in his possession. The catalogue is entitled 

 Collectanea Glocestriensia, by John Delajield Phelps^ 

 Esq. : London, privately printed by Wm. Nicol, 

 1842, royal 8vo., pp.284. It is in the library of 

 the Athenaeum Club ; but, from some inadver- 

 tency in the Club Catalogue, Mr. Phelps's name 

 has been wholly omitted, and it simply appears 

 under the name of Delafield. It is to be regretted 

 that no other than the most succinct biography of 

 this gentleman (which was given in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine for February 1843, p. 219.) is to be 

 found. He was of a very old Gloucestershire 

 family, was lord of the manor of Dursley, and his 

 father was also lord of the manor of Rangeworthy ; 

 and the property of the old family of the Fields of 

 Pagan Hill, near Stroudwater, had descended to 

 them. His contribution to the Roxburghe Club 

 was a reprint in 1817 of The Gluttons Feaver, by 

 Thomas Bancroft. Mr. Phelps died at Chavenage 

 House, Tetbury, on Dec. 19, 1842, aged seventy- 

 eight years. Mr. Phelps was a barrister, but 

 having a good private fortune, I believe he did 

 not practise latterly ; he was a man of much charity 

 and amiable disposition. A Subscriber. 



Andrew Marvel (Vol. v., p. 597.). — Jos. A. 

 KiDD only half corrects the mistake often made 

 when he says that Andrew Marvel was not born 

 in Hull ; he should have proceeded to state, as the 

 fact is, that he was born at Winestead in Holder- 

 ness, where the Rev. Andrew Marvel, his father, 

 resided, prior to coming to reside at Hull : his 

 baptismal register exists there in the parish books. 

 There are several families in the neighbourhood of 

 Hull still, which are descended from the Rev. An- 

 drew Marvel, viz. the present generation of Peases 

 of Hesslewood, through their mother ; the Ha- 

 worths of Hull Bank ; the Popples of Wetton, and 

 my own family ; also the Blaydes, late of Paul. 



T. Thompson. 



Hull. 



