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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 115., Mar. 13. '58. 



plirase ; but then what has great sized to do with 

 Time as the monster f Must we change this, and 

 drop the s of ingratitudes ? More light ! " 



I take shame to myself for having passed over 

 this passage with no other notice than quoting the 

 parallel passage from Spenser ; although it had 

 "never been questioned;" and I therefore turned 

 to Mr. Dyce's recent edition, in the hope of find- 

 ing a solution of the difficulty ; but, alas ! it is 

 there passed over in silence. I must confess, how- 

 ever, that a glance at once showed me the remedy, 

 and that we must in future read : — 



" Time hath, my Lord, a wallet at his back, 

 Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 

 A great siz'd nucster of ingratitudes : 

 Those scraps are good deeds past : which arc devour'd 

 As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 

 As done," &c. 



But in the interim a supplementary note reached 

 me, in which my correspondent says : " I found 

 late on Saturday night what I think we should 

 read : — 



" ' A great scythed monster of ingratitude.' 



not ingratitude*." 



Now, as I owe to my correspondent the advan- 

 tage of having my attention called to the passage, 

 although I feel confident in my own correction, I 

 think it but just to him to submit the whole as a 

 Query to such of your readers as may take in- 

 terest in restoring a passage to sense in one of 

 those noble speeches of Ulysses which form the 

 most remarkable feature in this very singular but 

 to me most interesting drama. S. W. Singer. 



South Lambeth. 



Passage in " Lear." — In King Lear, Act I. 

 So. 4., the Fool says : — 



" Tntth is a dog which must to kennel ; he must be 

 whipped out when Lady the Brach may stand by the 

 tire and stink." 



Here then is a curious opposition between truth 

 and lady, where one would have expected the 

 opposition to be between truth and lie. May it 

 not be that Shakspeare wrote "lye the brach," 

 and that the printers thought " lye" a contraction 

 for " lady," instead of the whole of the opposite of 

 truth ? 



I do not find that this conjecture has been made 

 by any of the commentators, and yet it seems a 

 very obvious one. A. S. 



Shakspeare, the First Folio (2"'' S. v. 164.) 

 — There is no doubt that " Troilus and Cres- 

 sida " belongs to the book. The type is pre- 

 cisely the same, with the peculiar use of the v 

 and the u. The wood-cut jleuron, at the be- 

 ginning of the play, is the same as that found 

 at the commencement of ten other plays. The 



wood-cut at the end of the play is the same as 

 that used throughout the volume. The wood- 

 cut letter C of the first line of the play is the same 

 as that used for the " Two Gentlemen of Verona," 

 the only other play which begins with a C. The 

 editor's first idea seems to have been to place it 

 before " Timon of Athens," which follows " Romeo 

 and Juliet," the last page of which is numbered 

 79. instead of 76. (77. and 78. are omitted in the 

 numbering) ; this idea they abandoned, and placed 

 the play as the first of the tragedies, with separate 

 and peculiar signatures, not letters of the al- 

 phabet. 



The omission was probably discovered after all 

 the preliminary matter had been printed, in- 

 cluding the list of plays. The first edition of 

 " Troilus and Cressida" was printed in 1609; it 

 must therefore have been an oversight the not 

 printing it in its proper place in the progress of 

 the volume through the press. H. F. 



Riisoii's MS. Notes on /Shakspeare. — At the 

 sale of Ritson's library, a copy of Johnson and 

 Steevens' edition of Shakspeare, 8 vols., with a 

 great number of MS. notes, corrections, &c., to- 

 gether with three volumes of MS. notes hy Ritson, 

 prepared by him for the press, realised 110/. As 

 the variorum edition contains a mere sprinkling 

 of notes by Ritson, it would be desirable to as- 

 certain where these volumes are now deposited. 

 They are, in all probability, of considerable lite- 

 rary value.* R. 



MATCHLKSS ORINDA, 

 DESCENDANTS. 



AND HER 



Mrs. Katherine Philips, whose character and 

 writings stand out in marked contrast to the age 

 in which she lived, was the second wife of James 

 Philips, Esq., of the Priory, Cardigan. He was 

 the eldest son of Hector Philips, Esq., of Porth 

 Eynon, in the same county. This Hector Philips 

 was appointed by the parliament, during the re- 

 bellion, commissioner for the sale of the con- 

 fiscated estates of the Royalists in South Wales ; 

 and is said to have incurred great odium by the 

 inflexible severity with which he carried out 

 his instructions. Mr. Philips was descended from 

 Sir Thomas Phillipps, Knt., of Picton Castle, 

 in the county of Pembroke, who is the com- 

 mon ancestor of all the Cardigan, Carmarthen, 

 and Pembrokeshire families bearing the name of 

 Phillips, with one or two exceptions. Mr. Hector 

 Philips married Anne, daughter of Sir William 

 Wogan, Knt., of Wiston Castle, in the county of 

 Pembroke ; so that the husband of the " matchless 

 Orinda" was of noble descent through both parents. 



[* This lot (No. 986.) was purchased by Messrs. Long- 

 man & Co.] 



