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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»i S. V. 127., June 6. '68. 



In our No. for 10th April last, Mr. Singer contributed 

 a paper entitled " Shakspeariana," in which, with refer- 

 ence to the vexed question of the errors in the text of 

 Shakspeare retained by those whom he termed " the Ido- 

 laters of the Folio," he wrote as follows : — 



"Oue of his contemporaries has prophetically antici- 

 pated their censure : — 



' Yet not ashamed these Verbalists still are 

 From youth, till age or study dimme their eyes. 

 To engage the Grammar rules in civill warre 

 For some small sentence which they patronize ; 

 As if the end liv'd not in reformation 

 Of Verbes' or Nounes' true sense or declination. 

 So these Word- Sticklers have no power to cure 

 The errors, and corrupted lines endure.' " 



Shortly after the appearance of this paper, we received 

 a communication, in which, amongst a deal of other 

 bitter matter, Mr. Singer was roughly handled for what 

 was termed his " dextrous and sinister manipulation " of 

 this quotation from Lord Brooke, it being asserted that 

 the last two lines had no existence in the original.* 



We were appealed to, as assumed friends of Mr. Singer, 

 but greater friends to Truth, to insert this exposure ; and 

 omitting the appeal (for the public has nothing to do 

 with private friendships), we proposed to do so when 

 purged of its bitterness — for there was much in the paper 

 which we felt could not appear without provoking replies 

 in the same spirit, and turning " N. & Q." into a bear- 

 garden. We had the paper set up in type, and intended, 

 after exercising the editorial pruning-kniie upon some of 

 its more violent passages, to give it insertion. Pressed 

 by other business and a crowd of communications, we de- 

 laj'ed it. The brief patience of our impetuous corre- 

 spondent was exhausted. He recalled his paper, and 

 attacking us in grand style, he now charges us with com- 

 plicity in a great literary fraud, and gives us warning 

 that he is about to print the whole correspondence, and 

 denounce us before the public as traders in untruth. 



When the matter arrived at this point, we thought it 

 right to inform Mr. Singer what was about to make its 

 appearance ; at the same time inviting him to explain in 

 our pages how he came to add the two lines in question 



* They are, in fact, an alteration of the following lines 

 by Lord Brooke : — 



" For these word-sellers have no power to cure 

 The passions, which corrupted lives endure." 



to the quotation from Lord Brooke. Mb. Singer, con- 

 scious of his own integrity, but equally blind, as our cor« 

 respondent, to the responsibilities and duties of our neutral 

 position, finds fault with us for not inserting the attack 

 upon himself, and declines " to insult the common sense 

 of our intelligent readers by offering a word in justifi- 

 cation " of what he terms " a jocose travesty of Lord 

 Brooke's lines." 



We regret the insertion in " N. & Q." of Mr, Singer's 

 " travesty " without any explanation. Discussing a 

 matter which frequently turns upon the authorised or 

 unauthorised insertion of lines, words, or even letters, 

 we think he was wrong in inserting the lines in question 

 without stating that they were altered from the original. 

 Had we known they were not part of the professed quo- 

 tation, we should certainly not have printed them without 

 some such explanation. But having said thus much, we 

 wash our hands of the business. 



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