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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 173. 



what precedes, to give the passage as it stands in 

 the folio at some length. Wolsey having said — 



" For your great Graces 

 Heap'd upon me (poore Undeserver) I 

 Can nothing offer but my Allegiant thankes, 

 My Prayres to heaven for you ; my Loyaltie 

 Which ever ha's, and ever shall be growing 

 Till death (that Winter) kill it." 



The King replies : 



" Fairely answer'd : 



A Loyal, and obedient Subject is 



Therein illustrated, the Honor of it 



Does pay the Act of it, as i'th' contrary 



The fowlenesse is the punishment. I presume 



That as my hand ha's open'd Bounty to you. 



My heart dropt Love, my powre rain'd Honor, more 



On you, then any : So your Hand, and Heart, 



Your Braine, and every Function of your power. 



Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty. 



As 'twer in Love's particular, be more 



To me your Friend, then any." 



Wolsey rejoins : 



" I do professe 

 That for your Highnesse good, I ever labour'd 

 More then mine owne : that, am, haue, and will be 

 (Though all the world should crack their duty to you, 

 And throw it from their Soule, though perils did 

 Abound, as thicke as thought could make 'em, and 

 Appeare in formes more horrid) yet my Duty, 

 As doth a Rocke against the chiding Flood, 

 Should the approach of this wilde River breake. 

 And stand unshaken yours." 



I read : 



" I do profess 

 That for your highness' good I ever labour'd 

 More than mine own : that Fm. true, and will be. 

 Though all the world should lack their duty to you, 

 And throw it from their soul : though perils did 

 Abound, as thick as thought could make them, and 

 Appear in forms more horrid ; yet my duty 

 (As doth a rock against the chiding flood) 

 Should the approach of this wild river break. 

 And stand unshaken yours." 



Your Leeds correspondent would read : 



" I do profess 

 That for your highness' good I ever labour'd 



More than mine own That, am /, have, and will be. 



Though all the world should crack their duty to you 

 And throw it from their soul," &c. 



For his arguments I must refer to his note 

 (p. 111. ante), merely observing that I cannot 

 conceive how any alteration in the punctuation 

 of the King's speech could connect it with this ! 

 Making That emphatic helps nothing, as there is 

 no antecedent to which it can refer ; and if " we 

 can by no means part with have" we must inter- 

 polate been after it to make it any way intelligible, 

 to the marring of the verse. 



With regard to the substitution of lack for crack 

 in my former note, it should be recollected that I 



then said " I do not insist upon this." We might, 

 however, substitute slack, if change should be 

 deemed necessary, and it would be still nearer in 

 form to the suspected word. 



I may safely leave the palpaUe error in As You 

 Like It to the decision of common sense. 



As I am dealing with corrections in the play of 

 King Henry VTIL, I may take occasion to observe 

 that Mr. Collier, in his recent supplemental vo- 

 lume of Notes and Emendations, has, I have no 

 doubt unwittingly, stated that a passage, Act IV. 

 Sc. 2., has been absurdly pointed, " over and over 

 again, from the year 1623 to our own day." 

 Whereas it will be found corrected, exactly as it 

 stands in his second folio, in the edition I gave of 

 Shakspeare in 1826, with a note adverting to the 

 absurdity of the old pointing. I may further add, 

 that the first instance Mr. Collier gives in his 

 preface of the corrections in his folio, is in the 

 same predicament. He has stated that the reading 

 of " Aristotle's cheeks " for " Aristotle's ethics," in 

 the first scene of the Taming of the Shrew, " ha& 

 been the invariable text from the first publication 

 in 1623 until our own day;" when the fact is, that 

 it stands properly corrected in my edition in 1826,. 

 with the following note : 



" Blackstone suggests that we should read ethics, and 

 the sense seems to require it ; I have therefore admitted 

 it into the text." 



It is possible that Mr. Collier may have never 

 looked into my edition of the poet, and I may 

 honestly say that I regret it, not on my own 

 account but on his, for I think, had he consulted 

 it, his own would not have been the worse for it. 



S. W. Singer. 

 Manor Place, South Lambeth. 



MINIATURE RING OF CHARLES I. 



(Vol. vi., p. 578.) 



By the courtesy of W. K. Rogers, Esq. (in 

 whose possession it is), I am enabled to account 

 for another of these interesting and invaluable 

 relics ; one of the four said to have been presented 

 by the Martyr prior to his execution. 



" Rogers of Lota. 

 This family was early ^remarkable for its loyalty and. 

 attachment to the Crown ; a ring is still preserved as 

 an heir-loom, which was presented to its ancestor by 

 King Charles I. during his misfortunes." — Burke's 

 Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Robert Rogers of Lota received extensive grants 

 of land from Charles 11., which upon the accession 

 of James II. were confirmed to him by letters 

 patent. He was Mayor of Cork, 1680, M. P. for 

 that city 1692, and again 1695. In the body of 

 his will, bearing date 1690, and registered in the 

 Record Court, Dublin, occurs the following para- 



